Aerie as a Vampire
Anprionsa
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Is anyone else interested in Aerie becoming a vampire? She becomes cursed, but I would like to see become and stay interesting. It would make for an interesting mod. Whether or not she becomes evil, if there was still a love interest, and her general personality change.
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Your wickedness deserves a good buttkicking for goodness!
Seriously though, I'm pretty sure all vampires must be evil. So unless you are roleplaying an evil character that wants to corrupt Aerie, then I don't see how it might work.
If such a mod was ever made, I'd never touch it except with the sharp end of Carsomyr +6!
I was pretty worried for a while when I thought I'd lose Aerie permanently, but I'd rather have her permanently dead than rampaging across the Sword Coast as a vampire, undoing all the Good she had done in her life.
A more likely candidate for corruption would be Nalia; politics and all the backstabbing and manipulation that goes with it can be a very slippery slope.
Trust me. I love Aerie, and advocate for her to join the PC as a God. But it works be interesting none the less.
"I like my 'Evil' like I like my men. Evil!"
If anyone had seen the Batman Beyond movie and what happens to Robin, maybe something like that?
Unless you mean day/night has an influence on vampire alignment? I'm pretty sure they are evil any time of the day. Sunlight only determines if they can move about freely on the surface.
Evil is as evil does,..
When a "Vampire", you would not become evil from it self.
Or is it more the Question of the diverence from a Hero to a Monster ?
"It depends only on which side you are."
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Why should Aerie rampaging across the Sword Coast ?
For my self i wouldn`t kill her if she turned into a Vampire and proper behave,..
Having said that, if I was making an Aerie is a vampire mod for some reason (why Aerie? Anomen and Jaheria would take to it equally badly, I think, and I can't imagine Viconia being happy, either), I'd probably have her experience a forced shift to evil alignment, at least at first. Get more pathos out of the story that way. Aerie and angst are very well loved bed partners: I'd hate to separate them, and if she became a good vampire, it would sort of feel pointless. Then it would just be like "Alright, I have a horrible condition, but I can feed on animals and remain from killing them if necessary. Let's go look for a cure!"
If she turned evil, then, well, pathos! Angst! Wars with herself to do the right thing and not feed on innocents! Struggles on if she wants to give up the powers that she can do so much 'good' with!
...I still think Aerie has enough on her plate, though, without that. She has a very heavy backstory, a full romance track, a romance with an NPC, a romance with at least one mod... she has a lot going to her. If I was going to turn someone in to a vampire for the sake of drawing out a story and giving evil characters a good or neutral character to corrupt, I'd probably choose one who doesn't have as much going for them. Like Nalia or Valygar (who hates undead- story!).
Or Cernd. He would be a werewolf/vampire crossbreed and we would have to all bang our heads on walls and cry. It would be glorious.
(Yet somehow, I still bet it wouldn't make him any more interesting.)
Anomen goes neutral to good, and since he starts out as neutral and the quest choices are "be selfless and lawful good" and "be selfish and break the law", I'd really like him to be "corruptable".
Corrupting Aerie would be a pretty big stretch, even if she was a vampire and "forced" to feed somehow, I can't really see her character work. It would become a completely different character and that's unneccessary. Viconia already acts quite neutral before the alignment shift, no big stretch. Anomen already has certain character traits that are associated with evil (arrogance, pride). They have something to work with and still stay themselves with a new alignment. Aerie, in my opinion, doesn't. And there are enough vampires as it is. An exotic species doesn't instantly make a character cooler. I would prefer a corruptable, human Anomen (still with the option to become good, based on the quest choice).
Yeah... I was jokin
I've never watched the movies or read the books, but I am aware of the existence of the franchise.
But I think Nalia falling could have all the classic elements. Being forced to take measures to deal with her rivals, trying to cover up the guilt, the descent into paranoia...
But when Sarevok went from one end to the other, does that make sense to you? It just isn't that much of a stretch to see a good person fall to the ultimate depths of evil. Not saying that is what she would need to do. But that it isn't a stretch to have a character deal with those issues.
Corruption is all Aerie deserves after princess-syndrome-ing CHARNAME into making her babies
Rasaad would have been an interesting corruptible options, with the temple of shar thing and his moral dilemmas in BG2EE. Would have been cool to make him change to a Dark Moon Monk if corrupted (cool mod material)
For original characters, I think Imoen post-Spellhold would have been a feasible "downfall" after becoming the Slayer or something.
Nalia in Throne of Bhaal could have been one of those "ends justify the means" over-zealous villains.
Valygar also has some similar possibilities with his backstory, and can also be a "ends justify the means" type of villain when it comes to magic. This character, in my opinion, could use some additional content more than pretty much anyone else.
The ones I can't really see changing? I have serious doubts about Mazzy being corruptible, and the same with Keldorn and Jaheira (too experienced and set in their ways to be susceptible to change). I tend to agree that Aerie is portrayed as too kind-hearted to go all Vader, and her background kind of makes it hard to view her as capable of inflicting cruelty on anyone else.
Korgan is Korgan... the only realistic redemption for him is going from chaotic evil-->neutral evil. To be honest, he gets along with good characters (like LG keldorn the paladin!) better than most evil NPCs, which I find kind of cool. Dorn is evil as evil gets, and Hexxat, from what I've seen, has her own alignment issues that don't lend well to changing perspectives (haven't finished playing with her yet, so I dunno if I'm missing a big part of her development).
It would also be bizarre to see the sillier comic relief characters (Edwin, Minsc, Jan) have major corruptible/redeemable paths. Butt-kicking for Evil?
Who am I forgetting? Can't see it for Neera or Haer-Dalis, and I really don't know about Cernd to say (though he's a shitty dad)