I agree with your post.
I returned to this forum, specifically to advocate for making Minthara recruitable in either Act 1 resolution (she is in prison for failing when you help her succeed, if she survived Act 1 by code, she would be in prison for failing if you defeated her too, the only change would be good path act 1 wouldn't get you the why did you kill the druids convo, but a why did you side with them convo instead. She literally already has good-bad choices for every choice you can take after, it's essentially null change. Making her recruitable to either Act 1 choice is so small a mod could probably do it without it hardly being noticeable!), with that as a first step towards fleshing her character out with full companion quests. In what dialogue, voice acting and writing she has she is exceptional. I find no fault in her characterisation or need for her to be change, just deepend and expanded with more context as she is sadly lacking despite (in my mind) being the best written and voice acted companion, all her lines are great and they bring a great amount of life, humour and perspective to the game, she just has so few.
It's good she is evil, about power and preserving her world view, not about edginess and murder. She is a great character in embodying the Drow perspective, while also through the vengence aspect and her experiences being unique and outside of it. It was a great balancing act they pulled off. For a 'redemption', something along the lines of getting her to lean towards the more legit/acceptable paths to power, something she already open to in the game, would be preferable over, she renounces desiring power or anything? as otherwise she wouldn't be Minthara ?
I would sort of suggest, if any mod reads this or if anyone knows how to contact them, that the various Minthara threads be merged?
https://forums.larian.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=877386#Post877386https://forums.larian.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=875734#Post875734https://forums.larian.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=877230#Post877230
