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There is a third companion in Gilded Vale as well. You will find him standing in front of the inn.

You mean Like this? It is a bug. I bought the game a few weeks ago and I have always had it on every player character I create, but never on a companion. Both in version 2.0 and 2.01.

Wasteland 2 also used only one picture, that was scaled down for use in the UI. I found that most of the custom portraits I downloaded were useless because they were so tiny after being scaled down that I couldn't make heads or tails of what they were. In the end I found I could only use portraits that only showed the head and a little bit of shoulder - just like pi2repsion said. With Pillars I always take the large image, and then crop out just the head and upper shoulders, and then resize it down. That gives me a UI pic I can still make sense of. So having separate pics for the UI and the character sheet is really not such a bad thing after all. I feel your pain when it comes to the extra work. That is why the only custom pics I made my self (as opposed to portrait packs I downloaded from the Nexus) are ones I know I am actually going to use.

So far I have tried the following, but only to the end of the 'tutorial' of the Encampment and Cilant Lis: Human Meadow-Folk Fighter, a Human Ocean-Folk Barbarian, a Hearth Orlan Druid, a Moon Elf Wizard, a Wood Elf Ranger, and a Wood Elf Rogue. The Human Fighter I have almost finished Act II with, and the Wood Elf Ranger has finished Act I.

I used to hate coming up with names for characters. Until someone on another forum gave me an idea to use names from Religion and Spirituality. I throw in names from legend and history as well. Now I have a big list of names to use in the future, and I try to match the name to the character's background and personality. For example some are: Persephone = an undead human fighter I first created in Skyrim. She died 4,000 years before the game began, and was reanimated by a necromancer trying to find a way to cheat death. Yes, I am ripping of Mary Shelly. I have since played her in Baldur's Gate 1 & 2, NWN1 & 2, Oblivion, Fallout 3, FONV, and Pillars. Oh, and Links, because even the dead like to golf... Skadi = my current Ranger in POE. Her wolf companion is Fenrir. Mielikki = an old foresty/archer/ranger character from another game. Kalaratri = a dwaven figher in DA:O Durga = an orc fighter in Skyrim. Aurora = a science/energy weapons geek in New Vegas. Oya = is another PoE character, a barbarian fighter from the Isles dual-wielding. I went with speed over power with her as test, and she turned out to be a whirlwind of destruction. Astarte = an Ayleid spellsword I played in Oblivion, the last queen of Silorn, who traveled through time to end up in that tutorial dungeon with the Emperor. Belladona = a mage specializing in poisons. Tomoe Gozen = a samurai in Fallout 3. Annie Ley Oak = a gunwoman in New Vegas. And so on. Now I love coming up with names for characters!

So it is a bug then? I had no idea. I though it was supposed to be there! I just could not figure out why I did not see it on other people's screenshots. Thanks for the reply.

Hi all, I apologize if this has been asked before, but I read through the manual, and have spent hours searching the internets, but to no avail. I finally broke down and bought Pillars from Gog a few days ago when it was on sale. I have noticed that every character I create has a little number 0 down in the right hand corner of their portrait in the UI. I cannot figure out what it means. It is obviously not the Health/Endurance numbers. It is not a buff, since those show up beside the portrait, and don't come in numbers. I don't think it is a keyboard shortcut to select the character, since pressing 0 on the keyboard does seem to do that. If I move the portrait around the same number stays. And if I have companions (so far only Calisca and Heodan, and neither of them have these numbers in their portraits. Here is an example. I circled the 0 in red so it is easy to see Does anyone know what this is? I am sure it is insignificant, but it is driving me crazy!