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Minthara is an adept of house baenre from menzoberrazan.
The former strong connections of the house with Lolth suggest some Lolth involvement in what is going on. Or she was taken hostage and brainwashed by the absolute.

Gale hosting a piece of astral plane
The Mindflayers ability to construct new Nautiloids.
The very strange party composition reminiscent of the population of Sigil. The concentration of such strange characters in Faerun is far lower.

The visions suggest that the tadpole is angry at the absolute for putting it in stasis and using it
Someone said that one of the visions glitched for him and he could see raphael. Unconfirmed
the game logo shows a mindflayer with horns. Could Raphael be in a contract with some mindflayers to build an army?

Loulaum is both an Elder Brain and a Netherese mage, so there is enough overlap there to be able to consider him a possibility.

He is located in the Northdark, which also makes sense
He could also solve Gales problem. This is a meta point and not an in-world explanation
But the absolute does not match him being lawful neutral, does it?

the Githyanki were not after the ship. They were chasing after Shadowheart and the artifact in her inventory.

How she ended up on it is the real question. She got a magically warded pod, unlike the others on the ship. As if she was special cargo.

like a bloody version of Bane's black hand.

abducted after a sharran mission suceeded in capturing a mighty githyanki artefact. Obviously she could not return it to her masters yet. Strange: She does not seem to be in a hurry to deliver her cargo.
The mindflayers obviously knew that she has something special on her.

the goblin priest in a cage calling the absolute a false god and praising Maglubiyet makes no sense
As loviatar is serving bane the presence of one of her priests points in the opposite direction, he should provide more information

Shadowheart wants to deal with the tadpole first, you can actually have a discussion with her plan after that is done if you want. She's going to Baldur's Gate has she has "people" there. It probably was her destination before getting snatched by the mindflayers.

They didn't kill the Maglubiyet priest, you think zealots of the "one true god Absolute" would have. He's also sure the Absolute isn't a true god, so he probably knows more about it. I think I'll kill him in another PT and see if he is more chatty dead.

There are interactable plaques with writing around pillars that explain the painting on the walls showing how the Grove was created. One of the section of the room has collapsed pillars hiding the wall behind, but the plaque is still there. That one talks about the druids fighting Shar followers and the Moonrise tower. The narrator link the Moonrise to Selûne (no check required or anything).

So the Cult of the Absolute HQ is inside another Selûne related building.

some or all of the selune followers have been behaving strangely for a while. The druids fighting shar makes their tolerance towards Shadowheart even stranger. If they had bad history with Shar they should notice the Shar ornaments on Shadowhearts Armor.
It seems that the church of Selune was corrupted and abandoned its temples