#this post is dedicated to scroongletoongle (i love your username) thanks o7

[ghostcond]

the thing about ivan soulsinger is that during the quests where you find out that he is kidnapping the drakes, it seems to imply that he is not himself in a way. his only dialogue implies possession of some sort as he says things like "the flesh is weak" and mentions taking residence in your body. whoever or whatever is talking to you isn't the real ivan, and the real ivan might be trapped in another body somewhere since he also taunts you by saying he'll come visit you once he's taken your body. to me, this implied that you'd swap places, and you'd be stuck in ivan's body while whoever the possessor is would take yours. what would he even intend to do once he had your body and those drakes? what did he intend to do with the drakes in the first place?? and this conflict never gets resolved. upon defeat, ivan doesn't say anything. you never find out where the real ivan is or what happens to whatever is possessing him, and the real ivan's relationship with the drakes is now tarnished by this thing acting as him. if the possesor was defeated, would ivan have gotten his body back? what would happen to him afterwards, as the one of the only other living people in dragonspyre and presumably a Student? would he be able to repair his relationship with drakes after what the possessor did to them in his body? there might be a kind boy who was just befriending drakes out there, waking up to a literal ghost town years after the fact. if he even survived the impromptu exorcism. if he even got his body back after all that. and you just never get a definite answer to any of that

sorry if this is kinda lame to read. erm i just think he's kinda neat and i am gonna stare at him for a really long time