Thrall of Voice on a low-mind starting character

[Gamling the Old]

The intend of the cards is to bring in a 6 mind character, i understand. BUt the text says it can bring a character with Mind UP TO mind 6

Since mind alterations do not affect total GI used, I cannot use it to bring in a Mind 3 when 18 GI has already been used up.

But can I bring in that 3 Mind character with a Thrall as first character ?

Or does that violate the first line "Instead of a Normal Character"

[Konrad Klar]

Since mind alterations do not affect total GI used, I cannot use it to bring in a Mind 3 when 18 GI has already been used up.

Precisely:

Your starting company can only contain 20 points of unmodified mind.

But can I bring in that 3 Mind character with a Thrall as first character ?

Or does that violate the first line "Instead of a Normal Character"

A character described in the text of the card is a character that may be played instead of a normal character.
If it would rule out characters with mind 1-5, then "up to" would not be needed.

Other explanation (I think that it is formally correct) is that characters with mind 1-5 are allowed as long as they are not normal; Agents, Orcs, Trolls.

[Konrad Klar]

Other explanation (I think that it is formally correct) is that characters with mind 1-5 are allowed as long as they are not normal; Agents, Orcs, Trolls.

But it is not the case in the game.
If there would be a requirement that for "Instead of X the Y is used" such that Y must be different than X, then Rescue Prisoners, Dreams of Lore could not be stored with Wizard’s Trove.

You may play The White Tree at one of your Wizardhavens [ ] if Sapling of the White Tree is stored there. Place Wizard’s Trove with The White Tree—which is worth full marshalling points. Your Wizardhaven [ ] becomes protected. Ignore the text of The White Tree (including the Unique keyword). Alternatively, you may store one miscellaneous marshalling point card at one of your Wizardhavens [ ]. Any reference to the site where the card can normally be stored are transferred instead to the Wizardhaven [ ]. Place Wizard’s Trove with the stored card—which is worth full marshalling points.

Because for FW player Rescue Prisoners, Dreams of Lore may be normally stored at Wizardhaven. And "one of your Wizardhavens" is not different than any of your Wizardhavens.

For

Playable on a character. Any influence check he makes is modified by -1 and any test for a gold ring in his company is modified by -1. If he is a Fallen-wizard, these modifiers are both instead: -4 if his stage points (SPs) exceed 14, -3 if his SPs exceed 9, -2 if his SPs exceed 4, -1 is his SPs exceed 0 (use the first modifier that applies). Cannot be duplicated on a given character. Discard when any play deck is exhausted.

and Fallen-wizard character whose controlling player has 4 or less SPs the modifier is not different than for other characters.

All underlines mine.