@ Nicotta Fantastic response, thanks!

Like you I looooove Raphel - that song! The aesthetics of the house of hope. The extended "a hope in hell" metaphor . . . Makes we wish BG3 had been about devils instead of mind flayers.



I think you are right that originally we would have given up our souls. But it's an intriguing question isn't? Raphel is so obviously evil and he's also a seducer but we both like him . . .

But I guess I was in the minority since I preferred Shadowheart 1.0 and Wyll 1.0 to their replacements. I don't think the Emperor is a well loved figure so I hold out hope the end game can be improved.

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I had forgotten that Mizora had a human form!

Your comments on Wyll are spot on. Like you I reloaded and had him say no to the pact but was upset to see that there was very little difference between the two choices. Uh, Wyll, why are you calling yourself the Blade of Avernus? You are free once we hunt down Mizora, you need not identify with the hells at all. You are still the blade of frontiers . . .

And yes a dream battle between Orpheus and Daisy would have been great! And would have been true to the legacy of BG1 - where both good and evil players received powers.

And it would makes sense that someone who remembered the fall of the Illithid empire would know how to extract psychic powers *without* empowering the tadpole - from the lore in 1e I got the sense that the Gith and the Duergar received their powers from the mind flayers.