Originally Posted by SerTomato
Originally Posted by fylimar
Believe me, I know them, I've played the game enough times and read the books often.

Sorry if I offended you, but what you said about those two characters were indeed, inaccurate. And you mentioned you never romanced Viccy, but a lot of her origin stories were explained in her romance. Also

Originally Posted by fylimar
So please don't tell me, Viconia is that repenent.

I feel like we're talking in circles, and you still didn't get me. I never claimed Viconia was repentant, nor did I claim she was innocent. Like I said in my article, she could do bad things, but wouldn't do certain bad things. Of course she could kill people, hell, I literally said she murdered her farmer neighbors and all the members of a Shar cult in my article, but she made those choices by herself, she was rebellious, and she refused to hurt children even when she faced death, therefore what she did to Shadowheart in BG3 and "Shar commands and I obey" are out of character. "Being evil" is not the keyword, "being out of character" is. Will you accept this logic?

Let's just agree to disagree. Romanced Viconia is something, not everyone did and if you are experienced with the lore of DnD, which I guess,you are, you also know, that getting involved with a god too much might change you for the worse. We see it in this game with characters like Gale, Shadowheart, if made a Dark Justiciar at the end of act 2 and even Lae'zel to some degree, if staying true to Vlaakith. And most of all with Dark Urge. The gods mess with you and use you. Imo Viconia and Sarevok are two examples with the premises, that they stayed true to their gods. The events of the first two games are a hundred years in the past, a lot can happen then.
And I already said, that I get, if a company reuse a character you liked in a way, you don't appreciate and yes, maybe it would have been better to use different characters altogether, but at the end of the day Viconia and Sarevok are ok in my book, because you see, how much the gods intervene in personal lifes. As I said, I was fuming when the brought Revan' back in SWTOR as this totally lunatic white guy, that had nothing to do with my character.
I'm not even sure, if bringing back old characters was entirely Larians idea like Paladin said. So I guess, they did the best they could with the old characters, who btw can also be dead. Viconia died in one of my playthroughs, because she thought it a great idea to attack Keldorn with her whoppi g 8 or so Con. He did hit her once and that was it.
I think, we all can agree though, that they did a terrific job with Jaheira, Mins and Boo.

Last edited by fylimar; 27/09/23 08:58 AM.
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