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My thought exactly. It's either played for laughs or just to showcase how evil and twisted a character is. This character has the potential to be the exception.

Possibly.

That said, every time a memorable npc shows up, people are going to want them as a potential party member/follower. There's going to have to be some give and take in that regard.


“But his mind saw nothing of all this. His mind was engaged in a warfare of the gods. His mind paced outwards over no-man's-land, over the fields of the slain, paced to the rhythm of the blood's red bugles. To be alone and evil! To be a god at bay. What was more absolute?”