Lore Question

[Kamiyama]

I haven't played since there were only 4 acts (ended at malachai fight).

I'm in act 6 now and want to know why the Karui have moved in to the areas that used to have cannibals?

I always thought that the cannibals were exiles who had gone mad and started eating each other to survive. The stones about the Karui settlements were hundreds of years old, and the last Karui left with Hyri back to the Karui homeland when she decided that Kaom had betrayed them.

Were the cannibals actually insane Karui?

If not, why did the Karui come back?

Why are they trying to kill my Marauder, who is Karui?

[Squikker2001]

I just assumed they were Oriathan slaves that escaped sometime between the player's arrival in Oriath and unleashing Kitava and were influenced by Tukohama by the time you get back to Wraeclast.

[Kamiyama]

That's the thing. I killed Tukohama (Why? My Marauder worships him - listen to him when he kills stuff. He mentions all of the Karui gods) and if these Karui were following Tukohama, they should have been at least tolerant of the Marauder.

Remember back in Kaom's time, Kaom sided with Voll in the war against the gemlings. So the Karui can be reasoned with, even if they are a bit savage.

They should at least provide a lore reason to why you're butchering all of your own people. Back in Act 1 there were lore stones all over the map with the history of Kaom. I don't see any lore stones anymore.

Tell us that the Karui are back for vengeance, or have gone mad, or Tukohama is out for blood or something.

[Kamiyama]

Funny I see what looks like used to be the lore stones, but they've been melted into lumps of magma.

Do these Karui reject the history of Kaom?

I have no idea.

[+|A.O|+]

er, it's pretty consistent.. i guess you didn't follow the lore of Sin.

He properly described that the Old Gods are perverted and love to rage wars and conquer.

They do not care about Humanity and it's survival. They just care about their conquests and their battles.

It's for this reason, Sin asks you to "Pry their freedom from their cold dead hands".

[+|A.O|+]

Also, cannibals are a different story.

They were Karui that gave up The Way just like Kaom did.

As the people lost trust over Kaom, the Hyrri took the sane back to Ngamakanui.
The insane, or rather the corruption in Wraeclast (for some reason) was Kitava's doing.

It was his "Black Spirits" that possessed the Karui and drove them crazy.
It possessed anyone and drove them crazy, it even waked the dead and rotten (skeletons).


I think what Malachai really did was allow Kitava's dreams to flood into Wraeclast. I don't think he had any imagination for inciting a proper cataclysm. It was all Kitava's thought, his view of how the world should end.

Malachai really only edited this "thought" and made it so that humanity would weaken terribly and he be able to fashion his Immortality and his Empire over the ruins of the Templar Empire ; the shortest Empire of all time (Voll's Empire of Purity).

[Plaguelight]

Honestly, I always figured it was this: with the Beast no longer keeping the Old Gods shackled down, and Kitava now filling the world with madness and chaos, perhaps he managed to influence the Old Gods in a similar manner. I mean, the only two you meet along the way that aren't trying to kill you are Imperious and Sin, so...yeah...