I love everything tied to Barcus. His story is pretty engaging. I still think, he should have been a companion.
I thought about other NPCs and came up with those:
Abdirak:
On my very first playthrough of early access bback in 2020, I was creeped out, when I've met him and when he offered his penance, I gave the very rude answer about him loosing a hand, if he tries. He took it like a pro, made a joke and then just said, he will be here a while and I can come back if I change my mind and wished me a good day. That really changed my mind about him. He really is not yout typical Loviatan and I came to liek this character (even put him in a backstory for one of my characters).
The seven original spawns, especially Leon and Dalyria:
Leon is the father of Victoria and tries to protect her.It seems that he succeeded and the body we can find is in fact not his daughter, but an urchin. I do feel with him to want to keep his daughter save and I'm glad, Victoria seemed to have made it. But pulling an innocent urchin into the mix and letting her get killed put a damper again on my pity for him. Still, there is probably not much, he could have done and it seemed, he tried to keep the urchin safe too by putting that curse on her. I now am even more motivated to save him, so that his daughter can be reunited with her dad.
Dalyria was the one, who killed the child. I felt bad for her in my first playthrough, before I discovered, what she did. She might have done a lot of bad stuff on Cazadors orders and that is nothing, she can be held accountable for, since she couldn't refuse, but killing the girl was her decision and that made me really dislike her. I have read, you can disrupt Cazadors ritual by killing one of the spawn - didn't do that before, but I might rethink that, because I do think, Dalyria has all the makings of a mad scientist (she killed the girl, because she thought it will cure her).
I don't have strong opinions about the other spawns (apart from the one, that is our companion of course), since we don't learn a whole lot about them.
Derryth Bonecloak:
I thought she was a pretty mean lady at the beginning, until I learned her story and also talked to the deep rothé. She has my sympathy and I not only give her the noblestalk more often than not, but also make sure, her husband won't return and she gets a cute cat instead. We don't like abusers in this house, not even, if they lost their minds.
Last edited by fylimar; 25/01/25 05:35 PM.
