@abits. For the record I also enjoy your posts and agree with you on most threads but this one
But you can't do that. You can't just rename the stories in a way that alters their nature. Call a rose a bowl of spaghetti if you like but it smells the same. Groovy groove is a heroic story, sexy drow is villian's story. FR is a setting that favors heroes over villians. So sure so add some stuff that makes it clear that you have a reason to believe you can harness the power of the tadpoles via the sexy drow route but I think that's pretty clear as is. Sexy drow route gets you better stuff and more powerful abilities.
The tadpole and Absolute aren't separate stories -- true souls have tadpoles, true souls serve the absolute. If you develop your tadpole powers you move closer to the absolute, sexy drow, evil, villainous story line. It's a replacement for the BG2 story line of Bhaal powers. More you evil you do the more powerful you become the closer you move towards losing yourself.
Larian got some things wrong and somethings right -- they got this right.
