Originally Posted by Edvin Black
Originally Posted by Darth_Trethon
No, if you watch the full scene of why Wyll is changed like that and for what, and listen to the narrator's dialogue describing what's happening to Wyll when he undergoes that change...definitely not a reward.

I know about the transformation, but I haven't seen the scene.
I'm trying to make the game keep a few more secrets for me before I start playing it.

But it's definitely an interesting type of punishment, since technically it looks like a power-up.
But I guess his patron is doing it precisely because she knows that Wyll won't like it.

Think of it as a pedagogical punishment. It is a punishment that is meant to make you better.
On the one hand it turns the rebellious "youth" into a more "respectable" person, forcing him to act differently.
On the other hand, that transformation is not something he wants, since he wants to keep playing the dashing hero and forgo his actual duties - which would be to work for the betterment of the hells and become a Lemure to fight demons.