M’Khiin Grubdoubler, BG2EE
Kennis
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1) Hoping she's evil. 2) Hoping XP Cap is gone 3) will we be able to import our BG1 team to BG2 with current stats and abilities? I hate going to find Dorn and see him gimped compared to the other former party members. Would love to try the goblin instead of the Vampire in BG2EE.
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2) The XP cap is raised (to 12), not gone.
3) You won't be able to import a team into BG2 because plot. However, NPCs will be levelled up automatically when you first meet them, just as they always have been.
The Flaming Fist are officially Lawful Neutral, and Schael Corwin is a Fist, so most likely she'll be LN too. Presumably the FF would accept alignments one step away from their own, but I agree with @gangler that her ascribed motives sound more like Good than Evil, so perhaps she could be LG, but probably not LE.
Baravar is a NG deity, and Glint is apparently a Cleric/Thief follower of Baravar, so he's most likely NG too. However, FR gods generally accept followers one step removed from their own alignment, so rather than have two new NPCs who are NG, it might make sense for Glint to be CG, or conceivably TN instead (but not LG because Thief).
However, I agree that they're likely to be offering some new option for Evil players, so surely M'Khiin must be the Evil-aligned one. Goblins are generally Neutral Evil, so I guess M'Khiin is probably NE too.
If M'Khiin's spellcasting is based on the Druid template, she may be meant to replace Faldorn (or, more broadly, Branwen).
Glint is a Cleric/Thief, so he might be a substitute for Tiax.
If Corwin is an Archer, you could certainly make the case that she's taking Kivan's spot (especially since Kivan was never officially given the Archer kit in BG:EE).
And if Garrick and Eldoth are both out of the picture, we have a replacement bard in Voghiln.
It's logical that some of the BG1 NPCs wouldn't choose to follow you to another region though.
The lack of a sensible neutral party also suggests that more appropiate characters (e.g. Branwyn, Faldorn) won't be featured.
But it may be that only the 5 canon party members, 8 Beamdog characters, Viconia, Edwin and Safana is the roster for SoD. 16 is plenty really.
Her issue is with her superiors, not with the overall objectives of the group (do-gooding).
She barely tolerates Viconia, and she has much more reason to hope that she can change than Dorn.
When you first meet Edwin, it's true that he has delusions of grandeur ... but if you stick with him to the end of the series, then he really does become an epic-level archmage. At that stage he surely could have chosen to become a lich, if he hadn't subsequently (as described in his epilogue) made the mistake of thinking he could challenge Elminster.
Not 30 or so levels.
Of course, if he'd managed to become a lich, then perhaps instead of challenging Elminster (and coming unstuck), his Big Mistake might have been to challenge Szass Tam or Larloch (and probably come equally unstuck). When by nature you mean character or personality, many things can affect it - quite often simply maturing and ageing can make quite a difference. And in the Forgotten Realms, with such possibilities as undeath, even a man's physical nature may change.
As for Edwin since he's known for his impatience regarding power gaining he could also try to track down and challenge current Magister. They are not insanely powerful but Azuth grant some neat powers to his proxies.
He could also challenge demilich The Creeping Doom which could be easier than attacking Larloch, but well, even Mystra said that this great wyrm could be considered the most powerful being in Toriil when comes to sheer magical prowess. But he developed many unique spells which Edwin could benefit from.