NPCs with plot armor, does it bother you?

[Alaray]

I doubt the only reason these characters haven't died in the story is because they are in other quest lines. Most of the characters listed, if they had a death in the various scenes they could've died, would have served little narrative purpose and would only have died "just 'cuz uh death and stuff is deep 'n... stuff" and cheapened their own individual stories.

Making characters just to build them up and cut them down isn't even in the realm of decent story telling. It's a lazy way to pick at reader/player emotions at the easiest level. That's it.

A character's death, especially characters who are so prominent and major components to their respective storylines and narratives that encompass not just them, but the entire overarching story of the game, should mean more than "lol we killed them off isn't that WILD???"

There should be an actual narrative reason for it that pushes the narrative in a direction it needs to go.

But I wouldn't even say any of these characters have had such major moments of "plot armor" since the moments they lived through were scripted that way so the game's story could progress in a specific direction. It's not like Haurchefaunt got his chest shot out and was fine the next day.

A character that actually *has* plot armor is Hildibrand. But his story is just there for giggles anyway.

It's also not like they haven't killed any of the Scions. But when they did kill one, it was an actual important, symbolic statement of the character that is intended to mirror Liousioux's sacrifice on the fields of Carteneau and brought that character's story to it's ultimate conclusion.