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Baldur’s Gate 3 companions: ages, heights, alignments, and more

Everything you ever wanted to know about BG3’s characters

Marco Wutz

Baldur’s Gate 3 companions: ages, heights, alignments, and more
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Contents

  1. Baldur’s Gate 3 Origin Companions
  2. Baldur’s Gate 3 Non-Origin Companions

How old is Shadowheart? What’s Astarion’s alignment? If you ever had any of these questions in regards to the Baldur’s Gate 3 companions, you’ve come to the right place. Scouring through the information available in as well as outside of the game, we’ve compiled all available facts about our favorite characters.

Now, there are some caveats to be noted here. The game itself is notoriously confused about some of the timeline, giving information that doesn’t exactly line up with intel found elsewhere. For this reason, we’ve complemented information obtained from the game with facts from Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms, another licensed Dungeons & Dragons game that contains some Baldur’s Gate 3 companions and elaborates on some of their biographies, as well as the previous Baldur’s Gate titles for characters who appeared in them.

Without further ado, here’s everything you need to know about the Baldur’s Gate 3 companions.

BG3 artwork showing Astarion, Shadowheart, Lae'zel, Gale, and Wyll.
If you want to know more about BG3's companions, check below / Larian Studios

Baldur’s Gate 3 Origin Companions

Name

Race

Age

Alignment

Height

Weight

VA

Astarion

High Elf

350

Neutral Evil

1.7-1.9m

75kg

Neil Newbon

Gale

Human

30-35

Unknown

1.7-1.9m

75kg

Tim Downie

Karlach

Tiefling

28-32

Unknown

1.8-1.9m

90kg

Samantha Béart

Lae'zel

Githyanki

22

Lawful Evil

1.8-1.9m

75kg

Devora Wilde

Shadowheart

Half-Elf

48

Lawful Neutral

1.7-1.8m

75kg

Jennifer English

Wyll

Human

24

Neutral Good

1.7-1.9m

75kg

Theo Solomon

BG3 Astarion portrait.
Astarion / Larian Studios

BG3 Gale portrait.
Gale / Larian Studios

BG3 Karlach portrait.
Karlach / Larian Studios

  • Class: Barbarian
  • Background: Outlander
  • Romance: Yes

BG3 Lae'zel portrait.
Lae'zel / Larian Studios

BG3 Shadowheart portrait.
Shadowheart / Larian Studios

BG3 Wyll portrait.
Wyll / Larian Studios

Baldur’s Gate 3 Non-Origin Companions

Name

Race

Age

Alignment

Height

Weight

VA

Halsin

Wood Elf

350

Unknown

1.9-2m

75kg

Dave Jones

Minthara

Drow

250

Unknown

1.6-1.7m

75kg

Emma Gregory

Minsc

Human

130

Neutral Good

1.7-1.9m

75kg

Matthew Mercer

Jaheira

Half-Elf

150

Neutral

1.7-1.8m

75kg

Tracy Wiles

BG3 Halsin portrait.
Halsin / Larian Studios

  • Class: Druid
  • Background: Outlander
  • Romance: Yes

BG3 Minthara portrait.
Minthara / Larian Studios

Bg3 Minsc portrait.
Minsc / Larian Studios

  • Class: Ranger
  • Background: Folk Hero
  • Romance: No

BG3 Jaheira portrait.
Jaheira / Larian Studios

  • Class: Druid
  • Background: Soldier
  • Romance: No

You'll probably have noticed that everyone's weights – aside from Karlach – are really similar. This is probably for gameplay reasons, as the developers wanted to keep your party’s interaction with certain spells relatively consistent across the board. There is no official info on heights in the game – we simply know that they are all Medium-sized in regards to D&D rules. Hence we looked up the average height of everyone’s race and provided some estimations based on that. 

We'll update this article when fresh discoveries are made.

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Marco Wutz
MARCO WUTZ

Marco Wutz is a writer from Parkstetten, Germany. He has a degree in Ancient History and a particular love for real-time and turn-based strategy games like StarCraft, Age of Empires, Total War, Age of Wonders, Crusader Kings, and Civilization as well as a soft spot for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. He began covering StarCraft 2 as a writer in 2011 for the largest German community around the game and hosted a live tournament on a stage at gamescom 2014 before he went on to work for Bonjwa, one of the country's biggest Twitch channels. He branched out to write in English in 2015 by joining tl.net, the global center of the StarCraft scene run by Team Liquid, which was nominated as the Best Coverage Website of the Year at the Esports Industry Awards in 2017. He worked as a translator on The Crusader Stands Watch, a biography in memory of Dennis "INTERNETHULK" Hawelka, and provided live coverage of many StarCraft 2 events on the social channels of tl.net as well as DreamHack, the world's largest gaming festival. From there, he transitioned into writing about the games industry in general after his graduation, joining GLHF, a content agency specializing in video games coverage for media partners across the globe, in 2021. He has also written for NGL.ONE, kicker, ComputerBild, USA Today's ForTheWin, The Sun, Men's Journal, and Parade. Email: marco.wutz@glhf.gg

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