Quote Originally Posted by Rithy255 View Post
Also a scion "dying" is usually some sort of fake out most of the time, which makes us have no real stakes with them anymore because you know they're always going to be fine, even if they happened to go off that way, no one would take it seriously at this.
I'm happy with them being "always perfectly fine" but I do wish they wouldn't do regular fake death drama thingies with them. (The exception being Ultima Thule – I was fine with the way that was handled.)

Like, at this point if they hypothetically did want to kill off Y'shtola, they've ruined their ability to have anyone take it seriously because they already did a big tragic scene of her being apparently dead and friends starting to grieve... and then she came back five minutes later with minimal effort.

Injured? Fine. Temporarily in life-threatening danger? Also fine. But fake deaths can only be milked for drama in limited quantities and need to be used super sparingly, especially as the game goes on longer and longer with this permanent core cast.

Yes, they will probably never truly kill off the major Scions at this point, but I'm fine with them just carrying on as the main cast through every expansion while the more interesting plot things either happen to other people or build the Scions up as more complex people. They don't have to die to achieve that.