Narrator: *A thousand thousand respiring things lie below, pointing up at you, gasping their last. But there is one who deserves the honour of your first death. The beginning of your end.*
Wyll: We were meant to save the world - not damn it. You and I. Together.
Player options:
Kill with one last kiss.
You do not want to see what is to come. Death is my reward for your service.
Run from me when we land. We will meet again at the end of days, when I shall come for you.
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I was wondering how long it would take before a Mystra apologist came out and said this 🙄
This is a comment on this video of Gale's evil ending
Nope, not thanking Larian for having the only time we see Gale remove Mystra's earring be when he completely loses his goodness and enthralls a bunch of free and sentient beings, because he has been completely consumed by his bitterness and rage
Not thanking Larian higher ups for making it abundantly clear that they believe Gale blowing himself up / completely folding to Mystra's demands is Gale's "redemption arc"
Smirking at being called an irrational hysterical Mystra-hating fangirl for simply being someone who has media literacy and character empathy ✊
Nope. I am going to continue to imagine that a happy, at peace, reconciled Gale who believes that he is enough as he is would still come to terms with everything that has happened to him and choose to remove or replace his earring one day
I am going to continue to see Mystra as the DnD god that she is - distant, neutral and indifferent, and actively manipulative and negligent towards Gale
I'll just be here in my corner being evil, hysterical and irrational 🫶
he may only raised one level but OMG I AM SCREAMING
NOW I WILL LOOK AT ALL BALDURS MOUTH AND MAKE A SHRINE TO THIS ROLAN DRAWING.
Yeah i sleep one more time after talking with Rolan (two long rest after fighting with Lorroakan) in the tower, then i buy the baldurs mouth to have that draw❤️
I dont know what new powers he have now but i want to know without fight with him xd
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So we're all just supposed to be fucking grateful that Larian gave us "new Wyll content" (evil ending for a man who is canonically incorruptible, what the fuck) and simultaneously broke him again (giving low approval greetings to a romanced PC, what the fuck).
I... I just... the simultaneous feelings of rage and utter hopelessness are overwhelming.
Listen, if you've read any of my posts you know I have a pretty clear "Don't yuck anyone's yum" policy. If you think an evil Wyll ending is interesting, fine. But here's why it falls flat for me.
First, like I said above, Wyll is canonically incorruptible. It's literally the entire basis of his character. He is a man who was coerced into making an infernal contract to save a city and had to pay a horrible price for doing so, then spent seven fucking years alone in the wilderness doing his damned best to protect the people of the Sword Coast, while all along telling his horrible, abusive patron to just fuck off already.
Now, could you argue that during the events of the game, Wyll develops a taste for evil? Sure. There are plenty of opportunities for his villain origin story to unfold. But they never do. His moral compass never wavers. Turned into a devil? He feels shame, because it's an outward sign that he was doing things for Mizora that were morally wrong, and he didn't see it before. His approval rating for the PC shoots through the roof if you save Karlach, a sure indicator of his true moral compass. His father kidnapped? Fuck that noise, we're gonna save him. Rescue Zariel's "asset"? Ugh, fine, but don't get distracted from the real reason we're here. His father gets tadpoled? Oh hells no, we're gonna take down these assholes and save the godsdamned world. His father accuses him of being an agent of a devil and is super pissy about it? "Everything I did, I did for the people of the Sword Coast."
For fuck's sake, he will leave the party if the PC gets too evil, even knowing it means he'll probably turn into a mindflayer immediately. Even if he's romancing the PC. Unwavering moral compass. So giving him an evil ending without also going back and changing everything about his character just feels like lazy writing to me.
Which brings me to the second reason all of this rubs the wrong way. Wyll deserves so much more content. More romanced greetings, more reactions to other characters' choices, a final boss battle that is actually about him, a default ending that actually makes fucking sense (I have another post cooking about the Avernus ending, so I will leave it for now.)
And please, spare me your "But Wyll was rewritten after early access" bullshit. That's Larian's problem. They chose to listen to feedback and do a late-stage rewrite. They then chose to implement it poorly and never fucking fix it. Other characters, who already have far more content than Wyll, have had even more added over the course of the seven released patches. Wyll, on the other hand, has been sitting around completely ignored until now when we get this evil ending.
Many have rightfully pointed out the inherent racism steeped in all of this. I want Larian to be better. But as Maya Angelou said, "When someone shows you who they are, believe them." I already didn't have much hope about Patch 7 for Wyll, but this... honestly, this is worse than him just being ignored again.
The thing that kills me the most is that this is just going to be more fodder for the fandom to completely mischaracterize Wyll, for those who already haven't bothered to think critically about his character at all to just be like, oh, cool, Wyll is evil now. Nope. You've completely missed the point.
I'm just... so tired. I've worked very hard to put this little bubble of Wyll enthusiasts around me (hi friends I love you all!) so that I can hold on to some shred of sanity in this fandom. The world needs heroes of color. Just let Wyll be the hero in peace.
