Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Story & Character Discussion *Spoilers inside* Huge gaping plot hole - Act 2 evil play through. How did the writers miss this?

You have the option in Act 2, to tell Minthara that you have the artefact and she goes to see for her self. The rest of the game carries on and you are told to go to moonrise as normal. You get to moonrise and Minthara is being interrogated about not having the artefact and she has no idea where it is.


What on earth happened here, how can such a glaring plot hole have been missed?

I'll do one better.

I'd say that's minor compared to this. Clearly in the example I gave the writers have missed something so obvious that SHOULD have changed the outcome of her fate, but instead they decided to just ignore their own writing.

Kethric doesn't seem like the understanding type...his initial reply would probably have been "What do you mean another True Soul is bringing it? It was your job. Why didn't you kill him and get it?" and proceeded right into the trial we see when we get there. I don't see them as much more caring or reasonable than the Gith patrol. So yeah, not that much of a plot hole or a mystery imo.

Nonsense. She was sentenced to death, and she acts like she has never seen the artifact before. Even if what you say has some plausibility to it there is no chance she would not have bought up the fact that the artifact was in the room at that time instead of acting like she has no idea where it is whilst her life is on the line because of that one specific object!

Furthermore, you have just uncovered another potential plot hole, why would she not have taken the artifact, after all it was her sole purpose? Instead she leaves it alone, and goes back to the general to report she doesn't have it, and does not know where it is?

For a game that boasts reactivity, they sure did leave it out for the meaty parts it appears.

Well...you know...they were literally in the process of erasing her mind when you stop them. We'll just call it brain damage I guess. Plus Minthara missing lines of dialogues and the second half of her romance in act 3 are well known issues that Larian have said they're working on so this could be one of them. I wouldn't put that much energy into outrage quite yet. The game still has a few wrinkles but Larian are hard at work ironing them out.

They only went to erase her mind AFTER the sentence had been carried out, but she was judged first and was given time to defend her actions. She blamed the Goblins. Made no sense. But I hope you're right and that Larian are working on resolving this.

note that the game is bugged to the limit when it comes to story and companions. a lot of things don't stick together, a lot of things are unfinished, there is no logical continuity of the narrative. They'll probably fix it, but they won't fix the broken story. especially disgraceful when they have been living on subsidies since 2020 and still couldn't do what they advertised