Quote Originally Posted by Bright-Flower View Post
She was wounded enough to be put out of commission and was out of it longer than we were and she was immediately tended to by Krile. I don't have a problem with her just being injured to put her on a bus there instead of dying or something. Zenos is powerful but it's not like being hit by his sword is an instant 100% death.

As for the spell, there were only two people involved. Thancred suffered immediately repurcussions and y'shtola will likely suffer then down the road. I'm not really bothered by her blindness being something they're keeping on the back burner before using it catches up to her. It's something that will harm her eventually but not neccisarily right away.
Thankfully they did let her stay in bed for a longer time otherwise that would have been even worse. Its just a bit annoying to see the plot armor that much with certain people while others die easily. Meffrid at the same time also just got hit with a sword but instantly died. Every Garlean soldier that Zenos hit with his sword died from that one hit (and that with heavy armor on). Ysthola gets a direct hit, where he even uses strenght to break through her shield, thus he should have quite the power behind that slash. If this was any other NPC they would be death. If this was a 18+ game they would have probably be cut open. It was a hit strong enough to break her barrier. She also was not wearing any strong armor. For me its just too obvious that she somehow survives it because of her being part of other games and the post/fan girl of the game.

Also with the spell: Yes only two were involved and one suffered great throwbacks from which he suffers from the start while she can still see quite fine and maybe somewhere in the future this might hurt her. Would have been nice to have her not be able to do her job that good anymore. Maybe just have her be able to see in black and white or only distorted. Or maybe she can only use the aether for a certain amount of time per day thus have her in situations where she is limited to fight. Just something that makes it feel like something has happened to her at all.

And on top of that instead of building her character to more than just snarky, they have taken her out again.