I voted for Minthara because I'm not going to side with the goblins. However, I usually kill Astarion when he tries to suck my blood and I usually kill Lae'zel because she's racist and evil. I plan to play on Tactician with a Wood Elf Feylock (not the strongest class), so I feel like I need to minmax my companions, which means I may need to keep evil companions in the party to fight the greater evil. (In my head canon, I tell them when it's over, the alliance ends.) If I respec Lae'zel as a Wizard, she's better than Gale and I don't need Wyll because I'm playing a Warlock, so at least I get rid of the weakling humans (oops, maybe Lae'zel is growing on me).
I really want to play (but not necessarily roleplay) a deep gnome shadow monk, so I expect I'm going to need a mercenary, too.
Minthara is honestly my favorite and I really don't care that much about game morality...I am genuinely sick of generic good endings. In a certain game that shall not be named(*cough* DOS2 *cough*) the best ending was you die! Congratulations! And in other good endings you became a soulless zombie. Yay! Sweet victory! Or in the bad ending you just released the big bad on the world and everyone was screwed. Nah, I'm done with all that...in this game we get to be able to become ruler of the forgotten realms and all prime material plane then sure. I'll stab whoever Swen says needs to be stabbed.
As for Lae'zel...I mean she's a Githyanki, what do you expect? But while Githyakis are evil aligned you should not be so quick to judge them...they are the only thing keeping the Illithids from conquering all of the planes. Illithids are insanely intelligent cosmic monstrosities that originated from outer space...making them the only space faring species in D&D. Much of that technology is lost to them at this point as they have been hunted nearly to extinction by the Gith. Granted the other species have magic and they can travel between planes with magic like the planeshift spell among other passages and sorts but even the least of the Illithids has the intellect of a genius. It is also believed they escaped extinction by traveling through time and it is believed it may be inevitable that they will once again rule over everything eventually. Soo...you know...the next time you see a friendly neighborhood Githyanki around camp give her a hug. Well...maybe not, she might stab you, but you know...don't kill her or kick her out lol.
