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Yes, if you use swornbreaker he cannot force you to do anything. But this is permament decision and he will hate you for enternity for it.
But God King is not a good guy, even if you look at this misfortune and the backstab from the Seven.
I could make a large of list of why he is bad and even the Seven look as reasonable individuals when compared to him.
All the info I have at this point in the game is that he told Fane not to meddle with powers he didn't understand, Fane ignored him and went to the 7, the 7 went mad with power and massacred everyone else and now the god king is trying to put an end to them.
He is a good guy. Might be other things that are revealed later but... I mean Amadia herself gloated about committing genocide, it's going to take a lot for the god king to be worse than that. But like I said I'd rather not be spoiled.
The Seven are also bunch of tyrants, dont get me wrong. But God King is worse.
Damn. Guess I am going to stay sworn then. The [Sworn] dialogue is all annoying though and implying that my char isn't acting of their own will which is why I was asking... RIP me I guess.
You signed up the deal with the Devil and these are the consequences. You traded your freedom and will for power. Oh and because you are an undead, you will serve the King for enternity.
There was never any mentions of freedom or will in the conversation or any previous conversations. The conversation actually revolved around trying to redeem yourself for your failure which kind of implies willfull action.
Not sure where you're getting this "gave your freedom and will to the devil" malarkey from... Closest I can see is where the eternal tells you that you must "do what the god king demands when the time comes" but that's kind of to be expected considering my history is causing an apocalypse for second guessing him. If I were a puppet he wouldn't need to tell me to obey, I'd just obey.
Well, do you know what happens if you defy the god king ?
It ranges from being cursed to instant death if you dont do as he says.
Oh and the "redemption", the god king ending is considered by the players as the evil ending of the game for a good reason. But you shall see
I am aware of this due to being spoiled while looking for something else, but you don't actually have this info at the point in the story I am at. You actually have contradictory info, as two of the gaggle of people on your ship both defied the covenant and seem to have no negative repercussions from it (Succubus and Amputee).
That being said, at this point in the game you've already had the 7 try to kill you for failing so he's still the good guy comparatively even if he does end up threatening you with death.
Actually it just occurred to me. The first time you fail the 7 they immediately try to murder you meanwhile you see that the god king saves the assassin from the start of the game repeatedly despite her failing so that actually portrays the god king as merciful.
If Larian are trying to make this guy the baddie, they're not doing a very good job of it.
He is more patient that the Seven, that is true, but usually if you keep failing him, he will make your actual death the most gruesome thing possible as he rips your soul apart, piece by piece, memory by memory. I'll say that you will meet the Assassin again in Arx but this time, God King has a new toy and the old one has outlived its usefulness.
But, wait for the ending.
I'd love to talk more about it once you've finished the game, though.
Slavery (clearly stated) and genocide (Not stated in the game, but you can guess it, what to do with undesirables and weak individuals who cant do hard labour ?) is what i would assume a super bad guy would be remembered for. Its true that other endings arent objectively bad, either they are flawed in a way or its a short lived victory. The closest thing to good ending is non-origin godwoken (Due to no bias and grudges) becoming the divine if he/she was a good boy, but game doesnt tell us if he/she doesnt turn in to another Lucian so its still not a clean end, none of them are.
So he'll inflict on you the thing that your god both created the other races for and ordered you to do to everyone you meet because "You're a lion amongst sheep"..? (I beleive they all have that line.)
Again, if Larian are trying to make him the villain they seem to be doing a bad job.
I am not "telling myself" anything. I am using comparatively because people say that he is evil and I assume he is or is at least meant to be (I mean hell he is the "god king from the void", just the name alone tells you he is supposed to be evil). Problem is that you're not given any indication in the game that he is evil. Closest thing to an indication that he is evil is that he doesn't value life that much, except he values it more than all of the other divine agents you interact with so even there it falls flat.
As someone else said it seems like they're going for a shades of grey kind of approach where everyone is evil but once everyone's evil your struggle is kind of meaningless :D.