Dear Siege664
unfortunately i cannot share your optimism mortal reminder didn't replace awoken mind it replaced literally nothing. for two years laian just didn't have anything as the subclass feature and that was only fixed in patch nine. speaking of a 5% chance to frighten enemies after you have already landed a critical hit it is a terrible feature compared to dark ones blessing not to mention that in practice it only effects the creature that you hit so it only becomes frightened if it doesn't die from the critical hit already
as for narrative potential larian has made no indication that they plan to do anything in terms of "narrative flavor" regarding GOO locks after over two years. it is in my opinion entirely unreasonable to believe that any thing will be done in the next 3 months especially given the fact that if you google "larian studios great old ones" the first result is this very thread.
