Quote Originally Posted by Rithy255 View Post
At this point I don't think they're going to kill any off and if one does "die" no one will believe it, until they realise it was for real this time!
Yet if they dont, they will be stuck with poor story writing options. A single death can make everyting uncertain for other scoins, which can help later on in the story. And yes, that means a lore packed character is permanently going to be gone. But this adds a lot of freedom for devs to make new characters to potentialy fill the gap.

The problem now is that the fake deaths would make even a real death feel like its going to be fake. Thats how bad a single EW section was done. There were many things they could have improved there to get the WoL to be alone. The obvious fake sacrifices only made the entire section a piece of cringe. I was happy once the twins were gone so at least i didnt have to bother waiting for something that was predictable well ahead in time (and because they finaly stopped talking). Even though i knew they would all survive (i didnt even care how, as i knew it was bad story writing anyway), it at least progressed the important part of the story that i cared about.

A single death can grant massive benefits towards writers, players and the story in general. The greater the character reputation, the more freedom it grants.