Blue car syndrome...First time I ever heard that term was today reading some awful article about poor writing (in their opinion) from male authors.
Now I see it again an hour later on the BG3 forums. Bizarre I tells ya.
Me too! There's a number of feminist literary critiques that invent such jargon and terms; regularly came across it back in university. It's criticizing the male propensity to protect, of all things. I mean sure, such stories can be hackneyed and cliche, but that's true of all clumsy writing.
Anyway, how did these brothers get to the sunlit fens, a ten-day from Baldur's Gate? Not via Moonrise. Either by boat or Risen road (passing before Gith appeared). Probably the latter as by boat they'd have met the redcaps sooner.
Now that I think about it, Ethel has been saving them for us, staying her Redcaps. (Maybe they did come by boat?) She's been monitoring us and let the brothers find her as we approach. They're a couple of idiots who admit as much after dying, if you bother to speak with them. Ethel's purpose is to have their blood on our hands - and presumably we'd feel so ashamed, we'd keep it secret from Mayrina as we passed through, while doing our business with her.
It's all very convoluted, but in keeping with the hag's need to deceive and corrupt. And whenever it fails, she just uses her physical prowess.
