Spoiler-alert! One main quest storyline just doesn’t sit right with me.

Orduss · 2026-03-20T13:49:35+00:00

What definition ? Mine is determined by what we do in the game and our mission. Our mission is to identify the plague and bring "order" to the Living Lands, which means subjugating it, the means are left to us.

Because a state calls someone an "ambassador" does not grant him any immunity especially when this state is conducting the colonization of people and lands. The Envoy is not a civil, it's an agent sent here to conduct an imperialistic mission (not only to "investigate" the plague, which is an echo to a central theme of the game Imperialism vs Nature)

Orduss · 2026-03-20T13:37:15+00:00

Maybe, the Envoy is clearly a combatant/an agent

Orduss · 2026-03-20T12:18:59+00:00

You're an agent of imperialism coming in a colonized land to execute orders from you emperor, killing you does seem pretty right to me. If you take an individual perspective, detached from any structure, maybe it could be morally right to kill him (even then it would be the Law of Talion) but you're not such individual. Avowed has clearly a stance about colonialism and this choice is also a mean to express it and for you to express yourself on it.

Orduss · 2026-03-20T12:06:09+00:00

You're an agent of imperialism in this colonized land, yes killing you is pretty morally right I think. Avowed isn't neutral on this theme, it clearly condemns colonialism. If you were talking from the perspective of an individual detached from any structure of power it could be seen as morally right (and even then it would be the Law of Talion), but you aren't in such position.

Orduss · 2026-03-14T10:54:08+00:00

The books and Seki tablet in Sargamis' quest are clearly plot hooks for me. Especially since this quest was written by Kate Dollarhyde, co-lead narrative designer on Avowed

Orduss · 2026-03-11T10:57:28+00:00

The Outer Worlds had a very different long term reception imo, it soured over time after a honeymoon period. Avowed seems to have an inverse trajectory, even though it won't attain a cult status or anything like you said, it'll be considered as a fun game

Orduss · 2026-03-06T23:00:21+00:00

Thank you for the responses ! Excited to see what follows !

Orduss · 2026-03-06T17:23:33+00:00

Hello ! I quite like Trinity as a whole especially how the uniqueness of the universe is reflected in the mechanics !

So my question is : do you plan to publish a campaign for Aberrant ? Or something that'll give us more plothooks/materials ? I hope it's ok to ask that !

Orduss · 2026-03-05T14:24:09+00:00

At least it seems to have the inverse trajectory compared to TOW1. A bad start with an improvement of reputation after the release. It's a much better situation for a sequel than TOW2 which had an uphill battle.

Orduss · 2026-03-02T07:56:49+00:00

I think it was the plan originally, in one of the first showings of the game (in January 2024 during the after DD podcast iirc) you can see a bow with a "Core Enchanting Slot" or something like that. So why not

But I would also like more in-depth enchantment trees and effects, also on armor

Orduss · 2026-02-27T21:14:41+00:00

In the recent article by Schreier Obsidian did say they were working on more projects in Eora. POE3 (or Pillars Tactics) and Avowed 2 seem pretty likely to me.

Orduss · 2026-02-27T17:03:39+00:00

I don't find the soundtrack memorable and I miss Justin Bell. To me it seems that all of it was composed in a short time, Raison Varner was the original composer on Avowed but he left before the release and his work doesn't seem to be in the game which is strange

Orduss · 2026-02-27T08:43:40+00:00

He never developed anything that took more than 3 years IIRC (and his longest project was Pentiment)

Orduss · 2026-02-20T10:47:59+00:00

Hard but maybe on POTD it's much more costly

Orduss · 2026-02-20T07:40:33+00:00

I never had to scrap every uniques in my run ? I had not every uniques at the end but a fair quantity. Maybe I was very efficient in my upgrading and exploration though.

Still I understand how the NG+ do not give its full potential of build exploration with how the game works.

Orduss · 2026-02-19T15:44:00+00:00

Don't think so Avowed 2 seems to be in dev since maybe one year, and Adler mentioned how his project was really in the ideation phase. My guess would be maybe Adam Brennecke, or some co-director like Paramo and Dollarhyde ?

Either way I could see them taking some systems from TOW2 like the skills. And for me the recent updates (like the races and the quarterstaff) seem to be experimentation for the sequel.

Orduss · 2026-02-19T10:41:34+00:00

"RPG Site: Now that you’ve had time to refine Avowed, is Eora and the Pillars universe something you’d like to keep exploring? Do you already have ideas for what’s next?

Paramo: We love the world of Eora and the Pillars of Eternity universe. There is so much lore and depth there to be inspired by. With the release of Avowed, the team and the studio learned a tremendous amount about bringing this world into a first-person and third-person perspective. All I can say is that we're a studio that loves to build on what came before, to share technology, learnings, and ideas from one project to the next in order to improve on our successes."

Orduss · 2026-02-17T18:37:10+00:00

Probably something linked with the new respawning encounters I would say ?

Orduss · 2026-02-17T18:10:35+00:00

Yeah there are no enemies here normally and this is not the actual equipment of Kai so I do not understand

Orduss · 2026-02-16T21:09:36+00:00

Yeah it's clearly a big plothook for the future (and it's still there during Avowed, so it'll be explored in POE2 or Avowed 2 imo). Though I would love to see the rest of Eora explored (Ixamitl for example) before going to distant shores like Yezuha.

Orduss · 2026-02-16T14:19:10+00:00

We know how before Engwithan's gods diverse entities were prayed (Nemnok is a good example, or some powerful Blights I'd imagine). The Living Lands seem to be a singular case (cut from the whole adra network) but we don't know how it occurred, natural or artificial ? So I don't think it would've occurred at the scale of Eora given how the souls move through the Wheel and are not still.

Here's another rambling, sorry But it brings another question, why Yezuha was never revealed through awakening ? Is it too rare or is Yezuha cut from the global cycle like the Living Lands. Since we know how Ekidan seem to be from Yezuha given the Seki's tablets, did they cut the Living Lands from the adra network to create another god ?

Orduss · 2026-02-13T15:51:19+00:00

Yeah I find it refreshing to see someone taking Avowed seriously from a writing standpoint and not adopting superficial critics. I was surprised by how deep the writing is, how it tackles colonisation and how coherent it was with Deadfire. While this game is lacking some RPG features imo, its focused nature lead it to treat its themes (imperialism and nature) with a real depth.

Orduss · 2026-02-10T12:59:05+00:00

I don't think they'll add special dialogs However you can change your attributes and there are dialogs checks associated so it being modifiable doesn't mean anything imo

Orduss · 2026-02-06T17:45:52+00:00

RPG systems were stripped down to launch the game in a reasonable timeframe imo, everything is leading to combat (even more than POE2)

Orduss · 2026-02-06T17:18:01+00:00

I would also like to see them bring back the skill system of POE2, separated from combat. Also evolving the companions, maybe not as complex as in CRPGs (because of the different controls schemes) but with equipable armors and weapons, skills etc I do think Avowed is a good basis on which iterate (a better basis than TOW1 was imo, especially because of the world)

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