Originally Posted by JandK
Originally Posted by Gray Ghost
It would make perfect sense, but that's not what the game says happened. The game doesn't even imply that, from what I've experienced of it. So he didn't do that. That's what seems obvious, but it's not what Larian actually wrote, and clearly not what they intended. Don't give them more credit than they deserve, they've gotten too much of that already.

I would argue that some storytelling can be subtle and complicated. Not everything has to be explicitly stated out loud. Some things can be embedded for discovery.

Giving credit where it isn't due may be an issue at times, but taking away credit when it is due is also a thing.

My problem, if Larian actually intended that (which I'm still not convinced is the case) is that our character can't react to it and it would be a truly massive aspect of our interaction and relationship with the Emperor, one which our Tav's feelings about should really define our interactions going forward. If we've been interacting with the person who caused our problems to begin with, we should get a say in that, we should have an opinion and be able to voice it. Leaving something like this entirely unsaid would be a massive failure of role-playing on their part, denying us the full agency our characters should have in their stories. Which honestly would be in line with the rest of the game anyway so maybe it's not so unbelievable.