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I absolutely did and it absolutely did. Island amaua + Deadfire background is my favorite playthrough so far, by a wide margin.

But then she comes and asks for help when you're at the machine (based on your choices). Well, sends Skaen to ask.

So far I've played as a coastal amaua, island amaua, fire godlike, death godlike and wood elf. I also have a wild orlan, nature godlike and pale elf on the back burner, and I'm waiting for bug fixes to start my moon godlike run. All the races!!! Except dwarves and humans. Sorry, dwarves and humans.

And her altar was dark in Teir Evron because she was playing dead? Trying to gain sympathy? I suppose that sort of makes sense. All these theories sound good. In the end, it still smells of a retcon that wasn't thought through very well, but I'll take fan theories over no explanation at all.

So he decided to mess around with the system his civilization killed itself to put in place? Just because he thought he could do it better? And waited 2000 years to do it? I'm not really buying it.

Is Aloth the only one who doesn't express interest unless you do?

Holy cow, there was a Shieldbearer reference? In the first game they basically didn't exist. Maybe I should roll one up to check it out.

If she wasn't depowered at some point, why was Thaos collecting souls to feed to her? Did she tell him her lie about being deposed and he bought it?

You need to use this format: AttributeScore Player_[PlayerName] might 20 Also, keep in mind that the console is pickier about capitalization this time around.

Yes, there is. I'm not sure what triggers it, though. I just turned around and clicked on him at one point and he started speaking Aedyran.

Ydwin has a few comments and you can have a very interesting conversation with Rekke, once he learns the language.

Capitalization matters. It needs to be Companion_Aloth(Clone) and Player_Aelin.

So Eder is going to be the villain of the next game, then?

There's a sort of lock-in point for the romance during your conversation with Aloth at +2 rep. It's... fairly obvious. (Hint: kiss the guy!)

You can use the Unity mod on Nexus, but otherwise, there's no way I know of.

Gee, thanks So the romances are basically behavior-gated rather than race or gender. That's... kinda cool, actually.

I had the fastest Aloth approval gains on my benevolent/diplomatic character; those choices seem to mesh with "dutiful" very well.

I've played through the game with all the new companions now and I don't think they're any more or less shallow than the OG crew. I find them interesting and diverse, which is all I really ask for.

I finished my first game with Xoti and I can't figure out what I said that made her go all serial killer. Is it accepting or rejecting her "duty" to collect souls that makes her go to the dark side?

As far as I can tell, none of the faction quests are required to complete the game. You only need to do the main quest line ("Hunt for Eothas"). But you'll need to get a lot of money to buy the hull plating and sails for the independent route. There are all-in quests at the end of some of the faction quest lines, but it's fairly clear which quests those are.

Rekke is on a bunch of flotsam at 15 degrees 9 minutes south, 69 degrees 6 minutes east - far eastern side of the world map just above the center line.

Just finished my Tekehu romance run and I quite enjoyed it. I could've done without yet another "the lovers part" slide, but I liked the wording on this one better than Aloth's, so I'm not really upset. I paired him up with an Island Amaua Watcher from the Archipelago and chose to support the Huana, which made for a very interesting story all around. And I christened the Watcher's ship "Sharkboy", which led to all sorts of double entendres which I'm sure Tekehu would approve of

I... won't even post how much I would be willing to pay for that. But it's a lot.

Does someone ask you to burgle the manor, or is it just expected that you do?

I haven't stumbled on the "retake Concelhaut" quest yet - how/where do you pick it up?