Let's say you are just starting a new BG1 game and you decide to pick the red cowled mage pic at character generation(this pic will be Edwin in the game). What pic does Edwin default to if you decide to accept him into the party? Or will you have 2 Edwin pics in your party? Inquiring minds want to know, Thanks!

The game carries a file (for BG2 it's called Portrait.2da, I don't know if they use the same name for BG1) that tells the game what portrait to use for an NPC that's had his/her portrait stolen by the PC. I believe Edwin's pic might change to Xan's, or some such. (And then if you recuit Xan as well, he would probably get that Elf portait used by Deder, etc.)