Only way to recruit Minthara?

[SuperWriter]

Is the only way to recruit the drow elf by murdering? Is there no peaceful way we can recruit her? Thanks in advance for any answers!

[garry]

No she's evil and loves murder.

[Super_]

Someone had the idea to use hypnotic gaze on her. No idea if it works.

[Adremelech]

This would interest me aswell, i know that in EA there was no other way. Hope there is one now.

[Quo Vadis ?]

it's really a shame you can't get her as a companion early on

[2LambBuna]

no because shes the most evil of all the npcs you can recruit

[GrandMajora]

Originally posted by superduperwriter:

Is the only way to recruit the drow elf by murdering? Is there no peaceful way we can recruit her? Thanks in advance for any answers!

Of course not.

She's a Drow.

The vast, overwhelming majority of all Drow in Faerun are unapologetically evil. Those who aren't, tend to flee from society, where they are most often hunted down and killed before they even catch a mere glimpse of the surface world.

Look at Minthara's eyes. They're dark red, meaning she was a Lolth-Sworn before she was brainwashed into the cult of the Absolute.

[Razorblade]

Based on one of the dev streams (I haven't gotten to Act 2 myself), the way you recruit Minthara is breaking her out of prison in Act 2. As long as you leave her alive in Act 1 (e.g. by leaving the Wilderness of your own volition instead of at the direction of Minthara/Halsin after their respective quests), I would suspect she's still recruitable, but that is yet to be seen.

[SUGI]

Originally posted by Razorblade:

Based on one of the dev streams (I haven't gotten to Act 2 myself), the way you recruit Minthara is breaking her out of prison in Act 2. As long as you leave her alive in Act 1 (e.g. by leaving the Wilderness of your own volition instead of at the direction of Minthara/Halsin after their respective quests), I would suspect she's still recruitable, but that is yet to be seen.

I wish this stuff would be open already, so i could try it on my current playthrough..

[SuperWriter]

Originally posted by garry:

No she's evil and loves murder.

Originally posted by Super_:

Someone had the idea to use hypnotic gaze on her. No idea if it works.

Originally posted by Adremelech:

This would interest me aswell, i know that in EA there was no other way. Hope there is one now.

Originally posted by Quo Vadis ?:

it's really a shame you can't get her as a companion early on

Originally posted by 2LambBuna:

no because shes the most evil of all the npcs you can recruit

Originally posted by GrandMajora:

Originally posted by superduperwriter:

Is the only way to recruit the drow elf by murdering? Is there no peaceful way we can recruit her? Thanks in advance for any answers!

Of course not.

She's a Drow.

The vast, overwhelming majority of all Drow in Faerun are unapologetically evil. Those who aren't, tend to flee from society, where they are most often hunted down and killed before they even catch a mere glimpse of the surface world.

Look at Minthara's eyes. They're dark red, meaning she was a Lolth-Sworn before she was brainwashed into the cult of the Absolute.

Originally posted by Razorblade:

Based on one of the dev streams (I haven't gotten to Act 2 myself), the way you recruit Minthara is breaking her out of prison in Act 2. As long as you leave her alive in Act 1 (e.g. by leaving the Wilderness of your own volition instead of at the direction of Minthara/Halsin after their respective quests), I would suspect she's still recruitable, but that is yet to be seen.

Originally posted by S.ug:

Originally posted by Razorblade:

Based on one of the dev streams (I haven't gotten to Act 2 myself), the way you recruit Minthara is breaking her out of prison in Act 2. As long as you leave her alive in Act 1 (e.g. by leaving the Wilderness of your own volition instead of at the direction of Minthara/Halsin after their respective quests), I would suspect she's still recruitable, but that is yet to be seen.

I wish this stuff would be open already, so i could try it on my current playthrough..

I was reading this and apparently there might be a way to save her without killing everyone

https://www.reddit.com/r/BaldursGate3/comments/15igt19/big_fat_spoilers_recruiting_minthara/

[Adremelech]

Yea this might be nice if you don't wan't a "Full" Party but i would love to have a way where i got them all.

[GrandMajora]

Alright, so Minthara is an Oath of Vengeance Paladin, meaning that her approval is heavily biased towards punishing those who she feels have wronged her and her companions. Which, during chapter 1 of the game, includes the groves full of "followers of a false god" who have been declared enemies of the Absolute.

Sorry to say, but there's no way to make a good first impression without slaughtering the refugees.

[Rog]

Originally posted by GrandMajora:

Alright, so Minthara is an Oath of Vengeance Paladin, meaning that her approval is heavily biased towards punishing those who she feels have wronged her and her companions. Which, during chapter 1 of the game, includes the groves full of "followers of a false god" who have been declared enemies of the Absolute.

Sorry to say, but there's no way to make a good first impression without slaughtering the refugees.

*I use a translator

This is a dnd game. The one where you can roll dice to make friends with the undead. Where the main enemy can be persuaded to cook cookies. And there is no way for a character based on eloquence (background and abilities) to convince a paladin of a place that "is taking revenge in the wrong direction?" especially with mind-reading abilities (magicians/scrolls) and with an Illithid larva?

[eRe4s3r]

You can get her in Act2 (in the tower) by freeing Halsin but not doing anything else to make the gobbos hostile, not resolving the refugee quest and doing the shadow druid to completion (so that ritual is stopped) and no talking to her in act 1. This way you get Halsin and Minthara in camp, which is hilarious. Not even sure this is intended, doesn't feel like it. And of course you leave MEGAtons of loot behind. (You get Halsin in Act 2 from the spirit of the land stuff, so you have to do some more legwork there)

Requires some finaggling and the question is, is it worth it to you?