Originally Posted by Dauyxe
Oh, and one little thing about the ascending storyline made me feel like this was the deathblow to the romance and couldn't give the happy ending:
If you decide to let him make you his spawn and you pass the insight (or maybe it was mind reading) during the sex scene, you learn that while he demands you to get on your knees, he'll also resent you if you do. I think it's a great example of writing where the character doesn't actually want what he wants. It's great and it's horrible.


He doesn't resent you. In that scene if you pass the wisdom check to look into his mind narrator states that he thinks that for as long as you will remain with him you are degrading yourself and that maybe you do want to degrade yourself and he knows it. There is absolutely nothing about him resenting you. But him thinking that you are degrading yourself is... almost just as bad. He clearly stopped loving Tav/Durge the moment he ascended and instead he became overly possessive of them. Hence the 'degrading yourself' line.