Originally Posted by rdslatez

The thing about infernal engines is that normally, they need a fuel source to even function. Souls. Rather than just to juice them up, they're needed to power an engine on an Infernal Warmachine (a mad max type style vehicle where safety doesn't exist and everything is a weapon). Now that's all well and good for Hell where Soul Coins are a currency and while rare, you can find some consistently if you make deals/kill for them. But this also means it's VERY costly to have large amounts of them for an army, so they're mostly used by warbands, the damned and the unlucky to get around Avernus while avoiding anything they're not prepared for. Having an engine, even just a prototype, that doesn't require a soul every 1-3 days you need to use it, would be a massive advancement for the armies of hell.

Now, we do only really see Gortash's half of this and making the Steel Watchers. It's possible that other advancements are being done like implementing them into War Machines. And it's also possible that due to Hell's bureaucracy that it's being slowed down.

It IS still some kind of infernal engine, so I don't think it's too much of an impossibility for a mechanic to hear problems going with it, even if they can't fix everything.

Again, all speculation. Afterall, no one is really wondering why Karlach isn't just consuming soul coins to stay alive so maybe that's just not how they work anymore. I'm currently running the module for some friends and thought this info would be neat, and maybe explain just a little bit for some of your questions.

I'm not sure if even a complex game like BG3 can count with all possibilities. I thought about "similiar thing" that gondians can't save Karlach, because they implement hearts into machines, not people, so they are more engineers but we need surgeon. There was also another very good similar example few pages back, but I cannot find it.

Last edited by Rae; 27/09/23 11:57 AM.