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Helia was a potential origin character who was removed during development. She was a halfling bard who suffered from being a  Lycanthrope.

Known information

Any details about her were datamined as Larian never officially confirmed her existence.

• She had 770 voice lines
  • She calls  Selûne the Moonmaiden vile and distrusts her, probably due to being a werewolf.
  • She used zonks to measure distance.
  • There is a line where Karlach mentions her: "Huh? Where's Helia?"
  •  Auntie Ethel had  Vicious Mockery lines for her: "Won't have any friends after the full moon, girl" and "You don't scare me, wolf".
  •  Astarion had a line referring to her in the scene where he considers the taste of the companion's blood. He mentions she is a werewolf.
  • She was initially planned to be a gnome, as evidenced by a changed early access comment from Astarion.
• She was supposed to be imprisoned in her wolf form in the Goblin Camp where Goblin children would throw rocks at her. It is possible she was replaced with  Halsin early on, though Halsin is referenced in her voice lines, possibly having a different role in early plot.

• Since her model was never finished it is unknown how she would have actually looked if she were fully developed. For example  Karlach ended up looking completely different from her initial placeholder look. The placeholder head model for Helia is used in the full game by the Shadow Druid  Olodan.