Also, if there's no consequence for consuming tadpoles, why do so many of you not want to consume tadpoles? Because there *is* a consequence for doing it. Consuming the tadpole is a form of sacrifice. You are sacrificing the very identity of your character for something greater.
I disagree, consuming tadpoles are not a sacrifice, game wise you gain powers and your appearance changes, but you still pass for what ever race your avatar is. Neither does the Emperor present it as a sacrifice.
The sacrifice is when the Emperor drops the end game bombshell on you that a mindflayer is required to beat the elder brain. Whether you have consumed tadpoles or not you can choose to make the sacrifice and become a mindflayer or sacrifice another, a party member, or a stranger Orpheus.
Unless Orpheus mindflayer ending plays out differently if you have consumed tadpoles. What sacrifice has the player’s avatar made consuming tadpoles if they command the elder brain to destroy all the tadpoles before destroying the elder brain. Seems to me a no consequence no sacrifice ending to consuming tadpoles.
And to repeat the question I had in my previous post: if there are no consequences to not using the tadpoles, why do people not want to use the tadpoles? Because there are obviously consequences to using them.
On my third playthrough and like both my previous playthroughs I have chosen not to consume tadpoles. First playthrough was mainly because Larian said there would be consequence. Subsequently for the same RP reasons I refuse Raphael’s deal, my avatar’s would not trust them and would not take whatever they are offering.
BTW this playthrough my Paladin will be taking the ultimate sacrifice of a mindflayer but up to that point will continue to refuse tadpoles.
