Mind Blown~Kresselack the Black Wolf and his "afterlife"
Grum
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When trudging through the Vale of Shadows I saw something strange. A Temple Guardian said "Intruders! We are under attack! To arms, bretheren, to arms!"
What does this mean? It means that all of the undead you face in the tomb...they are sentient. This isn't like Pressio who speaks through an undead shell. This is one henchman talking to the henchman around him.
The implications of this?
(1) Kresselack was not doomed to a life of lonliness, surrounded by vacant shells. Instead, there is an immortal community around him.
(2) He created the tomb with all of his most loyal soldiers and servants from life. This means that they, because of his decisions, are forever doomed to 'live' in that tomb. The fact that he saws "to arms!" means that they many of the assorted undead likely had to go and grab their weapons. Further showing that they don't just wait around all day doing nothing but waiting for adventurers to come through.
(3) Even if you destroy everyone and everything, when you rest more skeletons will keep spawning. This means that even after going through the areas, those who are cursed will continue to be cursed to their unending existence.
The first dozen or so times I went through the area, I always thought that there was just Kresselack and 2 named priests stuck together for eternity. Now that I saw this, I realize that his fate his less grim, but far more people are damned besides him.
And why do I say mind blown? Because I am blown away by the fact that after years of playing this game, little details like this continue to pop up.
What does this mean? It means that all of the undead you face in the tomb...they are sentient. This isn't like Pressio who speaks through an undead shell. This is one henchman talking to the henchman around him.
The implications of this?
(1) Kresselack was not doomed to a life of lonliness, surrounded by vacant shells. Instead, there is an immortal community around him.
(2) He created the tomb with all of his most loyal soldiers and servants from life. This means that they, because of his decisions, are forever doomed to 'live' in that tomb. The fact that he saws "to arms!" means that they many of the assorted undead likely had to go and grab their weapons. Further showing that they don't just wait around all day doing nothing but waiting for adventurers to come through.
(3) Even if you destroy everyone and everything, when you rest more skeletons will keep spawning. This means that even after going through the areas, those who are cursed will continue to be cursed to their unending existence.
The first dozen or so times I went through the area, I always thought that there was just Kresselack and 2 named priests stuck together for eternity. Now that I saw this, I realize that his fate his less grim, but far more people are damned besides him.
And why do I say mind blown? Because I am blown away by the fact that after years of playing this game, little details like this continue to pop up.
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I also feel bad for all the souls you seemingly destroy in the Vale, only to find out they weren't actually evil, but prisoners of Lysan's incantations.
So maybe when you destroy an undead, you are actually releasing it from that endless cycle of suffering, and perhaps also from involuntary servitude to the necromancer who created it. So, it might actually be a mercy that frees them to go to their afterlife. That's another, more pleasant way to think about it, to me.
"This sarcophagus is open and empty. The lid has been carefully placed against the nearby wall."
"This sarcophagus is open and empty. The lid has been carelessly thrown aside and lies shattered on the floor nearby."