Quote Originally Posted by Krotoan View Post
I know your thing.. is trolling.. or at least being "edgy".. but lots of people died who weren't the two girls in
Garlemald. I suppose what you'll say next is that they all were so inconsequential you forgot, but not only did people die, we saw someone basically lose his mind and go from the most empathetic caring creator to a nihilistic madman, a loyal and steadfast leader choosing suicide over accepting the truth or at least accepting the world had changed and he might still be able to contribute, someone else wade through grim knowledge they had and trying to rally their dying people while knowing it was mostly futile.. there was even a dungeon where we got to see very briefly a mother lose hope and turn into a monster right in front of her children who then follow.



There's a lot of depressing and sad moments in the story. Were you paying attention at all?
I was supposed to feel sad during those moments? I was mostly indifferent to every moment you said honestly. I felt like the 2 girls dying was just thrown in so they could rehash Ysayle's line about no child dying alone in the snow and was kind of upset that they'd waste such a line on these 2 girls but it did at least served a narrative purpose for Alphinaud so I gave it a pass. The suicide of a overly proud and ignorant fool was of no loss really as it had no real emotional depth to it. I didn't like the dude so him offing himself was just there for shock value and little more. Considering we already knew what was going to become of Nihilistic Madman, I honestly expected something a bit more traumatizing to happen that triggered that descent but all that really happened was they threatened to shut down his dynamis experiment and he went psycho.

The only really sad moment I could think of the entire expansion was probably in Thavnair with the mother protecting her child from the blasphemy and even that paled in comparison to some moments from previous expansions.