Thank you Estelindis. Great comment. Definitely something to think about and explore. Is there a line for self-sacrifice and, if there is, how much is the reason the person is so willing in the first place what defines it and how much is the line defined by the result? As Withers asks, what is the worth of a life?
I feel like Wyll and Karlach challenge our character as much as our sensibilities as angels who look like devils while we sometimes choose devils that look like angels.
In the next age somone is going to decide Wyll should be remembered as a saint if Faerun remembers him, human and flawed but a saint. What about the rest of us as heroes or ordinary beings? How much is too much to ask to save someone or many and what are we if we are not willing to pay?
Thank you Taleon! For me, this is one of the chief questions inspired both by the game in general and Wyll's story in particular.
In a world like FR, where lives are finite but souls can be eternal, to what extent can it ever be fair to sacrifice a soul - even your own soul, offered freely - to save one life? What about hundreds or thousands of lives? And to what extent can we meaningfully talk about it being a free sacrifice if there's extreme time pressure and the hanging threat of others suffering if you make the "wrong" choice, or even if you simply don't decide quickly enough?
At the same time, we can't necessarily treat it as a pure "souls vs. lives" calculation, because an atrocity against a large number of lives can have an impact on the fate of people's souls - say, if someone gets pushed down a path of vengeance by suffering, and ends up handing over their own soul in a pact. Or someone simply gets ground down by suffering and takes a worse path as a result.
