And yes depicting both female characters in a similar light "Strong" as you would describe it, does not help your case or mine.
You are lucky that you made it to the "good passage", otherwise you would have had another surprise

I think in this game the cult of the Strong Woman, but I like it.
Can you play the first act for evil as a drow, and compare Minthara to real-life female leaders you know? I would very much like to read this
Shadow Heart doesn't look dominant and rude, she looks like a goth teenager with a difficult fate. I think that maybe we will have another "good" girl of the classic archetype in the next acts