Except as I snipped from their doc, it's not brainwashing. I'll snip it again. "They strip out everything good and compassionate and empathetic in a person" that's not brainwashing. That's just removing the good in you. Which is already lacking in Savarra anyway.p
...yeah, thats 100% brainwashing. Stripping away part of what makes a person themselves is definitely brainwashing.
And it doesn't just "strip" stuff away...it also significantly affects your need and want for sex to the exclusion of most other things.
I think it's less suspension of disbelief in the case of the nursery and more "no one's going to have 200+ kids right? And if they did, they'd probably fund said nursery right?" The donations are there to "expand it" but they didn't want to force you to by saying something like "20 of your children are nestled in the daycare, while 180 are outside in the cold. Maybe you should consider donating some money to Gwyn so the nursery can be expanded?"
You're saying the same thing I'm saying. Some details, while logical extensions of things described in game, simply don't actually happen. This is true for all fiction, and it works just as well here as anywhere else.
At every point in human history there has been slavery, yes. But there has also always been abolitionists as well. Aristotle even records that some Greeks considered slavery "contrary to nature." Do we see abolitionists in Savarra? No?
...why would we see abolitionists in Savarra? Have we asked Ryn about her view on slaves? Garth? The horse village?
We've been to like....two major population centers, and a few small villages and camps. The idea that we'd get someone randomly espousing their views on a widespread societal norm is kinda wild.
Plenty of fictional works had slaves in them without comment on the practice. This is far from the first. Not sure why this specific one should have to remind us that slavery is a Very Bad Thing.
Uncertain as we don't know what is true or not with Kas. If we take it at face-value, redeemed or not if Kas gets to have kids then they will probably be cared for. If redeemed, no doubt. Motherhood is her driving goal, after all.
She cares about HER theoretical kids. A very small portion of the children in the world.
The idea that that will somehow extend to all kids everywhere getting cared for is a stretch.
When Mommy and Daddy turn into lustful sex demons, are they taking time out for fucking and sucking to be good parents? If you're worried about what may happen to the kids in the temple, what happens to kids when every adult they know is like the Painted Demons running around?
It's not justified, it's just they're no better than her morally. What matters is that she didn't open a portal to nowhere, allowing Wraiths in. She opened the portal with a destination in mind.
But those people aren't here. That was a specific group of people who are all dead now. Their morals are irrelevant.
Fiction is fiction and at the mercy of the writer. However, most often when you find something reprehensible in history (even if it's commonplace) you will find groups condemning it.
Maybe? That doesn't mean we're going to run into the one person that has forward thinking ideas on societal ills.
Should we also run into people that are against feudalism? Sexism? Racism? Etc, in every fantasy story that has those things? Seems tedious and, quite frankly, boring.
