Originally Posted by Starshine
While the betrayal if you pick orpheus is a bit extreme, it also makes sense? Not to us, but to the emperor
He is was up himself and believes his plan and ONLY his plan will work. It's a mind flayer thing too, he's smarter than you how can YOU be right?
orpheus can forgive us sure, but the emperor has been keeping him prisoner and has the plan of, I'll eat him and absorb his power,

so if you free Orpheus, not only in his mind, is the absolute going to win so defecting now means he'll lose autonomy but get to live, but orpheus will definitely kill him
Like it's a wrong decision but it is the one the emperor would take because he's like that?
I don't really mind that he felt betrayed and abandoned us...I'd even have understood if he attacked us...but to align himself with the absolute so quickly? That made no sense to me. No matter how much you may hate the Githyanki the absolute is a threat to all life across all planes of existence and they literally destroy souls. Orpheus can be talked around but not the emperor? Generally when a supposed "ally" pulls a move like that it's because he was always a traitor, either a spy aligned with the enemy or after something else altogether...but that doesn't seem to be the case because if you go along with him he really does destroy the absolute and there's no raphael-like twist to him so why is he aligning with the Absolute? That's really the only part of the game's script that bothers me...it's like they intended to do something else with the character of the emperor but somewhere in the rewrite they forgot to account for him siding with the absolute. It makes even less sense if you manage to learn his actual true identity before he became the emperor(no it's not the fake story he gives as having been an adventurer, no, he has an actual name).

Last edited by The Red Queen; 23/08/23 02:10 PM. Reason: Added spoiler tags