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A PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT regarding Update #5 enabling Minthara to be recruited while siding with Halsin and Zevlor;

• When you are ready to wipe out the entire Goblin camp; in order to recruit Minthara you have to first make her Temporarily Hostile by committing a crime next to her and then non-lethally knock her out. Despite the journal mentioning she died, continue to slaughter everyone in the Goblin camp in order to save the Tieflings and the Grove.
• Once you eventually reach ACT II with everyone saved; Minthara can be found in Moonrise Towers being judged by General Ketheric Thorm where you can recruit her. She and Halsin will both be chilling at camp after she's been rescued.
• DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES knock Minthara out without the TEMPORARILY HOSTILE tag, otherwise she will not spawn in ACT II.

Am so happy Larian listened and made wonderful Minthara available to everyone now. Despite the currently raw and basic implementation of her recruitment, having her in ACT 2 makes the overall experience so much more fulfilling and content packed and here's hoping to future improvements which would seamlessly integrate her with everyone, along with her having her own spot in camp so it's not shared with Halsin ^^

Thank you Larian!


Incase anyone wants a straightforward how-to video;

That tent is certainly an upgrade from your backpack, or wherever else you were keeping her

Hahah the camp chest

Great news. Time to finally use the Tav that has been sitting in the nautiloid for months.

Kinda cool that I'll finally get to see some of her content. I didn't like any of the options to recruit her before. (especially yeeting her sheep form into moonrise tower,) that sounded way too much work for a companion I was not all that interested in.

Well, looks like I have some fun new content to look forward to. Time to start my new playthrough

Personally, I think you will still miss the "real spirit" of Minthara companion if you don't go evil. Will she remain her haughty, superior and evil drow aspect if you recruit her this way ? Or will she just become a goody Drow palladin, not Minthara anymore. If it's the first option, she will disaprove of any good decision you make. If it's the second, well, then it's not Minthara you recruited. Just my feeling.

Got no clue honestly, but she's perfect the way she is and I'm thrilled to find out myself. A glorious day for Minthy!

Huh? What? I'm going over the patch notes and I don't see anything, is this as intended or a bug?

Knock her out and... do what? Kill the other two? Talk to Halsin with her knocked out? I'm looking to restart a Karlach run on Honour Mode, this would be fantastic.

Awesome stuff! Thanks for the quick reply!

Oh Goody...

I've already knocked her out two times in my current playthrough...

I was following the Sheep~thara method and knocked her out BEFORE I talked to Halsin. Then After talking to Halsin, me having her knocked out prior made it so I didn't fulfill the "Quest" from Halsin. So I had to bonk her a second time.

And now it looks like I'll have to bonk her again. I just hope her Tadpole is still functional afterwards ROFL!

A part of me was kind of hoping we'd be able to do something like knock her out during the grove raid or something, the "temporarily hostile" part feels a bit like the exploit for you know who with Dark Urge. Not that I'm complaining, I'm happy to have Minthara without genocide or actively ignoring a major part of act 1, I just really like the whole thing with siding the tieflings during the raid but Minthara is someone I'm really interested in interacting with compared to Halsin.

Yeah that is probably coming in the future or it is simply bugged at the moment despite the patch notes.

Because logically the most natural setting to knock out Minthara would be either during the raid or after provoking her. But for some reason her being fully hostile still has her being treated as a disposable NPC that gets despawned afterwards.

Really hoping Larian keeps improving this now that they opened Pandora's box because thousands and thousands of fans all over social media are jumping with joy from the news, showing just how much she is wanted

Sorry I would just like to clarify this,

So you can recruit both her and Halsin?

Yup, both will be chilling at camp together ^^

Why recruit such an evil person, with countless crimes and atrocities to her name, if you are GOOD?

Because there's a whole vast of gray between 'moral, good pure hero' and 'murderhobo evil'. If you're playing a good hero character you probably don't want Minthara, Astarion and Lae'zel in your party. If you're playing an evil character you probably don't want Wyll, Karlach and Halsin in your party.

The ability to knock her out and still save the Grove, and then recruit her at Moonrise later on is meant for the large number of players who want to play in the wonderful gray areas between those two extremes. You're not forced to recruit her, you can still kill her. You can still raid the Grove too, if you want.

Also, you know, gotta catch 'em all.

Will there be any new dialogue for them? Or more reactions from Minthara in a good playthrough?

oooooh that's interesting. Thank you!