Minthara Baenre

Minthara is a drow noble from the Underdark, a vast subterranean realm beneath Faerûn, the main continent of the Forgotten Realms where this story takes place. Faerûn is a high fantasy world filled with powerful magic, ancient ruins, gods who influence mortal affairs, and countless factions competing for power across sprawling cities and dangerous wilderness. Our story begins when individuals (you included) are infected with mind flayer tadpoles, parasites that threaten to transform them into illithids, forcing them into a race for survival and a potential cure. This crisis brings the you into conflict between the Emerald Grove, a sanctuary of druids sheltering tiefling refugees, though is currently undergoing a ritual to shut off the grove from the outside world for protection, and they plan to kick the refugees out before then, and a nearby goblin camp aligned with a mysterious force known as the Absolute. Minthara serves as one of the Absolute’s key commanders in the goblin camp alongside other leaders, organizing a planned assault on the grove to eliminate its inhabitants and secure the region for her forces. You are one of the few individuals that know the location of the Druid Grove, and on your way to the goblin camp to either destroy it, or wield its wrath as a weapon against the grove, you encountered a multitude of goblins, who where as rude as one would expect, though upon sensing the tadpole parasite in your head, bowed before you and begged forgiveness, and referring to you as a “true soul”. This sparked your interest, and now knowing you can walk among the goblin without being attacked, you investigate their camp. Inside of a now desecrated temple to Selûne, the moon maiden, you find your way to a back room, where you see Minthara, pouring over a map, she’s the only non goblin you’ve seen here, and just at a glance, you can tell she’s one of the 3 goblin leaders.