But then I saw that killing Llengrath in PoE 1 was pretty common.  Is she good/trustworthy?

Llengrath in PoE1 was pretty much the toughest fight for in the game, added with WM part 2. Killing her was more out of desire for “completion” that necessity. If you want to know the conflict it’s:

 

 

She confronts you in PoE1 after you kill Cancelhaut and recover his skull. She believes that his immortality is dangerous nd should be discovered by others. Therefore she want to kill you and recover the phylactery - Cancelhaut’s skull with runes etched on it. You can convince her that you will not spread this secret and make a pact with her - probably a choice I would have done but I misunderstood that I will be giving up the artefact, which I wanted to keep for the save transfer.

She seemed straightforward and, overall, trustworthy even when she seeked watcher’s demise. She is an archmage though.

 

 

Llengrath also runs a cult in a bog that subjected a person to involuntary soul manipulation.  So yeah, I would hesitate to rely on the trustworthiness of Llengrath or any of the archmages we have met so far.  

I was kind of surprised to find the archmages all being buddies when the first game had them hiding out in swamps and trying to kill each other. But I kind of like it as a parallel to the gods all being buddies too, even inviting Woedica along for chats. In times of great danger the powerful will flock to each other

Oh, that's mostly just Concelhaut, he's a bitch.

the archmages all being buddies 

 

That's certainly how Tayn would describe it!

Will we ever meet all those other archmages in future installments? I hope there is an Elminster/Gandalf/Dumbledore kind of archmage too. It's cliche but I'd love it.

Edited January 14, 20197 yr by EdwinOdesseiron

Just a guess on my part, but I think Minoletta is probably the closest to that kind of archetype in the setting, but that’s only based on her limited characterization during the scripted interaction in Arkemyr’s basement and the role that Josh is using her in for his tabletop campaign. Equal odds though that she is a missile obsessed psychopath that prolongs her life by devouring the souls of cosmic piglets.

Oh, that's mostly just Concelhaut, he's a bitch.

 

IIRC, he was actually nice to Bekarna. When she mentioned that even he had to fight to be accepted as an Archmage, he said that they are not a big deal.