![]() ![]() The captain has come here to be sacrificed, so that Kian may escape. And since this is dark magic, it requires a life to power the spell. ![]() Our unequal pair has finally reached the roof when the Captain reveals the great catch of this escape: There is only one way out of there, a magic portal. ![]() But the game moves on and fate is not yet done with Kian. I would have changed the scene for the Kian who refused the mercy killing earlier into him calmly walking by, throwing Murron a look of contempt probably deserved for collaborating with the Azadi. Especially since, in my eyes, Murron hasn't done anything to earn such animosity from Kian. A man who stood by his oath against the pleading of a dying man certainly would not jeopardize it by killing another man in cold blood just minutes later. This is where the plot failed for me a bit. It will not be easy to keep this man on the straight and narrow. I was able to prevent him, but apparently Kian has a savage side I was not aware of before. At which point Kian almost kills him out of frustration. Kind of an empty threat for a man sworn to never again take a life, but Kian is physically imposing enough to pull it off and Murron relents. In the end Kian got him to back down by mentioning that Murron's children will grow up fatherless if he forced Kian to kill him with further recalcitrance. Murron again proved his mettle by being unmoved by all threats to his person. Then we almost made it to the roof of the prison, only a locked door and warden Murron with the key in our way. ![]() This feels like a decision that will come back to bite me. I made him stay true to his word and refuse to kill the prisoner, but promised to inform his family of his ending. Is that allowed?) and that he can't throw that away, too. So what's it going to be, empathy or principles? It seems like there is nothing the fates like more than make people break their oaths, but I decided that his principles and his faith are all Kian has after loosing both his religion and his people (Quick aside: I'm making a distinction between faith and religion here, religion being the organized movement of the Azadi in the name of the goddess, and faith the belief in the existence of the goddess and acceptance of Her ethics. Kian is not sure if he wants to take on this new lease on life, but decides to roll with the punches for now.Īn escape is hardly the place for ethic dilemmas, nevertheless we manage to stumble across two of those: First we find a mortally wounded prisoner who begs for death before the guards come and torture him to death, but when Kian lay down his sword, he promised to never again take a life. Also, the rebel Leadership believes they can use Kian to bring down the Azadi Tower in Marcuria, but the Captain is unsure how. His joining the rebellion would be a powerful symbol, him having been an Apostle of the Azadi faith. Apparently the rebellion has urgent need of Kian. The reason becomes clear when the Captain, a known rebel, busts Kian out of his cell. Murron leaves, a bit of time goes by and suddenly the whole prison riots. he has pride enough to ask for a death by sword, but otherwise just wants to die in peace. Such a thing can mess a man up for sure, and death seems Kian a good way out of of this maze of conflicting loyalties. He turned against both his people and his religion, and did it for his faith. But he's not a bad man, and I believe the strength of his belief in his principles and his strive for empathy as much as possible to be admirable. He is a man who worships order above all else, and so it's not surprising that neither the oppressive occupiers nor the disruptive rebels find him to their liking. also, he is not without heart and he has spine enough to stand up to the Azadi and point out their flagrant violations of their own laws. His first loyalty is to procedure and to his function, but in this role he is a man with principles. The characters in the game clearly dislike him and probably the game wants me to dislike him as well, but I don't. He is obviously very distraught by this breach of law, but there is nothing he can do: The Azadi would simply kill him too, if he refused to, ahem, execute his orders. Warden Murron arrives with the news that Kian will not be shipped to Zadir for Trial, he will be executed in the morning instead. ![]()
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