I'm in a Betrayal in Antara mood and trying to think of other PC characters I'd add if you could expand the party. For the early chapters, I was thinking a mixed-caste Montari couple - a chocolatier and either a warrior or a laborer. (Chee is Displeased with such an obviously unsuitable match.)
The party helps them get to the festival in Ticoro to sell their delicious chocolate.
My question comes in here: are there Montari mages? Because I can only remember human and Chuman mages in the base game and that one book in the university in Burlen suggested that humanity developed magic as a stress response to Grrrlf pressure on the species.
Because chocolate magic sounds ~amazing~ but that hypothesis re: human magic was also very interesting.
UM OH MY GOD <3 OBSCURE SPECIAL INTEREST ACTIVATED, bless your freaking everything!!! Asking me about Betrayal in Antara is basically making my day every time lmfaoooo
so yeah absolutely I LOVE your Montari idea, esp the contrast between them and Chee's reaction lol, ideally he'd see them working really well together and lighten up some but prob still be like 'oh u crazy kids, it'll never catch on' (it does tho, and hopefully leads to a loosening up of the caste system too, at least a start)
I'm seeing a badass warrior lady and nerdy squishy chocolatier guy; they bicker a little but are ultimately super in love (someone, Scott maybe, looks at them and then @ the main trio and is like 'does this seem familiar to anyone else? no, just me?')
And chocolate magic!!! YES - lmao imagine combining that with the warrior aspect, what if they like, make freaking Senwater or Kor's Blood-infused chocolate? Chocolate for healing and/or asskicking! Tons of possibilities here that might lead to increased trade between Montari and humans too.
And gameplay-wise, they could be a little bonus side-quest, but if you do help them get to Ticoro they could help you out there by giving u a place to crash instead of that mess of trying to find ANY open inn!
The only even magic-related Montari I can remember at all is the one who died saving the mage Enkudi (the guy with the dowsing rod), BUT I don't think we get any indication that he was ALSO a mage.
But that ofc doesn't mean there are none, and even if canonically there aren't, make your own fascinating Montari magic system! They'd probably be very big on sensing/using energies of the deep earth, stone and deep water obvs but also maybe like magnetism (metals) and gemstone properties? AND CHOCOLATE OF COURSE, like being able to Kind Of empathically communicate with Fantasy Cacao plants specifically maybe?
idek, there's fascinating things everywhere and please tell me what you come up with!
(And now I'm going to have fun thinking about other temporary party members. Scott, OBVIOUSLY, but I'd also love to see more of the Tr'kaa!! The one we do get to see is SO neat looking and also adorable <3)
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