NPC's, Romance and divine magic!
SionIV
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So i looked at the NPC's to figure out who i wanted to romance in my 3 player party. And then i noticed that every NPC you can romance (Anomen, Viconia, Aerie, Jaheira) are all divine spellcasters. Do you think this was made on purpose to make it easier to get them into your party? Or just a random fact.
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Hmm. There was one thing that always bugged me about Aerie's romance. Her lost wings were a central point to her romance. The thing that bugs me though is that she gets a spell called regenerate which is capable of regrowing lost limbs as per its own description. I'm pretty sure her wings would qualify as lost limbs...
Personally i would rather romance Nalia than the other Npcs. Never liked Aerie or Viconia(never play evil), and jaheira just looks dumb in BG2 instead of her Angelina Jolie look-a-like picture in BG.
As for why it's impossible for her to restore her wings, we can only guess; something about their magical nature just prevents it, I suppose. But also a major part of her character development is finding her own identity.
And why they're all healers... I don't know. It seems to be in a lot of video games though that the love interest is often the party healer.
Or, maybe Aerie just doesn't really want her wings back. Like she understands on some level that even if she had them, she couldn't just go back to Faenya Dail and expect her life to resume like it was. Not now that she's been exposed to what the outside world is like, and knows that there are people out there like her who need help. She'd also have to explain to her parents where the hell she's been...
To take it another direction, Jordi LaForge's eyes wouldn't regenerate from the spell, but Worf's spine would. Or something.
In addition, there is a 3rd level wizard spell called "fly" that, while not restoring her wings, would work to alleviate much of the pain of which she lost.
Overall, her wings subplot, while working to establish her personality and character building, just doesn't make sense in such a high fantasy and sorcery setting involving a Demi-god ascending to divinity.
I'd like there to be 'real' djinns, so if you wish to be able to fly, he'd make it so that gravity no longer affected you, and you're lighter than air. And you'd go up... and up... and up, until you either freeze to death or suffocate because there's no more oxygen. Basically, no one wise enough to cast 'wish' ever would.
I suppose you could see the story-deaths as being "chunked" in the game, but it still isn't exactly an elegant solution. Aerie's wings is a very similar problem, and not the first of its kind; there's lots of blind or otherwise maimed heroes around that for some reason can't seem to be restored. Given the power of wish spells, you'd think almost anything would go, but that would leave us with a fairly boring world if any conflict or problem can be solved simply through such high-level magic.
"I'm sorry sir, but there is nothing we can do. Your halfling rogue... he's been..... Chuncked-ti-fied..."
Also, I do believe that deities are not all at the same level of power in the Forgotten Realms, much less so freshly ascended ones. Even as a god you may not want to just go and kick Cyric in his holiest of holies, as he'll likely find a way to make your existence quite miserable indeed...