Originally Posted by Malrith
Omeluum is best boi and so is the Emperor. I romanced him as a bard and turned into a mindflayer at the end. During the final dialogue exchange I told him "we're mindflayers, we should think bigger" and it was the most big brained and most romantic thing I've ever heard lmao. I was unironically super happy with my ending. The mere fact that Larian allowed me to go down this crazy route was hysterical. And I do legit think that with some tweaks to the writing (and more scenes!) emperor would become one of my fav romances in games PERIOD. His backstory also really alligned with the one I created for my bard (who I imagined as a member of the Xanathar's Thieves Guild of Waterdeep, and therefore someone not really shocked by the fact that some weird tentacled aberration could run a well-oiled criminal society from the shadows ahah) so every time that he told me he was 'just like me' really rang true in retrospective once I found out what he was up to with the Knights of the Shield. It was one of my favorite little coincidences in the game because it truly felt like the GM (larian) was somehow woving my character's backstory with that of this NPC. It was such a fun moment.

Exactly, they are both very unique mind flayers. Therefore, I believe people shouldn't be biased against the Emperor just because he is a mind flayer. I hope that Larian can add more storyline related to the Emperor in future updates to address the gaps in the narrative.