Not really,they never explained them and people were acting as it was a natural occurrence. The machines were preventing souls to reach the babies not creating biawacs. The biawc was active before they activated the machine....you could even say that it was active days before activating the machine,after all you can rest a few times in that dungeon. Biawacs was pretty interesting mystery for me,but sadly they forgot to add them to the game. It was a deadend idea.Well they were caused by Thaos turning on the Engwithan machines. So as long as there are adra-based machines across the Deadfire archipelago and someone can turn them on, then yes, there could biawacs.btw will this game have biawacs
The Twin Elms were not that old,they even pointed out that they don't know some shit from that time because they are not that old.There's some fampyrs in Od Nua, as well as some constructs and ghosts there and the Burial Isle, and the tree spirits in Twin Elms who are about that old iirc. Oh and the gods
Not really,they never explained them and people were acting as it was a natural occurrence. The machines were preventing souls to reach the babies not creating biawacs. The biawc was active before they activated the machine....you could even say that it was active days before activating the machine,after all you can rest a few times in that dungeon. Biawacs was pretty interesting mystery for me,but sadly they forgot to add them to the game. It was a deadend idea.
I am pretty sure that it is not true. It could be possible that activating the machines will have a biawac as a side effect in the area. Everyone acted as biawacs are natural disaster that happened all around the world,mainly in wield areas that are not heavily populated. There is no way to use a biawac as a way to take the souls from the babies,after all it turns the people that have lost their souls to dust. Babies just were becoming a soulless husks or wild animalistic creatures. Also if there is biawac in some city,it will wipe everyone.Not really,they never explained them and people were acting as it was a natural occurrence. The machines were preventing souls to reach the babies not creating biawacs. The biawc was active before they activated the machine....you could even say that it was active days before activating the machine,after all you can rest a few times in that dungeon. Biawacs was pretty interesting mystery for me,but sadly they forgot to add them to the game. It was a deadend idea.
Yeah, I thought so, too, at the beginning, but it's not true. The idea is that the machines Thaos was manipulating are causing the biawacs and that's how the souls intended to empower Woedica are sheared from the babies and people in general.
Bîaŵac, Biamhac (BEE-uh-waks, Glanfathan), or "spirit winds", they are storms that can rip the soul out of a person's body, often creating blights.
Biamhacs rise up in cursed ruins, shearing souls away from the bodies of their owners. They appear suddenly and without warning, leaving victims little hope of escape. Strong-souled people are not harmed by biamhacs, but affected individuals are instantly reduced to a catatonic state and eventually their bodies shutdown.[1] Souls that are ripped free from their bodies and caught in the center of the storm, may become stuck together and bonded with any other elemental substances in the maelstrom, often creating blights.[2] Survival, while rare, is possible, if a person has a soul sufficiently "strong" to hang on to its associated body despite the storm's attempts to tear it loose.
The discovery of numerous biamhacs in Eir Glanfath during its early exploration resulted in thousands of Aedyr deaths. The deadliness and unpredictability of these events make biamhacs the most feared phenomenon of Eir Glanfath.
I am pretty sure that it is not true. It could be possible that activating the machines will have a biawac as a side effect in the area. Everyone acted as biawacs are natural disaster that happened all around the world,mainly in wield areas that are not heavily populated. There is no way to use a biawac as a way to take the souls from the babies,after all it turns the people that have lost their souls to dust. Babies just were becoming a soulless husks or wild animalistic creatures. Also if there is biawac in some city,it will wipe everyone.
Just read their lore on the biawacs,here it is. It doesn't sound like they are connected to the main story.
https://pillarsofeternity.gamepedia.com/Bîaŵac
Bîaŵac, Biamhac (BEE-uh-waks, Glanfathan), or "spirit winds", they are storms that can rip the soul out of a person's body, often creating blights.
Biamhacs rise up in cursed ruins, shearing souls away from the bodies of their owners. They appear suddenly and without warning, leaving victims little hope of escape. Strong-souled people are not harmed by biamhacs, but affected individuals are instantly reduced to a catatonic state and eventually their bodies shutdown.[1] Souls that are ripped free from their bodies and caught in the center of the storm, may become stuck together and bonded with any other elemental substances in the maelstrom, often creating blights.[2] Survival, while rare, is possible, if a person has a soul sufficiently "strong" to hang on to its associated body despite the storm's attempts to tear it loose.
The discovery of numerous biamhacs in Eir Glanfath during its early exploration resulted in thousands of Aedyr deaths. The deadliness and unpredictability of these events make biamhacs the most feared phenomenon of Eir Glanfath.
Yeah in that regard, it's surprising that people don't know more about the engwithans. Who hasn't taken a stroll down Od Nua seriously ?There's some fampyrs in Od Nua, as well as some constructs and ghosts there and the Burial Isle, and the tree spirits in Twin Elms who are about that old iirc. Oh and the gods
It is really sad how we are debating about shitty writing and coming up with better lore dumps than Obsidian could. We are debating the semantics of biawacs when the reality is that even the writers don't know the answer because it was dropped idea. Most likely they decided to go different route but already had a ready level or something similar.
Yeah in that regard, it's surprising that people don't know more about the engwithans. Who hasn't taken a stroll down Od Nua seriously ?There's some fampyrs in Od Nua, as well as some constructs and ghosts there and the Burial Isle, and the tree spirits in Twin Elms who are about that old iirc. Oh and the gods
We don't know how a biawacs kills,we never saw it. You get in the cave just before it actually happened,there was a little bit of text describing it,but i don't remember it. It is just assumed that the machine is making the biawac and nobody really knows if it is true. Another huge assumption is that there is a correlation between the two of them. Also i don't get it what is all that screeching about having too much lore! The problem of the game is not that it have too much lore,on the contrary,it doesn't have enough of it and the one it have is not clear. The real problem is the lore presentation and the poor writing.Yet more wishing for lore dumps. What's so wrong with seeing the machine create something that looks like a biawac, which kills your friends like biawacs do, and inferring based on that?
Yeah, I never fully understood the bawuztit, I just knew a plot device killed the two tutorial NPCs, but not me fsr.We don't know how a biawacs kills,we never saw it. You get in the cave just before it actually happened,there was a little bit of text describing it,but i don't remember it. It is just assumed that the machine is making the biawac and nobody really knows if it is true. Another huge assumption is that there is a correlation between the two of them. Also i don't get it what is all that screeching about having too much lore! The problem of the game is not that it have too much lore,on the contrary,it doesn't have enough of it and the one it have is not clear. The real problem is the lore presentation and the poor writing.Yet more wishing for lore dumps. What's so wrong with seeing the machine create something that looks like a biawac, which kills your friends like biawacs do, and inferring based on that?
They didn't go to all the trouble of setting up biawacs and what they do, only to show a machine causing something that looks a lot like what you've been told about biawacs, for no reasonWe don't know how a biawacs kills,we never saw it. You get in the cave just before it actually happened,there was a little bit of text describing it,but i don't remember it. It is just assumed that the machine is making the biawac and nobody really knows if it is true. Another huge assumption is that there is a correlation between the two of them.
You need a world building for an rpg game,if the lore is 80% about your pissant doing stupid shit,then the game will not be much fun. Still i do agree with you on some level mate. Lets just agree that the writing is pretty bad on most levels.No, the problem with the lore is that 99% of it doesn't have anything to do with what you are doing. You know that famous exchange "There are just too many notes, herr Mozart"? While it's used to mock excessive and ignorant criticism, it kind of works with PoE1, there are too many notes where there shouldn't be and not enough where there should be.
Well,modern day game industry. Does everything that people do has to have some reason? As i said before,most likely a story path changed and decided to leave it because remaking the level and rewriting the dialogue is too much of a work,deadlines and all that shit. During development things like that happen. Do you really think that the writing is good in PoE? Honest question mate.They didn't go to all the trouble of setting up biawacs and what they do, only to show a machine causing something that looks a lot like what you've been told about biawacs, for no reasonWe don't know how a biawacs kills,we never saw it. You get in the cave just before it actually happened,there was a little bit of text describing it,but i don't remember it. It is just assumed that the machine is making the biawac and nobody really knows if it is true. Another huge assumption is that there is a correlation between the two of them.