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    Lauront's Avatar
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    Tristain Archambeau
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    Quote Originally Posted by Brinne View Post
    For my part, I actually mostly enjoyed the 6.1 MSQ and am interested in where it's going, but predictably, I was cracking nonstop jokes in chat about "What? Y'shtola lets a familiar die to further her own interests? Unacceptable. Sunder this cat!" "What? Vrtra wants to eliminate the suffering of the people of Thavnair? Sunder this dragon!" "Huh? Thavnair is encouraging Vrtra to try to restore a past with his sister instead of just accepting it and moving on? Sunder this country!"
    What were your thoughts on this BTW?
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    Raelle Brinn
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    Quote Originally Posted by Lauront View Post
    What were your thoughts on this BTW?
    Hysterical laughter, mostly.

    All right, in seriousness, of course my eyes rolled out of the back of my head, but it's also not really much beyond what I was expecting. As we've discussed, regardless of the problems with her character, Venat is very popular and has a lot of fans, so they're not going to go full-in on "what a terrible person" - in a general sense, yes, she's probably going to be treated positively when she's brought up. Also, the .1 patch is generally too early for the MSQ writing to take in fan feedback - I think they've mentioned the .1 patch stuff is basically established by the time the expac is rolled out, and IIRC, it took until about 5.2 for Shadowbringers's patch writing to really blatantly jump full-force onto the Emet-Selch train. That being said, LMAO.

    What was most telling to me, honestly? Emet-Selch getting direct invocations and flashbacks from the MSQ, along with the heavy implication that the WoL is specifically setting out to honor his list of tasks - while Venat herself doesn't actually get mentioned or discussed once. I think in all the content she's only brought up as Hydaelyn in that brief red herring in the Alliance Raid. The Lodestone side story future may in fact at hand, my friends.

    And hey, recounting of events aside, it's not technically inaccurate about Venat's character - she did, in fact, do everything out of "love." It's just that, um, her definition of "love" is vastly, vastly different from my own. Also sort of fun how the codex entry for the "Final Days" just completely skips over the Sundering, huh? Mankind selflessly sacrificed half its number to stop the Final Days--mumble mumble something something--AND THEN IT HAPPENED AGAIN! SOMEHOW! OH NO!
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    Last edited by Brinne; 04-15-2022 at 08:05 AM.