Only Gamon can save us!
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If I had to take a personal stab at it, I particularly like villains who are dead set on protecting their family/friends/town/etc and genuinely believe they’re doing the right thing by going about it the way they are.
Especially if they don’t realize they’re the ones causing the suffering for everyone else and the very family they swore to protect.
It’s an old trope, but a good one that I like because it happens more than people would like in reality, particularly in smaller scales like parents with their children.
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Genichiro Ashina.
I mention him a lot in these discussions because I adore him and his arc, but he absolutely fits that overall description. Ruthless and driven to a self-destructive quest to protect the land that accepted and nurtured him, but so blinded by his own desperation that he ultimately fails to stop it from burning down around him.
Gamon for Warchief! Or at least Tauren council member, because after doing the Vulpera recruitment scenario, Baine needs to be retired. What a disgraceful character.
Your comment made me look up the scenario (I dipped a week before Vulpera/Mechagnomes became ARs) and all I can say is the Peon scene where you issue fake promotions and act as a union buster to keep the workers in line has a bit of a darker edge now with all the “How much it sucks to be a Blizzard employee” things coming out, lol.
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True enough there. Though for me it was more the fact for the whole chain, Baine’s wringing his hands and acting shocked at solutions coming about of problems he was composing STERNLY WORDED LETTERS for.
Also putting Nomi in charge of Arcwine production and, obviously, the wine press is suddenly ON FIRE.
But there’s also the fact the Nightborne are still making Arcwine. Which, if I recall correctly, was basically bottled Nightwell energy. But the Nightwell is supposed to be deactivated.
Supposed to be.
It’s actually not bottled Nightwell energy per se, though the nightwell’s energies might have influenced the ingredients it uses. It just uses ingredients that have been infused or changed by arcane energy, be it from the nightwell or just the surrounding area, and uses time magic to speed the distilling process up.
I mean, come on man, did you not jump in the barrel and step on the grapes enough to know? 