History Characters / BaldursGateIIICompanionsAndFollowers

* MutuallyExclusivePartyMembers: [[spoiler:Is this with Minthara in Act 1, as recruiting him into your party later on would require rescuing him from the goblin camp as well as killing all the goblin leaders, Minthara included, to save the Emerald Grove. There used to be a way for the player to get both him and Minthara by doing some back and forth between Acts 1 and 2, but later patches would enforce their exclusivity by triggering a cutscene where the player character is forced to choose between the two of them to stay with the party.]]

* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: While any Origin character can romance Minthara (so long as they keep her at the appropriate approval threshold), she's particularly quick to fall for the Dark Urge, who while not totally evil suffers from random bouts of murderous impulses. [[spoiler:Of the recruitable cast, she's the only one [[AdmiringTheAbomination who finds their Slayer form "beautiful"]].]]

-->'''Minthara:''' [[spoiler: Zariel is the last of your tormentors who lives. I will find her and punish her, whether you follow me or not. Would you have me navigate the hells without a guide?]]

* MutuallyExclusivePartyMembers: [[spoiler:Is this with Halsin in Act 1, although you won't be able to recruit her immediately until part-way through the next act. For this to happen, she would have to live past the Emerald Grove questline by letting her slaughter the tiefling refugees and druids inhabiting the grove. And if this happens without killing Halsin in the goblin camp beforehand, he will eventually hunt you down at your camp in retribution for the massacre at the grove with the game forcing you to kill him. Furthermore, she's also one to Wyll and Karlach if you side with the Goblins in Act 1 against the Grove. However, if you simply avoid taking a side and move on to Act 2, she can be recruited there while keeping Wyll and Karlach. Halsin will still refuse to join you though. Patch 5 added the ability to recruit her in Act 2 if you knocked her out on Act 1.]]

* ThePowerOfHate: As an Oath of Vengeance paladin, she literally gets her supernatural powers from hating someone or something enough - if you recruit her, she's gunning for the Cult of the Absolute as revenge for mistreating and discarding her.

* ReforgedIntoAMinion: [[spoiler:If the player kills her in Act 1 or fails to save her in Act 2, she will reappear in the Mind Flayer Colony as one of [[{{Necromancer}} Balthazar]]'s zombie minions.]]
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: [[spoiler:Befitting of the divine oath she took as a paladin, she would spend the entire second act enacting her vengeance against Ketheric Thorm for sentencing her to her doom by aiding the party in cutting off the source of his immortality and eventually storming Moonrise Towers. Minthara is so set on this goal that any attempt to backtrack to any of the Act 1 areas would cause her to remain in camp to plan on Ketheric's downfall, only joining the party again upon their return to the Shadow-Cursed Lands.]]

* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: To Viconia [=DeVir=] from the first two games, being a drow who serves as the party's TokenEvilTeammate who was cast out from Menzoberranzan and became a devotee to a ReligionOfEvil other than Lolth. [[spoiler:Humorously enough, Minthara will regard Viconia (and House [=DeVir=] in general) with disdain should she be in the party during Shadowheart's companion quest, which is typical of inter-house rivalries in drow society.]]

* TokenEvilTeammate: Serves as this out of all of the recruitable companions, as she openly serves the Cult of the Absolute, the very organization that most of your companions are fighting against. [[spoiler:And though she herself has a falling out with them after the raid on the Emerald Grove, it's largely a result of her [[YouHaveFailedMe failing her actual mission]] and [[NeverMyFault refusing to accept accountability for it]], though it is eventually established that Minthara is far less bloodthirsty and unhinged when freed from the Absolute's influence. Even then, she's still the most vocal in urging the player to seize power over the Elder Brain for themselves.]]

** [[spoiler:As of Patch 6, if she is the player character's love interest and they end up controlling the Netherbrain, she is then spared from becoming enthralled unlike the other companions and gets to enjoy commanding the Absolute's army with them.]]

* UnholyMatrimony: [[spoiler:If the player character romances her, they become this by the game's end as they can make plans to either take over Baldur's Gate or conquer Menzoberranzan.]]

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* AppeaseTheVolcanoGod: [[spoiler:Sceleritas is offered up as a 'sacrifice' to summon Bhaal, or at least an avatar of the God of Murder, who manifests himself by sprouting blades from Sceleritas' body and manifests in the pool of blood's reflection while using Sceleritas' form to interact with the Dark Urge. If the Dark Urge takes up the role of Bhaal's Chosen, this doesn't even kill him.]]

* BadIsGoodAndGoodIsBad: When asked what the worst thing the Dark Urge ever did was, he recounts, in a horrified tone, the time you were ''nice to a beggar''.

* MutuallyExclusivePartyMembers: [[spoiler:Is this with Halsin in Act 1, although you won't be able to recruit her immediately until part-way through the next act. For this to happen, she would have to live past the Emerald Grove questline by letting her slaughter the tiefling refugees and druids inhabiting the grove. And if this happens without killing Halsin in the goblin camp beforehand, he will eventually hunt you down at your camp in retribution for the massacre at the grove with the game forcing you to kill him. Furthermore, she's also one to Wyll and Karlach if you side with the Goblins in Act 1 against the Grove. However, if you simply avoid taking a side and move on to Act 2, she can be recruited there while keeping Wyll and Karlach. Halsin will still refuse to join you though. Patch 5 added the ability to recruit her in Act 2 if you knocked her out on Act 1. However for this to happen she must have the "Temporarily Hostile" status, which means you must either attack her without talking to her or commit some kind of crime such as stealing, or attacking others, in front of her. Halsin will travel alongside you to your camp but won't join the party due to her presence. If you successfully knock her out like this, she'll be programmed to recover after the next Long Rest, incentivizing you to deal with the rest of the goblin leadership before resting at camp.]]

* WhatTheHellHero: As of Patch 6, she is ''furious'' at a Dark Urge who [[spoiler:rejects Bhaal after defeating Orin and is cured of their curse, outraged that they would "throw away" the power of the Slayer that was their birthright]].

* FantasticRacism: Upon first meeting her as a non-drow elf, she will greet you with a hint of disdain and refer to you as ''darthiir'', a FantasticSlur drow use for surface elves (including half-elves). Meanwhile, meeting her as a half-drow will have her greet you with the hope that your devotion to the Absolute can make up for "[[HalfBreedDiscrimination the impurities of your blood]]".