Quote Originally Posted by Allegor View Post
To add insult to injury, in one of the aether current quests they do collectively play ignorant/antagonistic to teach the new guy a lesson about respect, tradition, etc. It's like both quests were written by entirely different people.
This was something I kept encountering too: Side quests that actually did a far better job at showing the culture than anything in the MSQ, sometimes to the point of going against what you see in the MSQ. But because they're only sidequests, they can't actually change anything or lead to anything substantial. I was clearing out the side quests at the same time as doing the MSQ, and it was this weird whiplash of going from sidequests that were actually trying to be interesting and informative but couldn't do a lot and then going back to the MSQ where everyone was a clueless idiot again. Logically I always knew that the side quests were written by other writers than the MSQ, but this was the first time where it was such a jarring narrative jump to go between them.

It makes it even more clear how rushed and unedited this whole expansion's story is.