To clarify, we can play as things other than villains.
But that is ice skating up hill in this game.
Look at the systems in place.
Taking Thralls, the entire murder for power Religion system, Sorcery, Looting communities, embracing your Corruption to become something more and less than human.
Who hasn’t played the role of movie Thulsa Doom in the Mounds of the dead?
One can avoid the Thrall, Religion, and Sorcery systems.
One can loot only from ruins and monsters.
But that’s a deliberate self imposed handicap.
There is great freedom in this game to choose your own approach (whether it wins in PvP or not let’s leave aside), but the structure in the systems, the journey steps, impels you towards atrocity.
The cages on Siptah were grand.
This one long hoped they would come to the Exiled Lands. This one isn’t as pleased with the way they have arrived (Purge only, where we must bait Stygians to throw waves of conscripted slaves at us?).
The tavern system shows promise. Rather than buying people from the slave trader at the pirate shanty, we actually have the option to hire them.
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