Im one of (not many honestly) who loves the Evil (aka Goblin) path as it is ...
True, there is a lof ot asumption, when i created the reasons for my characters to choose this ... but once you start connecting dots, there is actualy a lot of hints, that may or may not be valid.
There is a lot of topics, where we were talking about it quite deeply ... i can recomend:
https://forums.larian.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=776216https://forums.larian.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=715499But in short:
Contrary to popular opinion, i believe that Goblin path is simply brilliant for smart, powerhungry, calculating, and ploting evil character ... asuming s/he is willing to play long game.
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The perfect Origin character for Goblin path in my opinion would be Gale, or ofcourse Astarion ... but mostly Gale.)
True, game never tells you "come with me and you shall have power you cant even imagine" ... and once more true, you can sometimes find yourself being outsmarted, when you try to outsmart someone ...
But honestly that is one of things i really LOVE about it.
it's obvious that using "tadpole" even for the sake of gaining more power is hurting you.
Is it tho? O_o
Since as far as i remember, the only situation when your parasite is actualy hurting you, is when you drink te potion Omeluum cooks for you.
And ofcourse there is that night, when your special power manifests ...
In litteraly every other scene, conversation, or situation ... everyone is in awe, that you are in such good health, concidering the situation. O_o
I mean, Larian only collects statistics based on the storyline "path of evil"
Serious question ... since i dont remember anymore: Did they even tell us what "patch of evil" is? Or did we just added context on forum afterwards?
