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It's a nice option to have for replays where you want to try multiple wacky builds.

They specifically stated if Ydwin makes it in as a full companion, they'd add another sidekick.

I do like the idea of getting a variant of Cadegund as a throwback. I've also enjoyed ideas thrown around here regarding a Vithrak party member. If we're going solely by what we haven't had yet, I'd say a female Hearth Orlan.

What is this then? Should we blame women for enjoying sexy romance novels? "but big muscles and tight abs is a male power fantasy!"

If romances are for women, but women don't play games, how'd we end up with BioWare, huh?

+1 to what Messier-31 said. I don't get the anime vibes at all. I don't see giant eyes and spiky hair and massive boobs. At most I see Harry Potter glasses.

Game over, man. Game over.

I don't care if Ydwin is hot or not, I just love the idea of having an animancer in the party - in fact I feel this should have literally been the first companion you met in the first game so we had a mouthpiece we care about for this core part of the plot and setting, and I think it's pretty dumb it got relegated to a 'maybe in the sequel if we completely overshoot our other goals'. I also like pale elves and their background, and I like the idea of the in-setting equivelant of a necromancer being rather old-school gentlemanly polite about it. She looks like she's about to duel for her honor because someone accused her of defiling a corpse.

The Moon Godlike is a druid sponsored by the goddess of water. I think the answer is clear.

About morphing, it'd actually be fitting to make your own weapon with Adra and putting a soul in it. Even move the soul from weapon to weapon. I mean our keep/boat works that way, why not weapon?

Don't take me too seriously. I'm just cantankerous because we might not get an extra companion because they thought fishing was more important.

I knew I had that wrong.

Asian weebs are still weebs.

Essentially the Jerk with a Heart of Gold and Bitch in Sheep's Clothing tropes. But you know how every subculture needs to make up their own words.

Aw damn. I missed that tidbit. Too bad, a lot of gods I'd rather serve than the selection we've got. Abydon, Rymrgand. Ranger/Priest should be Gawain by default.

My best guess is instead of subclasses priests and pallies will get more gods and orders. I could be wrong though. Hoping for Abydon.

I guess you'll have to do it.

Eh, I like Edér because he's just so gosh darn pleasant it's hard not to like him. He's not a regular guy, he's an honest to god nice guy.

Xoti and Pallegina are masculine?

I can't say I'm not worried. But if it's up to me, it's high bar or none at all, since I don't want BioWare style. They may be good at what they do but what they do is make bad things, IMO.

Ydwin's pretty popular, apparently. I feel like she's speaking to people's imagination moreso than any of the other characters. I wonder that if we don't make it to 5 million, Obs will end up making her a full companion anyway, and the long stretch goal is just to drive last minute pledge hype.

Some companion relationships will be romantic in nature, but that doesn't mean they'll be "romances" in the current RPG vernacular sense. They're not being coy, they specifically distanced themselves from that term for a reason.

Talking gun who yells at you when you miss. You shouldn't explode his mouth if you're not going to make it count.

If you need a different character for all those roles it's only a sign of rigid character customization options. Thank god you have to actually get tactically creative with your characters now instead of having to get one dude per role every time. It made it incredibly dull. :D

Is the moral that being openly racist will get you a nice job? How do I get in on this on the ground floor? Hook me up, man!