Originally Posted by Ametris
Originally Posted by Marielle
A soulless shell can act only on command, even what can be called instinctive actions are more like “body memory” and a given “program of actions” of the one who gave the command. This creature can't feel anything at all. If you lift up old bones with necromancy and command a skeleton to stand guard, the skeleton will carry out the program you have given it, but the real person (soul) - the one to whom this body once belonged - is at that moment in the domain of their deity, living their afterlife there and they are not affected at all.

Oh look, we even have an example of that in the game. As if Astarion's zombie ending wasn't ghastly enough.


How come the game doesn't chastise us for making this choice?

That's the ultimate proof! Astarion will always remain Astarion. Even as a soulless zombie, his personality doesn't change. He has still his old behaviour and he will read his favourite book until the end of days! Maybe his appearance changed - a litte bit. grin
No, seriously. Would be the worst ending for him in my opinion.

An explanation could be: Because Astarion is seen as evil, so him being out of the way is a good thing (at least for the world). That's why the game doesn't chastise the player. It's the right thing to get rid of evilness. And that, in turn, is the ultimate proof that Astarion is an evil creature. Man, how smart. - Jokes aside, it was interesting to watch. You always see something new, even if it's a bug or something like that.


"I would, thank God, watch the universe perish without shedding a tear."