strongest piece on the board

People clutching their pearls over the Larian AI thing, which I get. On the other hand, it's exhausting that some people only start getting upset with them over shit like this but can't be bothered to put in that same energy when Black fans were out here practically begging for both the dev team and the fans to give a single shit about Wyll and his content. Best community support, my ass. They been rancid. Sorry, not sorry, it took some of y'all this long to realize that.

larian openly admitting to using generative ai was NOT on my 2025 bingo card lol

i can never articulate it properly but something that rotates permanently in my head is that the first time you get a real indication of Shadowheart behaving… abnormally for a Sharran is when you’re in the Grove and she approves when you save Arabella from the snake. and then you find out later that one of the only memories Shadowheart has been allowed to keep was the Mother Superior threatening to throw Shadowheart into a wolves den if she was in trouble as a child. like yeah seeing a little girl, terrified out of her mind, being threatened with a deadly animal and an adult stepping up to say That’s Not Right, She’s Just A Child, This Punishment Can’t Fit The Crime Here, actually protecting the child instead of allowing it to happen… probably one of the first steps towards her deconditioning