Originally Posted by Starshine
Originally Posted by Caelir
I'm in Act 3 with her, and at least if you play as Durge, I think it makes total sense with her character that she is only available for an evil group. I don't want to spoil anything, but afaik as I can tell you can't lead her into a good/bad direction like with origin characters (if I didn't unintentionally lock her into the evil road at some point, or there is a surprise ending).

She isn't a "mindless butcher" kind of evil, but what she wants is just not possible to do with a good group in my view. If you go down the evil road though, she is a great adviser and cheerleader. : )

Play with her as a character who makes all the good options post-recruiting her, and after seeing the dialogue and perspectives she has then see if you can say the same. She sees power in doing the right thing, she fits better in a 'good' party than Astarion and no one would back an argument to have him leave the group if you don't kill the teefs and deny the entire teef content for the rest of the game.

I think I tried to do that (I wanted to see what happens, taking different options so did a lot of savings, both good/evil, there is a limit of course though what you can do in one playthrough) and her own story is of course harsh and all (she explains that whether you take a good or evil road), but even when she is not controlled by the Absolute anymore, besides loyalty to you, she always is on the side of the pro-evil option (Shadowheart going Shar, La-zael siding with Vlaakith, Durge going full on his path and so forth). Her ultimate goal seems to be becoming the best tyrant there is (or co-tyrant). Astarion is different, at least for me (you have a much wider range where you can take him).

She isn't portrait as a mindless killer who just kills for fun, like an Orin character, but still ultimately has evil goals through and through. Which isn't bad either. Not all characters have to be in a grey area, and in my view they made her proper evil without being a mustache twirling psycho.

As I mentioned, I didn't play with Minthara on a Tav character, that could be totally different.