Are the naga really bad?

[rungus24]

Are there any in-game, role-playing reasons why my character would believe the water dragon with a long name, or why they would believe the naga dude? It seems weird that a big monster says they need help slaying some people, and that I just believe him, but it also seems odd that I believe the big manfish leader and slay the dragon.

Is there any reason to believe that the water dragon is telling the truth or am I looking too much into it?

[TheWashableBomb]

I always assumed both were lying to you in some way.

[voronin_mike]

IF you started as Sunwall people then you would have trouble with "Naga invasion" so would probably more inclined to beileve someone hostile to them. Wyrmic would probably be inclined to believe a dragon over some uppity elves. ;)
Unfortunately, though the game DOES have a number of tantalizing lore tidbits, it stopped to affect the campaign gameplay in any way some time ago. :( I always find strange that a Zigur-affiliated character would choose to side with some nasty Shalore spellslinger instead of waiting while she and an ork have it over and then finishing the weakened survivor. ;((
Siding with nagas gets you more interesting lore, so there is that...

[Anhedonia]

If I'm not mistaken I believe that the Psi-Ghost Machine tells you that the naga are trying to flood the planet. I think Ukllmswwik is up to something himself but I don't recall ever seeing any evidence of anything in particular.

The interesting thing about both groups is that the seem to posses similar teleportation technology and appear to be residing in flooded Shertul facilities. There is also the issue of their connection with Walrog. He must be manipulating them into fighting each other for some reason, after all he fights you after you kill them both.

Another interesting thing about Ukllmswwik is that he employs demons as servants. This could be due to him just being a flunky of Walrog, maybe the water imps defected after landing in Maj'Eyal, or maybe Dark God made a mistake and just gave him water imp allies without realizing how inappropriate that was.

[voronin_mike]

Originally posted by Anhedonia:

. I think Ukllmswwik is up to something himself but I don't recall ever seeing any evidence of anything in particular.

The interesting thing about both groups is that the seem to posses similar teleportation technology and appear to be residing in flooded Shertul facilities. There is also the issue of their connection with Walrog. He must be manipulating them into fighting each other for some reason, after all he fights you after you kill them both.

Another interesting thing about Ukllmswwik is that he employs demons as servants. This could be due to him just being a flunky of Walrog, maybe the water imps defected after landing in Maj'Eyal, or maybe Dark God made a mistake and just gave him water imp allies without realizing how inappropriate that was.

Yeah, there is that. Theoretically, his servants may be just some elemental-like beings with stats similar to Mal'Roka water imps who just didn't get a sprite of their own (it's possible as they also appear in Lake of Nur and other underwater locations otherwise clear of Mal'Roka). OR this dragon actually dubbles in demonic magic.
Maybe some time in the future some lore about this will appear. Or not. ;) Possibly when DG will get around to write up the south continent and its pirates...
As for teleportation - I should note that long-range teleports are actually quite rare in this world despite quite powerful magic being relatively common. It's possible that ALL long-range teleportation either uses Sher'Tul artifacts or derived from it. Except Weiss, of course, but am not sure whether they taught it to anyone.

[rwlyraa]

Naloren nagas are hostile to all sentients and are conducting coastal and portal raids on pretty much everyone, likely making them "bad" enough.
Dragon has an agenda that's never revealed but otherwise keeps to itself in a hidden lair, so it's a more neutral option.

Regarding water imps, they are present in pretty much all underwater zones, so lorewise either they split off from Urh'rok or the waters are especially demon-infested (or they are somehow an Eyal native variant).