Post-Palace Questions (SPOILERS)

[Rocl]

Lalafell racism aside, my immediate thought was Paiyo Reiyo (after Ascian) but then him showing up in the post-Palace quest made me reconsider.

[kuma_aus]

Lalafell racism aside, my immediate thought was Paiyo Reiyo (after Ascian) but then him showing up in the post-Palace quest made me reconsider.

Well I think everything about Paiyo is meant to throw us off into thinking it isn't him. We're so used to "It was Ascians" all along, that is what most people think about. We don't 100% know what happened to him after the failure at Tam Tara normal, but after your very livelihood is taken away from you, I think you can turn a little sour. Who's to say he wasn't studying void magic or something to do with what's going on in Deep Dungeon?

Also in the final quest, Paiyo specifically mentions seeing the Avera's head voidsent creature. "Every night when I close my eyes I can still see them. Edda with her ghastly grin... And that abomination she dared to call Avere." is what he says. Where did he see Avere's head voidsent? In hard mode, after you free him, he runs away to go "outside". That's just his words but if he really ran away from the dungeon, he shouldn't really have seen the head unless he got a sideways glance at it while escaping. If he really was terrified, I don't think he would waste time just looking around to see what was happening, if it were me I would just assume the worst and any second left in the place could result in my death which I only just narrowly avoided.

What does he say when he sees Edda's ghost in the final of Tam Tara hard? He says that he's sorry. What is he so sorry about? That he wasn't a good enough friend? I think he's just guilty over what kind of things he did to Edda after she fell.