Do you become Evil at the end. (spoilers)

[Vincentius]

At then end Talions eyes turn yellow like the Black Hands and he said "time for a new ring" is he Evil?

[sam]

I never thought about that, but, I guess so. It doesn't make any difference, he still ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ hates Uruks

[Snowskeeper]

Not really. Celebrimbor's been evil since he tried to take power from Sauron. Talion's just catching up with his new buddy.

(There's a thing in LotR where trying to become extremely powerful=evil, especially if you're using evil tools to do so. That's what Saruman's entire plot chain is about. I wouldn't be surprised if Talion was going down that path.)

[kschang77]

Pretty sure it's for the DLC...

[Vincentius]

Which DLC?

[Snowskeeper]

Pretty sure they're done with SoM DLC.

[Laptop]

More like the sequel. Given how sucessful the game has been, it would be dumb not to do a sequel.

[Daddy Shark]

Celebrimbor did absorb a little bit of Sauron there at the end.

My guess is halfway through the next game you split and Celebrimbor becomes the new big bad you have to take down.

[Snowskeeper]

İlk olarak JKflipflop tarafından gönderildi:

Celebrimbor did absorb a little bit of Sauron there at the end.

My guess is halfway through the next game you split and Celebrimbor becomes the new big bad you have to take down.

If you split, Talion dies and Celebrimbor doesn't have a host.

@Laptop, I'm hoping the sequel is Shadow of Angmar. I'd really like to play as the Witch-King of Angmar, and it'd make sense given the style of game.

[GC13]

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If you split, Talion dies and Celebrimbor doesn't have a host.

Then the narrative must conspire to give them new host candidates before the twist happens and they split. It's not that hard: they made up the rules that say they must be together, so they can change them if they wish.

[Snowskeeper]

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If you split, Talion dies and Celebrimbor doesn't have a host.

Then the narrative must conspire to give them new host candidates before the twist happens and they split. It's not that hard: they made up the rules that say they must be together, so they can change them if they wish.

Talion doesn't have a host; Talion <i>is</i> the host. If Celebrimbor leaves, he dies, unless he's influenced by another force. The only force that could manage that, according to the rules of the universe as established by J.R.R. Tolkien, is Sauron (or one of his other wraiths, I suppose--Celebrimbor is technically his creature, although obviously he's not exactly under control at the moment).

I can see a Prince of Persia: Rival Swords-style mind battle at the end, esp. since they need to explain why Talion doesn't have any tangible impact on the books, but I can't see a split.

[kschang77]

Bit of a spoiler...

The Black Hand specifically needed Talion's blood (and his wife and kids) to be sacrificed to bring forth Celebrimbor. That much was implied in the cutscnes, i.e. "Black Hand needs him alive!"

So the implication was he's already linked to Celebrimbor in some magical way, and what's intriguing, as he's human (that we know) and Celebrimbor is elf.

Also, Black Hand at the beginning was definitely trying to summon Celebrimbor back into his "body", but Celebrimbor bypassed him and went for Talion's body instead.

[Snowskeeper]

No, he didn't need Talion's body specifically. He needed someone with a wife and child, to mimic the slaying of Celebrimbor's own family. Though yeah, the Black Hand isn't as good a Necromancer as Sauron is. He ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up that summoning big time.

[GC13]

İlk olarak Snowskeeper tarafından gönderildi:

If Celebrimbor leaves, he dies, unless he's influenced by another force. The only force that could manage that, according to the rules of the universe as established by J.R.R. Tolkien, is Sauron (or one of his other wraiths, I suppose--Celebrimbor is technically his creature, although obviously he's not exactly under control at the moment).

Well Sarumon seemed to think he could rip him from Talion. Heck, he almost did. So according to the rules of the game as established by Monolith, the plotline could be used.

[Snowskeeper]

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If Celebrimbor leaves, he dies, unless he's influenced by another force. The only force that could manage that, according to the rules of the universe as established by J.R.R. Tolkien, is Sauron (or one of his other wraiths, I suppose--Celebrimbor is technically his creature, although obviously he's not exactly under control at the moment).

Well Sarumon seemed to think he could rip him from Talion. Heck, he almost did. So according to the rules of the game as established by Monolith, the plotline could be used.

1: Talion was dying in the process.
2: Saruman was planning to make himself Celebrimbor's host.

[Vampire_DKC]

In (one of) the last cutscene you can see that Celebrimbor was the mastermind behind the ritual to make Talion his host. Celebrimbor controlled (Branded?) the Black Hand so that he had a Physical form to perform the ritual