The cataclysm of the beast has caused an ancient protocol to be invoked.

In the 0.5 video introduction to "The Ancients" the following narration occurs:

"The cataclysm of the beast has caused an ancient protocol to be invoked. Should corruption ever take hold to this degree, the world must be scourged and purged of destruction."

Why aren't we on the same side? Right now the implied chain is:

1) The Beast corrupted the world
2) Corruption reached catastrophic levels
3) Ancient purge protocol activates
4) These entities arrive to cleanse corruption
5) and we stop them? LOL

I'm probably missing something in the Lore so can someone set me straight on my initial thought that The Ancient's & Exile's common interest align.

Maybe they are going to wipe out the world...but not if we get there first! We've already been on the path of wiping out the world LOL Literally, everyone is going to die except 20 people hanging around in 6 towns.

Are we saving the world or preserving the cycle?

We're saving the good people of the world. The slavers, Doriyani, Tavakai, etc.

I dont think the ancients idea of 'cleansing' is compatable with human life.

If im in a life and death battle with a beast and someone drops a nuke on my head I wouldnt consider them my ally.

Also, guess who created the seed of corruption to begin with? The guys with the nukes.

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AbyssianOne#1625 wrote:

We're saving the good people of the world. The slavers, Doriyani, Tavakai, etc.

I LOL'd at this.

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Direfell#7544 wrote:

I dont think the ancients idea of 'cleansing' is compatable with human life.

If im in a life and death battle with a beast and someone drops a nuke on my head I wouldnt consider them my ally.

Also, guess who created the seed of corruption to begin with? The guys with the nukes.

Got it, didn't know they created the seed of corruption. Figured the storyline was going to be that they will destroy the world and we need to stop them.

So, basically, they want to destroy 100% of the world. By the time we meet them, we've destroyed 85% of it. We're the good guys.

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600lbpanther#3839 wrote:

We're the good guys.

I mean, the characters aren't supposed to be heroes. They're just struggling to survive. The closest to a good guy would probably be the warrior I guess, but even he is sort of morally grey

That said, I do agree the writing is quite weak

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600lbpanther#3839 wrote:

Got it, didn't know they created the seed of corruption. Figured the storyline was going to be that they will destroy the world and we need to stop them.

So, basically, they want to destroy 100% of the world. By the time we meet them, we've destroyed 85% of it. We're the good guys.

From their view it might be more like resseting the world rather than destroy.

We also don't know the state of the ancient's civilization. It could all be autonomoous systems triggered by the beast with the architects long dead.

I can see where you're coming from though. I'm not a fan of having a heroes journey or call to action in my rpg's, but even I listen to Sin and think, "why the hell am I doing what you tell me too?"

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iHiems#0168 wrote:

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600lbpanther#3839 wrote:

We're the good guys.

I mean, the characters aren't supposed to be heroes. They're just struggling to survive. The closest to a good guy would probably be the warrior I guess, but even he is sort of morally grey

That said, I do agree the writing is quite weak

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Direfell#7544 wrote:

From their view it might be more like resseting the world rather than destroy.

We also don't know the state of the ancient's civilization. It could all be autonomoous systems triggered by the beast with the architects long dead.

I can see where you're coming from though. I'm not a fan of having a heroes journey or call to action in my rpg's, but even I listen to Sin and think, "why the hell am I doing what you tell me too?"

I'm always a sucker for the heroes journey. Hope they can continue to tighten up the storyline. Thank you gentlemen for your responses.

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600lbpanther#3839 wrote:

I'm always a sucker for the heroes journey. Hope they can continue to tighten up the storyline. Thank you gentlemen for your responses.

Agreed. When I saw the caravan being pulled by slaves in A2 my Monk even commented "Slavery bad." but then continued to be buddies with the slavers I thought it was a bit off. Then when we board the evil Jamanra's caravan and find it's being pulled by huge tame beasts and that was an option all along I started questioning the story.

All the people who jump on the "we're not supposed to be good guys" bandwagon have no logic behind it. We start off Act 1 trying to help some folk, quest after quest helping out. Then we start following the evil beast to try to stop it? Yeah, that's the good guys, theoretically. Morally gray or evil would be fucking off to do your own thing instead.

It's almost like the lore is actually ass.

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AbyssianOne#1625 wrote:

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600lbpanther#3839 wrote:

I'm always a sucker for the heroes journey. Hope they can continue to tighten up the storyline. Thank you gentlemen for your responses.

Agreed. When I saw the caravan being pulled by slaves in A2 my Monk even commented "Slavery bad." but then continued to be buddies with the slavers I thought it was a bit off. Then when we board the evil Jamanra's caravan and find it's being pulled by huge tame beasts and that was an option all along I started questioning the story.

All the people who jump on the "we're not supposed to be good guys" bandwagon have no logic behind it. We start off Act 1 trying to help some folk, quest after quest helping out. Then we start following the evil beast to try to stop it? Yeah, that's the good guys, theoretically. Morally gray or evil would be fucking off to do your own thing instead.

Have you played the witch? She's pretty much chaotic evil. If not for mutual benefit, she definitely wouldn't care about anyone

The monk is sort of a priest/soldier trained since little, but that doesn't mean a priest has to be "good". He does what he thinks is right for his faith and that's about it. You can tell by his lines that he's very detached from anything that isn't related to his faith