Okay, these are mugshots of your would be allies. My suggestion for when you create your character is not to use any of the portraits below if you intend to have that character in your party. Their portrait will get substituted by one of the ones designed for a blank character. (I learned this the hard way after using Coran's portrait and later finding him...he got that cheesy elf who's puckering up O_o)

So these are the usual suspects. There are twenty-five playable characters in the game, excluding yours, and the real pisser is that you can only choose five of them to be in your party at one time. This can pose problems, as some of these guys like to hang together in a pair and if you boot one, the other'll go to. (There are ways around this, but that's in another section ~_-)