Baldur's Gate 3: How To Recruit Minthara

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Thanks to Patch 5, good-aligned players can now officially recruit Minthara as a companion, allowing her to join the party on their quests. The evil Drow Paladin was previously only recruitable if players raided the Emerald Grove in Act One, effectively locking out good-aligned characters from experiencing her story. However, to recruit Minthara, you’ll need to follow a few specific steps to the letter.

Before Patch 5, good-aligned players had to rely on workarounds to recruit Minthara. It was briefly possible to recruit Halsin and Minthara together, but this was later patched out. Players quickly resorted to using mods, or an extraordinarily technical loophole that involved using Polymorph to transform her into a sheep. You can now officially recruit her on a good run, but the process still has a few odd technicalities that haven’t been fully ironed out.

According to Larian’s patch notes, Minthara will reappear at Moonrise Towers in Act 2 if she was knocked out in Act 1.

To knock her out, you’ll have to toggle on your party’s non-lethal attacks before fighting her. This option can be toggled on under the Passives tab on your hotbar. However, community testing has also revealed a few additional requirements that you’ll need to follow:

Once you’ve knocked Minthara out cold, you can continue as normal and proceed into Act 2. On entering Moonrise Towers for the first time, a cutscene will play where Minthara is judged and imprisoned by Ketheric Thorm. This unlocks, a side quest that allows you to break her out of Moonrise Towers Prison. She can then be spoken to and recruited to the party.

Make sure to rescue Minthara and the tieflings (and potentially Wulbren too) before entering Gauntlet of Shar. The Gauntlet contains a