… whereas Olrun got her squad killed only for their deaths to be minimized as for the greater good, leaving her disenfranchised with the whole order.

Key difference being Hervor became the Hero of Ferelden and lead the Amaranthine Wardens and made that camaraderie herself.

As in one person experienced the camaraderie and greater sense of purpose while the other joined the Order to escape death, only for death to continue to follow them everywhere.

My girls smelling like oranges, I like that!

God there really is nothing worse.

I was going to say I think anon asks incentivizes people to just be absolute dicks but … it sounds like this person just harassed you full faced. Which I hate bc I like the ask feature, but people misuse it. I’m sorry.

God damn the way PC just takes the context of every traumatic event and spits it back out, warped beyond recognition. One can imagine how damaging it would be to have to live with that voice.

There’s only so many times I can say there’s blood splatters on the ground. After a time, you just expect it.

“He could have been interesting but dlc…” yknow what I am not apologizing for what I like the whole game is rushed let’s not act like he’s the one weak point. I want to engage with what is there not ponder hypotheticals.

Like we could have an interesting discussion about the way Elthina treats him, how his family treated him, how these experiences made him vulnerable. But everyone just wants to make jokes.

Yeah I really just cannot grasp this notion that something has to be fully grounded in reality in order for it to “count”. This whole obsession with what “counts” is very strange to me.
I guess fantasy and sci fi has the potential to be lazily written but so does everything else?

And I feel regret that we were not closer … would all this hurt more if we were?

I was thinking about two friends I lost one from Covid and one from sepsis and we were not that close and all I could think about was how well things were going for them. I’ll never see her animal crossing island again. Is her brother ok? Are the pets ok? Is her partner ok?

Sighs ok I will try again with Wheel of Time/Eye of the World/etc. I have picked this up twice and just. Couldn’t.