#literally if u do mintharas whole story and take her seriously it adds so much dimension to orin its crazy.

[nikomedes]

it makes me so insane that minthara is such a missable companion given she's The One with the info on orin. unless you play durge the info on her and her characterization is so thin on the ground. minthara is the one to tell you that at a dinner party courting powerful drow orin slit an entire table of throats and crawled across it to claim minthara from ketheric. minthara is the one who can tell you this woman is not just craAaAzy she is a ruin and there is no reasoning with her, there is just her also making you into a ruin. u meet minthara and she's a brutal, cruel, sensual, unyielding, vicious daggerslash of a woman and u REALLY meet her and you find out she's terrified of orin. like do u get me? am i making sense? so much of the background we get of orin from saarevok, her journals, gortash, etc, paints her as petulant, childish, and easily manipulated with "dangerous" almost as a footnote, ESPECIALLY if you play durge. it's from minthara and through her subjugation of minthara that we rly get her as an imposing figure akin to ketheric and gortash in power. and you rly can just skip minthara. nuts to me. anyway happy belated international womens day