Originally Posted by jono11
The Minthara problem is not about whether or not a good player should be able to recruit an evil character. We already can do that with Astarion, Lae'zel, and Shadowheart. Like, someone tried to dunk on someone else by pointing out that Minthara is Lolth-sworn, but Shadowheart is a devotee of a real piece-of-shit goddess herself when we first meet her. The game cleverly tricks you by giving her a voice-actor that isn't obviously evil-coded and not having her cartoonishly demand that you be a dickhead all the time, but there's no way to interpret Shar-worship except as an evil cult.

Just as an aside, Shadowheart (not her birth name), was more or less brainwashed, taken advantage of you might say, by Shar as a child (as I'm sure you remember) and at every turn in the game disapproves of evil acts. Strictly speaking, I disagree with branding her as evil, even by association. IMO, she's the best developed origin character in the game.

As far as Minthara, having both recruited her and wiped out the teeth'ling-filled grove and killed her in the goblin camp, it's better just to kill her. She's not all that interesting.

Last edited by Myhthreindeer; 01/10/23 01:25 PM.