Originally Posted by Crimsomrider
Personally I felt our intentions regarding the decisions were expressed properly with Minthara due to this piece of dialogue:

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The first part of the dialogue is the moment we just meet her and end up telepathically linked during which the Narrator mentions how determined and focused Minthara is on locating the grove while probing us, so I'd take that as a reason why she isn't looking for deception. Though also because we can outright ask her how she knows we're a True Souls and she just accept it because she does not question the Absolute.

The 1st and 3rd option are basically acting as deception choices in order to save the grove, while the 2nd one is us somewhat joining her cause. And I'm pretty she immediately gains the location of the grove by choosing the 2nd option, while the other two choices require an intelligence check to prevent her from discovering the location, after which she orders us to clear our mind because she is unable to penetrate it.

The second part is the moment we betray Zevlor, in which the actual reasoning of the character for joining her is stated out loud.

Huh, I don’t really recall that dialogue with Minthara, but perhaps that’s because I’ve only done one playthrough where I didn’t save Sazza, which changes that scene. Picking one of those options you show would be more satisfying to me, and I wish there were something like it when Sazza introduces you. Though as Sazza will give directions to the grove that element is irrelevant.

I’m not particularly concerned about being able to justify myself to Zevlor, as it seems unreasonably self-centred to expect him to care given he and those he protects would die whatever my rationale. But needing healing is not the main motivation I had in mind for my character, rather it was finding out about the cult and destroying it from within. That was something I didn’t get the opportunity to say to anyone in my playthrough, though I don’t rule out there being something in a dialogue branch I didn’t discover!

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