Kingdinosaur

Agreed.

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Well, I'm under the assumption that Thaos can maintain his soul not because he has powers, but because he has Engwithan tech, which I don't think he is the only one with access to. Maybe this piece of tech is not as widespread as I think it is, we don't know the nature behind it I'm wondering if his power to come back was similar to the one they almost found while working on Od Nua. I remember one of the ghosts saying they almost figured out how to bring a specific soul back from the wheel when the rebellion started. So either that tech was used to create him or he took a hand in overthrowing Od Nua to keep his little ability a secret.

I'm thinking other Engwithans could have, especially those who would gain from creating a pantheon or from casting off the old one. I mean look at Thaos in the sanitarium. He lead that one researcher astray for his own purposes of revitalizing Woedica. Who's to say he or someone like him didn't do something similar to the Engwithans? Are you familiar with 1984 and how the memory hole thing worked? It could have easily been the case that someone needed a more convenient set of gods and needed to do away with the old ones that were getting in the way. I mean they were created for a specific purpose of controlling people. A decision could have been made into creating a new pantheon before the research into gods started when someone realized they could create a god-like fascimile and by necessity any existing gods would have to be obscured. I mean you don't have to look any farther than real life to see what kind of power you can get if you decide to make up a religion for whatever. Of course this is assuming they really had the ability to see gods they didn't make. They could have failed but because of illusitory superiority just assumed that not finding gods meant there were none. I mean in the real world, trying to prove or disprove the existance of God is like trying to study the sky with a stethiscope... you're doing it wrong. It could be that the wheel was all they found because that's as good as the tools they had would allow them to find. You can't see bacteria with only a +1 pair of glasses; you need real magnification that. If you look at the game, there was a strong theme of mystery and people not knowing the truth to anything. It would certainly fit that theme if even the plot essential characters like Thaos and that elf woman had incomplete knowledge or were purposefully mislead. It could very well have been such knowledge of the gods being fake was slipped loose because there could have been another faction that wanted its own set of gods and wanted to be running the show. If people lost faith in the made up gods, you could reveal a set of "elder gods" you yourself created. In the end, some of it is also looking at the real world for inspiration. People will go a long way for power and quieting voices of dissent goes a long way. Thaos is a repersentitive example of those who would do anything to achieve the power they want.

It feels like an accident that you survived the biawac and became a watcher. That's probably the weakest part of the beginning in that they just glance over that and push forward.

Since I was playing a benevolent paladin, Hylea was the only real answer. Returning the souls to the cycles while they are technically still living was just wrong as far as I was concerned. Wael made me curious, but I didn't want to commit to an unknown ending. The other options all seemed pretty evil to me.

Overall, I think Mother was the best. I like the cipher class in the game, thanks in part to having her in my party, I think she has one of the most unique background of any RPG character (midwife), and I think that she has one of the better reasons for joining the quest. I also kind of like how she comes off as a bit of a mystic or whatever you call it. Durence was probably written the best and is the most fleshed out though.

How could that be? The reason that Engwithans made the gods was because there were no gods. None. I'm not certain this is true based on how the Leaden Key worked. They liked hiding the truth and people didn't know everything or each other. It's very possible that the people searching for the gods were lead astray purposefully in order to justify creating new ones. If you look at the pantheon, a big chunk of them liked to obscure the truth in their own ways and for their own reasons. The "there aren't other gods" thing could just be a carefully fabricated lie.

Aside from Woedica, I don't think they are. Also if they are eating souls, then which one ate Eothas's soul? You'd think there would have been a war over that amount of power but it would have had to been finished by the time the game started. I'm actually thinking that any sequel is going to be very nihilistic probably about athiests vs the fake gods and ending with the athiests becoming just as evil as the religions before them. It could also be about the tribal people, having lost a sense of purpose since those ruins they guard lack the meaning they thought they did, face upheaval of their own and might want a war to drive out the Dyrwood people who caused them to loose their purpose. I mean that people was basically created by the leaden key to act as gaurds for the soul stealing machines. I'm also open to the possibilty that the elder gods did exist but the Enwithians basically covered them up over time as a prelude to them rolling out their own gods. Iovara could have been fed wrong information. One thing I don't get is why did the gods wait for a random hero to show up if they knew woedica was bad? Eothis was hinted at trying to intervene but I'm not taking that as the whole truth. Why did Thaos wait so long to start harvesting souls since he had what... hundreds of years or more? Why was the hollowborn such a new thing? He could have been taking souls for generations.

I can't even get the option to give him the sword anymore. I got the last piece in chapter 3, but the option for it isn't coming up.

Hello, I just started the game and in the tutorial section, I noticed that when Calisica speaks, the first few words of all her audio files seem to be cut off and she starts speaking audibly mid sentance. This is in both the woods area and in the first cave I've been in.