[quote=Ieldra2] BI find it surprising that players are so willing to trust a person whom they know next to nothing about, save from some Githyanki propaganda disks, and to betray the person who had in fact been with them the entire journey, guiding them through the process needed to destroy the Netherbrain.
Those are our only options and the The Emperor lied to us and manipulated us. Load the appropriate saves or search on youtube - the Guardian gives us advice on where to find a cure while encouraging us to make the infection worse. As the book tells us judge a mind flayer by their deeds, not their words. The Emperor tells us they never lied to us but that's false - they were leading us down a path towards transforming into an illithid while dangling the promise of a cure in front our eyes.
And the emperor has clearly lost itself - it killed its best friend, destroyed the mind of a duke of baldur's gate and transformed from the roguish hero of the city into the leader of a front organization for a devil. There's a good deal of support for seeing the Emperor as an evil, soulless monster but, for some reason, that's not reflected in the dialogues you have with it.
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Here, in the third dream, the Guardian tells you he trying to cure himself and that you have given him an opportunity to find the cure he's been seeking for a long time. But, once your find Ansur you realize it's all a lie: he doesn't see the tadpole as infection but as evolution. He's been lying and manipulating us but we never get a chance to denounce him for that in a satisfying way. The take down of Raphel was infinitely more satisfying despite the fact that Raphel's manipulations were minor in comparison:
Last edited by KillerRabbit; 10/10/2305:13 PM. Reason: added youtube
