Quote Originally Posted by Iscah View Post
I mostly justify it that although by the nature of it being a game, you have to defeat enemies, but if it was being told as a story (film, book, whatever) you'd be doing a lot more sneaking into places and dealing with the guards non-lethally. Binding spells or something.
You also learn by level 20 and the Ifrit quest that Thou Shalt Not Suffer A Tempered To Live. Thancred has to tell you as much. Once tempered, any race or species because part of a hive mind dedicated solely to resurrecting their primal again. (Interestingly, the Vath non-mind either broke free of their native tempering, or maybe they were immune. A variant on the Echo? Either way, they aren't part of the One mind.)

Any sentient beastman or humanoid NPC we can kill can logically be assumed to be tempered.