Is it just me or is Fane a bit whiny?

[sirvaun]

Not only does he condescend you whenever you meet him as an NPC but even listening to his Origin Story he sounds like a whiny sad-sack that really just needs to talk to someone and let it all out. I just got the CE box and the figure is all dramatic (as presented in the CE reveal pic) but MAN compared to the voice and personality in the game? :(

Only the Red Prince comes close to being as annoying as Fane.

Just me or?...

[Czernobog wants to Rage]

Fane doesn't seem to be very good value for a companion but people report he makes a great protagonist.

The Red Prince is my favourite, interesting as a protagonist OR a companion. He looks stylish AF in mage gear too.

[Kozzy]

Originally posted by Spawn More Overlords:

Fane doesn't seem to be very good value for a companion but people report he makes a great protagonist.

The Red Prince is my favourite, interesting as a protagonist OR a companion. He looks stylish AF in mage gear too.

Funny you say that, for me Fane and The red Prince have been my favorite companions :)

[phantommail]

Originally posted by Spawn More Overlords:

Fane doesn't seem to be very good value for a companion but people report he makes a great protagonist.

Exactly the opposite. I am playing as Fane now ( just finished Reapers Coast, 17 lvl ) and as companion he is much more fun. Well , maybe he will be interesting at the end. Will see.

[ShadowDragon8685]

Fane makes a great Rogue because of Bony Fingers meaning you'll never need lockpicks again. Also, for a rogue, Play Dead is great because if you get deep in over your bony head you can just bow out of the fight for a round or two and have the rest of the group draw the enemy away from Fane so he can pop back up and quaff a poison or two.

Bearing in mind that I'm using the increased party size, I recruited everybody but the Red Prince (see above for why a main Sebille would rather stab him while he's unconscious than recruit him,) but I picked up Yastara from the mercenary vendor to fill out my group and have a token lizard. Respecced her as a melee pyro tank. Ironically, she and Sebille work quite well together.

I like to imagine that Yastara was a scholar who got a headful of The Rights of Man kind of stuff and got so fed the hell up with the Ancient Empire that she forsook her House and all background trappings and started telling everyone she met that they were crap for owning thinking people. They tried to take her in for "reeducation" and she grabbed a sword and realized promptly just how much fun being a rampaging berzerker was.

[Ashera]

Fane is whiny because he's ancient as ♥♥♥♥.
He has seen quite a few generations fall to the grips of time.
Who would care for a mortal human after such a life? After a few hundred years we would become insignificant, his relationships have and will always cease with the living at some stage.
Humans are basically cats to him.

He dislikes dogs, probably due to some bad times with dogs in the past... them liking bones and all.

If I felt like I doomed my race as badly as the Doctor (doctor who), I'd be pretty dismissive of anyone and anything while searching for knowledge on the matter. Just like Fane is.

Lohse/Red Prince are the two best though.

[22b3]

Originally posted by Lightbane:

Misunderstood talking skeletons that doomed their entire race to the void

If you've ever played Dragon Age, I've forgiven mysterious magical men for far worse.

Edit: Mysterious magical people that is. Morrigan and Solas were the best things to come out of that series.

[sirvaun]

Originally posted by Mr. マリック:

Originally posted by Lightbane:

Misunderstood talking skeletons that doomed their entire race to the void

If you've ever played Dragon Age, I've forgiven mysterious magical men for far worse.

I played Dragon Age, too, and maybe that's another problem with this game comparatively. Dragon Age protagonists may have weaknesses or character flaws, but they don't immediately act like an entitled aristocrat...Entitled wizard, witch, dwarf or bard, maybe, but they still have a flair for it.

Ignoring his origin speech, I might try Fane as the protagonist and see how that goes.
Still loving the different opinions on him and Red Prince, though. Nice to see people are willing to just give their opinions instead of critiquing others'. :)

[Iry]

Originally posted by phantommail:

Exactly the opposite. I am playing as Fane now ( just finished Reapers Coast, 17 lvl ) and as companion he is much more fun. Well , maybe he will be interesting at the end. Will see.

Fane reminds me of an old english anthropologist, the kind who would go into less developed countries and tut-tut at their culture. Recording it like a scholar, but calling them all barbarians and chuckling at their 'stupid' ways. Even if someone did find this funny, he harps on this one single comedic note for the vast majority of the game. And that gets stale.

[Muted Kobold]

Originally posted by ShadowDragon8685:

I play Sebille, so...

When I meet the Red Prince, he tells me that I can be his slave/can be another Lizard's Slave. Then I tell him he's a dead man.
Not five minutes later, I come across him unconscious on the deck and with no Magisters or any other sensate persons around who might come to his aid, so I take out my knives and make good on that promise.

Then somehow he recovers from that and turns up, stark nude, on the coast. Of course a slave-owner-slaughtering, lizard-barely-tolerating professional-turned-personal assassin like Sebille can't take "he survived that" for an answer, so I always kill him again.


Fane, by contrast, is kind of a whingy ass, but he's Sebille's whingy ass. He unlocks doors for her, and together they blink-fight behind people and stabmurder them superhard. Sure, she may think his opinions on history are apalling for a scholar, but she'll still go to bat for him - or hilt-deep in the back of someone who wants him dead/whom he wants dead.

You hated the Red Prince? He might be a pampered sod, but unlike most fantasy nobles he's more than capable of backing up what he says.

Right now, I turned him into the Red Demon. He's always on fire, standing in fire, and surrounded by fire. Everything is on fire, and he's carrying my team on his back as he just walks around like a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ god of fire.

[AIntPJZ]

Would not you be jaded and cynical like him if you were that old ? it just a way for him to cope with the fact that everything he see will die and rot away while he will still be alive and hear short-lived moron whine about their bowel movement.

He just lack enthusiam.

[AIntPJZ]

Also from what I understand his civilization was quite advanced. It like if you woke up in 15000 BC and had to deal with caveman way of life.

[Kozzy]

Originally posted by player:

Yeah, if anyone thinks Fane is not a whiny little ♥♥♥♥♥ you should just complete more of his quest line. Probably because the Eternals didn't have gender stereotypes.

Many people have done his quest line and still love him. Not everyone agrees with you, some people love Fane.

[AIntPJZ]

He has a cool ending if you play as him too.

[ShadowDragon8685]

Originally posted by Leo The Schrodinger's Cat:

You hated the Red Prince? He might be a pampered sod, but unlike most fantasy nobles he's more than capable of backing up what he says.

Well, Sebille's whole thing is that she was enslaved by a Lizard, broke free, and is now out for vengeance. She sees red at the mention of slavery or other forms of bondage.

Then this lizard - who is, himself, a prisoner of the Magisters - has the gall to inform her that she is now his slave?!

Yeah, dead man. I mean, I even said "You're a dead man" to him. And Sebille keeps her word.

[Salamander]

I think his voice actor is effeminant/gay and comes through in the presentation of the character. Same for red prince (probably same voice actor). Not what I would choose.