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Hey everyone! đź‘‹

I’ve just posted a community request asking Larian to consider making Minthara a playable Origin character in Baldur’s Gate 3.

If you also feel that her story deserves to be experienced from her own perspective, please check it out and share your thoughts!
Your support and feedback could really help show Larian how much players care about her. đź’ś


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Originally Posted by Jan K
Hey everyone! đź‘‹

I’ve just posted a community request asking Larian to consider making Minthara a playable Origin character in Baldur’s Gate 3.

If you also feel that her story deserves to be experienced from her own perspective, please check it out and share your thoughts!
Your support and feedback could really help show Larian how much players care about her. đź’ś

The problem is that Minthata wasn't on the nautiloid. I think it would be a difficult job to fit her appearance in the existing framework. A lot more difficult than the other origins in any case.

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Originally Posted by ldo58
The problem is that Minthata wasn't on the nautiloid. I think it would be a difficult job to fit her appearance in the existing framework. A lot more difficult than the other origins in any case.

Not any more difficult than making Durge work. Given there's no reason they should be on the nautiloid what with having being tadpoled a while before the rest of the cast.

Something simple like "The nautiloid picked up some loyal True Souls to aid in its defence" would be able to explain her presence on the nautiloid at the start of the game (Though wouldn't explain her being a level 1 pleb with no tadpole powers...)

The biggest snag would be... The entire rest of the game. Having to implement brand new lines to incorporate Minthara's interactions during Act 1, potential for a "Good Playthrough" interactions at the start of Act 2 and a bunch of altered and added lines for having a PC Minthara.

In short, a lot of work for a game that is no longer in active development.

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Originally Posted by ldo58
The problem is that Minthata wasn't on the nautiloid. I think it would be a difficult job to fit her appearance in the existing framework. A lot more difficult than the other origins in any case.

Not any more difficult than making Durge work. Given there's no reason they should be on the nautiloid what with having being tadpoled a while before the rest of the cast.

Something simple like "The nautiloid picked up some loyal True Souls to aid in its defence" would be able to explain her presence on the nautiloid at the start of the game (Though wouldn't explain her being a level 1 pleb with no tadpole powers...)

The biggest snag would be... The entire rest of the game. Having to implement brand new lines to incorporate Minthara's interactions during Act 1, potential for a "Good Playthrough" interactions at the start of Act 2 and a bunch of altered and added lines for having a PC Minthara.

In short, a lot of work for a game that is no longer in active development.

If she takes the Nautiloid route, they would have to change a lot in the Goblin camp setup. There would be not three generals but two, so many goblin dialogues need to be adapted. There's no attack on the grove, unless they do it under command of Gut or Razglin, which will cascade to more changes for these characters, or some totally new commander. The "secret" of the Chosen of the Absolute" would be known from the beginning, unless they gave Minthara amnesia too, but that would also make her forget her Menzoberranzan origins, and possibly remove some of what makes her so compelling as an NPC. I still think the work would be lots more complex than for Karlach or Wyll , and the result might be disappointing.

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I also want to add that Minthy and Karlach .are probably my two favourite NPC's in our "merry band" as Gale put it. But I started an origin run as Karlach, and found it highly disappointing, because there was no witty , or tragic, Karlach talk or reaction anymore.

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That’s a really good and detailed analysis — thank you for sharing your thoughts. I completely agree that turning Minthara into an Origin character would require a lot of restructuring, especially with the Goblin camp and the “Chosen of the Absolute” storyline.

As a possible alternative, I was thinking about a DLC that could take place in the past, when Minthara was much younger — maybe around 20 years old (since she’s about a century old in BG3).

It could follow her early journey and rise within Lolth’s hierarchy, while still respecting all established lore and D&D rules.

The third general in that timeline could even be a Dragonborn, since that race doesn’t get much representation in the main game. It could add a new dynamic and expand the world further.

Just an idea, of course — but I’d love to see something like that. Thanks again for your thoughtful perspective, it’s great to discuss this kind of creative “what if” scenario with fellow fans! 💜


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That’s a very good point — and I completely agree with you.
Karlach is such a fantastic character, full of emotion, humor, and strength, but when you play her as an Origin, a lot of that personality sadly disappears.

That’s exactly why I’d love for Larian to explore new ways of keeping that companion energy and emotional depth even when a character becomes an Origin.

In Minthara’s case, her inner conflict and loyalty to the Absolute could make for an incredible perspective — but it would need that same spark of personality that makes her so captivating as a companion. 💜


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Not gonna happen.

A Minthara Origin would require much much more rework than just the Durge.

In fact without changing anything else, Minthara would have to get her very own chapter zero, would have to skip over basically all of chapter one, and would only join the party in chapter two.

Thats pretty much absurd.

OItherwise you have to rewrite chapter one and two in order to have Minthara lead the party.

Quite frankly I dont even see this as an option for a fanmod, no matter how dedicated the fan(s) in question is/are.

Also if Larian really would want to do more story work, I would highly prefer they would do more polish in chapter 3 instead of adding more origins.


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