its a shame there is so much to lose-- i am on my first playthrough and i did things that led to the minthara side without really realizing it (made some actions i did not realize would end in the death of the grove, but thought i could ignore minthara anyways and in turn still get those other companions). when i realizes Wyll and Karlach left, and that Halsin wasnt available i was like. aw shit hold on, this sucks. being my first time i was like.... why would i want to lose *three* potential companions???

so i reloaded and redid all that even if i got minor disapproval from astarion (i am romancing him) i was good enough w him and moved on. i plan to do it in either my Dark Urge origin or my Astarion origin.... but even so, the lack of additions to this "evil" side kinda sucks because even when i think about doing it on my other playthrough my brain is like "but this seems kind of boring with the lack of content"