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** Again, Ketheric is ''not at the camp to supervise the investigation''. The question was why he left Dror to question the illithids, when there is no reason to believe he was in charge of that decision. The nautiloid crashed in their region, so they (Dror, Gut, Minthara, and Edowin) are going to be the first True Souls on site investigating in whatever way they know how. Perhaps they wouldn't have been Ketheric's first pick[[note]]though for all his dimwitted speech, Dror ''does'' succeed in finding you by questioning the mindflayer if you dont't intervene, and the goblins capture Duke Ravenguard from his own retinue of Flaming Fists, so they have ''some'' merit[[note]] but they're there, and the path to the Grove from Moonrise is long and dangerous. Considering by Act II he has decided to cut his losses and wait for you to come to him anyway (perhaps Gortash had a point insinuating he was too distracted by his daughter,) it seems in character for him to have unwisely trusted Minthara to handle it.
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** Again, Ketheric is ''not at the camp to supervise the investigation''. The question was why he left Dror to question the illithids, when there is no reason to believe he was in charge of that decision. The nautiloid crashed in their region, so they (Dror, Gut, Minthara, and Edowin) are going to be the first True Souls on site investigating in whatever way they know how. Perhaps they wouldn't have been Ketheric's first pick[[note]]though for all his dimwitted speech, Dror ''does'' succeed in finding you by questioning the mindflayer if you dont't intervene, and the goblins capture Duke Ravenguard from his own retinue of Flaming Fists, so they have ''some'' merit[[note]] merit[[/note]] but they're there, and the path to the Grove from Moonrise is long and dangerous. Considering by Act II he has decided to cut his losses and wait for you to come to him anyway (perhaps Gortash had a point insinuating he was too distracted by his daughter,) it seems in character for him to have unwisely trusted Minthara to handle it.
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** Again, Ketheric is ''not at the camp to supervise the investigation''. The question was why he left Dror to question the illithids, when there is no reason to believe he was in charge of that decision. It is impossible to know how much he knows about the situation and how quickly he can send someone "more competent" to deal with it (there is no timeframe for Act I but it is likely a lot of the events in it happened close together.) The Absolute sent out the order to ''all'' the True Souls to find the prism, and it was just that Dror just happened to get an idea of where to look--a decision that ''pays off'' if the player doesn't intervene, mind you. His real act of oversight was trusting Minthara, who got totally sidetracked, not calling up Dror and telling him to go away.
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** Again, Ketheric is ''not at the camp to supervise the investigation''. The question was why he left Dror to question the illithids, when there is no reason to believe he was in charge of that decision. It is impossible The nautiloid crashed in their region, so they (Dror, Gut, Minthara, and Edowin) are going to know how much he knows about be the situation and how quickly he can send someone "more competent" to deal with it (there is no timeframe for Act I but it is likely a lot of the events in it happened close together.) The Absolute sent out the order to ''all'' the first True Souls to find the prism, and it was just that on site investigating in whatever way they know how. Perhaps they wouldn't have been Ketheric's first pick[[note]]though for all his dimwitted speech, Dror just happened to get an idea of where to look--a decision that ''pays off'' if ''does'' succeed in finding you by questioning the player doesn't mindflayer if you dont't intervene, mind you. His real act and the goblins capture Duke Ravenguard from his own retinue of oversight Flaming Fists, so they have ''some'' merit[[note]] but they're there, and the path to the Grove from Moonrise is long and dangerous. Considering by Act II he has decided to cut his losses and wait for you to come to him anyway (perhaps Gortash had a point insinuating he was trusting Minthara, who got totally sidetracked, not calling up Dror and telling too distracted by his daughter,) it seems in character for him to go away.have unwisely trusted Minthara to handle it.
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** Again, Ketheric is ''not at the camp to supervise the investigation''. The question was why he left Dror to question the illithids, when there is no reason to believe he was in charge of that decision. It is impossible to know how much he knows about the situation and how quickly he can send someone "more competent" to deal with it (there is no timeframe for Act I but it is likely a lot of the events in it happened close together.) The Absolute sent out the order to ''all'' the True Souls to find the prism, and it was just that Dror just happened to get an idea of where to look--a decision that ''pays off'' if the player doesn't intervene, mind you. His real act of oversight was trusting Minthara, who got totally sidetracked, not calling up Dror and telling him to go away.
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** Minthara saw the Nautiloid crash, so presumably she reported about it to Ketheric. Considering how important it is for the Cult to retrieve the Prism, it's a bit weird that Ketheric didn't assign anyone more competent to investigate what happened to the Nautiloid and its passengers, instead of leaving idiots like Dror to run the investigation on their own.
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** Ketheric isn't even at the goblin camp at this point, much less personally overseeing their search for the prism. Presumably Dror is conducting this particular interrogation on his own initiative.
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*** This is false. Dror Ragzlin was interrogating the corpse to find out who killed it and took the Astral Prism, not to find out "what exactly they were doing". You, the player, can ask the illithid what they were doing, and the only reason Dror doesn't find the question suspicious is because he thinks the subsequent reveal of Githyanki involvement is a lead. Additionally, many of the cult's members are ignorant of what the Absolute actually is---most True Souls talk like they believe that they've been blessed by an actual god, and Priestess Gut is in denial about having a tadpole in her head at all. It is completely possible a lower-ranking thrall like Dror does not know the illithid are on his side. So either way there is no contradiction.
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** It certainly seems Dror Ragzlin doesn't know the illithids are on the same side, because in that scene he says stuff like "found the squiddie near that tentacle-ship"; he probably wouldn't talk about the Nautiloid and its crew in such unfamiliar terms if he knew they too are part of the Absolute's army. Though that raises another question: why did Ketheric Thorm leave the questioning of the dead illithids to such ignorants and incompetents like Dror instead of questioning them himself, or letting some more competent spellcaster in his service do it?
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*** This is false. Dror Ragzlin was interrogating the corpse to find out who killed it and took the Astral Prism, not to find out "what exactly they were doing". You, the player, can ask the illithid what they were doing, and the only reason Dror doesn't find the question suspicious is because he thinks the subsequent reveal of Githyanki involvement is a lead. So there is no contradiction.
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*** This is false. Dror Ragzlin was interrogating the corpse to find out who killed it and took the Astral Prism, not to find out "what exactly they were doing". You, the player, can ask the illithid what they were doing, and the only reason Dror doesn't find the question suspicious is because he thinks the subsequent reveal of Githyanki involvement is a lead. Additionally, many of the cult's members are ignorant of what the Absolute actually is---most True Souls talk like they believe that they've been blessed by an actual god, and Priestess Gut is in denial about having a tadpole in her head at all. It is completely possible a lower-ranking thrall like Dror does not know the illithid are on his side. So either way there is no contradiction.
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*** This is false. Dror Ragzlin was interrogating the corpse to find out who killed it and took the Astral Prism, not to find out "what exactly they were doing". You, the player, can ask the illithid what they were doing, and the only reason Dror doesn't find the question suspicious is because he thinks the subsequent reveal of Githyanki involvement is a lead. So there is no contradiction.
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** [[MathematiciansAnswer Because Bite only works on Humanoids and Cazador is Undead.]] Or because Astarion doesn't want to be a full vampire and just wants revenge. In the event that you pick the evil option, ascended vampire is better than regular old full vampire, so it's kinda redundant.
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* Why doesn't Astarion have the option to bite Cazador during the fight with him? One dialog exchange with Astarion regarding how to become a vampire states that a vampire spawn needs to drink the blood of the vampire that turned them, but that generally doesn't happen since the vampire that did the turning generally doesn't want to raise up the competition and can compel the spawn to never make an attempt. But Astarion can't be compelled by Cazador at that point thanks to the tadpole, so he should have free reign to drink Cazador's blood and become a full vampire without Ascending. At the very least it should be an option during the final cutscene before he stabs Cazador to death.
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** The idea that the Nautiloid was sent by the Cult seems to be contradicted by the interrogation scene in the goblin camp in Act I. In that scene, Dror Ragzlin uses the "Speak with Dead" spell to interrogate the corpse of one of the Illithids who was aboard the Nautiloid so he could find out what exactly they were doing. If the Nautiloid belonged to the Cult, surely Ragzlin would know about its mission, since they're on the same side? So it seems the Nautiloid was not sent by the Cult, and instead it was run by other, non-Cult Illithids. So the original headscratcher remains: who sent the Nautiloid and what exactly was its mission?
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*** It would make a difference, Mephistopheles being a god would close the gap between the two somewhat (not all the way, Asmodeus is a god too but it would help). However two things; first, if he did become a god he might hit the point where Asmodeus decides he's too risky to keep aound and actually destroys him are eons of tolerating his scheming so Mephistopheles would need to become a god ''and'' overthrow Asmodeus at the same time to be safe. Second, Mephistopheles is power-hungry but he is also extremely clever and knowledgeable. And the Crown made Karsus a god but also ruined him utterly. Basically unlike his comparatively callow son Mephistopheles knows better than to use the thing.
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*** It would make a difference, Mephistopheles being a god would close the gap between the two somewhat (not all the way, Asmodeus is a god too but it would help). However two things; first, if he did become a god he might hit the point where Asmodeus decides he's too risky to keep aound around and actually destroys him are after eons of tolerating his scheming so Mephistopheles would need to become a god ''and'' overthrow Asmodeus at the same time to be safe. Second, Mephistopheles is power-hungry but he is also extremely clever and knowledgeable. And the Crown made Karsus a god but also ruined him utterly. Basically unlike his comparatively callow son Mephistopheles knows better than to use the thing.
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*** He probably named it after the most impressive prisoner bound by Infernal chains that he could think of. Like how lots of settings have weapons called "The Godkiller" that can probably kill lots of things that aren't gods as well but you pitch the name at the highest level.
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*** It would make a difference, Mephistopheles being a god would close the gap between the two somewhat (not all the way, Asmodeus is a god too but it would help). However two things; first, if he did become a god he might hit the point where Asmodeus decides he's too risky to keep aound and actually destroys him are eons of tolerating his scheming so Mephistopheles would need to become a god ''and'' overthrow Asmodeus at the same time to be safe. Second, Mephistopheles is power-hungry but he is also extremely clever and knowledgeable. And the Crown made Karsus a god but also ruined him utterly. Basically unlike his comparatively callow son Mephistopheles knows better than to use the thing.
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** Also, SquishyWizard. Someone comes up behind even a powerful, battle ready wizard with a club and catches them by surprise and down they go.
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** Because they're the warrior classes. It's hardly surprising that the people who train predominantly in physical fighting get better at strike efficiently than those that don't.
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** It might have to do with the fact that Us was birthed in Avernus, on a different plane to the Elder Brain (and a different section of the Planes at that) so it was unable to establish a connection to it from such a large metaphysical distance.
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** Much more likely a Myrkulite than a Bhaalist in Moonrise, the three Chosen seem to keep their actual faithful separate but otherwise I'd agree.
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** She is presumably a Bhaalist who knows the truth behind the Absolute, she would hold anyone enslaved to a tadpole in contempt.
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*** Larian has said that they chose not to include the Hexblade subclass from tabletop. The Hexblade is meant for Warlocks who want to fight in melee, adding medium armor, shields, and martial weapon proficiency. The catch is that Hexblade basically only makes sense with the Pact of the Blade. So Larian instead rolled some of the Hexblade's abilities into the Pact of the Blade. The end result is that a basic Warlock winds up tougher.
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*** Karlach being Chaotic Good also sets her as a perfect opposite of her old enemy Enver Gortash. Gortash is a follower of Bane, the God of Tyranny, which is quite literally the embodiment of Lawful Evil.
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** He probably figured that if you were a thrall, that you'd jump at the chance to defend the Intellect Devourer, and if you weren't, then you'd help him kill it. Either way, you'll walk over and put yourself in position for him to grab for his interrogation. He wasn't angry, he just wants information and asking politely is a bit of a gamble.
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* What's up with that priestess in Moonrise Towers who guards the doors to the upstairs where you fight Kethric? Radija. She has no tadpole and tells the player they "have a lot to learn" but I never felt like what she means was ever explained. Did I miss something?
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*** I'd argue more for Lawful Neutral. Gith culture under Vlaakith is Lawful Evil no doubt, but a trip to the creche makes it clear Lae'zel is actually fairly open-minded and well-meaning compared to most Gith. For one, the fact that she wants to help out Ishtik ''at all'' seems pretty abnormally empathetic of her. She often ''claims'' the Gith allow professional/pragmatic partnerships with non-gith, it's made fairly clear this isn't actually the case when you first meet Voss and the others by the bridge. She has to lie and pretend you're her prisoners to get out of the interaction without a fight.
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*** Actually, Astarion has a few pieces of dialogue in act 3 that suggests he does feel quite bad about the children, such as being protective of Yenna and Vanra and talking about how he doesn't want any more children disappearing. He seems to know how bad it makes him look, however, and tends to straddle the line between being defensive about it and recognizing it for the terribleness it is. It shouldn't be glossed over that Astarion is speaking quite literally when he calls himself a puppet of Cazador's--we can see when Leon and Aurelia come to camp to kidnap him that Cazador's orders will directly override their own will if they disobey him. Rebellion was simply not an option for him or any of them--and he says outright that kidnapping the children was a direct order. I would also argue he fits closer into "Chaotic Neutral" (unless ascended). He says outright that he doesn't believe in good or evil, he's ''very'' impulsive and largely interested in self-preservation above all, and though he may be amused by random acts of violence sometimes, he acts uncomfortable around truly evil people like Minthara and grovekilling!Tav. Horrific cruelty is something he is quite numb to at this point, so while it doesn't abhor him much, he's also quite intimidated by it. It should also be noted that he heavily favours freeing the spawn over mercy-killing them [[note]] if left alone in the dungeon with Cazador, he will automatically release them, rather than kill them [[/note]] and if he doesn't ascend, believes quite firmly that they deserve to live just as much as he does. He also worries about them being loose and hurting other people--someone who is Chaotic Evil would never worry or care about such things. He's Chaotic Neutral with the capacity for evil.
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** The same reason they can't scoop up your brain to ressurect you without a tadpole - everything that is a part of "your body" will grow back too.
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*** Mephistopheles is already second in command in Hell, TheStarscream to Asmodeus. And Asmodeus is too CrazyPrepared for the crown to make a difference.
