Getting their favor would mean getting a pretty large and powerful group in our corner-pretty handy against the absolute.
Thats quite some asumption there ...
Why would they own us anything? Their plan was working perfectly by itself, we merely speeded things up.
What kind of lunatic would risk his life for someone who managed to do soething that would happen anyway? :-/
Again, Cult of absolute threatens *everyone* And help is help. Kahga literally asks for your help in-game already. Heling them with the Tieflings or the druids would be doing them a service no matter how you slice it. And it would make a heck of a lot more sense for them to not fling back the helping hand offered them, particularly when that hand might belong to another druid, who they already have a demonstrated interest in spreading their ideology to.
They could give their insight/quest rewards/etc and/or send kahga or whoever to tag along in place of Halsin.
Or they can cut our head off ... bcs they are radicals, and we are turning into unnatural abomination.
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Or they could ...not... Y'know, like you could ally with them in BG I+II. Their leader in BG III was literally a party member in the first game. This is just fishing for excuses to explain why this weird half-finished quest is the way it is in the game.
Alternatively, if we do their dirty work for them, the rite is unnecessary, since their goal was to isolate the grove so they could weed out the druids that didn't see ideologically eye-to-eye with.
You seem to forget all those attacks on the Grove everyone is talking about ...
That is another thing ritual should protect them against! Plus any future traveler that would like to settle there aswell.
And even if it would be unnecessary, what reason would they have to not finish it?
They want to do it, they have everything they need, there is nothing stoping them ... unnecessary may not be even near to good enough for them to stop.[/quote]
The reason they want to do it is to take over the grove, doing it via the rite or expediated via the player's hand is just different means to the same end. The rite isn't something all shadow druids live under, it was just a means to an end-a risky one too as explained in the game.
Besides, the rite being performed in one grove doesn't protect them everywhere. Again, the cult is a threat everywhere in the region.
