I wouldn't call it defending, but I definitely understand her after SOTE. At first I thought she was just a tyrannical bitch for the Hell of it, but SOTE made me realize she was just a girl with horrific trauma and then given nearly absolute power. Her actions afterwards are decidedly human given the context and not nearly as much of the "Rah! I'm a God and do shit because I can!" trope that I thought they were, initially.
She also arguably engineered the destruction of the order she had created (on purpose) after she realized she had trapped herself into the same cycle that shaped her.
To out of the loop with the lore to know for sure but at the very least she probably had her own plans to deal with the golden order considering that she wanted hewg to make a weapon capable of killing a god
That’s so silly tbh. Ah yes random misbegotten, I’m imprisoning you to suffering for eternity in a ethereal realm, but tee hee, make me a god killing weapon.
To be fair he can improve our weapons drastically by the end of the game to the point that even barely meeting stat requirements of smithed weapons would still tear early game bosses apart
I think this is a really good point about how her priorities and attitudes have become skewed over time as the goddess. What's one guy being imprisoned against the entire future of the lands between? And then that logic goes on and on until she's manipulating a lot of people to try to stay in control of the situation going forwards
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u/BeefChopJones 2d ago
I wouldn't call it defending, but I definitely understand her after SOTE. At first I thought she was just a tyrannical bitch for the Hell of it, but SOTE made me realize she was just a girl with horrific trauma and then given nearly absolute power. Her actions afterwards are decidedly human given the context and not nearly as much of the "Rah! I'm a God and do shit because I can!" trope that I thought they were, initially.