So I met Asterion.... (spoilers)

[Nanako]

He's just dead in a chamber in the volcano, with a few bits of metal. Nothing else? I finished him, got out of there and went back to the mainland like nothing ever happened.

What about the big secret? He was supposed to be travelling there to find something momentous for the whole region.

I did almost everything I could before leaving, except giving a (second) bribe to the green mountain tribe, because they wanted my good axe. Do I have to do that too?

Is there actually anything there to find? Some kind of special/true ending? Or was this whole venture just a waste of time?

[Crash_Pit]

I didn't find anything momentous, fwiw, just the empty shell. In game, I guessed he imprisoned himself as he was dying. If there were choices to reveal some True Secret, I did not make them.

I don't think there was ever anything to find on the island, it is simply an abandoned place that was overly mysticized by its colonizers. That said, I certainly don't think of it as a waste of time. The whole island encounter was sick as ♥♥♥♥ as a climactic set-piece, and you do get his stuff, so mechanically it does throw you a bone. I think the whole point of Asterion as a character is that he was a prisoner of and undone by his own pursuit of power/ambition and I think the game is attempting to drive home the futility of that kind of mind set.

[Aegix Drakan]

Originally posted by Crash_Pit:

I don't think there was ever anything to find on the island, it is simply an abandoned place that was overly mysticized by its colonizers. That said, I certainly don't think of it as a waste of time. The whole island encounter was sick as ♥♥♥♥ as a climactic set-piece, and you do get his stuff, so mechanically it does throw you a bone. I think the whole point of Asterion as a character is that he was a prisoner of and undone by his own pursuit of power/ambition and I think the game is attempting to drive home the futility of that kind of mind set.

I more or less assumed as much myself.

Like...It was a tragic conclusion to have come SO far, had such an incredible final adventure (literally the only damage I took was from using the combat potion which I didn't even need!)...And in the end, all that there was was an undead, a small pile of money, and some scrap I wouldn't even have time to sell.

But I was still satisfied. Sometimes, life is cruel, hopes are denied, and people die for literally nothing. That's the way the world is sometimes.

And...Honestly? It was a fitting cap to my adventures. After that encounter, I confronted another character who I had just recently found out did some somewhat unethical things...And I was just like "Look, 2 days ago, I would have turned you in. Now? Now I'm just SO tired. I get why you did it, so you know what, you're off the hook."

It all came together so incredibly well. My only real regret is not telling the guys at the hunting town in the north east that I would come live with them after my adventures. XD

[Nanako]

i did everything else in the game before going there, getting his stuff didnt really matter

This feels like a huge letdown though :( I thought i was sailing off to discover something exciting to change the fate of the peninsula, maybe provide some sort of alternative to the dominance of hovlavan

[20000Aggro]

Climactic? It felt anti-climactic, the only disappointing part of the whole game. There was so much build up to it that it hardly felt satisying that was all there was. Everything else was so strong it didn't ruin the game for me, but I questioned the point of it all. I didn't even get to find out how he died, even though I'm sure I knew who caused it. I was hoping it was because I failed to gain full support of certain people or tribes, because I was personally hoping to save him or that there would be a further investigation into his death, rather then, "Oh well he died, that's life." I mean, what? I don't even understand what the fog is or why HE became undead.

I felt it was unsatisfying, I didn't get to confront who did it because I ran through their dialogue already.

Otherwise, I enjoyed everything else so much that I got over it quickly. Creeks asking me to be part of their tribe made me feel like my efforts were worth it, even if Asterion still remained a mystery 'til the end. The rest of the game still remained strong. He wasn't really there for the story, he was just our motivation, so in the end what happened didn't matter.

I liked informing people we found him, no one seemed overly attached to him, despite words about him being mostly good.

I was hoping I would get to meet and save him, because I had heard so much about him, and it ruined my ability to make trade with the Tribe of Green Mountain because the island is forbidden.

[thetwix]

Maybe Asterion was the carrot?

[Aegix Drakan]

Originally posted by Raphael:

I didn't even get to find out how he died, even though I'm sure I knew who caused it.

Oh? You do? :o

Please enlighten me to your theory, I'm really curious!

[The Sharpest Image]

If you ♥♥♥♥ around on High Island and take different/suboptimal paths, will you always end up at Asterion if you don't just die?