I'm not entirely sure why we had to kill everyone in the grove, but what's done is done. I'm in tight with the Absolutists now.
That is the main issue with the "evil path" on a narrative level. There is little reason to attack the grove, other than doing the obviously evil thing.
The narrative reason is to infiltrate the cult and learn more about the tadpoles
once it becomes clear that none of the local healers can offer a cure.
It makes enough sense from the characters' perspective, but since Larian allowed players who save the Grove to infiltrate the cult anyway, the meta or player perspective becomes "No consequences for the good route, heavy content loss for the evil route."
The fact that they recently allowed the knock-out method for recruiting Minthara on the good playthrough shows that they have 0 intention to give us a proper alternative. She was the only semi worthwhile thing you got for doing evil stuff. I have little hope left at this point.
Agreed. And honestly, my thoughts run more pessimistic - I wonder if they'll both ruin her character and further the content imbalance by giving those players a "Minthara redemption path".
