I hope no-one of them returns, I also hope the game won`t be named BG3 and wont be in the Sword Coast setting at all.
The BG thrilogy was genious, and a worthy conclusion to the "Shadows of the Avatar" book series (Time of Troubles), but, there are plenty of evil in Faerun to be embraced or destroyd, and plenty of characters to aquaint with

It`s not necessary to squize more juice out of this lemon.
As i posted in the "which setting.." thread, I`m really fed up with Sword Coast.. if you people love those BG characters so much, I suggest you play the series one more time, or 4 (as I did

) Try also downloading the alternative Ascension ending to ToB, if you haven`t already:
http://www.weidu.org/asc.html