The Warrior of Kindness (Spoiler)

[AnimaAnimus]

I really was hoping we were going to become evil. .

To be fair, we slaughter other people, animals and what not by the hundreds for the most petty of reasons. Side quests always have us killing people and slaughtering vast amounts of animals for the silliest of reasons. That random NPC told me you stole her turnip! Time to DIE!

So to say we are "good" is already a stretch and we only consider ourselves thus because it's framed in a way we see all of our senseless and needless slaughter as heroic. When in reality we would be feared, reviled and hunted for what we have done and continue to do.

[Dualblade]

To be fair, we slaughter other people, animals and what not by the hundreds for the most petty of reasons. Side quests always have us killing people and slaughtering vast amounts of animals for the silliest of reasons. That random NPC told me you stole her turnip! Time to DIE!

So to say we are "good" is already a stretch and we only consider ourselves thus because it's framed in a way we see all of our senseless and needless slaughter as heroic. When in reality we would be feared, reviled and hunted for what we have done and continue to do.

It should be noted that even if something gets "death" animation it doesn't mean we actually killed them. Best show of that would be in this xpac itself right before we get to Twine where we fight someone who doesn't get named and gets that result, only for it to turn out we just roughed him quite a bit (he did attack us first after all) and one of his two friends who are more important brings him back to town. You can even talk to him at that time.

For other humans it can be chalked up to what you think happens to them, its part of why their bodies disappear (from a non-gameplay standpoint) because it lets the fate of what exactly we did up to us. Meanwhile most animals we go after are also hostile and even non hostile ones its expected we wouldn't even be the only ones to go after them (notable ones here being the first quest you get for all classes which your character for sure is not the only one tasked with doing so.). The ones most likely to die to us are those in battlefields on our opposite side, who ARE trying to kill us. Trying to say we should be feared and reviled over this stuff is being silly in and of itself.