Talk:Salvation/@comment-24524001-20140226152940

Since I played a lot of The Elder Scrolls titles I can't help but to think about Salvation's resemblane to Mythic Dawn (same with Rift = planes of Oblivion)... although, to be fair, it's not like we haven't heard about people like Elysion or groups bent on destroying the world long before those.

In fact, detroying the world, "cuz it's evil/broken" (Daimon's motivation as well) seems to be one of the favorite motives of villains in Japanese stories...

In our western culture bad guys are usualy bad, because they're bad (I'm speaking in VERY generalized terms here) and that's it - I suppose this "I'll destroy the world to save it or in an act of mercy" is an attempt to give villains a bit of complexity. It can work well if it's done right since in reality people are rarely are evil "cuz they're evil" - we tend to justify or rationalize our actions no matter how bad it is after all.

STILL....

Yet again this stuff about Elysion or Salvation's history is NOWHERE to be found in the game :/ I mean - what the hell? The only thing I could extrapolate from the in-game story is that Elysion's rotting eye probably contributed greatly to his madness. Other than that... what's there?