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I have a question about the affair with Minthara. I don't raid the grove, I knock out Minthara in the goblin camp, I rescue her in Moonrise, after the fight with Thorm I say that I don't want to take control of the cult - is it possible to gather enough approval to unlock romance dialogue with these decisions? I mean agreeing with her on other issues besides those described above, or is it not enough to collect these 40 points?

Yes, Minthara works for both good or evil characters and has more than enough affinity points by simply having her with you throughout ACT II or ACT III.

By the time I personally am done with ACT II she has so much affinity she immediately triggers a romance after the throne room discussion back at camp. Otherwise gain enough approval in ACT III and she'll initiate romance there. There's plenty of things she loves and a vast majority of those things do not involve being evil, in fact she hates unnecessary evil. For example merely speaking with the Thorm relatives in ACT II gives her massive affinity boosts.

It seemed to me that the issue of taking control of the cult was crucial for her and determined the romance. After all, in Act 3, he is obsessed with it and talks about it all the time. If Tav has a completely different plan, what is this romance based on? XD Besides, isn't her obsession with conquest and world domination (let them fear me), which is the idea of her life, openly evil?

There are two versions of Minthara, the one we got now is just another victim of the Absolute and like mentioned by Cromsonrider, hates unecessary evil only goes for it when its necessary to gain power to overcome the cult.

It is messy and then there is the legacy version of Minthara who is for pure evil, example of legacy dialogue is
You might feel that way about MInthara because there are some legacy dialogues that makes her seem like all out evil as not all of them are disabled, ultimately its your game and you choose how you wish to perceive her as but what triggers her romance is just reaching high enough approval rate and that's it, differences you have for how you choose to recruit her is missing a romantic scene from Act 1 and let the game flag you and Minthara to be in a relationship but you still need her approval raised high enough to get certain dialogues that suggests a romantic evening "I am completely yours tonight" moment.

In other words its based on approval rate, if you wonder why I suggest two versions of Minthara is because when the epiloque patch hit, you could branch off to a different path with Minthara and the only path that lets the two of you reach the epiloque chapter which means not going all out pure evil.

In general, Minthara does not act like a typical evil character. It is not as explicit as Astarion. However, her fixation on gaining power is not as repulsive as the fact that her priority is to arouse terror and fear in her subordinates. I understand that this is a habit from the Underdark and an integral part of her personality. I guess I'm a "bad" character myself, because my optimal plot solution is to interrupt the ritual by taking the statue. I am no longer responsible for what happens later in the grove, if they want to murder each other, let them do it. When I give Minthara the location of the grove, there is almost no one alive there. No one in the grove except Dammon greeted my team in a nice way. Tifliengs steal and are grumpy for nothing. Druids are known - no comment. In this solution, I only feel sorry for the shadowlands that the curse has not been lifted.

yes its not only possible but pretty easy as long as you bring her along with you when doing things she will like and at least consider her point of view when doing things she will not like

as for "will her romance bug out" = yes almost always