Black ring or Magisters on Nameless isle

[NomNom]

Is there a disadvantage to siding with neither? Like, do I loose vendors and quests? Aside from that I'm wondering who to side with. The magisters are♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ but then the black ring want to.. I dunno enslave everyone under demon rule? I totally guessed that last part.

[neutrino]

Doubt it matters. This game isn't really big on "choices matter."


If it matters (which it doesn't), I just played through that last night. First encounter I unwittingly sided with the Black Ring cultists. After the battle when I spoke with the dead Paladin Godwoken woman, she berated me for siding with them, and I got the option to tell her it was just a ruse.

Again, I didn't side with them on purpose, and given that dialog exchange, I reloaded a previous quicksave and sided with the Magisters.

Oddly, though, in the middle of the fight, I guess due to an Area of Effect spell, they went hostile on me, too, so I ended up killing them all.

Paladin Godwoken didn't berate me, though, so I'm not replaying a third time.


ETA: And even with the Magisters all dead, I still got the quest about Alexander from the dead Magister's ghost. So like I stated, choices don't really matter in this game other than for RP'ing purposes.

[ZZZZZ]

you can kill all magisters on the island since they got 0 traders.. and in the fight where you can decide who to join you should kill them aswell since they dont last long and give no exp if you sided them.. so you can kill them and after them the blackring members!

[NomNom]

Thanks guys! Decided I'll side with the magisters since, from an RP standpoint, my character only slays them if needed.