Mol has Two Eyes!

[robertleegrant]

The level of detail in this game is just incredible.

In all of the encouters up until Last Light, Mol has an obvious eye patch. We see her having a conversation with Mr. Devil and then she gets kidnapped. How did she escape Moonrise?

The next time we see her in the Thieve's guild she has both her eyes! Later we find her contract with Raphael in the House of Hope. Very cool. (I'm going to try to pay attention. After we kill Raphael, does she still have her eye?)

[Raz]

You apparently can find her bandanna somewhere and give it to her. She has been faking the eye lose the entire time.

[robertleegrant]

Ahh! I remember finding the eye patch, but I never saw a dialogue option to give it back to her. Does she actually say that?

[seeker1]

Spoilers?

Yes, she made a deal with Raphael, and giving her contract back to her after you kill Raphael, can make you persuade her to help you in the endgame.

If she agrees, you get one of the nicest GYA endgame buffs, "Fetcher's Favor," which lets all party members resist fire, and use rays of fire.

The fact that she faked having a missing eye to seem more sympathetic to people ... that is so Mol.

[belgix]

Originally posted by Raz:

You apparently can find her bandanna somewhere and give it to her. She has been faking the eye lose the entire time.

Mol's eyepatch is in the Mind Flayer colony in Balthazar's laboratory if I remember.

Originally posted by robertleegrant:

Ahh! I remember finding the eye patch, but I never saw a dialogue option to give it back to her. Does she actually say that?

Yes, like Raphael contract, you can return both to him in the Guild Hall. I got no reward returning the eyepatch (and AFAIK there is none).

[Peelsepuuppi]

Originally posted by seeker1:

Spoilers?

Yes, she made a deal with Raphael, and giving her contract back to her after you kill Raphael, can make you persuade her to help you in the endgame.

If she agrees, you get one of the nicest GYA endgame buffs, "Fetcher's Favor," which lets all party members resist fire, and use rays of fire.

The fact that she faked having a missing eye to seem more sympathetic to people ... that is so Mol.

Did she fake it or did she get it restored?

[Raz]

Originally posted by Peelsepuuppi:

Did she fake it or did she get it restored?

People lean towards she is faking it because there was a glitch at some point in history with the game where Mol wouldn't be wearing her headband before Last Light Inn was attacked.

[seeker1]

Well, maybe it was restored, I assume Cambions can cast Regenerate and would do that as part of a pact.

[Peelsepuuppi]

Originally posted by Raz:

Originally posted by Peelsepuuppi:

Did she fake it or did she get it restored?

People lean towards she is faking it because there was a glitch at some point in history with the game where Mol wouldn't be wearing her headband before Last Light Inn was attacked.

To be fair if that's a glitch then it doesn't really confirm it one way or another. The model is obviously going to have two eyes regardless, because doing two different models would just be waste if they never intended to show her with one eye without the patch.

[Raz]

Originally posted by seeker1:

Well, maybe it was restored, I assume Cambions can cast Regenerate and would do that as part of a pact.

Wyll stares at you with his stone eye

[MadConsular]

pirates used to wear eyepatches not because of being blind in one eye but so they could see in the dark with one eye better. Could be the same for mol, she does live in a cave. I don't think mol cares much for peoples sympathy tbh. She never tries to get you to feel sorry for her, if anything it would probably be to make her look tougher

[seeker1]

Originally posted by Raz:

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Wyll stares at you with his stone eye

Well, who knows, maybe Mizora could have restored it, but we learn later on she had his eye replaced with a sending stone so she could keep track of him. In the epilogue, Wyll can tell you he's found a sorcerer who might be able to reverse the polarity so to speak and use it to track Mizora instead. .

BTW, there are people who sometimes blind beggar children in one eye because they think the kids could beg for more money that way because of sympathy. Horrible as that sounds, there is a scene that shows that in Slumdog: Millionaire.

[Isengrym]

^That really is horrible.

After learning that she did have two whole eyes, I had assumed that one eye had been injured while escaping Elturel and that the eyepatch was protecting it while it healed. Once it had recovered, she wouldn't need the patch anymore. Am I just too mundane for a fantasy setting?

[Mike Garrison]

The reasons I figure she was just faking with the eye-patch.

1) It's Mol.

2) If you ask her what her deal with Raphael was, she says that it was to escape Moonrise (and apparently to gain unspecified powers, likely warlock powers). Not to get her eye back.

[FireGryph]

I'm of the camp that thinks Mol is faking it. One, she probably thinks she looks tougher and cooler in the eyes of the other kids because of the eye patch. And two, it is a not-uncommon way to drudge up sympathy. A dirty, injured or maimed kid is more likely to earn money as a beggar than some well-off, cleaned up and perfectly healthy person. It's one of the oldest tricks in the book, to act like youve got a disability for the sake of sympathy.

[belgix]

The pirate explanation is plausible because it takes an average human eye about 25 minutes to fully adapt from bright sunlight to seeing in complete darkness (well true, we don't know for thieflings). Even if there is no recorded historical precedent for this fact, she probably think she looks like a smart pirate.