ACT 3
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Circus
The circus in Rivington has both laughs and romance with Minthara.
The Trial of Love
This event shows a romance scene with Minthara.
– Find the druid Zethino and speak with her
– Answer her questions correctly:
1. Food of Menzoberranzan
2. Me
3. Let herself be captured by the cult of the Absolute
Dribbles the clown
– Find & watch Dribbles on stage
– Volunteer Minthara to go up there (you will lose an approval point with her, but it’s worth it).
In Act 3, there many key Minthara moments to enjoy. She’s hilarious and romantic at the circus, has some involvement with Orin, and her end game romance epilogue is beautiful.
Orin
Orin can kidnap Minthara, instead of other party members, then you can rescue her.
Prepare for the kidnapping
– When you first meet Yenna, do not invite her to your camp. She will come anyway. Do not talk to her at camp and this will be fine. You don’t want Orin to choose Yenna.
– The kidnapping can be triggered in two ways: After you attend Gortash’s ceremony or after you run into Orin in the sewers. There are more details about these triggers.
– Orin will come kidnap your companion within your next 1-3 long rests.
– Don’t have Gale, Lae’zel, or Halsin in camp. Either keep them in your party or don’t recruit them.
– If the setup was correct, you’ll see a special Minthara scene in camp one night.
Rescue Minthara
Whether or not you kill Orin or Gortash first doesn’t matter. She won’t kill your companion if you pass some dice checks.
– Arrive in Bhaal’s temple
– Fight Orin
– Help Minthara off the table
– Minthara has a few special lines of dialog.
End game
The end of the game after you beat the brain contains epilogue and romance dialog for Minthara.
The epilogue happens immediately after the battle, but only from Minthara if you are romancing her.
The end romance dialog is very unique for each origin character, Tav, and dark urge.
It’s highly recommend playing as an origin character who romances her. Minthara has some special dialog for the origin character quests.
Though the most evocative is when you play as Karlach. The end game scene is priceless.
Minthara approvals in Act 3
These approvals are from the BG3 Parsed Dialog (1.0), BG3 wiki, or personal experience. They have not all been tested for accuracy.
| CONTEXT | DIALOG | POINT |
|---|---|---|
| Rivington – Yenna | Yenna: Erm. ‘Scuse me. I can’t find my mum. Player: Beat it kid. Not my problem. | 1 |
| Rivington – Yenna | Yenna: Erm. ‘Scuse me. I can’t find my mum. Player: Where did you last see her? Yenna: … That was last tenday though. Player: I don’t know where your mum is, but here – take a few coin. OR Player [CLERIC]: Let’s find the nearest temple, little one. | 1 |
| Rivington – children | Minthara: I do not understand why the matrons – sorry, patriars – of the city do not open their gates to the refugees. Player: I agree, they should be sheltered from danger. Minthara: I was not suggesting they be allowed to roam free. They should be put to work – the city needs labourers, and fodder to protect it. Player: It’s only fair that they should earn their keep. (dark urge) Player: Indeed. They could be a convenient source of food if the city falls under siege. Minthara: Hmmm. The weak and the elderly perhaps. | 3 |
| Rivington – Manip Nestor (in front of donation barn) | Manip Nestor: Donations? Player: I’ll take a donation, please. | 1 |
| Rivington – children | Minthara: The next urchin who tries to pick my pocket will lose its hand. Player: Why not take its head? | 1 |
| Rivington – Strange Ox | Player: (after viewing violent thoughts) What are you really? Strange Ox: Keep quiet, and you won’t have to find out. Player: Your secret – whatever it is – is safe with me. | 1 |
| Rivington – Fist Rowan | Fist Rowan: We need to march round the front, and kill every last one of them. Let’s see them eat our food with their guts on the floor. What do you say? Player: Both sides need teaching a lesson: let’s kill them all. OR Player: I kill discreetly and with purpose. Openly murdering refugees seems rather clumsy. | 1 |
| Rivington at camp – Vlaakith | Narrator: Your parasites resonate. You feel Lae’zel’s ecstasy as she moves to kneel before her queen. Player: [Arcana] Use the tadpole. Seek Vlaakith’s mind through her psionic conveyance. | 1 |
| Circus – entrance | Klaus: That’s a first. Usually I’d allow you in, but in these times I can take no chances. Move along – no circus for you. Player: I’m not a threat to you or anyone else in the circus – I swear it. OR Player: I’m a friend of Lord Gortash. I wonder what he’ll say if I tell him about this… Player: Let me in, or I snap you in two. (Minthara gets inspired) | 1 |
| Circus – Dribbles | “Boo” at Dribbles the Clown’s performance at the Circus. | 1 |
| Circus – Dribbles | Applaud Dribbles’ scarecrow joke. | 1 |
| Circus – Dribbles | Refuse to get onto the stage. | 1 |
| Circus – Dribbles | Prompt her to the stage with the drider joke. | 1 |
| Circus – Dribbles | Suggest Lae’zel or Karlach (or others) get onto the stage. | 1 |
| Circus – Zethino | Zethino: Listen. Think. What does the drow miss most about the Underdark? Player: Picking off her siblings one by one. OR Player: The food in Menzoberranzan. (This choice gives a nicer ending, though worth only 1 point) | 2 or 1 |
| Circus – Zethino | Zethino: Many pass through our lives, their touch rippling across time. But who does Minthara admire the most? Player: Me. | 2 |
| Circus – Zethino | Zethino: Those with an icy facade hide their true selves well – but pain breaks us all in the end. What is the worst thing your love has ever done? Player: Let herself be captured by the cult of the Absolute. | 2 |
| Gnome cave | Wulbren Bongle: get the bomb inside the Gondian facility, and – boom. Problem solved. Player: I’ll blow up the foundry – give me the bomb. | 1 |
| South Span Checkpoint | Gauntlet Edwynna: Halt! By orders of Lord Gortash, refugees are no longer allowed in the city. Turn around. Player: You have no idea who you are talking to. Let me through or I’ll kill you. | 1 |
| Wyrm’s Rock entrance | Tell the guard you have special permission or are there to protect Lord Gortash to gain entrance to Wyrm’s Rock. | 1 |
| Wyrm’s Rock entrance | Blaze Elin (woman on right): Sorry chum, can’t let you through. Wyrm’s Rock’s closed for the day. Player: See this? I’ve been invited to the ordination. (Get this pass from Arfur Gregorio, the rich guy with squatters at his house in Rivington. If you find his secret document in his basement, you can blackmail him for the pass — and all his gold.) | 1 |
| Gortash’s coronation | Lord Enver Gortash: Soon. First, come and be witness as I make history as the first Archduke of Baldur’s Gate. Player: All right. OR Player: I wouldn’t dream of missing it. OR Player: Fine. Let’s get it over with. | 1 |
| Wrym’s rock barracks | Fist Reynash (gnome): My wife said we have to stand and fight and – and I can’t! I won’t… I’m not made for this. Player: Get a grip. You’re a soldier – act like one. | 1 |
| Lower City – Elfsong Tavern | Gauntlet Devella Fountainhead: Unless you’ve got useful information, leave me to my work. Duke Stelmane’s dead – and I’ve got to find who killed her. Player: [DECEPTION] Let me help you – I trained under Camber Fosrick, the world’s greatest investigative mind. | 1 |
| Lower City – Elfsong Tavern (small room, ground floor) | Harvard Willoughby: Your turn, Smart Stuff. Knock ’em dead! …But no literally, got me? Player: Willoughby the comedian, folks! Were his jokes good, or did he just smell funny? OR Player: Hey! I asked my wizard to cast Shatter. He said, ‘Shatter? I hardly know ‘er!’ | 1 |
| Lower City – Elfsong Tavern (small room, ground floor) | Harvard Willoughby: Argh! Got me with an ancient jest that’s older than I am. (if answered with ‘smell funny’) Player: You know why I hate vampires? They just suck. OR Player: I tried sleeping with a dragonborn the other night, but it didn’t work out – he had a reptile dysfunction. | 1 |
| Lower City – Elfsong Tavern (small room, ground floor) | Harvard Willoughby: Win or lose, I’m stealing that one. Player: The Dead Three, am I right? What losers. You know why Bane worshippers will never conquer the world? They don’t have the Bhaals! OR Player: Our cleric tried to cast Healing Word on a ham, but was already cured. OR Player: [INTIMIDATION] CLAP OR I’LL RIP OUT YOUR SPINES. | 1 |
| Lower City – Sorcerous Sundries | Tell Lorroakan you might be able to tell him where Nightsong is. (you don’t have to tell him though) | 1 |
| Lower City – Sorcerous Sundries | Aradin (outside of shop): Shit, it’s you. You went looking for the Nightsong after me. Please tell me you found it. Player: [DECEPTION]: Sorry, I didn’t find anything. | 1 |
| Lower city – outside House of Grief | Player: Detect thoughts. Arves (man in purple): Marvellous day… not a care in the world. Moyra would have loved this garden. Wait, who’s she? Player: [DECEPTION] Moyra sent me. She said you had money I was to bring to her – household expenses. | 1 |
| Orin’s death | Player: You sound disheartened. Minthara: You know me well. | 1 |
| Orin’s death | Minthara: I could not have faced her without you. Player: Few people could face a Chosen of Bhaal. You did. | 3 |
| Bhaal’s temple | Player: You’re nothing like Orin. Minthara : It is only because of you that I did not meet the same fate as Orin. Lost to madness and blood. | 5 |
| Orin impersonation | Minthara: She had me in her clutches once before. Promise that you won’t let it happen again. Player: I promise. Minthara : Thank you. Together, we will survive her. | 5 |
| Evolved tadpole | Minthara: If you will not use it, give it to me. Player: You’re welcome to take it. Minthara: Good. When I am stronger, we are stronger. | 3 |
| If you consume evolved tadpole | Minthara: I see the change in the shimmer of your skin, and hear it in the hum of your blood. You are evolving. | 3 |
| Baldur’s Mouth propaganda | Minthara: Think this, feel that, hate them. Player: If you controlled the Mouth, what would you have it say? Nightwarden Minthara: An excellent question. | 3 |
| In romance, if said alurlssrin, if Orin abduction happened, if approval > 40 | Minthara: That is your gift to me, and we are bound together until it is done. Player: Only until it is done? OR Player: I hope our bond will last beyond that. | 10 |