I had my act 2 scenes after Ketheric's defeat with Minty yesterday and the camp scene that follows garnering high approval. Most of it, as well as what you have written here, made me think that she and Gale should sit down and have a conversation. Gale too can have a very emotional outburst at the brain stem, which comes completely out of nowhere if you haven't picked up on the very subtle signs how utterly and truly terrified he is of loosing the final battle, and condemning the whole sword coast, his friends and the PC to be the Netherbrain's dominion. I thought it was a bug at first too, because it came so completely out of the blue and had some weird reasoning in it (the recent patch made it much more coherent, thankfully) but in the end it makes sense, that the guy who clings to power because he feels lost as a person, defaults back to his divine command when coming face to face with the true horror the Netherbrain's victory might entail. And for Minthara too, power also seems to be something she clings to after being rendered powerless. I can't say anything about the Dark Urge or the romance situation, but she seems to be very much on the same power-as-compensation-path as Astarion and Gale are, so the above theory about rejecting divine power resulting in the loss of what she holds dearest makes sense. Especially when compared to Gale's brainstem dialogue where he reverts back to wanting to obey the divine command to save what he holds dear - they do love their parallel themes after all.

Minthara is an awesome addition to the "good" path because she makes the good path harder. Without her, it is easy to dismiss the cultists as just that: crazy, cruel cultists. You might know that many of them were tadpoled against their will - your characters have been too after all - but the level of deceit and cruelty is never fully illustrated unless you hear Minthara's gut-wrenching tale of how she arrived at Moonrise. I do really hope they patch her up and flesh her out a bit because I don't think, I ever want to leave her dead again. (And her voice actress deserves far more recognition than she has gotten, what an awesome performance.)

Last edited by Anska; 11/03/24 11:06 AM.