Rezin

With the big picture all fuzzy, you find yourself identifying with your small group of companions Not me. Sevelin, despite his armor and muscles, is still at heart a little kid whose lunch money got stolen. I fought his battle for him anyway. It would have been better for him if he'd fought it himself. I fought for a reason Redbeard gave me. Sometimes stability (of my team) is more important than justice. The shamaness wants to have her cake and eat it too, between her people and Avadon. But I helped her. Nathalie is a psychotic danger to herself and everyone around her, but boy can she burn stuff up. Shima takes himself far too seriously and is mostly a bore. But it was the backstory of his personal quest that finally turned me away from Avadon. The coherent theme that finally does tie Avadon tightly together is the question of whether to believe in Redbeard as the all-seeing general that the player is not, or to conclude instead that the worm's eye view of your small group of Hands is ultimately more valid than his perspective. Obviously Redbeard is anything but all-seeing. He cultivated that image though, and died by it, beholden to it. Even if one supports Avadon, Redbeard himself is unfit. The simple proof of this, by his own terms, is all that everyone else got away with. That Redbeard did not resign after finding out Miranda betrayed him shows that he doesn't even himself believe the vision he evangelizes -- or is a vain coward, despite all his power.

I agree 100%. Hats off to Jeff.

I don't know if this is a bug or not, but the Crystalline Shroud can be enhanced. I used a Golden Crystal on it, and it now gives me something like +20% hostile effect resistance.

Sometimes. In the past I've hex-edited my skill points up. Currently, I've managed to *misplace* the book "Meeting the Sholai", and so am trying to hex-edit it back, and am making a list of all of the items in the game. Has anyone seen in the game a "Puresteel Soulblade" or "Gazer Skin Boots?"? Where can they be found legitimately?