Talk:Edmun Dragonsbane/@comment-24524001-20140210192105/@comment-101.176.134.14-20140213143844

When it comes to saving Aelinore and having fairly trivial, short-lived consequences, well that could be for numerous, viable reasons. I think the most obvious reason is that Capcom was a bit lazy and just wanted a quest that presented the Duke as a stranger character than initially thought, along with presenting the player the potential consequences for crime in general.

But if you want to discuss the narrative side of things, well that's very different. What comes to mind for me is that the Duke still needed the assistance of the Arisen. Obviously if the Arisen was a less important character that had walked in on them, the Duke could just have him executed or indefinitely imprisoned/re-imprisoned after escape. But the Arisen is apparently the only real means of quelling the Dragon's attacks.

And that may leave the question as to why Edmun doesn't have the Arisen executed/imprisoned indefinitely on grounds of the potential for Edmun's pact with the Dragon to be undone. And I believe there are fairly reasonable explanations for that.

One simple one is that the Duke is unaware that the Arisen killing the Dragon will undo his pact, and obviously with the Arisen being the best means of dealing with the Dragon, is too useful to be kept imprisoned. Another is that Edmun has done his best to prolong the pact and his place on the throne, but prioritizes the Dragon's death over all, and just does his best to cling on to the throne once the Dragon has been dispatched and his true form has been revealed.

No doubt there are other explanations, but at any rate, the point is that the possible explanations, although speculation, can be quite reasonable.