Eternity Pillars of Eternity II Beta Thread [GAME RELEASED, GO TO NEW THREAD]

[Quillon]

I like this one better.

 

[fantadomat]

Critical Role free DLC portraits starting to appear at the top here: http://versusevil.com/games/pillars-of-eternity-ii-deadfire_c-r/

God, I would fuck those elves so hard. Elves are undoubtedly the master race. Don't even try to question it, white boys. You have nothing, and you will never compare to the elf male/female.

I do like elfs,they are very tender and skinny. Still one race rules them all. Hear me now and fill thy pens with subhumans!

 

[Infinitron]

 

[ColonelTeacup]

I actually forgot who the fuck Rekke was

Irish Asian-ish guy

seems he's "stormfolk" which is not an option for players?

Why do they insist on putting felicia day in their games?

 

[Generic-Giant-Spider]

The average dwarf is unfuckable.

The average elf gets unlimited Human Chad dick.

 

[2house2fly]

Subtext of note, dwarves spend all their time indoors tinkering with technology and elves go out in the sunshine and get plenty of exercise

 

[ColonelTeacup]

Elves are also sluts and dwarves are loyal.

 

[Quillon]

Elves are slim and dwarves are short but they are taking the hobbits to isengard! the fuck are you guys talking about?

 

[ColonelTeacup]

This.

 

[frajaq]

yikes things got weird all of a sudden in the thread

the codex needs this game fast

 

[FreeKaner]

How did this trend of elves as an oppressed minority develop anyhow? It's so different than Tolkien's elves.

 

[Prime Junta]

How did this trend of elves as an oppressed minority develop anyhow? It's so different than Tolkien's elves.

The Witcher and DA:O. Don't know if Gaider cribbed it from The Witcher or if he came up with the idea independently as the two games were in development concurrently. I suspect that he cribbed; The Witcher 1 was developed on a modified version of BioWare's engine so the two companies must have been in pretty close contact, i.e. he likely would have known about Sapkowski.

It's also possible that he thought of it independently; straight-up western tradfantasy was getting pretty stale around then and it's a fairly obvious twist to add to your dark-n-gritty fantasy world.

 

[Hyperion]

Even Rowling used Elves as slaves in Harry Potter, and I find it hard to believe she did anything particularly groundbreaking in her writing besides making fantasy an accessible genre for children again, as The Hobbit has seemingly fallen out of favor. Besides, Tolkien essentially created a Mary Sue with his Elves (which I always figured was his interpretation as Elves = Catholics), which makes them extremely easy to hate. In LotR they were a race in decline anyway, so it's not much of a jump for future high, or dark fantasy stories to make them go from willful seclusion to slavery.

The Witcher books and games are far different, and I've shamefully never read them, but I assume enslaved / second-class citizen Elves are a thing in the literature as well?

 

[Prime Junta]

Elves = Catholics

That's... novel.

The Dwarves = Jews thing is fairly transparent, but I don't think your theory flies. Tolkien has written reams and reams about his ideas about the Elves, who they are and where they come from and how they relate to things, and Catholicism really doesn't enter into it. For one thing, all the elves we get to meet are fallen from the grace of the Valar.

(He did write them as Gary Stus though. In one of his letters he straight up says as much -- that they are human as we would like humans to be, strong, beautiful, wise, and immortal. If you really want to work a Christian analogy in, Elves are what humans would have been without the Fall. Although, being a good Catholic and also because it would have been really boring otherwise, he wrote a Fall of their own for them, with rather different consequences...)

 

[Hobo Elf]

This.

 

[Generic-Giant-Spider]

This.

Don't forget North Pole.

 

[fantadomat]

This.

Clear win for korea here! But witch one,true Korea or south Korea?

 

[Sannom]

The ears on the american one are too big. They're supposed to be pointy, but not overly large.

 

[Generic-Giant-Spider]

Two of those elves have a penis.

Good luck.

 

[2house2fly]

Sounds like the odds are in my favour.

 

[Quillon]

Speaking of elves; just entered Ondra's Gift and Durance and Aloth discussed about a whore, Aloth said "She doesn't take orders well" Guess Aloth ain't gay either.

 

[Roguey]

Speaking of elves; just entered Ondra's Gift and Durance and Aloth discussed about a whore, Aloth said "She doesn't take orders well" Guess Aloth ain't gay either.

They're talking about Iselmyr.

 

[fantadomat]

Sounds like the odds are in my favour.

Not really,they are even. One of the cocks have a pussy too.

 

[Lacrymas]

All of them have some kind of (boy)pussy, though, so win-win.

 

[Sacred82]

How did this trend of elves as an oppressed minority develop anyhow? It's so different than Tolkien's elves.

it's like a weird mix of Tolkien's idea that the Elves first fell from might and then faded from the world, and the idea of an Elven high culture because you don't want shady forest hobos in your game.