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These games are like the most generic fantasy RPG's I've played in a while, which is why I sought out and purchased these games. I bought this game for the same reason I purchased Pathfinder: Kingmaker and NWN: it's a generic fantasy RPG where I can role play as a grumpy wizard. Also, just because you like the same things as you did when younger, doesn't make you immature as your comment implies. I never once implied this. I simply stated that with all the narrative beats, with all the dialogue options available, that an atheist ending would have been possible. Maybe you have to do a bunch of side quests first, like finding a new Godseed and building a replacement body. For God's sake the PC is a reincarnation of someone who was tortured and killed for her atheism. Can you list me some of these games I supposedly played in the past with such themes? I can't think of a single one. I spent my childhood playing Gran Turismo because it was the only game we could afford in Iran.

Ok so throughout both games, every single "atheist" comment that the PC makes, it's basically denouncing and insulting the Gods, not insisting they don't exist. Whenever the "atheism" icon shows up for Xoti or Eder, it's because I either insulted them or insisted that we don't need them. My PC never insists they don't exist. Obviously "gods" exist in this world. I mean he literally talks to them. Same thing with Aloth. I get the feeling that he is also atheist, since he obviously understands that they exist, but doesn't worship or think people needs them. I specifically said in the beginning "atheism in this world is not the same as ours. Their atheist's believe the Gods are jerks and we should do away with them" which is how the atheist replies in this game always are. As for the other part you are correct. I thought the skeletons in the machine Eothas was punching were Kith but they were artificial constructs built and jammed with souls. Still though, I think an ending where you absorb the souls would have been really cool.

What is the point of atheism in this game besides making Xoti mad a few times? I understand that atheism in this world is not the same as ours. Their atheist's believe the Gods are jerks and we should do away with them. ok, great. So what? Why even include it in this game? I thought there was going to be a badass ending in POE1 where you absorb the souls and become a god yourself and smite the other gods (like age of decadence). But no, no matter how atheist my character is, no matter how much I piss off my party members by bad talking the gods, at the end of the day my character is an errand boy to the gods. That or you end the world. I really thought that with the revelation about the Gods being created through absorbing kith souls, it was setting up a scenario where we absorb the souls and become a god, just as Engwithans sacrificed souls to make themselves the Gods. I thought that would be an option. I really thought that the game would let you take vengeance on these JERKS (all the gods are jerks, every single one and they all deserve to be smitten) Nope. Options are: do you want to do this God's errand, this God's errand, or end the world completely.