I managed to get everything but the Role quests out of the way today.

I'll put my sleepy, slightly coherent ramblings under a cut for spoilers.

I was expecting the Void and Zenos' voidsent but I must admit not quite so soon. While that part may one day be interesting I found myself quite bored more often than not, with the post-Alliance raid quests making me shout at my monitor because of how long they dragged on. Several people here have mentioned how much they dislike G'raha and while I can't relate to disliking him, I definitely got a glimpse of your pain when they suggested I take Y'shtola along with. I shouted "NO!" at my monitor yet again (I did this a lot) horrified at the prospect of having to spend more than passing moments with her. You can probably guess that she is a distant last place for me in terms of Scion likeability so these quests have been an exercise in learning how not to roll my eyes so much that I give myself a headache. Some incredibly cheesy moments in writing, especially when Y'shtola tells all about how she traveled to the edge of reality and "heard, felt and thought". My poor head still hurts.

I found the Alliance raid to also be very boring, the fights were cool but there wasn't any interesting lore dropped and I remember feeling a bit angry when I zoned into the Seventh Heaven place and it was just discount Elpis. It did finalize my decision to drop Azeyma like a bad penny, though. All it took was one time of her calling us her "children" and I noped the fk out. Nald'Thal here I come, baby. The architecture and the Elpis-ness of it makes me feel as though they are going to try to connect this to the Ancients somehow and I wish they wouldn't. Just leave them alone, you've done enough damage to their story.

In closing, opening a voidgate seems like an extremely bad idea considering the presence of rampaging monsters in the world being a thing wasn't all that long ago. But Y'shtola must know what she's doing, right? After all the Matoya music plays now whenever she's thinking really hard so I'm clearly supposed to believe she's just as wise and trustworthy. I like Vrtra though, so I'm willing to help him out.


I'll try to be more insightful once I've woken up.