You should be able to assert yourself as leader, your tadpole is more tadpoley than Minthara's. This path should either lead to you usurping the absolute, or *something*.
This. Even if Act 1 does not have room for that, there should be more opportunities for you to concretely gain power in the midgame and lategame. DOS2 was really good in that regard, I enjoyed fighting my friend over becoming the Divine in the end. I know that we will be able to
become a vampire through Cazador and maybe become a werewolf through the leaked Helia companion
later on in the game, but that does not mean that in this act we should be stuck with an objectively good path for everyone and a murder hobo path for idiots.
EDIT Re: usurping the Absolute I think it is pretty clear that
the Absolute is something separate from the Illithid tadpole that she stole
but for some reason none of the evil characters recognise this. They leap at you when you mention the tadpole and that makes them look like morons compared to the player and his party. We have information they do not have or are denying, even though they saw a Nautiloid crash in the opening.
There's also a huge missed opportunity with Minthara dialogue wise, she seems like she could be a much more complicated character
100% agreed. You get a tiny snippet of character development from her at the very end of the evil path and then she just up and disseappears. What a shame.
