I'm Confused...

[ficwriter79]

Sometimes I feel like an idiot playing this game and trying to figure out its conundrums.

The Sorrow is hunting all the castoffs because of the suffering they've caused in the Ninth World, and how they've abused/manipulated the Tides (I don't get that part at all). However, I've spent the whole game trying to help other people and repair the damage caused by the Changing God (my dominant tide is Gold). Why doesn't the Sorrow let up if more castoffs besides me are trying to be compassionate, if they are indeed doing so? Why doesn't she go after the cruel ones instead, and leave the neutral and benevolent ones alone? "Caedite Eos" (Kill them All!) is not a sane rationale for acting, but who knows why the Sorrow does anything anyway? :P

[DarkSpiral]

The existence of the castoff automatically creates fluctuations in the Tides, even if they aren't using them deliberately. This occurs at the very beginning of the game, when you wake up from the Calm, and sparks the intense argument Aligern and Calistege have. Teh Sorrow can also flat out say this, if you ask it about Adirris (sp?)

They'e poisonous by their very nature to everyone around them, and the Sorrow exists expressly to counter that poison.

[Helvetica]

the Castoffs are consturcts made from the tide themselves their very existance is the reason the sorrow is coming. The Changing Gods plans to use the chamber to pull them all back into himself and solve that problem. The Castoffs dont quite like that idea.

Kinda makes you choices pointless in the sense of trying to stop it. Its coming and thats that.

[BlackKanda]

Let's not forget that Sorrow's perspective is pretty biased. It is not some benelovent existence working for the ultimate good of all humanity. Its sheer purpose is to prevent the tidal abuse at all costs - even if that means destruction on another level.

In one of the meres, or dialogues with NPC (I forget which was it) it is clear that Sorrow was responsible for the existinction of a whole civilisation - I think it was the Dalads?- that was very advanced in technology and they could manipulate the Tides.

So, don't fill yourselves with guilt about the Changing God and his "children" as them being poisonous and/or cancerous. There is no black and white here. Just a huge area of gray.

[Bombast]

All Castoffs are like coal - Even when it's being used to power good, productive things, it is still pumping out poison to the world at large. And Castoff are the same way - The entire time you're doing good, you're still leaking poison to the minds of everyone around you.

And that's why the Sorrow has to do what it does - It's here to prevent pollution, not judge every individual person on the planet.