I generally make a manual save prior to every main mission, though I rarely end up restarting.
Adan and Mineave were just too easy to miss in that quest.
You failed to save Minaeve? Shame on you!
I wasn't fast enough to help Adan. I swear, the interaction ended, and THEN he burnt to death. Minaeve was perfectly fine.
I failed to find my way to Seggrit in time, however. Damn ladders!
Also, do you have to save Flissa, or does she save herself?
It bummed me up that I just warmed up to Minaeve, Threnn, Adan and Flissa (kinda failed with Seggrit... I think he's a racist) and THEN, I find they've assigned a Tranquil on Minaeve's place, and Threnn got replaced by some jerk Morriss just because she supposedly has a problem with Orlesians? She seemed professional enough to let that slide when they're allies. Not to mention Flissa got replaced by some god'amn Dwarf I spoke to precisely ONCE and do not intend to ever do it again, because not interesting.