Deep in Baldur’s Gate 3’s mammoth patch notes for its fifth predominant replace is a whammy of a line: “Minthara will nonetheless seem in Moonrise Towers if she was knocked out in Act 1.” That is proper, it is now simpler than ever to recruit Baldur’s Gate 3’s “evil” companion with out committing to an evil playthrough. Spoilers for Act 1 beneath.
About midway by BG3’s first act, you possibly can facet with both Silvanus’ Grove or a marauding goblin tribe, with the previous finally netting you hunky druid Halsin as a companion, and the latter ensuing within the friendship of Drow hardass Minthara. The goblin path is fairly heinous, so a whole lot of gamers (myself included) have missed out on Minthara’s distinctive character arc and romance subplot—she positioned lifeless final in our rating of Baldur’s Gate 3 companions for simply this cause.
Beforehand, you can flip to mods to recruit Minthara on a great playthrough or, amusingly, undergo an entire speedrunny-break the sport gauntlet that concerned polymorphing Minthara right into a sheep and carrying her to her date with future in Moonrise Towers. Now, although, you simply want to make use of Baldur’s Gate 3’s non deadly assaults to knock Minthara out, and she or he’ll make her method there on her personal.
As outlined by zanyquack on the Baldur’s Gate 3 subreddit, it seems that speaking to Minthara in Act 1 at the moment precludes her displaying up in Act 2 in case you do this route, so you need to knock her out with out initiating dialogue to get it to work. It additionally nonetheless does not seem to be “the way in which the sport was meant to be performed”—Minthara and Halsin do not actually acknowledge one another’s existence as soon as recruited.
I am of two minds about this—I like friction in an RPG, and having mutually unique get together members complicating what’s in any other case a fairly minimize and dry ethical alternative is such an fascinating factor to must wrangle with. Alternatively, Larian already rewards artistic downside fixing like intelligent use of non deadly assaults—you possibly can forestall an otherwise-inevitable homicide because the Darkish Urge by simply knocking your goal out on the proper time, for instance.
Additionally? I am an enormous softy and will by no means betray the Tiefling refugees, so that is the one method I will ever see Minthara’s story. Not this playthrough, although: I am 15 hours deep within the permadeath Honour Mode and dealing on wiping out the goblin leaders. I haven’t got the posh of testing some funky new approach like this. Sorry Minthara, however my get together’s about to do heinous issues to you and your goblin buddies with an explosive barrel.
