Quote Originally Posted by Lersayil View Post
I wouldn't say he was actually going for the suicide route, seeing the last cutscene where he pulls himself back from the brink of dissolving by sheer will and determination for his cause (whichafter we pepper him with auricite). He did say however that he's always testing the lesser races. It's possible that he fighting us, is the ultimate test given after we dragged ourselves to him after the last failed test, finished his illusionary dungeon of a world ending scenario, and making a somewhat convincing argument for our case? Something akin to newfound respect maybe?

He did say that given the choice he wouldn't fight us directly when we first met him.
Yeah, I'm struggling a bit with expressing this the right way - I'm not trying to say "Oh, he wanted to die from the beginning and would have just jumped of a bridge if he could".
Its a bit mor subtle than that - more along of lines of "If I get killed in the end, thats fine". Or maybe not even that he wanted to die, but that he wanted to lose.

I'm mainly basing this on his numerous tests - if we wanted to kill us, he could have easly done so at any point that we werent prepared. And even if he wanted to play it fair (by his standards, at least), we had already lost in his eyes. The battle against him is our final test, but a test that felt a bit like... mmh... "made up on the spot". A bit like when you play with a child and you play something where one will win and one will lose and the child is losing but you make up some twist or final challenge that you know the child will win, maybe because you let it (if this makes sense at all).
His final test seemed to me like he finally wanted us to win - I got the vibe that he wanted us to win throughout the whole story. He didnt set out to kill us - and he kinda even saved out life by offering us a way to get rid off the light by channeling it for a cause.

I dont think he was suicidal, but I could imagine him being just tired. But thats still reaching, of course.