Raia

[Ardaxis]

It's a crime that Raia isn't a permanent companion. She's the cutest character by far

[Sam]

Thank the heavens, that voice drove me crazy.

[Fasih]

Originally posted by Ardaxis:

It's a crime that Raia isn't a permanent companion. She's the cutest character by far

Raia started out as a companion candidate. At one point, for several reasons, we had to make a decision between Deianeira and Raia. The reason we picked Deianeira is...
a)Because Raia joins the party much later in the story while you can get Deianeira during the first act.
b)We had some crazy plans about Raia's skill set. It involved controlling felines (like cats... or lions) but in practice that never worked the way we wanted. It simply wasn't fun.

So we downgraded Raia to an NPC.

[dwarfpcfan]

Honestly I like Raia but between getting another princeps or another Triarus. I'd always pick the princeps since my MC is usually a triarus so with Syneros triarus duties are all covered while having another princeps the line is just always useful.

Also since you can always only have 6 people in your team, getting Raia would mean another party member gets benched so you miss out on companion dialogue. At this point you could just bring one of the generic praetorians and get the same result.

[sircharleythecat]

Raia is adorable, and she worships cats. She would be an excellent option as a romancable character in my opinion. I've already romanced Deianeira, but if Raia was an option I would totally pick her in another play through. Just having a priestess of Bastet around as a permanent companion would in of itself be a boost of moral for both the troops and some of the players. Imagine having cats walking around at camp. :D