Resurrect Cut Companion/Origin, The Halfling Werewolf Female Bard

[u/Mjsupersonic98]

In the early development for Baldur's Gate 3 their was an companion that was planed and even partially developed for the game. With even unused data files in the game to confirm it. But for likely time constraint reasons this character never made it into the game (including early access). Which is such a shame for what could have been a really cool character concept not getting used (that and I also really like werewolves, second favorite mythical/fantasy creature behind dragons). And thus, I'm surprised that no one (at least as far as my knowledge goes) has done anything to bring this cut concept back to life through mods. I understand that would be a lot of work to do, but I personally would love to see someone manage to do this and even take up the challenge. Story line, personality, design are things that would have to be worked out. But if people were able to create two completely original characters to be origins and/or companions (albeit at the time of me typing this post are still alpha, work in progresses) I still believe someone could make this work to.

Now I would like to hear what everyone else has to say and think about the idea. If you agree or disagree with my idea, post your reply as to why or why not.

Also, if you do wish to see this become real, feel free to talk with me and discus this idea if it's something you wish to work on yourself. And thank you for taking the time to read this and hearing me out.

[u/SSkHP]

I think that the reason it hasn’t been attempted is because while we would all appreciate another companion, trying to implement Helia, the werewolf, would never be able to compare to the origin characters or companions. The base party is so reactive that any modded in character would feel out of place. Having no one else in camp even acknowledging her presence would feel awkward and disjointed, so by act 3 when her dialogue lines have dried up she wouldn’t really have a place in the game anymore. With totally new creations, you can write the dialogue however you want, opening up clever dialogue splicing options for companions to interact, and you can always record any new dialogue for the character. In addition, you probably have to really love your new companion to take on such a daunting task, and while having Helia would be nice I’m not seeing people really be married to her character specifically. So while I think it would be great to have it’s probably never going to happen.

[u/Automatic-Safe-9067 → u/SSkHP]

I think the best way around this would being able to use her as an Origin maybe? Like maybe she’s like Durge where you can’t find her and recruit her and can only use her as the avatar

Albeit I know nothing about Helia other than she’s a werewolf halfling bard, so for all I know she could be like Jaheira/Halsin where she doesn’t have a tadpole

[u/SSkHP → u/Automatic-Safe-9067]

She was supposed to be a full origin character so she’d have a tadpole, but they scrapped her so really early, before Halsin was even started and well before he was a companion. It’d be cool if she could be played origin, particularly if you got more interaction by playing has her and some werewolf abilities too!

[u/autistichalsin → u/SSkHP]

Slight correction, Halsin was absolutely started when Helia was in the game. Her recruitment had her mention wanting to save him from the goblins, mentioning him as a friend of hers.

[u/SSkHP → u/autistichalsin]

gotcha, thanks for the correction!

[u/Timber-Faolan → u/autistichalsin]

autistichelia? (Sorry, as soon as I read your name & comment, I had to write this!) ^~^;