Thread: Anybody else... not as impressed by Edda's storyline? Did I miss a key moment?

If you haven't completed up to Tam-Tara Hard, spoiler warning.


So... We first meet/see Edda and her party outside of Sastasha. Avere was kind of a jerk to her.

Not too long later we see her and the team featured in an MSQ cutscene, revealing the tank died and the remnants of the group are ripping her a new one. But she seems well meaning...

A bit further along this time, we see her in the MSQ one last time... she reveals that she looks up to us, seems inspired to move on, etc etc. Perfectly good ending point that it was for a while. Still seems like a pretty well meaning gal...

Then Tam-Tara Hard comes along. I was excited for this. What had happened to poor Edda? But given the last time we saw her in MSQ... I was not expecting what we got. She wants to kill us (and her old 'friends') for Avere now? When did her evil switch suddenly flip?

I was kind of expecting maybe she got in over her head and we come to the rescue or something, not a complete 180 wants-to-murder-innocents-and-heros switcharoo.

So, I guess, did I miss something? If I didn't... did anyone else notice this? TT hard just doesn't seem to fit Edda, from what I know/have seen...

It's quite possible, and this is how I see it that this was un-reciprocated love. Edda stuck through the verbal abuse and harassment because she had feelings for Avere who probably did not feel the same. I think she sort of deluded herself into thinking that he had felt the same and when he died that last string sort of snapped and suddenly she could make her fantasy a reality. Her and Avere are to be wed, because who is to contest this with him gone to deny it? From that point on it was just a slow descent into madness grasping at anyway to make her dream a reality. She came across dark magics and rituals, if she couldn't have Avere in life she could pull him back from the brink as someone who may not have a will of his own. (For nerds out there, think of FMA and the Elric's increasing desperation at the loss of their mother, leading them to perform a forbidden and extremely dangerous transmutation to get her back.)

Just my take on it at least, I thought it was a good change of pace from other dungeons. It actually got me a bit interested in what happened to her from the last time we saw her to make her go so far compared to like, Brayflox HM where most of the story seems to be presented before the dungeon. This had some story presented within the dungeon which I think could have been better executed rather than mostly just bit of paper scattered on the ground.

So it's not super original, it's been done before but I still think it was a nice type of story to have in the game. I would like to see the story continued if not just to see what became of Edda. Had Avere in his last form survived? Did Edda? Will we be able to redeem her or has she gone too far?

Originally Posted by FriendlyUncle

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Kinda makes it even more dark. Avere's soul ripped from the dead and thrust into his decomposing head. His will bound to her, forced to "marry and love" her. She has show the ability to control the dead with Liavinne and all the trash mobs, so what's to say she didn't force the dead Avere to "love" her.

PS: How do you pronounce Avere? I say AH-VREY, but I could see it being AH-VEER. It looks French, Google Translate says E-VARE.

Originally Posted by FJerome

. . . I mean, it's possible he had a change-of-heart but I don't know if he'd be the type and he at least starts-off as a glory-hound and all-around mercenary bastard. Edda's grip on reality may just have never been the best.

Well, you also have to count the fact that even if only a few hours passed between sastasha and tam Tara for us, for the characters it's actually been days if not weeks, not to mention the fact that you have lots of side quests and gradually become more and more famous.

When we meet avere before sastasha, it's the first time we meet so to him we're just opponents in the mercenary business and since your party is canonically the one who cleared sastasha, he might have started to look up to you since you succeeded where he failed.
Also, he could have been a jerk to Edda but been a nice guy toward everyone else.

Magis>> personally I pronounce it Ah-Vaire (vaire like fair)