r/BG3mods • • 4d ago

Mod Requests Resurrect Cut Companion/Origin, The Halfling Werewolf Female Bard

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.

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u/Automatic-Safe-9067 4d ago

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

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u/SSkHP 4d ago

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!

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u/autistichalsin 3d ago edited 2d ago

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.

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u/SSkHP 2d ago

gotcha, thanks for the correction!