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All BG3 Companion Locations – Where to find all Companions in Baldur’s Gate 3

Dungeons and Dragons is a team sport, so you'd better find some friends.

Baldurā€™s Gate 3 is better with friends. Even if some of them drive you up the wall from time to time, they definitely make slaying your enemies significantly easier. Itā€™s dangerous to go it alone on the Sword Coast, so hereā€™s a handy guide on where you can recruit all the main companions in the game. 

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Shadowheart

Shadowheart is one of the first companions that youā€™re likely to encounter. You can meet her aboard the Nautiloid ship in the gameā€™s opening sequence, but thatā€™s not where youā€™ll make her an official member of your party.

After the ship crashes, you just have to walk a little ways north along the beach to meet up with Shadowheart again. Here sheā€™ll gladly join you in a quest to get the parasites out of your heads.Ā 

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Astarion

After clambering out of the wreckage of the Nautiloid, Astarion is likely to be the second or third companion that you meet. Heā€™s waiting near some docks that are southwest of the Roadside Cliffs waypoint. Keep walking through the crashed ship, and youā€™ll eventually run into him.

Then youā€™ll just have to decide if you can move past the terrible first impression he makes before inviting him to your camp.Ā 

Gale

Gale is pretty hard to miss. Youā€™ll encounter him for the first time when you arrive at the Roadside Cliffs waypoint. Thereā€™s a large boulder covered in a swirling mass of purple energy.

As you approach this outpouring of Weave, Gale emerges and asks for a hand pulling himself from the portal. If you pass one of a variety of easy skill checks, youā€™ll free Gale and be able to add him to your party.

Wyll in Baldur's Gate 3.
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Wyll

Wyll makes the flashiest entrance of any companion in the game. Youā€™ll first get to see him in action when you approach the Emerald Grove. As goblins charge in to attack, Wyll leaps into the fray to strike them down. You get the chance to fight alongside him before he becomes a member of your party.

When the battle ends, you can find Wyll in Emerald Grove. Heā€™s helping train some of the youngest tiefling to defend themselves.

Laeā€™Zel

When your party grows as much as it does in Baldurā€™s Gate 3, youā€™re bound to collect a few friends who donā€™t get along with each other. Laeā€™Zel has a particularly difficult time integrating with the rest of the party, but sheā€™s well worth meeting all the same. As a Githyanki warrior, her combat abilities are second to none, and she has one of the most interesting storylines in the entire game.

Youā€™ll find her north of the Roadside Cliffs waypoint trapped by two tieflings. If you convince them to leave and shoot Laeā€™Zel down from her trap, sheā€™ll fight by your side.Ā 

Karlach

Karlach is another companion that not everyone in your party is thrilled to see. Wyll in particular has a tough time dealing with Karlach because she once worked for the Archdevil Zariel. Heā€™s actually hunting Karlach down, so heā€™ll be able to point you in her direction. She shows up south of a house where some injured paladins are taking shelter near the Risen Road waypoint. Despite her complicated history, youā€™ll definitely want Karlach in your party. Sheā€™s a tough fighter with a heart of gold ā€“ and Infernal magic, but whoā€™s counting on that?Ā 

Halsin

Halsin is a mighty druid who leads the people of the Emerald Grove. When you first arrive at the Grove, Halsin is gone, trapped inside the shrine where the goblins have set up camp. Freeing Halsin is the first step to adding him to your party, but youā€™ll need to progress further before he becomes an official member. Halsin has a multi-step questline that will take you into Act 2, but if you help him accomplish his goals, heā€™ll join your team.Ā 

Minthara

Evil players rejoice, hereā€™s a companion for you. Like Halsin, Minthara requires you to jump through a few hoops before recruiting her. Some of them are pretty tough to swallow. Youā€™ll first meet her at the goblin camp. If you arenā€™t laying waste to the place, you can speak to Minthara and help her infiltrate Emerald Grove. Doing so will cost you Wyll, Karlach, and Halsin as companions, but it will let you advance Mintharaā€™s questline. Youā€™ll see her again at Moonrise Towers, where she can become a true party member.Ā 

Jaheira

Longtime Baldurā€™s Gate fans know Jaheira well. She appeared in both Baldurā€™s Gate and Baldurā€™s Gate II: Shadow of Amn. Here she shows up in Act 2, and youā€™ll first encounter her at the Last Light Inn. Itā€™s possible for a massive battle to occur at the Inn, and if it does, you need to make sure that Jaheira stays alive. After that, proceed through the Gauntlet of Shar, save the Nightsong, and head to Moonrise Towers. Jaheira will help you fight through the area, and then sheā€™ll be willing to join your party for any battles to follow.Ā 

Minsc

Minsc is another familiar face who appeared in the previous Baldurā€™s Gate games. You wonā€™t be able to meet him until Act 3, and youā€™ll need to have recruited Jaheira to get him on your side. Jaheiraā€™s questline will eventually lead you into the Sewers beneath Baldurā€™s Gate. Thanks to the Absoluteā€™s mind-controlling powers, your first encounter with Minsc will turn into a battle. As long as you take him out with a non-lethal blow, youā€™ll have the opportunity to recruit him. Bringing Jaheira lets you bypass a difficult skill check thatā€™s the last part of Minscā€™s recruitment.


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