[quote=Zerubbabel]
Kudos for remembering that Viekang should have survived ToB though, I was positively surprised that he was the one who attacked.
But Imoen is also alive and still young.
Why was Abdel recognized as a Bhaalspawn and Imoen not?
I thought she had never really meshed with the tainted divine part of her soul. In ToB she was barely getting the basic powers you had from your first dreams all the way back in BG1.
I just assumed it was such a small bit that it wasn't enough to fully 'classify' her as baahlspawn. In game she didn't dust if she died, and she could live in your Pocket Dimension like Sarevok, who had a wisp of essence, and also no longer counted as Baahlspawn.
I mean if you are trying to rebuild a beach, and a couple grains of sand aren't accounted for, no one is going to call off the project.
Honestly it never seemed like Viekang had much either. I assumed that Abdel was the one who died in the battle which released the last significant soul and acted as a magnet for the rest of the energy to reconstruct itself.
Imoen wasn't around that day and her little piece wasn't enough to get sucked in with the rest. Again, grains of sand in a beach metaphor.
But that is all just one person's take on the story.
Trying to sort out the mess of that lore is difficult even when you don't take into account the mess around Imoen in the development stages of the game.
