Baldur’s Gate 3 players shocked one late-game NPC recognizes Act 1

It turns out that Minthara actually has something to say if players get her into the area of Baldur’s Gate 3 Act 1…despite the fact she didn’t appear there.

Minthara, an enemy-turned-companion, can be recruited during Act 2 during an evil or non-evil run. But because she appeared later in the game, it was assumed Minthara did not have dialogue related to anything in Act 1 of the game.

However, one fan on the Baldur’s Gate 3 subreddit discovered Minthara does actually have some pieces of dialogue connected to Act 1 – but accessing it requires a few tricky moves by the player.

Normally, Minthara would not travel to the Act 1 area if the party decided to leave the Underdark. She instead opts to stay behind and wait for the party to return.

One fan realized that casting Silence on Minthara would stop her from triggering the dialogue that allows her to reject the request to come along. But she can not only go to the Act 1 area, she actually has some previously-undiscovered dialogue when she gets there.

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Players reported that when brought into the Act 1 Mountain Pass area, she comments on surroundings and can even approve and disapprove of player choices. This was surprising to players, who figured she wouldn’t interact at all once outside of the Underdark.

The Mountain Pass wasn’t the only area Minthara had lines for. One fan shared that Minthara had dialogue if she returned to the Goblin Camp, which was something along the lines of “It fills me with disgust to be here again.”

Unfortunately, Minthara did not have a spot in camp, but she did behave normally during a rest. The player theorized that the developers planned to make the NPC available in Act 1, but later scrapped the option.

The replies to this Reddit post agreed with this theory, with one player noting that the “Mountain Pass exists in the weird limbo between Acts 1 and 2 (it’s “Act 1b” in the files).”

But, while these hidden lines of dialogue for Minthara were just discovered, she wasn’t the only later-game NPC with such lines.

Another comment explained how Halsin also has hidden Act 1 dialogue. Additionally, they noted that Minsc had a ton of Act 2 dialogue, even though he was available late into Act 3.