the Sebastian story-line is wild

[Zoltan]

so basically I ruined his whole life and destroyed his family lol. All because I wanted to learn some spells. On top of all that i sent the guy to Azkaban!!

There were multiple points along the way where i could have stopped him but I didnt, I kept egging him on sending him further and further down a dark path. And i got away with it all!!!

[rick.vanopdorp]

I don't fully agree. You can egg Sebastian on the whole way if you wish, that's true, but I think he would have done it all regardless. He is as obsessed with finding a cure for his sister as Ominis is with not messing with the Unforgivable Curses. (if not more so)

[Helldiver#0486]

sebastian: what have I done
mc: funny green spell go zap

[Machika]

Seeing how you can kill yourself via snakes in the Scriptorium and drink from the cup past the Crucio door which has been sitting there for hundreds of years. I don't know what was in it but if I don't die from it then it must be some really good stuff. Why do I have to be the smart one and do the puzzles?

[Elysia]

if he would just teached me the 3 curses in the beginning, maybe we didnt have to egg him so much to go farther down the dark hole

[Elysia]

i do am slightly said there isnt a followup quest in the end. because we as ancient magic user seems to be able to cure his sister from the pain

[gazeofdisaster]

I hate Sebastion. Every step of the way he cries about his sister without regarding how she feels about him devolving into a dependent lunatic that devolves into using unforgivable curses. You can try to talk reason into him every step of the way, but he just doesn't listen. If I had control, I would have left his deranged ... I wanted to side with his uncle. I wish that was an option.

[Falaris]

Originally posted by Elysia:

i do am slightly said there isnt a followup quest in the end. because we as ancient magic user seems to be able to cure his sister from the pain

That would be the real choice, wouldn't it? To do that despite the keepers really wanting you not to. But it's probably also not something you'd do in the timescale of the game; it'd take more finesse than you have with the ancient magic at the time. (You can throw rock and make things go snurgleboom, but that's about it; certainly no fine manipulation.).

[Unholy Abomination]

Fun fact about the questline. If you spare Sebastion and don't turn him in you can learn all the dark art spells by talking to him in the undercroft at the end of his questline; even if you turned down the offer to learn them while you were doing the questline.

[Falaris]

Originally posted by Unholy Abomination:

Fun fact about the questline. If you spare Sebastion and don't turn him in you can learn all the dark art spells by talking to him in the undercroft at the end of his questline; even if you turned down the offer to learn them while you were doing the questline.

That IS interesting. Thanks. Asmittedly, the curses have their time when they're strong, but for me it was before you actually got AK. By that time regular spells were so strong some of them one-shotted enemies, and adava kadevra has so long a cooldown you can only use it every 3-4 battles. It had its occasional use when you could use it to instakill an entire battlefield, though, but that felt more like a hard to setup gimmick than a real use.

[Alzakiel]

To be honest, i was kinda expecting to kill Sebastian after teaching us Avada Kedavra. But i guess that's too dark

[katzenkrimis]

Bad writing.

The kid wants to save his sister. The uncle wants to MMA you.

The girl cries like a baby the whole time, refusing help.

Then there's you, with dialogue options that are inapproriate in every single situation.

The entire time I was screaming for Obsidian Entertainment to intervene.

[<3 farmers cuz füd]

Originally posted by Alzakiel:

To be honest, i was kinda expecting to kill Sebastian after teaching us Avada Kedavra. But i guess that's too dark :lunar2019laughingpig:

When I encountered the crucio door and heard talk of a required dark sacrifice I thought the same

[Shahadem]

And it was never clear why we couldn't just remove the curse. Anything created with magic can be destroyed with magic.

I always have a problem with curses. They make no sense. What is the mechanism by which they function? Clearly they must have a power source, a focal point to anchor them, and some matrix to activate the functions of the curse.

[Bob Gnarly]

Originally posted by katzenkrimis:

Bad writing.

It was really cringe for me.

[Falaris]

Originally posted by Shahadem:

And it was never clear why we couldn't just remove the curse. Anything created with magic can be destroyed with magic.

I always have a problem with curses. They make no sense. What is the mechanism by which they function? Clearly they must have a power source, a focal point to anchor them, and some matrix to activate the functions of the curse.

In 'the goblet of fire' :
"While curses came in many strengths and forms, they were generally the most wicked, strongest, longest-lasting, and least reversible of the Dark charms. The Unforgivable Curses were the strongest known Dark charms in existence, as their effects were very powerful and their use required skill."

I am afraid that the explanation is 'magic'. The rules are seldom truly explained; and while we take classes, we don't actually get to read the books and gain actual knowledge of how to use spells and such. Partially because it would be boring, and partially because the books, and magic, don't actually exist. At least not in that form.