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Originally Posted by VonDondu  There is also another consideration. Your character is not just the offspring of a god, but the offspring of the God of Murder. This will become a lot more important when you start playing Throne of Bhaal. You won't merely be trying to recover your soul from a mad wizard who wants to steal it for his own purposes; you'll be at the center of events that will leave the Sword Coast drenched with blood. Keldorn has killed a few orcs in his time, but he has never dealt with a challenge as monumental as the one you present. Do you remember what Sarevok told you in BG1? One Bhaalspawn will rise above the rest and change the course of history. How do you think Keldorn feels about THAT? Do you suppose he would enjoy staying at home while you're out there meeting your destiny and possibly leaving thousands of victims in your wake? Or do you suppose he would like to be by your side, doing whatever he can to prevent your soul from turning dark and to prevent you from causing the deaths of thousands of people? |
A very well thought out and constructed argument. However I think your tending to give Keldorn credit for more predictive powers than are indicated in the game. He may know that your are a child of Baal, but how much doe he know of the prophesies of Alaundo? I got the impression of Keldorn that he was a very unimaginative guy, with little or no leadership qualities (as you pointed out) I don't think he'd be capable of the deep thinking it would take to think along the lines you suggested.
The bottom line is of course as has been said by most of us many times, and reiterated by you and I in this thread, it's up to ech of us to decide for ourselves how we want to play it, and how we interpret the story.
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Originally Posted by VonDondu I can't read their minds, but I don't think the people at Bioware expected every player to finish every single sidequest in the game. The players who participate on these message boards tend to be the type who think they have "failed" unless they have achieved 100% completion; but I think Bioware had a more "generic" player in mind when they wrote the dialogue. I reckon they expected most players to do enough sidequests to raise 15,000 gold pieces, then go to Spellhold, and then finish Chapters Six and Seven without doing any more of the sidequests. That's pretty much what I did the first time I played BG2 because I was trying to follow the hints and do what the game was telling me to do. |
That's pretty much what I meant, I wasn't saying (or intending to) that they expected everyone to complete every side quest first, but that they'd complete the ones they were going to do prior to going to Spellhold.
I can't remember how many of the side quest I did complete the first time I completed the game, I suspect I missed at least one, and I definitely remember getting so confused and frustrated in Spellhold I just got out at the first opportunity, so didn't get the BoS, or Gesen's Bowstring etc..