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'''Minthara Baenre''' is a [[Drow]] [[Paladin]] of the [[Absolute]] who is a potential [[Companion]] or antagonist in [[Baldur's Gate 3]]. She can be found at the [[Shattered Sanctum]] inside the [[Goblin Camp]], planning an attack on the [[Druid Grove]] in the name of the Absolute. If helped, the player can start a brief [[Romance]] with her.

== Personality ==

Being a [[Drow]] and follower of the [[Absolute]], Minthara has a highly hostile and cruel attitude towards other beings, considering pretty much everyone as inferior. She has a special disdain for those who do not share her beliefs, and as a drow noble, she holds drow characters in high regard.

Despite her apparent devotion, a player who romances her can find that she has doubts regarding the Absolute and its actions.

== Notable Loot ==

* {{RarityItem|Boots of Striding}}

* {{RarityItem|Minthara's At-Ease Clothes}}

If Minthara is recruited as a companion, she will already have access to several [[Illithid Powers]], specifically [[Favourable Beginnings]], [[Charm]], [[Concentrated Blast]], and [[Psionic Backlash]].

Minthara also possesses an ability completely unique to herself: {{SAI|Soul Branding}}.

Although Minthara can be encountered in [[Act One]], she cannot join the player's party as a permanent companion before reaching [[Moonrise Towers]].

** Note that raiding the Grove with Minthara will cause [[Karlach]] and [[Wyll]] to permanently leave the player's party. If the player desires to recruit Minthara, Karlach, and Wyll into their party with none leaving, they can accomplish this by not defeating Minthara or raiding the grove with her; ignoring the quests that ask for these tasks to be accomplished.

 

* If not defeated by the player, Minthara is next encountered in [[Moonrise Towers]], where she is sentenced to death by [[Ketheric Thorm]] for failing to retrieve the [[Mysterious Artefact]]. Afterwards, she can be found in the Moonrise Prison. If the player [[Decide Minthara's Fate|helps her escape]], she will visit the player's camp and ask to join their party.

 

* Minthara is a [[True Soul]] and as such already starts with [[Illithid Powers]] when recruited. These are:  

** [[Concentrated Blast]]

** [[Psionic Backlash]]

{{SpoilerWarning}}

If the player allows [[Balthazar]] to take the [[Nightsong]], he will be tasked with abducting [[Isobel]]. Letting her get killed or knocked out will grant the player an audience with [[Ketheric Thorm]] who will allow the player to pray at the altar of the [[Absolute]]. Doing so will result in the player being imprisoned in a pod in the [[Mind Flayer Colony]] where [[Balthazar]] will try to recycle the player and his party into zombies. In the fight that ensues the player will find [[Zombie Dror Ragzlin]] (unless he survived [[Act One]]) and [[Zombie Minthara]] (if she died in [[Act One]] or if the player didn't rescue her from her prison in [[Act Two]]).

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