So what? They’ll just resurrect him.
would that kind of rotating door death fulfill the prophecy though? Last breath is pretty specific. A resurrected Belkar would still be breathing right?
Tarquin’s biggest error, I think, is apparently underestimatng Roy: Tarquin’s presumably the better long-term strategist, but Roy may well be better at playing tactician on the fly. (It’s like Nick Fury’s famous assessment of Cyclops: the less time this guy has to think of a plan, the better it tends to be.)
Maybe instead he’ll get reincarnated or polymorphed into a form that doesn’t draw breath? Ant people won’t have lungs, for instance. Nor do treants.
Actually, Tarquin’s biggest error is assuming he’s still the main antagonist.
What kind of afterlife would he be heading for? Anything he would be unwilling to return from?
Also still curious as hell to see Xykon’s secret weapon, the being that uses and umbrella to keep a veil of darkness on himself.
I’m laying even money on us never knowing that.
Or will Tarquin outmaneuver or manipulate Xykon? They’re an interesting match; brute force versus extreme cleverness. Xykon’s never going to outwit Tarquin, and Tarquin’s not going to win a fight with Xykon.
Agreed. He thinks he’ll be the Big Bad that Elan fights at the end, but for all we know Nale could backstab him at a suitably dramatic moment so that he can die in Elan’s arms.
That means he ALSO thinks that Elan is the main protagonist, which is, of course, also not true. This is certainly in line with what he has been saying, though.
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“He” being Belkar. My call is that Belkar dies in a heroic self-sacrifice, allowing him to join Shojo in the Chaotic Good plane, sipping single malt scotch and smoking cigars made from poorly worded legal documents.
No, I think the CITD will be revealed in the end. Burlew has said he knows what the CITD is and has specific plans for it.
There’s a theory I like on the GitP forums that “business” is a sort of code between Tarquin and Malack.
I thought it was pretty well settled (in the community at least) that the CITD is a surviving god from the pantheon destroyed by the snarl?
CITD???
Creature-In-The-Dark, aka MITD, Monster-In-The-Dark.
Ah! Thanks.
It’s a widely held theory and one which I think is probably true*. But Burlew has never commented on it. The closest he’s ever come is saying the CITD is not something he invented; it’s an existing creature from the game system.
*My longshot theory: The CITD is Haley’s mother. That wraps up two mysteries in one.
On the kobold, anyone else get a whiff of Pratchett’s “Vetinari’s clerks” in how Kilkil is drawn? Isn’t it yet another trope that one of the most dangerous guys in the room is invariably the soft-spoken, quiet one with glasses, who’s doing everything to avoid attention? Until he isn’t.
I can easily see Kilkil as a 1/2 dragon, with a ton of Assassin levels, or whatever class is used in 3.5 to backstab For Massive Damage. Give him a few Wizard levels too for aiding his ability to ‘not be seen’. Or make him a PunPun-type Munchkin, so that Burlew can have some more fun at the powergamers’ expense.
All that is to say that it wouldn’t surprise me to see Kilkil fillet Belkar like a trout. I mean, the name should be enough of a clue, right?
Now, how Belkar comes back, especially if he never draws another breath, is a different question. It’d take a hell of a redemptive act to shift him to the CG afterlife. (What metric does Good use to quantify Good acts anyway? We already know how many kiloNazis in the red Belkar is.)
Oh, and on the MITD. Didn’t Burlew say it’s a critter from one of the early books: Monster Manual, Fiend Folio, Deities/Demigods? It’s not something he made up. Or borrowed from Pokemon?
Yeah, that’s my theory too. What other than a divine being can cast Limited Wish (at least) instinctively?