Does the Helmet of Opposite Alignment change anything in terms of characters’ dialogues and quests?

ensbana

I’d like to keep Viconia and Korgan in my good-aligned party, and plan to equip them with the Helmers of Opposite Alignment when my reputation gets too high. Does anyone know if doing so will affect the characters’ dialogues, stories or quests?

jmerry

It shouldn't affect anything in SoA. In ToB, both characters can change alignment, and there are some dialogues that check their alignment because of that. Since they also won't leave at high rep in ToB, you should take the helmets off then.

Zaxares

I'm pretty sure that Korgan can't change his alignment in ToB. Maybe jmerry was thinking of Sarevok? I believe that Viconia will only change her alignment if you romance her too; Sarevok just needs you to constantly take the better path in your dialogues with him.

jmerry

Looking at it again ... I don't see anything that actually lets Korgan change, but he has dialogue that checks alignment. If you drop him from the party and he's chaotic evil, he says one thing in his "did you really mean that?" dialogue. If you drop him and he's chaotic good, he says another.

If you drop him from the party and he's neither of those alignments - say, because he's lawful due to a helm of opposite alignment - then you're in trouble. No valid dialogue, and he's stuck unable to rejoin the party or be dismissed to the pocket plane. I just tested this - he walks up to you and says nothing.

I suspect this alignment change was planned as an endpoint of his interactions with Mazzy; they went so far as to record a voiced line for the change, but didn't actually implement it. Perhaps having Korgan become good was just a little too farfetched.

ThacoBell

Good call I say. Korgan is one of the very few instances where turning him good would have made his character less interesting.

Blackbɨrd

I don't think it has too much impact on characters in the game, which is sad because it would be cool if it did!