Which ending do you think is best?

[E|E]

To me seems like Dallis and Lucian were right.

Everywhere and everyone seems to be prospering where source is purged. This also means that for the past 100 hours, I was just being an annoying pest.

[Ari]

I got that too. I didn't do the Covenant choices but I feel like the purge one gave the best ending overall.

[Swann]

I dont think we need to hide our comments, spoilers are a given considering the title. For me, I played first with Fane. I felt like bringing back the god king was the best choice for him. However, I am a bit disapointed that he couldn't really reconcile with his daughter. He got no closure with her at all.

Also it's unclear what happens to Lucian if he lives past the fight with bracchus rex.

If they tied up the Lucian and Dallis lines better I think the ending would be more fulfilling.

[Goldsnivy1]

Personally, I think that purging the world of Source would be a significantly better option if Lucian didn't come back to rule afterwards. I really can't stand him as a character. He talks about having to make sacrifices, yet all of the "sacrifices" he makes ultimately hurt someone else while he is unaffected, like with the elves; in fact, his use of deathfog against the elves is what let the voidwoken gain a foothold in the world to begin with.

Anyways, I decided to see all 3 endings with one file, and I prefer the option Ifan brings up of sharing Source with everyone, as, while the prosperity is not nearly as high as the purge option, it's still significantly better than the ascension ending AND has the benefit of not having Lucian come back.

(Also, I let Ifan attack Lucian and he seemed to die, yet still came back to rule in the purge ending. I don't know if its because he attacked Lucian or not, but Ifan was furious during the purge epilogue since Lucian came back as ruler.)

[AnimatedJester]

I liked the ending where i decided to travel with Lohse till the end of my characters days was my favorite. too bad it is only the headcanon ending they give you rather than an dialouge option....

[Vorp]

The best ending is where you handle the world to daddy Adramahlihk on a silver platter, obviously.

[Goldsnivy1]

Originally posted by AnimatedJester:

I liked the ending where i decided to travel with Lohse till the end of my characters days was my favorite. too bad it is only the headcanon ending they give you rather than an dialouge option....

tbh I liked that they gave a lot of headcanon leeway with the custom character ending, but at the same time I didn't like how bland it felt. Would've liked more dialogue options like that during the epilogue too

[Bastila Shan]

The best ending is where you become divine- hence the whole objective of the entire game

[PhilkIced]

I only did the purge ending and if that's really the best then I'm disapointed, everyone sounds so disapointed with you as if you were a huge letdown and they regret investing to much effort in you, I became a freaking silent monk so that they'll never be brutally murdered by a voidwoken and have their souls consumed by the god king and that's the gratitude I get, specially gareth and malady who were so friendly and got so close to me in my game suddenly sound cold, distant and disapointed.

Only ones who kept acting normally after the end just as they did before were my party companions, everyone else suddenly became cold aholes, felt really weird and forced considering how warm and friendly they were towards me before.

[Goldsnivy1]

Originally posted by PhilkIced:

I only did the purge ending and if that's really the best then I'm disapointed, everyone sounds so disapointed with you as if you were a huge letdown and they regret investing to much effort in you, I became a freaking silent monk so that they'll never be brutally murdered by a voidwoken and have their souls consumed by the god king and that's the gratitude I get, specially gareth and malady who were so friendly and got so close to me in my game suddenly sound cold, distant and disapointed.

Only ones who kept acting normally after the end just as they did before were my party companions, everyone else suddenly became cold aholes, felt really weird and forced considering how warm and friendly they were towards me before.

Gareth seemed cold? Personally, he just seemed fairly neutral on it to me. Malady definitely seemed disappointed, but Ifan was furious (despite it also achieving his end goal of ending divinity) because Lucian was able to come back as a false divine.

[Anelace]

Originally posted by Goldsnivy1:

Personally, I think that purging the world of Source would be a significantly better option if Lucian didn't come back to rule afterwards. I really can't stand him as a character. He talks about having to make sacrifices, yet all of the "sacrifices" he makes ultimately hurt someone else while he is unaffected, like with the elves; in fact, his use of deathfog against the elves is what let the voidwoken gain a foothold in the world to begin with.

I really wanted an option like this too. Purging the source is the only actual solution proposed, but I didn't trust Lucian and really didn't like his "lie to everybody and force them to get along" idea. I wish there were a way to use the Aeteran but either fight or convince Lucian just tell the truth rather than lying to everybody again.

I just headcanon that this is what happened.

[PhilkIced]

Originally posted by Goldsnivy1:

Originally posted by PhilkIced:

I only did the purge ending and if that's really the best then I'm disapointed, everyone sounds so disapointed with you as if you were a huge letdown and they regret investing to much effort in you, I became a freaking silent monk so that they'll never be brutally murdered by a voidwoken and have their souls consumed by the god king and that's the gratitude I get, specially gareth and malady who were so friendly and got so close to me in my game suddenly sound cold, distant and disapointed.

Only ones who kept acting normally after the end just as they did before were my party companions, everyone else suddenly became cold aholes, felt really weird and forced considering how warm and friendly they were towards me before.

Gareth seemed cold? Personally, he just seemed fairly neutral on it to me. Malady definitely seemed disappointed, but Ifan was furious (despite it also achieving his end goal of ending divinity) because Lucian was able to come back as a false divine.

When he was tending for his parents corpses I persuaded him to calm down and move on, there he shared a lot of his story with me and seemed really gratefull for my help, felt very heartwarming and also felt as a bound of friendship was born, later on I calmed him down once more when he was trying to throw his life away on a suicide attack against alexandar, once more he thanked me and this time even swore his allegiance to me and cheerfully said he'd always be by my side, truly a great friend.

Then after the end he's like "Meh, whatever, u r boring af gtfo."

So yes, he was cold from my point of view, felt a lot as if the devs didn't want to bother with different dialogues depending on your relationship with the person and just went with a neutral one that would work equally no matter if the two characters were mortal enemies or best friends.

[Lioness 西施]

I didn't care much for Lucian, either. This game spends dozens of hours showing me what a terrible person Lucian was, and I'm supposed to not only forgive him but submit to him because of five minutes of rhetoric?

He's a sociopath!

This game did what Deus Ex: Invisible War did. Lucian is the savior of mankind no matter how wrong or how much of an arrogant, deranged, murderous, thieving scumbag he is. The idea that a person like this would serve anything but their own impulses is dumb.

It sends the wrong message.

I killed Lucian and made everyone divine.

Let the world sort itself out. There's probably a better, more deserving, Godwoken out there than me.

Oh, wait, but I'm "selfish," according to Gareth.

Die.

[Revolucas]

His plan was ultimately the only way to rid Rivellion of the false 7 gods and return the source to the veil. It wouldn't have been possible for the main characters to become Godwoken if he didn't weaken the gods or defeat their god without the actions leading up to this story. Becoming Divine is only solves a temporary problem, the veil is still left open for the Void to come through and there are a hell of a lot more evils out there then just the corrupted-by-the-void Godking and the Eternals that were wrongly cast out into it by the seven, because they hungered power. Not too metion that source creates an uneven playing field for those with source powers and those without. It's like giving a small percentage of the population nuclear weapons. Sourcerers can be dangerous, hence why there were Source Hunters in Original Sins 1. Heck some of the main characters were dangerous, Ifan's wolf attacked innocent people, Loshe turned a tavern into a bar brawl, etc.

Sometimes people in positions of power have to make decisions that is best for everyone not just a few.

[Lioness 西施]

I edited my post, but I'll just put it here:

It seems the message this game is trying to send is that sacrifice is a virtue, and those who can sacrifice are heroes.

The problem is that Lucian is such a terrible person that it was impossible for me, as his equal, to entrust the world to him.

If I'd known for sure that the world would've been saved by making me a silent monk, I would have agreed to it.

But it was impossible for me to understand Lucian's true motivations because he was so bipolar.

It's really just bad writing.

Edit: Weird sentence structure.

[Goldsnivy1]

To sum up what I and several other people have said, I feel that, since there is no option to purge the world AND prevent Lucian from returning, giving everyone Source is the best option since the Voidwoken are driven back, there is a golden age (albeit short-lived), and Lucian doesn't return. Even if it eventually all returns to violence and chaos, it was likely that the same would happen even if Lucian returned, since he would eventually die.