I gotta say I really loved my Honour playthrough as well, which I happily finished yesterday and it was such a blast despite it being an evil playthrough which are just really lacking, unpolished and even broken at times.
As with Divinity Original Sin 2, Honour Mode for me is an excuse to give into the most disgustingly immoral choices and outcomes as I roleplay a cold, calculating and pragmatical character that simply does evil things if it may benefit their goals. That's not to say she is completely evil or a murderhobo, but a lot of people do end up dead.
As a Lolthsworn Dark Urge who later became Chosen, she schemed and manipulated all of the companions through false friendships and romances while using carnal pleasures as a tool to lead them down the wrong paths, turning them into religious zealots so they can conquer their own cloisters before ultimately surrendering them all over to her. Not even the Guardian sensed the betrayal that was in motion as they were being seduced and pleasured in the Astral.
She wasn't like this from the start though, she started just like any other with hopes and dreams of survival and a life... but this dog-eat-dog world quickly showed her its true colors after losing Alfira who she really wanted to travel with, realizing that the blood inside of her would never allow her to have a normal life. The traumatic pain slowly started to erase all traces of empathy over time until none was left as she knew she was a slave to her very own blood, so better to become an enslaved Queen than a rotting carcass.
In the end the small group of vagabonds which just wished to be free of the tadpoles ended up manipulated to realizing their full potential before getting dominated, becoming the 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse that rode existence towards its very annihilation;
- Shadowheart the Chosen of Shar
- Lae'zel the Chosen of Vlaakith
- Minthara the Chosen of Dark Urge
All dominated to bathe the world in blood for their master... the Dark Urge. A cleric of Lolth, a Chosen of Bhooooal, THE Chosen of
[Some sinister power prevents this corpse from speaking further]!
Overall the whole scheming and manipulation roleplay was fantastic as hell and I never would have tried this were it not for Honour Mode, but I will admit betraying my Guardian at the very end really disturbed me, made me sad as hell. Seeing how much they trusted me and then having nothing but pure shock and terror in their very eyes eyes as a knife slips between the ribs, realizing that the only person who they felt really connected to and to which they opened their heart, was a knife that only ever planned to pierce it. It was quite vile...
