The Cerim is missing a compelling in game reason for certain actions.
WHY DO WE HELP ODESSA?
The first time we meet her, she gets the crew killed, the ship, and nearly us as well! And we just go along with her request because, why? She asked us? Why do we aid her, rather than telling her to get bent or rot? I get it, she’s full of more passion and frustration than common sense. There can be a reason to help, I just want to know what it is. Saying “because the audience likes her” or “because video game” aren’t good enough.
WHY DO WE HELP SELINE?
Seline is a massive cunt. Condescending, high-handed, more than happy to swing the massive throbbing dick of her political power around and across the face of anyone she encounters. She then goes on to tear down Chesterton’s Fence. Again, we help her. Why? Because she asked us? again “because she’s hot” or “because video game” don’t cut it. And that reason needs to be really fucking good, as we are there expressly to deal with the infection and what Seline wants is in opposition to our main objective. Now there absolutely can be a reason, it just needs to be compelling and the writers can’t or at least shouldn’t be allowed to lazy their way out of this.
These are all great characters, well realized, well rendered, and well performed, I want the Cerim to be just as good.
in every other interaction with her, she was helping further your goals. you arent going to deny odessas’ lead to find darak because shes bad, and it also makes no sense to stop trying to fix marin village because she tried to kill you once
WHY DO WE HELP SELINE?
I dont even know if you actually help seline in that scene. Maybe the cerim was just not actually trying to open it. The gate itself told you not to open it. In no other circumstance you actually help seline
i think youre just massively misunderstanding the point of the story, and has some weird thing against siding with people that once werent in your side or you dont like. If seline suddenly started doing something really good and wise, its not like the cerim would oppose just because “uhh shes rude”
1- We don’t really help Odessa until Marin Village. We follow her lead to the sewers because the game gives you other clues that Darak is planning something right under the noses of Sacrament. So we use whatever intel we get, including Odessa, to help a struggling town. A town that’s struggling against the PESTILENCE, the very reason the Cerim exist.
We then help Odessa in Marin Village because the Marin Village is full of innocent people. We didn’t join the Risen, nobody tried to depose Ellsworth. In fact, we give Odessa the horn because we trust Ellsworth judgement, he’s a good man and it’s obvious Odessa wants to help, just in the wrong way.
2- We help Seline because the alternative is the Inquisition razing Sacrament to the ground. Realize here, you are one single Cerim. They are just a contingent of the mainland army, with the imprimatur of the king. If you openly challenge or sabotage the envoys of Phalen, you risk bringing the full wrath of the church and king not only on the Cerim order, but on the denizens of Sacra.
So what you do is you try to get involved to mitigate the amount of damage Seline’s mistakes will do.
That’s one part. The other is that regardless of how you see Seline, her motives are good. Caylen IS presumed to still be alive and in a desperate struggle behind the gate. You’ve seen the nightmares in front of Sacrament’s gate and Marin Village. Obviously, Seline wants to be the savior of her hometown.
Her blind faith just prevents her from seeing that she doesn’t know as much about the situation as she thinks she does.