How to get all Minthara endings in BG3

Baldur's Gate 3 has a colorful cast of companions, all with a variety of endings based on your choices throughout the story, ranging from wholesome to downright diabolical. A true “I can fix them/I can make them worse” situation, located entirely within a worm-infested adventuring party.

Night Watcher Minthara, one of the few non-Origin companions, has a unique path, starting as an antagonist with the ability to join your party and stand by your side in the final battle. However, he is facing a dangerous road on the way to Baldur's Gate, with several ways in which he may meet his unfortunate end.

Defeated at the Goblin camp

After speaking with Zevlor and the druids at the Grove about their goblin situation, you will be given the Defeat the Goblins quest, which includes defeating the three goblin leaders: Priestess Gut, Dror Ragzlin, and the Night's Watcher Minthara. This is where Minthara meets its most common endings: Pushed into the abyss conveniently located in the center of his office, or killed and stripped naked to wear the nicest field clothes you'll find until Act 3.

In order for Minthara to appear later in the game, she must be spared here, knocked unconscious instead of killed, or completely ignoring the Defeat the Goblins quest.

Fight at the Grove

Instead of fighting the goblins and their leaders in their camp, you can lead them to the Grove and arrange a fight there. Fighting at the Grove gives you allies, as the game suggests that you and the tieflings combined would outnumber the goblins, but you could also reach this point as part of the Save the Sazza Goblin quest.

Fighting at the Grove instead of the goblin camp offers a different kind of challenge, with different enemies to fight while playing defense instead of attack, but it means you can progress helping the tieflings without having to fight all three goblin leaders. Only Minthara will attack the Grove and defeating her and her army will advance the mission.

There's no way Minthara will be spared in this fight, then
this meeting will always lead to his death
.

Choosing this option might make the encounter easier, but it will complicate things if you're aiming for the Objective Leave no one behind.

The lover's embrace

This ending is only available if you
Play as the Dark Urge Origin character
.

The dark impulse is a unique Origin character: fully customizable, in appearance and class, but with a worrying case of amnesia and also the desire to kill everything in sight.

If you choose to play as Dark Urge and follow the Raid the Grove quest, defeating the tieflings and druids along with Minthara and the goblins, you will have the chance to spend the night with Minthara at the next party. If you accept, in the next conversation, the Dark Urge can imagine breaking Minthara's neck.

This will kill her instantly.

Abandoned in the moonrise towers

If Minthara had been spared in Act 1, will return to the fray in Act 2 at Moonrise Towerson trial for his failure to find the mysterious artifact. No matter how the conversation goes, she will be taken away to be tortured, giving you the mission Decide Minthara's fate.

If you follow Minthara and her captors into the prison, you can choose to let her torturers continue to erase her mind. This doesn't kill Minthara, but instead it transforms her into a senseless servant of the Absolute completely erasing his mind and personality. She will be unrecruitable and pitiful.

Alternatively, completely ignoring the mission will also result in Minthara's death.

Comrade Minthara

Assuming Minthara did she survived the many ways she could have met an untimely endafter defeating the Netherbrain, he will return to the Underdark to begin fighting to regain his place in House Baenre. If you choose to fall in love with her, you will have the option to go with her. If he didn't have a romance, he returns to Withers' epilogue party after starting his rebellion.

If you choose to undergo ceremorphosis before the final battle, don't worry! A Minthara in love decides she likes squid and will stay with you.

Embrace the impulse

It must
Play as the Dark Urge Origin character
for this ending.

When facing the Netherbrain, you will be given the choice to let your illithid ally put an end to the Netherbrain once and for all, or to betray him and become the Ultimate yourself. If you play as Dark Urge, both your bloodline and Minthara will push you to become the Absolute and fulfill your destiny.

If you do, Minthara will die sooner or later. The exact method will change, depending on your choices or whether Minthara is a love story or not, but she won't get out of here alive. Nobody is.

Become Absolute

An adventurer doesn't need Bhaal to whisper in his ear to become evil – he just needs it Minthara tells them that they deserve to rule the world. If you choose to betray your illithid ally and become the One, there are a couple of possible endings to a romantic Minthara.

Govern together

If you become the Absolute and have a love affair with Minthara, you can do it choose to govern alongside himsparing her from the fate you inflict on the rest of your party and the city of Baldur's Gate.

Betraying Minthara

Instead, you can choose to make Minthara kneel, condemning her to the same miserable fate as your other new victims. An unromantic Minthara will meet the same fate as the rest of your party and Baldur's Gate: neither death or servitude.