Revelations from Patch 5.2

[Frizze]

I finally reached that point with the Qitari too and

I'm also very disappointed at having to make such an important and permanent choice on no basis whatsoever. Indeed they are terrible historians. On one hand the slavery thing makes more sense, but then I think: if they were slaves, why would they still care and be faithful to the empire at all? Also, they are scribes were, in our history, generally one of the highest ranks in society. If I think for example about ancient Egyptians, they made massive use of slaves, but on the other hand scribes were the opposite of that. Slaves usually do menial work, not such an important job as putting in writing all the important things, including history, and even just teaching slaves how to write would have been empowering them too much.
Actually, after writing all this I think I made up my mind.
EDIT: actually after going for that choice I'm not convinced anymore I did the right one, because as you choose the son's option the stele completely changes compared to how it was in their description, so they're altering an historical proof to fit a theory. This makes no sense whatsoever. They're not historians, they're charlatans.

So minor spoiler for this..

I did the next quest today, and the first bit of dialogue was basically "We found further evidence that supported your basic theory, and heres what really happened" or something basically like that. Im guessing each of the stellae is going to be similarly handwaved. And finding more evidence is further proof that we didnt need to decide anything. Just wait to finish the thing until you finish the investigation you stupid rats.

So driving home from work today, i had a brief glimpse into the future. This is MSQ related.

So the evidence we've seen in game and heard in interviews seems to support the view that the ShB story arc is ending in 5.3. This means the scions role on the first is likely ending, probably with all of them making it back home(though a death still isnt out of the question). I saw a decent amount of people complaining about our visit to Slitherbough and the brief interaction with Runar. Next patch, we're going to watch a scene that consists basically of a broom that stops magically sweeping on its own and falls to the ground, followed by Runar falling to his knees weeping. Followed by many of the people sitting playing the game crying with/for him.

[Tlamila]

So minor spoiler for this..

I did the next quest today, and the first bit of dialogue was basically "We found further evidence that supported your basic theory, and heres what really happened" or something basically like that. Im guessing each of the stellae is going to be similarly handwaved. And finding more evidence is further proof that we didnt need to decide anything. Just wait to finish the thing until you finish the investigation you stupid rats.

so basically they ruined a staele forever for no reason whatsoever instead of just waiting. Awesome. I guess that's what we get when devs try to give us choices but do it sloppily

/10charsmore

[Erendis]

so basically they ruined a staele forever for no reason whatsoever instead of just waiting. Awesome. I guess that's what we get when devs try to give us choices but do it sloppily

/10charsmore

They did not ruin it. It was too big to bring outside so they build a new one.

/10 characters.