Oh great ... another one. -_-
If you use that small magnifying glass in top right corner and writhe there just the word "evil" ... you will get multiple dozen topics talking about just the same topic (and being wrong just the same, mostly).
When I'm roleplaying an evil character (and who knows, maybe I'm just neutral and bad at understanding alignments), I only care about myself and possibly my allies. To the point where I won't just turn my back on those in need because it's a waste of time, but specifically exploit and hurt them if it helps me.
Then you play Han Solo ... Han is exemplary true neutral character, pure selfish pragmatism incarnated ... with a tiny woice of conscience.
What I'm getting at here is that there isn't any sort of selfish motive for the evil path, it's just "fuck this group in particular" like I mentioned before.
Yeah no selfish motive ...
Except potentialy biger reward (if your dice roll sucess) ... potentialy more powerfull alies (goblin army vs. few dozens of poor refugees) ... option o infiltrate (or join, depend on your future plans) cult with guaranted major role (since all true souls are in leadership) ... and quite obvious conection to Goddess, whos magic (even if a bit darker) seem to allready saving your life from that ugly toothy tentacled slug in your head.
No motive at all ... sure.
On the other hand we have few tieflings that promised us to "try to get together some reward, even if they dont have much" ... and except that they can offer us, what exactly ... their graditude, i gues? One gamble with beting on her own life.
Oh and ofc. pasively we get promised reward from druid: If we manage to free Halsin, we will be allowed to enter their vault, and we were told that if there is anyone who may be able to help us, its him (by his own people, who just wanted to kill us, and is willing to free us only if we promise that we will kill ourselves if something went wrong) ... that is ofcourse reward for different quest, and you can fail it while you complete helping tieflings ... but, lets not be pedant.
Perhaps the goblin leaders could promise answers about the absolute (they don't necessarily have to give them, just promise them), or maybe they just promise a powerful tool that Astarion or Lae'zel suggests has a better chance of helping with the parasite than Halsin.
That is actualy the main problem i have with all theese topics about "evil route" ... so many people demanding reward, so many people demanding more clear offering help ...
But that would ruin their characters.
For one, they presume that you allready are part of the Absolute cult (that is the only logical explanation of you having powers of true soul for them ... also its the only logiclal explanation for you being alowed to walk freely in their camp. :D) ... therefore logicaly, they cant offer you any answers about the absolute, since you are suppose to allready know as much as them.
Dror Ragzlin specificly become much more suspicious about you, if you show that you dont know much about this cult.
For two, there is no tool in seven realms that would be more effective in Lae'zel eyes, than purification protocol ... Lae'zel is fanatical zealot to Gith teachings. Therefore in her eyes, their way is allways the best and mostly the only posibility you have, and everything else is simple waste of time.
For three, they ofcourse cant offer you any parasite solution, since they dont know about parasites ... and yet, they ARE solution, as i allready told in kinda all the other topics about "evil route" most people here are missing the fact that very existence of this cult, prooves that control of the parasite, and living with it actualy is possible.
Or at least they are living proof that you have time ... since none of characters you have chance to speak with (including Omeluum) know how your alterned tadpole is working, so they all simply presume it should work as usualy ... that means that you should change *in time*, and since you are just watching multiple tadpoled characters *not changing* around here that logicaly means:
- either that they should change first, therefore until they start growing tentacles, you should be fine ...
- or that their goddess is protecting them somehow, therefore if you get her favour, you should be fine ...
The only characters who can potentialy know in what danger you are is Lae'zel and you, since you both have seen that mechanism on nautiloid, that was turning people as Lae'zel said: "
change at the pull of a lever" ... but on the other side of that, there is no lever around here. :P
And last but certainly not least, you are potentialy missing lot of context, if you dont use tadpole powers ... but if you do, you should focus your atention on three details in particular:
1) You can use your powers only at those who are wearing mark of the Absolute.
2) In your dreams, you are promissed power beyond your imagination.
3) In your dreams, you are called true soul ...
