And yet you realize Regil would be considered a bordrline psycopath in any modern society, right?. He's dutiful and analitical for sure but he's also willing to let people die if they hinder his plans or the efficency of his troops, so not exictly likeable by most people standards.
Well, you cannot be "borderline" psychopath. This condition is not determined by a society. It's a genetic/medical condition (not a judgement call), when a human being cannot feel sympathy and empathy on a physical level. This condition can be determined by MRI brain scan without even observation of person's behaviour, which is very well documented. It cannot be fixed and cannot be induced, people are born like that. Regill unselfishness pretty much guaranties that he's not a psychopath, despite his fanatical beliefs.
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They could have done that but then mechanically no one would have played her unless her powers were absolutely out of scale. And of course she can go all "redeem you by fire and sword" in which case such powers wouldn't really have made sense. Btw I actually find Ember to be pretty tragical as a companion given what has happened to her. She's not really a child as she's as old or older than Woljif (who used to play with her until it wasn't cool to do so and he started throwing stones at her instead...), she's elven so she's long lived but she's also physically AND mentally traumatized. I think what the authors wanted to convey with her was that there's a fine line between sainthood and insanity.
The game states that due to her being an elf she's a child even though she's a 100+ years old (it's roughly a quote from the game). Again, she would have been better shown as NPC with quests, similar to Anevia.
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First, Aru is meek only if you try to redeem her. If you want to corrupt her she's not meek at all. As for your idea of her being portrayed as a wise and responsible woman... she's not a woman, she knows NOTHING about being a woman. She's demon who's trying to change her ways but doesn't exactly know how to. You see this right from the start with her: she manipulates you in going to the desnan church to hunt down the hag. She's doing this for good reasons but she acts the way she does because that's what she knows. And she freaks out if someone touches her because, being a succubus she's deathly scared she'll suck someone's soul out of their body (Desna did not remove her powers she can still do that). She only learns how to control her powers if you redeem her btw, so midgame she's not "putting herself in horny jail", she's hiding herself because she's got a well founded fear she can kill people even not wanting to.
Corrupting Arushalae has nothing to do with the bad writing of her redemption. Regarding of her knowing nothing about being a woman, it is nonsense. Succubi specifically are temptresses, which means that they have to be exceptionally well versed in human psychology to be able to tempt anyone. She suppose to know more about humans than humans themselves. Thinking that she's afraid to accidentally kill you... it's similar argument as if you're wearing a loaded gun and when your girlfriend touches your hand you freak out because you're afraid to accidentally kill her. That's laughable. Arushalae in-game behaviour doesn't make sense at all, and you're looking for unbelievable excuses to justify that nonsense.
