Commandeering this thread to complain about the Mind Flayer ship not making sense;
Allegedy the tutorial section was added so late in development of Act 1 that entire sections of the story were not adjusted for it. Unfortunately the writers did not communicate that the player now knows exactly what the parasite is and by extension what True Souls really are, Lae'Zel even has a monologue about it after you meet TS Eodwin. The Absolute's forces are all totally ignorant of this fact. Gut has no idea of the tadpole and tries to imprison you if you ask her to take it out because she believes you will experience ceremorphosis at any moment, unlike her "a real True Soul". Minthara AFAIK simply does not acknowledge the whole tadpole situation and uses you as an unimportant minion instead.
All of this serves to ruin the evil path. You have critical information right from the opening cinematic that none of the evil people seem to be aware of and it makes siding with them an excercise in suspending your disbelief or irrational indulgence in psychopathy. It sucks.
