My main issue with the Last Epoch storyline is that it assumes the player character is dumb

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I mean, we kill the Immortal Emperor’s Spymaster, Zerrick, who allegedly was the one who eradicated the Majasa. Then we go help Zerrick, a spymaster who plans to deal with the Majasa once we place him in a position of power.

Then we go help Captain Harton, who ends up disillusioned by the gods and looking for a new purpose in life; and that happens right after we kill Admiral Harton, another of the Emperor’s main allies who happens to still have a preserved head over his undead body, and a head that looks strikingly similar to that of Captain Harton.

WTF?

And then there’s Yulia. The Imperial version could just tell us who’s the very mysterious person who becomes the Immortal Emperor (Gael) so we could kill him and burn his body until there’s nothing left to reanimate. But nooooo, she doesn’t tell us anything.

Same thing with Apophis/the Oracle. Instead of telling us about her past, our future, she’s just cryptic and that’s it.

I really hope EHG pulls a “the player character knows things the player doesn’t” at the end of the storyline. Otherwise, it would feel like our characters are incredibly, incredibly dumb.

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Fair about Zerrick and Harton: these are names that the character has run into, and should probably connect the dots. They know they are dealing with some form of time travel by the time they reach the divine era, after all.

But on the other hand, maybe the only way to avoid a paradox is to then let the events progress to lead to the outcome the traveler has already experienced. We can’t backstab Zerrick or push Harton overboard because they were both key figures in establishing the immortal empire, and our journey through that empire was pivotal for us reaching the divine era at all.

Apophis not telling us anything the first time we see her is clearly to her advantage.

Which makes me think that if the immortal emperor is Grael, maybe Yulia would prefer that he remains alive until that point. It’s likely he was necessary to win the fight against the other gods.