Drow Paladin Minthara looks like a cool character, even when she positioned lifeless final in PC Gamer’s Baldur’s gate 3 companion rating. To recruit her, you must betray most of act one’s questgivers and pleasant NPCs to assist a bunch of pungent goblins as a substitute, and this route additionally sees you waving goodbye to companions Karlach, Wyll, Halsin, and presumably Gale.
There’s already mods for recruiting Minthara with out being heinous, however a Taiwanese gamer with the deal with pao870111 discovered a means to take action in vanilla Baldur’s Gate 3, subsequently shared in English to Reddit by ZookeepergameDeep360. Truthful warning: it is a jank juggling act of epic proportions, and really a lot not what Larian meant.
You begin by attacking Minthara first within the Kill the Goblin Leaders quest for Halsin, which makes her solely “Quickly Hostile” in Baldur’s Gate 3’s recreation logic. Utilizing nonlethal assaults to knock her unconscious is not actually acknowledged by the story, however it does imply that Minthara will present up at her outdated spot within the goblin camp after your subsequent lengthy relaxation and stay there indefinitely (although you may’t speak to her). After ending the Goblin Leaders quest on this means, it seems like you may progress by way of act one and into act two as regular, being positive to unlock the Moonrise Towers waypoint.
This is the place it will get bizarre: you then return to Minthara on the goblin camp, use the Polymorph spell to show her right into a sheep, after which the Dominate Animal spell to briefly add her to your get together. Taking management of Sheepthara, you then must teleport straight to the Moonrise Towers waypoint.
What follows appears to be probably the most arduous a part of the entire ordeal: Minthara has to succeed in Ketheric Thorm’s throne room to set off her regular trial scene from an evil playthrough, overriding the one with the goblins you get on a superb playthrough. Nonetheless, in her regular Drow kind, Minthara will probably be hostile to Moonrise’s guards and briefly aggro’d on you at any time when exiting sheep mode—she has a excessive probability of operating off into the Shadow Cursed lands to immediately die throughout this lengthy stroll to hell.
To make sure she reaches her date with future (and presumably you, if you happen to pursue her romance subplot), you must preserve re-upping the Polymorph/Dominate Animal combo and carry her throughout the bridge and into the throne room by utilizing a high-strength character to choose her up as an “improvised weapon,” stroll so far as they will, after which set her down gently, being cautious to disengage from her when she turns again right into a Drow and making certain that she’s not in fast hazard from Moonrise’s guards.
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When you convey Minthara to the throne room in sheep kind, she’ll be judged and sentenced to demise by Ketheric similar to when she survives in a playthrough the place you assault the Grove together with her, solely she’ll stay a sheep in the course of the cutscene.
You’ll be able to watch that individual miscarriage of justice timestamped right here on this video information from ZookeepergameDeep360, although the video itself is flagged as adults solely on YouTube as a result of they took all of Minthara’s stuff and he or she’s utterly within the buff when in Drow kind—kinda par for the course with this madcap quest, although. As soon as Sheepthara has been sentenced to demise, her story proceeds as regular, and you’ll recruit her within the Moonrise Dungeons (she will not be a sheep anymore).
Actually a high-flying trapeze act of RPG wonkiness, all to utterly bork considered one of Baldur’s Gate 3’s principal branching selections and save each Minthara and the Tiefling Refugees. There’ll little doubt be some bugs and jank to having Minthara alongside in any other case mutually-exclusive companions, and he or she’ll reference your alternate timeline slaughter of the Grove in addition, however who cares: you will have carried out the not possible.
This secret golden path actually has all of it: nonlethal playstyle shenanigans, goofy Larian speaking animals, utilizing a sheep as an “improvised weapon” to save lots of her life, and completely coloring exterior the strains in an RPG all about artistic experimentation.
