IIRC it's not that the vendors were dtf, but the places in question are uninspiring and boring when it comes to fleshing out the world. Least I think that's what TOBS said. Though I don't think anybody on this dev team should try and give lessons about world-building when they're using the most cookie-cutter High Fantasy setting with characters and locations as flat as a board.
I think that just means Tobs can't write a decent shopkeep
Well, Business owners and their customers usually talk a lot with each other, so...I think that just means Tobs can't write a decent shopkeep
Also I don't think people should get world building advice from the main writer of the weeb donut steel race. Makes me miss the Kitsune from the original CoC, just a bunch of devious tricksters and seductresses that will show you a good time.
Valkyries are a race in the frost area, Nareva is another goddess and gets her own "deal" thing, where the player character gives her their soul & gets transformed (like the Kitsune thing).
And even when you have something (frigid vagina e.g.) it doesn't matter, it has not only no impact on scenes whatsoever, but it's not even acknowledge by the NPCs.
The main problem is that wyld elves can have any of a billion traits from various different animals. If wyld elves had only a few specific non-human characteristics (e.g. just hooves and antlers, like Lorwyn elves), then they would have a clearer spot among the other races.
I suspect it might have to do with the wiki: each transormative lists what body parts it affects, but doesn’t give any details (e.g. I don’t think the wiki says a feline cock has barbs), so it’s hard to know exactly what a transformation does unless you’ve tried it out yourself in-game. Frigid vagina is a boreal elf trait, I presume? I vaguely remember some mention of it in either Hethia or Daliza scenes (don’t think Elthara has any references to it), but I didn’t know the PC could get it too.
You make very good points and I mostly with your post however Gweyr doesn't feel any remorse for the child murder, that itself wouldn't be a problem however when she returns to town. She stays in a nursery full of children. Mainly my children in there. I don't uncomfortable with a literal child murderer being around children, especially my own.
I wanna add to that it is not just a random occurrence that the player usually doesn't get to do that, and story wise it's said that it is really frowned upon in the world where the sequel plays out, so I think that point is actually invalid. Just because it was a thing in the first game it doesn't mean it fits in the second automatically.
It's less about how bad it is morally/emotionally moreso than it just being bad as in it doesn't fit the tone of the game in the slightest and is just there to be edgy. TOBS could have just made them adults instead of kids and things would work exactly the same but no, need muh edge.
Who the fuck even are these people and why is there a fat Mother Gothel in the middle?
