Lore Intro to NWN2 Mask of the Betrayer (and some Realmslore for Baldur's Gate 3 too!)

[@jorggovazquez]

Dude! Thank you SO MUCH for taking the time to upload it! I really appreciate it!

[@Bottomless_Inventory]

My pleasure! I hope it helps. Enjoy Mask of the Betrayer! I'm so jealous you get to play it for the first time!

[@HateMachinist]

Good vid. The way i interpreted Myrkul and the doctrines he gave his priests, there were never a full nor genuine evil to it. They could never lie, cheat or steal, their lives belonged to him and not themselves -selfishness was severely punished etc. The judgements myrkul gave mortals were often eye-for-an-eye leveled cynisism or carried a callous sense of necessity to them. All in all, this made for a far more interesting villain, as opposed to base selfishness and ambition other sources of written lore would later describe him.

[@Bottomless_Inventory]

Well, Myrkul is no eviler than the next god if you think about it. None of them, not even The Triad, opposed the Wall of the Faithless or took any actions against it. Illmater, if I recall correctly, would not punish any actions against it while Mystra did oppose it for a while. But in the end, The Wall became a crucial part of the compact between the gods and the mortals and a fact of life. Of course, Myrkul created the Wall way before that so that he would be feared forever, as fear is also a form of worship, but the gods were all kind of evil. Before the Time of Troubles, they apparently did not care that much about mortals when they did not need them. Later on, they forced mortals to worship. Not giving mortals a choice--because being False, Faithless, or striking a deal with devils is not really a choice--is basically treating them as a resource. Gale actually talks about it in Baldur's Gate 3: he thinks mortals are expendable to gods. Only some gods delude themselves into thinking they care about them.

[@zyrkugilgamesh]

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[@Bottomless_Inventory]

OldTube vibe!