There's already been some discussion on this point in the thread at
https://forums.larian.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=877367 if you'd like to read what others have said.
Btw I've popped most of your text in spoiler tags as well as moving it to the Story & Characters subforum. It's not all spoilery, but there are spoilers in there and I wasn't going to faff around separating things out, especially as I don't want to be spoiled myself more than necessary. Feel free to move things around and take anything that's not spoiler out of the tags, and please use similar tags if you're discussing plot or story points in future. Cheers!
