It's pretty irrelevant what his backstory was in an early EA. If it didn't make it into the release game then it didn't happen.
I never came across him saying anything other than he was a magistrate and was set upon by the Gur who disputed a ruling he'd made (3rd playthrough). He just says Cazador found him bleeding out on the street. Now I am quite prepared to believe he took bribes or whatever - fits his personality. But the stuff about him double crossing Cazador way back when, I haven't heard him speak about or seen anything to verify it so if it was there in early EA it isn't now, the devs totally removed it.
Regardless, if you have been forced to torture others, been the victim of torture, even self torture, alongside much other abuse both physical and emotional then whatever he may or may not have done before being made a spawn isn't really relevant, if it was bad then he's paid for it many times over.
He had no choice re the children that appear later on, Cazador told him to and was capable of forcing him to, he almost certainly dissasociated himself from this sort of thing as a self defence mechanism.
He says it himself and nothing in the game contradicts it (even the Gur leader - and she should be the authority on this - says no one blames him).
But my take on why he doesn't empathise with slaves? Deep down he still is one. He's still scared of Cazador. Franky hes scared of a lot of things. And he covers it by being hard faced. He doesn't want to risk his life (if he cares for you he doesn't want you to either) for some random stranger. Can't say I can blame him for that, he's finally got some autonomy over his life for the first time in 200 years, why would he think risking it for a random stranger is in any way sensible.
As the player sitting in my comfy chair with absolutely no possibility of repurcussions beyong having to reroll a save - even I sometimes wonder why we do such things pretty muuch all the time in games rofl
Last edited by Bethra; 08/09/23 08:48 PM.
