I know that we only have his actions to go off, but my point was that its hard to imagine him being possessed by a demon when he's inclined to help people and avoid harm and there being no signs of any kind of internal struggle over it. And I am familiar with 40k but this is really making huge leaps that this is all might be some sort of part of a grand plan by a demon to do something nefarious by doing good deeds, just apply Occam's Razor to this and you see it doesn't seem plausible.
It's not about whether someone is "meant for breeding" but more whether they are "capable" of doing it, and the vast majority in the dragon's harem are, all kobolds are the spawn of his. This is something that Issa can't do, so maybe his hatred from kobolds stems partially from that.
No, I don't think you get it. The people in-story do not write the story, the developer/writer does. We are the ones reading it. The people in the story are irrelevant when we come to ask, why did you create a world like this, what setup for, what purpose does this setting facilitate? The tropes are tools, used to achieve a goal, nothing more. Characters as they are could have been written in an innumerable amount of different ways and the objective of this line of questioning is asking yourself why did it land on specifically this outcome.
EDIT: To clarify, I mean in the sense the apocalypse is objectively a *thing* because we can see it has effects on the world, I don't mean it in the sense of it actually ending it. You can change your point of view to that the apocalypse is start of something new or whatever, but I don't mean that, I mean what does this all lead to, what can you "get" out of the world being constructed in this kind of light. So far, I haven't seen anything good.
Artists can do all they want, but it does not make their art good. Freedom of the artist is not directly proportional to the work's quality, but rather it simply enables the artist to do certain things that they otherwise might have not been able to. Sometimes, it leads to incredible works of art, and sometimes it leads to complete garbage, that is what it means to be free. I don't think something like that makes sense to be celebrated in the sense of being universally good, you will simply end up with a bunch of "le random" works that are bizarre but pointless and meaningless. What happened to Marie-Anne is just gross and uncalled for, sometimes you have to take a step back and reconsider what you're doing. There's a reason why the Star Wars prequels were generally considered poorly written compared to the original trilogy, it's because in the original you had people who would come and say "no" to George Lucas's poor ideas while the prequel was just him completely unfiltered which led into it being less cohesive. I want to enjoy Ravager but it's sometimes hard to when you have to deal with content you despise, that would just be better saved for its own game made for its own crowd rather than this kind of wide appeal that is frustrating at times.
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