Yeah Sarevok in ToB has almost all the clutch lines, and regardless of party comp coming out of SoA it made sense to free him, because he was a vehicle for the story delivery at that point. But importantly, it wasn't like he just had another Death scene for that, like the Kurgan part 2 and a half: the Quickening lol, he actually came along for the ride.

It's the main thing I think. Once the character is along for the ride all the other things come back into play. The bark quality, the banter, the sick burns - all that stuff. Even down to the mechanical stuff like like party comp/rep/itemization.

I'm of several minds for how they could do it with Viconia. I can see at least 3 paths on that just going off first branch prompts. Different options if Jaheira and MInsc are in the party to push a couple directions based on our inputs in convo. Maybe 1 sequence is the default current, another has us trading Shadowheart for Viconia in which case she becomes a foil and screws us over for that in the end, a third where we have both Shadowheart and Viconia and face Lolth where Viconia goes down swinging but on our team instead of against us. Something like that, just get her in there with like 3 or maybe 4 angles on the Why of it all.

Bringing that other franchise into it, I think we can make allowances for Cersei fans too right? hehe. I mean say what we will about the third book or the fourth book's POV, but Lena Headey still kinda inhabited the role and elevated it I think in the VA mocap version. Also, cause of course I was also a little disappointed that she didn't get to keep fighting terminators for endless seasons hehe. But like didn't Martin screenwrite for Beauty and the Beast with Linda Hamilton too way back when? So it kinda all makes sense in a weird way! lol

One can only imagine if he was just like the actual screenwriter for the screenplays, though I guess I can understand why he wouldn't really be all about that at that point. Still funny to think about. If the comparison with Viconia holds, probably would be like how much one enjoyed watching that sept get blow'd up in live action before it sorta goes off the rails. That montage was clutch though, and she carried it well. Games are curious cause even though they're not cinema, they are becoming ever more reliant on the cinemascope for story delivery. In that respect I think the analogy may still be fruitful. Usually the creator director is going to be way more irreverent than the fans. Like they'll do things that are probably funny in-house or which make sense to them, but then the fandoms have different feelings on whatever is near and dear. It's a hard thread to needle I'm sure lol. Still they pulled it off rather well with Jaheira, so I would like very much to see the same with Viconia.

Also, as an aside, I think it was a bit of a miss that Minsc recruitment would be tied only to Jaheira, when a Viconia option might also have been possible for that. Her angle would of course be more self serving, but it would get you another path towards party recruitment, which again, I think is the single most important thing.

Sarevok would also be fun, since by the time you meet him, along a certain path, there's a real good chance you might be down a couple companions.

Last edited by Black_Elk; 10/10/23 11:52 AM.