I won't call you sexist for killing a female character, I'm not one of those feminazis, and I myself killed lots of male or female characters in the game. There are options of course, you can give her another soul jar, but would you really expect her to smile at you and whatnot for clearly your own ass move? When you're kind to her, she's kind to you, I didn't hear a single curse word from her, when I gave her the jar with her own name on it. She even revealed her whole story without me asking for it. So again, there are options and there are consequences for them. Just because you think you can outsmart her, she would give you blessings or what? It doesn't work like that. Yes, she was a biatch, it was her, who made Braccus into a monster, but she regrets, which is the first step to redemption (well should be at least, I'm not a believer, so don't know anything about that stuff). You don't have to believe her, that's your personal choice and I'm fine with that, but the ending I pointed out, is proof, that when you help her, she changes from what she was, she turns away from her past. You can't simply say that once a pile of Voidwoken shite, forever pile of Voidwoken shite. There aren't only white and black things, there are shades of grey as well. People (undead priestesses and witches included) can change, Gratiana and Windego are two of them, if the right choices by the player are made.
And about Amadia's blessing, well, Gratiana's redemption wasn't seen by the goddess to be worth her time, or whatever, while she granted it to the player. You know, you're actually playing some kind of special person, a Godwoken, who's maybe destined to become a new Divine? Kinda another level than a self appointed priestess. Also the same goddess became pretty much desperate later (and also started the whole thing with the seven Lords and the Eternals, which is revealed, when she shortly possessed Fane for a small chat with the Eternal Aetera). So again, this goddess isn't quite the right person to decide who's worthy and who's not, wouldn't you think? The gods are revealed to be as flawed just like their creations. So she didn't grant Gratiana her blessing because she didn't like her? Or didn't really need her? But she needed the player (or at least believed the Godwoken could be of use) and alas, the goddess has spoken, Gratiana is guilty, she must die. I guess.
EDIT: Amadia didn't speak to her directly, that's a fact. But there's another kind of communication between them. When you examine her soul jar in the dark cave for the first time (before picking it up), you get to see a vision, you see Gratiana in her top form, doing all those terrible things, laughing and stuff. Then you see a shadow a big head emerges. Sounds familiar? Yes, that's the big head of Amadia in her sanctuary and you can see, that Gratiana takes that shadow really seriously. Which takes us back to her redemption. Just because it is unanswered until you return her soul jar, doesn't mean, that she's not serious about it. She's trying to change.
And this is my final piece of writing in this topic, I swear it is. Really. XD
Final edit (really final): you say, that she's doing it for herself, not for others. Well it's not quite true (also not entirely untrue), yes, she does it for herself, to redeem herself, because that's what redemption means. If she didn't care for herself and did it only for others, that would be charity, not redemption. Is redemption bad? Why are people praying to god to redeem themselves for their sins if it's a bad thing? She actually does it for both, herself, and others. People can actually be a little selfish and also selfless at the same time, as I pointed that out in another topic, about Lohse. Just like her, I'm happy, when people around me are happy, thus doing it for myself at the same time as doing it for them. I'm selfish and selfless. There you have it.
Last edited by Levianne; 12/12/19 10:43 AM.
