#and hiravias. and durance. and sagani. and my buddy kana. and devil. and maneha. AND—- (i get taken out back and shot)

[a-drama-addict]

pillars is so heavily on the mind i miss my pal pallegina

[frankensteined]

asdfghjklsGHJKLSHDJWZ they. actually give you an ending slide about carrying vela around into all this danger. they really did that. i'm...so.......happy....😭

and, with that, my first, proper playthrough of PoE has ended!

companion-wise, the endings i got were:

edér: went on to become the mayor of dyrford, which is...sure a choice. (headcanoning that veera let him keep like half her pets for company)

aloth: left to dismantle the leaden key, on a "long and lonely path" (buddy why. you literally could have had help.)

pallegina: was banished, then joined the kind wayfarers (and i did her quest so long ago that i'd forgotten what the outcome was, so that was interesting!)

hiravias: went with wael, wandered the world as a wise old druid who gives food and weird answers to lost travelers. also, finally took a bath. veera is very proud of him.

kana: returned home but wasn't able to prove his theories to the folks back home. his passion drew a lot of people to him, though, and he was influential in encouraging a "collaborative approach" at the northern expansion. also he remained a really friendly guy who people could share a drink and a song with :')

sagani: returned home and reconnected with her family, retiring and focusing on them (her ending slide says that she had five generations of her family members around her by the time she passes!)

grieving mother: becomes a midwife in dyrford (which is really nice when you consider all the babies that get to be born with their souls intact now)

durance: idk just became a penniless hermit who was planning on killing magran? good luck with that, buddy

maneha: returned home to her family, her parents were really happy to see her, and began a new life (she didn't forget her past stuff) also her and pallegina held hands in my heart

zahua: i couldn't do his quest because of the bug that wouldn't let me travel to where it was 🙃🙃 so he made peace with what was lost and began anew elsewhere, but he did teach others what he could remember, so it wasn't a bad ending

devil of caroc: sheesh, she wandered around trying to feel new things again, but couldn't, and eventually she let herself sink into the ocean?? bleak.

and that's that! up next (starting tomorrow): deadfire!!

[secretsfromwholecloth]

Pillars of Eternity, day 6.

Well, I was going to give Hiravias some attention, now that I’m on my way to his homeland, but sending him to free slaves is more important, so five days of running around picking up bounties and exploring the Endless Paths it is.

Really, Od Nua, like you’re the only one who ever had to bury a child. Some ego on you.

I will not be fighting the adra dragon with a level 11 party. That would not go very well.

OK, got the little guy back. Is it time to drop Aloth? I think it’s time to drop Aloth. We���ll come back for you later. Maybe. We’ll see. You are very useful in the endgame.

Sikkerneq now has four points in Honest, the first disposition she’s maxed out. I was hoping for more points in Rational and Stoic (currently 2 and 1, respectively), but apparently I’m too prone to niceness in games to make that work unless I plan it from the beginning and exercise truly heroic discipline.

Whoo, another political assassination! Apparently this is SIkkerneq’s life now.

Ah, the joys of running a character who can easily get to Intelligence 19. Enjoy your poison, Simoc.

Really? Even poisoned, he outlasts all of his warriors in the ensuing fight?

And Sagani’s quest is done. Sikkerneq is staying well back, she doesn’t want to get in the way and mess this up. And how important are her own feelings about the pointlessness of the whole exercise here, so far from home for both of them?

Huh, I thought I’d nudged Sagani towards family, but I told her to trust her instincts and she told Persoq about his accomplishments as a village elder. Good for her, she’ll make a good leader.

Dragon. That’s a dragon. As little as Sikkerneq is here to assassinate political leaders, she’s really not here to fight dragons. You know what, dragon, you can stay, she’ll explain this to Hylea somehow.

...shut the entire fuck up, Hiravias, we’re trying to not get eaten here.

So much for stealthing my way through Noonfrost. Time for more murder, I guess.

Finally got that upgrade on the arbalest. WHOOOOOOOO. Merely doing 700 damage to get the next level should go much more smoothly.

Hiravias’ quest is done. And Scâthden is now dead, because he insisted on being a dick.

I would’ve settled for a lock of hair or a tooth or something, but if ripping off his jaw is what does it for you, Hiravias, don’t let me stop you.

Raedric, you’d be better able to get away with being so extra if you were competent and/or reasonable. Honestly now. Stay dead this time!

Well, Durance’s quest is done. It’ll be nice to retire him for a while again.

Killing Magran and Woedica? On your own? You, uh, have fun with that, buddy. We’ll be over here. Well outside the blast radius.

Now that I’ve banged out the gods’ quests, I’ve got a decision to make. The obvious, logical choice for someone coming in cold with no investment in any of the sides is probably Hylea; the problem is that the souls were taken from the Hollowborn, so we give them back their souls and everything is fine, right? I haven’t done Rymrgand yet, but I won’t. I have limits. Galawain seems like a viable choice as well; my headcanons mean that Sikkerneq has reasons to throw her lot in with Magran, who’s siding with Galawain here, and of course I have out-of-character knowledge that it’d spare Pallegina a rough ending, but our girl is also a little disillusioned with Magran’s worshipers right now (and just trolled Durance into swearing to kill his own goddess, though I don’t know how sincere she was being).

Well, I’ve got some time to think about it—now that I’ve mopped up in Twin Elms and bagged a few more bounties (including getting that shiny, shiny arquebus off Captain Muārumi—you’re welcome, Kana), it’s White March time.

Hello, Zahua. What, and Sikkerneq cannot stress this enough, the entire actual fuck.

Hello, Maneha. You’re a little scary. And hot, in a “cool old lady” kind of way. Feel free to keep running around in that outfit.

Matron Beregan has been befriended. Whew, that got a little hairy there for a bit.

For the first time in any of my playthroughs, Suldrun has been successfully restored and sent home. Score one for the wiki.

Nothing personal, adra dragon, but you understand why I couldn’t let you live. (Since I had to take care of stuff at Caed Nua anyway...)

Oh, Kana, you really like Maneha, huh? I, uh, don’t think you’re quite her type. (Though maybe she would take to that sister of yours.)

Aww, baby lagufaeth. I don’t see any provision for tiny hugs, though. A terrible oversight.

Ooh, another Rauataian with a surname (Yuraska Rona, in the backstory of the Belt of the Royal Deadfire Cannoneer). My headcanons still hold, though.

Sikkerneq offered to help you, alpine dragon. You want to be a dick and attack her, you deserve what you get. Which is dead. Very dead.

Next up, grabbing Devil of Caroc and sniffing around Durgan’s Battery.