Oh Mintharas current looks break the immersion FOR ME absolutely 100% - this is not how "Drow" look like!
And if there is not at least a mention as to why Minthara would tolerate that her hair looks like that of a screeching Banshee now, I will not tolerate it. BEFORE WAS GOOD, what we have now is a nightmare! In all kinds of artworks, canon official one's and fanworks, Drow tend to show typical styles & characteristics.
Appart from their clothes style, they like to grow their vibrant elven heritage hair out, which stays rich & vigorous for centurys, down to the tips who might as well reach their ankles!
Elves are monsters of lifeforce and Drows are no exceptions! Specially the Drow might feel additionally superior to 'pet-races' because of their long lives. Everything that they can have, what others Races cannot have, they might enhance & support to the maximum. One of that being their smooth, long hair!
Not that Mintharas hair looked that gorgeous or long to begin with. But what we have now is a catastrophe and an insult! And I smell the stench of real life, modern day political & ethical ideologies behind it.
I can relate to that sentiment; due to the fact that the in game character design has to be based on concept art first and I do wonder which iteration is more faithful to Minthara's concept art; because if it is patch 5 then that's quite jarring to players who had a romance or a preference for pre patch 5 Minthara for what I believe is about a good couple months of playtime ; and if the pre patch 5 iteration of Minthara is more faithful to the concept art; it would raise the question as to why her hair length was changed to medium to very short. Could it be polictical?; I don't know, it could be that they intend for Minthara to be a more masculine woman to romance; perhaps to appeal to Lesbians maybe?; that's just my speculation; I have a strong feeling that no explanation at all will be provided about her appearance in game; because frankly I think BG3 doesn't actually have that many long hairstyles; it's going to be hard for them to express the variation that is present in high fantasy literature; they could but I have a feeling they won't and we'll just have their mixture of long, medium and short styles without any cultural context involved; I think DOS2 did a better job of making races unique in regard to hairs and armors.
