Minthara was most likely made to look less contemporarily "beauti✤ful" on purpose. There has been a recent "uglyfication" of alot of the women portrayed in recent video games and in movies and med✃ia.

It's trying to reduce the objectification of females in games as barbie clones with unrealist🃏ic measurements and certain parts of their anatomy being cartoonishly large.

This can help to focus more on the characte𒁃r or their personality. Which I think is not inherently bad or wrong . Not everyone is a winner in the genetic lottery. And I think it's a good idea to include less conventionally attractive party members or cast .

You might even notice from all the minthara simps that come skulking up from under their re🌳spective bridges or caverns, that some cave dwellers like the dominant personality or harsh disrespectful tone and fall in love witཧh her despite her rough rode hard appearance and jutting man - jaw .

Peꦅrhaps it reminds them of their childhood as a lowly jaluk in menzoberanzen, treated with disdain and only considered useful for servantry and breeding ...