Very well said. I agree. I am surprised because enough people asked for it, prompting Larian to specifically comment on it. But at that point, why not? Especially if it was something just like a kiss animation and a few extra lines of dialogue without changing the entire story. To me it would feel more meaningful than the one off sex scenes with the Emperor and Harleep. Even Mizora for me personally just felt so random and shallow, as much as I adore her character design and VA.
I would have loved to have fully made an alliance with Gortash as well. I know that he’s immoral but he’s very excellently written character and a great example of someone who’s the product of their environment. Easily one of my favorite villains in the game, although I did enjoy Orin and Ketheric too. But neither of them make sense the way Gortash does with the context that’s available in game.
Yeah, the request has existed for a very long time, I thought the romance with Gortash would have been added sooner or later, considering Larian paid so much attention to the possibility of all sorts of disposable love affairs, and this wouldn't have been a disposable affair, but a much more fulfilling and interesting story. I mean, it's really interesting how Enver's character would have been revealed in the romance, how he would have behaved with the DU, and it should have had an impact on him. Even without much of an impact, just an extra scene to color the story of the game. It's hard to say now how much Larian will further improve the game and when they decide to release patch 9, but it seems to me that periodically reminding them about Gortash should be done anyway, after all, your suggestion is clearly not one of those that are difficult to implement or require any great expense or overcoming special technical difficulties.
It's hard to say who would have remained “moral” in Gortash's place. His parents sold him into slavery to Raphael, in the House of Hope we can learn how he was treated there, yet he himself managed to escape from there and rose from the bottom to become the Duke of Baldur. Only because of intelligence and that very “immorality”. Had he been moral, there would not have been this story, if you remove Gortash from The Dead Three's plan, there would be nothing. He was the main driver of this story. I liked Orin and Ketheric as well, I especially sympathized with Ketheric. He wasn't a “villain” in the trite black and white sense of the word, he was someone who had everything taken away from him. The love and meaning of his life. And he tried to get it back by all means, but you could see how much it devastated him, he spread his arms and fell into the abyss almost with relief. By the way, Larian had plans for Ketheric, he could have been as an extra companion in the camp if the hero would have managed to convince him, but that too unfortunately didn't come to fruition. But the only connection DU has is with Gortash, and that context really deserved more realization in the game.
