u/Cove_Holdens_Love

I went back to what I thought was my lovely, settled save with a zoi who had started hard with rags to riches but now had a lovely home, a thriving business and a (supposedly) loving husband - they just got married and had never had any issues. I was looking at his wants after I had everything settled for the day and saw he wants a divorce? Cause they have been arguing?! The only thing I can think of is before she left for work she serenaded him and he did not like it. And that is enough reason to leave your newlywedded wife? I am just going to ignore it, it's gone now anyway. I like drama sometimes but that seems a bit extreme. Do you ignore these or go with them?

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I couldn't find quite what my brain finds helpful for this (there is the lovely Coral Guide and I've seen some other helpful and pretty graphics as well) where I had a list to show everything at once so I wasn't going back and forth looking at individual items for the details so I typed one up myself based on the Wiki. I just thought I would share here in case anyone else found it helpful. I just did the Fish and Insects for the Catch Altar as I found the Ocean Critters one I naturally got just from clearing the trash but it was the others in my first play that I found myself waiting seasons for as I had missed when they were available which I wanted to avoid when playing through again.

If you notice anything amiss, please do let me know.

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But it was so impactful, I didn't bring along all the companions but seeing the dark paths for the ones I did really gave insight into their characters, actually stuck with the Emperor for the first time - and actually felt bad about betraying him despite everything. Some moments were heartbreaking, especially at the end. I ascended Astarion in the hopes they could have a somewhat happy ending if it it was temporary but being embrace I could only tell him to run. I have to go play a much nicer tav/durge now to try to get over it but what a journey, am glad I did it once.

If only he knew...

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It's like the netherbrain was calling us out but durge was happy with his.

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He was so happy, evilly happy but still.

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Even knowing he had encouraged this, the control & destruction he wanted my heart still broke cause I realised what was coming.

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Just some screenshots I have taken along the way on my first (and possibly only) durge embrace. I figured I would be too soft to do a large amount of evil in acts 1 & 2 so was roleplaying that they were mostly chaotic neutral with a side of evil due to the memory loss etc and the events would lead them to embracing. Turns out that happened more and faster than I expected and ended up letting last light fall and since it was down encouraged shadowheart to kill the nightsong too. I had already lifted the curse though so it was funny to see them all walk out smiling about the pretty trees considering. And Halsin was very conflicted - angry about last light and telling durge to do better then saying he had exceeded expectations. Its actually been interesting to see some different content - though I doubt I will ever go full evil and take down the grove etc.

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Saved Sazza!

Twinning with my guardian.

The lighting here just made me laugh.

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My core party.

Trying to fix the graphics after the update - updated my drivers and was fixing all the graphics settings and finally everything was looking better when I glanced at the portrait and got an actual fright. It was normal when I started, not sure what changed did this - the portrait quality is on high.... any suggestions?

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I kept having an issue with a household I was trying to add to the gallery where the area where it tells you which packs are used just had a spinning circle. It would let me click to share and little cloud icon would go green but would never actually go on and when I would come back it would be grey again and unshared with the circle still spinning. I tried adding a single item from a pack and then it worked no issue - assuming because it had identified a pack so could stop trying to find one. Has this happened to anyone else?

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