This Is Such A Nice Take Why It Can Be Interesting To Have Minthara In A Good Playthrough.

This is such a nice take why it can be interesting to have Minthara in a good playthrough.

To add, I never really understood the problem with Minthara joining you without raiding the grove - she would have zero interest in the grove herself, she was literally mind controlled to raid it. Sure, Minthara approves of evil choices, but she is also a very pragmatic person. When you save her, she doesn't really care if your character is good or evil, what she cares about is the reasoning behind your decisions, and she can approve different approaches as long as they are rational to her. If you kill the tieflings, she also questions it, and will even disapprove if you say you did it just for fun.

This might get me some hate, but I really wish they didn't allow good playthrough only players to have Minthara as a companion. If we can't have Karlach and Wyll legitimately in the raid the grove part of the game, yall shouldn't have Minthara. I will never understand why they added that, and Minthara is bugged out because of it if you knock her out.

I do love the tieflings, I understand where people are coming from, but like, she isn't a good person????? Lae'zel and Astarion will also leave your party if you do too many good things while they are in the active party layout. Idk I have so many thoughts on this. AND you are locked out of having Halsin too in the raid the grove route. I'm just in a ranty mood tonight before bed lol. I'm sort of salty about it, but not really. Anyways I'm going to bed 🫠

I love the “tell the one about the man who married a drider!” line you get when volunteering Minthara at the circus, because she immediately gives the punchline “it was a beautiful webbing” and just accepts the fact that she is the funniest person you know

But not only that, the way it’s phrased with you referencing a specific joke and her immediately knowing what joke you’re referencing and the punchlines indicates that she had told you this joke at least once before.

It’s not just a random common joke, the way it’s phrased indicates that you both have some shared context for this joke and Minthara thinks it’s worth sharing.

So what this means is that Minthara likes to tell you bad drow puns/jokes during moments the game doesn’t show

So I’m imagining how many times Minthara has done something like sat down with the camp at night while eating a meal of 26 loaves of bread and 3 rotten apples, and begins telling an elaborate dark and twisted story about some fallen drow male who became infatuated with one of Lolth’s abominations, just to dead pan end it with “it was a beautiful webbing”

this, but also it made me think

...Dark Sun Astarion?

Stop putting Astarion in sexy high fashion outfits start putting him in Bloodborne armor I need more of that

Sometimes I see modded smooth Astarion on my feed and get jumpscared even worse than he was by ghouls

...sweet hells 😮‍💨

It's already on youtube and gods, the unromanced Astarion reaction is killing me

finally got into the patch 7 dialogue files, here's everyone's responses to embrace durge's ending (both romanced and unromanced)

❗Epilogue spoiler

(Wyll broke his pact wiht Mizora and reminds to be the Blade)

Nightwarden Minthara: I am sure that being slain by a heroic blade is of great comfort to your victims.

1>Player(Wyll): They are not victims, they are monsters.

Nightwarden Minthara: I have been both victim and monster. Whichever you saw me as, if your turned your blade on me, there are still those who would grieve my passing. And I would bleed like any other.

2>Player(Wyll):  I bring justice, not comfort.

Nightwarden Minthara: I was taught that any man who spoke out of line, or above his lowly station, should be punished. I called that justice. I do not think there is such a thing as justice anymore, and I do not find my comfort at either end of a blade.

3>Player(Wyll):  I'm a protector, not a killer.

Nightwarden Minthara: In this world, the two roles go hand in hand more often than not. Call yourself a slayer of monsters and be proud, for that is what you are.