Originally Posted by CMK
Originally Posted by The_Red_Queen
Originally Posted by colinl8
I experienced the same thing (not with Smythin, but similarly accidentally while sorting out the goblins), and it was frustrating at first, but when I spoke to the Oathbraker at camp, there were dialog options for it being unintentional, and a path to reclaim the oath, and I'm okay with that, it felt very natural.

Ah, was there? I remembered an option to say I didn’t know the consequences of my action, but not one for me just not being fast or good enough to do what I’d have wanted to do. Mind you, as failing to save Smythin didn’t break my oath and I didn’t come across any other scenarios where this would have applied, it wasn’t something I was specifically looking for so possibly it just didn’t register.
The only issue with choosing to reclaim your oath is that you are "unable to reach the light" for a while and thus two of your abilities are locked away.

Yes, I know that you can pay to reclaim your oath and that doesn’t have any long term consequence in EA. What I was trying to say was that breaking an oath through no real fault of the paladin, just because they were too slow to save someone not because they intentionally decided not to, is such a controversial case that if Larian do decide to include this possibility then I would very much want to be able to give this as a specific explanation to the Oathbreaker Knight when asked why I’d broken my oath. I didn’t recall an option to do so.

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