Now I have full faith in Larian here to have some 5d chess masterpiece level writing for the game. But the term "guardian" is definitely an interesting name to say the least for someone who pushes you to embrace everything that any ounce of sense in you flags as wrong. Now this guardian also promises to protect you which does make me wonder. The most obvious suspicion here has to be that the guardian is almost certainly a fake persona. Someone is pretending to be the person of your dreams with information likely extracted from your mind...in your dreams. But the big questions are who and to what end? It could be Orin the shapeshifter, though dreams aren't really her domain as Orin is almost certainly related to Bhaal in some capacity. But I actually suspect it might be Shar...it is her artifact that protects us from being mind controlled and it is likely through that artifact that she has access to our minds. And she might not be lying about protecting us but Shar is still evil so if we ally with her we may still be headed for an evil ending. But I am incredibly excited to find out how Larian have crafted this amazing game.
the ball, i mean the artifact hasn't belonged shar.
so i think the guardian isn't shar.
and i think red orin also isn't the guardian.
she should be as an avatar of bhaal, she is controlled by bhaal, such as the dark urge before.
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by the way, i think that things are not so absolute.
we suppose and almost ensure the guardian is evil natural and try to control our player character.
whereas this also give our player character a good chance to counter the guardian, in turn to control him/her.
if your action as astarion desire the guardian too much and too eager, and can not succeed to against his/her charm via a series of high will saving throw, you will become the guardian's slave.
i suppose this is why you say we should leave the guardian alone.
however, this isn't like the urge of the dark urge, we should always refuse and resist it.
if there is a way, we ought to gain the immunity of the urge. whenever we encounter the urge, we have the suitability and won't be affect very soul.
the guardian can be controlled by certain way aiding by the artifact ball.
just as the official site description -- "use dark against dark".
