Before we start this one, a warning - this is going to be based on all sorts of silly stereotypes, so if you think you'll get offended easily, steer clear. This is just for fun, nothing to take seriously. None of this is meant in a meanspirited way. It's just humor. Probably in poor taste and stupid, but just silliness.
Why? Because we're going to talk about the companions' real world nationalities. No, this has nothing to do with the accents (most of the time), the actors' actual nationalities or what their Forgotten Realms homeland is supposed to be based on. This is pure crack. Buckle up!
Astarion 🇨🇵
Sorry, but if someone has to be French, it's Astarion and you know it. He's better than you - and everybody else, for that matter.
He's also classy, a good lover (not by choice, unfortunately, but he's certainly skilled) and enjoys luxury. He's the only companion known to wear perfume and has an elegant taste for fashion.
People love making jokes about the French eating frogs, and Astarion gets a lot of jokes about eating rats, so...
Gale 🇮🇹
The camp cook has to be Italian. They make objectively the best food in the world.
Dark hair, dark eyes, romantic and pretty dramatic (if you don't believe this last thing, choose your other romance over him and talk to him accidentally).
Very attached to his mamma (or mammas, because Tara is his mom as well).
Halsin 🇨🇦
Linked to bears and nature.
Friendly and extremely polite, the kind of person who would say sorry when hitting a wall.
Look me in the eyes and tell me he wouldn't go feral for maple syrup.
Jaheira 🇬🇷
With that accent, she has to be Mediterranean. She can also be pretty loud and hot-blooded
Likes her good wine.
She does have a Middle Eastern touch, but she's still too white, and I've always seen Greece as the border between both worlds.
Karlach 🇧🇷
Canonically comes from a hot place (Avernus).
Some people say she's very Latino-coded because she's passionate and fiery, but still optimistic.
Loves dancing and would probably be great at soccer.
Lae'zel 🇰🇵
Daughter of a dictatorship.
Had to be from an Asian country because the phrases people use to make fun of the gith are not very different from the ones people use when they're racist against East-Asians.
Not many have met one of them (North Korean/githyanki) outside their homeland.
Minsc 🇺🇲
Straight out of a cheesy 80s action movie, both in looks and personality.
Generally kind and friendly but dumb as a stick hopelessly naive.
Convinced he's one of the good guys and kicking evil ass, even when he's following one of the bad guys.
Minthara 🇧🇻
Perfect platinum blond hair.
Rich, doesn't only think she's better than you - she knows she's better than you and will let you know whenever she has the chance.
100% will burn down churches.
Shadowheart 🇮🇪
Light skin, light eyes, dark hair.
Religious trauma girlie, very complicated relationship with her god, a little repressed at the beginning.
Ok, she drinks wine instead of whiskey or beer, but we all know she likes her alcohol.
Wyll 🇨🇺
Exile for political reasons.
Comes from a repressed environment (a dictatorship/a very strict father), but remains kind and hopeful.
