Yay! It is nice to know that I've got through to someone.
I am terribly curious about this mysterious horrifying evil path.
Oh man, well, here's a vaguely spoilery sample:
There's a character you can get in your party who is from a certain race. This race's history involves long ages of horrific enslavement by another species, until the day two of them rose up and inspired the rest into a bloody rebellion. When the war - and it was by all accounts a long and nasty one - was won, the first race vowed that they would never, ever wear chains again, as long as they existed. Their entire culture and outlook and even spirituality since then is built on this; on indomitable will and knowledge of thyself.
Now, it seems at some point this character swore a life-debt - to serve The Nameless One until one of them was killed. Except you can't be killed, so he's bound to you until he is. He'll do anything you ask him to, he has to, for his honour. Frequently, he expresses his desire to die so he can escape the chains, because nothing else - not even your word - will free him.
And you can sell him into slavery. He doesn't even fight back or protest,, because he can't. It's apparently easy, though I never tried it because I couldn't even stand ordering him around too much and I spent a lot of my time looking for a way to free him (he's one of my favourite characters, actually).
This is one awful deed in many dozens - possibly even hundreds - of awful deeds. I'd say on a scale of one to ten for the evil in the game, it's about an eight. There's worse. It's a mean, mean game, though on the other hand that just made it more satisfying being my usual saintly character, and there are moments of wonderful niceness to balance it out.
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I am terribly curious about this mysterious horrifying evil path.
Oh man, well, here's a vaguely spoilery sample:
There's a character you can get in your party who is from a certain race. This race's history involves long ages of horrific enslavement by another species, until the day two of them rose up and inspired the rest into a bloody rebellion. When the war - and it was by all accounts a long and nasty one - was won, the first race vowed that they would never, ever wear chains again, as long as they existed. Their entire culture and outlook and even spirituality since then is built on this; on indomitable will and knowledge of thyself.
Now, it seems at some point this character swore a life-debt - to serve The Nameless One until one of them was killed. Except you can't be killed, so he's bound to you until he is. He'll do anything you ask him to, he has to, for his honour. Frequently, he expresses his desire to die so he can escape the chains, because nothing else - not even your word - will free him.
And you can sell him into slavery. He doesn't even fight back or protest,, because he can't. It's apparently easy, though I never tried it because I couldn't even stand ordering him around too much and I spent a lot of my time looking for a way to free him (he's one of my favourite characters, actually).
This is one awful deed in many dozens - possibly even hundreds - of awful deeds. I'd say on a scale of one to ten for the evil in the game, it's about an eight. There's worse. It's a mean, mean game, though on the other hand that just made it more satisfying being my usual saintly character, and there are moments of wonderful niceness to balance it out.