This isn't a cheat. Larian purposely patched the game to make this possible because players wanted it. Granted, it is still weird that they share the same spot at camp. Sometimes makes it difficult to talk to Minty since she'll sometimes be kneeling down and blocked by Halsin's huge frame.
Add Halsin to party, move and talk to Minthara
Clearly I don't play enough lol, I'll take that as a good thing
Tara is Gale's treyssum aka pet cat bird. You can meet her in Rivington on top of the temple if you're not playing as Gale.
Wyll's dialog after the Iron Throne is fucked six ways to Sunday. Poor guy must have taken a hit on the head during my run, he couldn't remember whether he had agreed to become Duke Ravengard or not.
Wasn't Halsin imprisoned by the Drow for half a decade? I couldn't think of a worse tentmate for him.
The meta reasoning was that originally, Halsin and Minthara was on mutually exclusive paths (the attack the grove decision). The ability to get both was patched in, but Larian was apparently too lazy to separate them.
He's a worse druid, but makes a pretty good Spirit Guardian cleric with his bonus movement. That movement bonus is doubled by Dashing/Click-Heels so he can pretty much catch an entire fight with his aura.
I was about to say Wyll, but he's pretty much owned by Mizora.
Yes. I accidentally let Halsin die during a goodgirl playthrough. When I woke Art Cullagh, he basically said "No Halsin? That's it, we're fucked" and the quest marked as complete.
Just throw him off a cliff after you've defeated Ketheric.
I wasn't brave enough to chance it on HM, so I just waited until after I got the sparks staff , and when they were starting to head out before a sneaky Command Drop. That aggroed the fists, but only temporarily.
I'm also doing an honor run game. I just got past moonrise towers. I tried to do that Minthara trick where you knock her out but I think the quest glitched out so I couldn't save the Tieflings despite all three bosses being dead, but then I did Shadowhearts quest and moonrise got invaded so I couldn't do the dungeons so Minthara is dead too. Also since I didn't get Halson the forest is still cursed. I also failed a roll to stop Lae'zel and Shadowheart from fighting so Lae'zel got her brains smashed in, so I also killed all of the other gith (like they didn't have it coming). All the bad guys are dead too though so thats good.
A buddy of mine was forced into a position where he ended up murdering all the Tieflings at the grove because of this. A guard confronted him after Mol complained. He lost the Persuade roll when the guard confronted him and the entire Tiefling camp went hostile. Because it was HM, he couldn't walk back that dice roll and had to commit to killing the TIeflings.
What does that ring do anyway? I recall it had no enchantment or stats to give.