OEI_Alex

That's certainly how Tayn would describe it!

In other words, there must be lots of Vailians collecting Adra with the souls of their deceased family and friends, using that essence and preventing the resurrection of their loved ones. I mean, memories are what make us who we are, so technically, the second your memories are lost you cease to exist, just leaving unnamed, unclaimed essence behind. So it's more akin to them profiting off the corpses of their loved ones, not their loved ones themselves. But the memories are not lost. The Watcher awakened many lives later and remembered the time of the inquisition. Memories exist within reincarnated souls, as seen in the Watcher and Aloth. This includes in non-Awakened souls - it's just that in Awakened souls, the process that keeps the memories of past reincarnations "locked away" for lack of a better term has failed. That said, souls that aren't reincarnated - that are within adra that is consumed by, say, being harvested and smoked or ground up for bathwater - that's a whole different story, right?

I'm summoned by the mere mention of my name. Like Beetlejuice, but thrice as self-absorbed. I don't believe Luminous adra a result of the Engwithans' construction of the Wheel. IIRC, the preponderance of it at Ukaizo is what attracted the Engwithans there, too. This is not my area of expertise, but I believe that the difference between luminous adra and non-luminous adra is that the luminous version holds a significant charge (as opposed to normal adra, which is primarily a conductor). This is more a Josh question. Feel free to send him an ask on tumblr.

I personally don't find the good/evil dichotomy very useful, but I do think that Llengrath tends to be pretty forthright with her objectives, ambitions, and desires (moreso than Tayn), even if you have to push her a bit on occasion to admit what those are. Generally speaking, Llengrath is on team Long Term Stability, Tayn is on team Shake Things Up, and Arkemyr is on team Status Quo. Maura is on team Rightfully Pissed Off.

They can also create godlikes. ; ) The In-Between is an interesting place. Or a very boring place. Or both. But it's worth noting that:

https://pillarsofeternity.gamepedia.com/The_Wheel I compiled this article for this purpose. Basically, the Wheel is a natural phenomenon - but since it's been subverted by Engwith for two thousand years, it cannot return to its original state. The river parallel is particularly apt, since the Wheel (pre-Engwith) is the same kind of natural phenomenon as a river. Dam it, control it, tame it, and if you break the dam after two centuries of the river being forced down a specific route, it won't return to its original state without outside intervention. I'd say it's also worth noting that this is what the Engwithan gods believe will happen. Or at least what they tell you they believe will happen. And they seem to be in agreement on it, so they're probably not lying. That doesn't mean they're necessarily right. https://media.giphy.com/media/RQzxAaAg3aAU/giphy.gif

Oh, oh, OH! Are we talking here about souls merging into one (Hiravias’ Stelgar form consuming his twins, Galatian PoE1 ending) here or something new? We suggest that souls strengthen over time through the natural process of living. Otherwise the world would be doomed. And the gods would hasten that destruction simply by existing.

Soul degradation is a process, but so is soul growth.

I wouldn't read TOO far into that. He's from Aedyr, and Aedyran names tend to be based in Eld Aedyran.

Yup! Hopefully both the endslides and Ydwin will have VO in the next patch.

FEE (like what a bank charges) - on (like being atop something) - ledge (like being where the roof ends) As a note, he will always say his name during the player's first conversation with him, regardless of where he is or what the player chooses, specifically because it's kind of weird.

Spoilers, obviously:

Correct call, I'd say.

I appreciate the comparison, but JI didn't cross my mind during Fyonlecg's development. I'm not super surprised by it, though, based on the stuff that did inform Fyonlecg. If you want to peek behind the curtain, I'll put it behind spoiler tags:

can not trigger the event on junk no matter sail around how many days but triggered only one day when switch to Fonferrus not sure if there are a bug about this Oh, that sounds delightful. I'll let Test know. Thanks for the head's up! Spoiler alert: Tayn doesn't mind.

Most of the Arkemyr reactivity comes from the imps. With bonus reactivity for people actually wearing his robes when first meeting them.

Llengrath won't approach you until near the end of the critical path. After the tsunami, though, you can access the DLC content by going there. No need to wait for her.

Ish. Llengrath leaving is causing a lot of issues, so I'm looking to adjust that in our next patch. It's a big change, though, so I'm being careful with it. Regardless, there should be some solution in the next update. I think there are actually some hints as to that (if not straight up answers) in some of the Oracle and Godseed content. In other news, here's my extremely professional and skilled concept art for the body beneath the Halls Obscured:

It is not possible to join the Circle within the Forgotten Sanctum DLC. We tried to balance "The player, especially if they're a wizard, should be able to ask about joining" against "There's no way we can actually support that in the development time we have." It's possible we didn't balance it as well as we could have. (I do really like that a non-Wizard player can ask Llengrath about joining and she's like "uh... you're not a mage, much less an archmage.")

We've put in a fix for this, but it won't go live until 4.0.2 (presumably in January). The fix is to the Oracle conversation, so getting the non-bugged version will require playing that conversation again. (Which will require fighting the Oracle.) We could manually fix for your save, but it would need to be one prior to the conversation. I like your sig. That's one of my favorite lines I wrote for base game. :D

That was mostly Paul Kirsch. I agree that Tayn's a delight, but I don't think I'd ever trust him with anything. Paul also wrote every imp in Deadfire and its DLCs save for one. Which one? We'll never tell! Wouldn't her skeleton be there in that case? Three are missing. One is the subject of Forgotten Sanctum. One, in corpse form, is an important plot point in White March. Is the third Woedica? I wouldn't rule it out, but I also think she's something of a stickler for rules.

but never trigger any event (other then sealed fate one and laetharn) in neketaka for more then one patch now is that fixed in 4.0? I shall look into it.

Oh boy. It must have been one of the first two. I am 75% sure it was “go-ahead to chop you to pieces” but might have been the 1st one. Thanks!