[Solstice Spoilers] Really Appreciate ZOS Bringing Him Back

xbluerosesx · July 24

Thought they forgot about

Darien Gautier

it was a surprise to see him alive and well, a welcome one for sure

Didn't expect them to kill off

Gabrielle Benele

tho, especially after they were confirmed to be a thing. I know they established the

Gift of Death to exchange one life for another

to be irreversible, but I hope they don't find some lame reset button to bring her back when Eastern Solstice comes out. Like they did with Curate Gadayn in Gold Road and Arana in the Markarth DLC. It's cheap and lame, kills all tension, especially in an M-rated game. No need to treat us with kid gloves, ZOS.

Now if you give us an option to flirt with

Darien

in Eastern Solstice, it'd be great. XD

Grizzbeorn · July 24

You need to add what storyline these are spoiling.

LunaFlora · July 24

yea you should really make sure the title mentions that this post has spoilers for the Solstice/the Seasons of the Worm Cult story

xbluerosesx · July 24

Done

thought everyone would have went through Solstice by now considering how tiny it is for a new zone

darkriketz · July 24

xbluerosesx wrote: »

Done

thought everyone would have went through Solstice by now considering how tiny it is for a new zone

You do know that many people don't believe in Season Passes, right ?
For my part, whatever the platform, I buy existing gaming content that I can gather actual informations on, I don't gamble on what may or may not be created in the future.

Katheriah · July 24

Just flirting with him isn't enough...

cyclonus11 · July 24

xbluerosesx wrote: »

I know they established the
Gift of Death to exchange one life for another
to be irreversible, but I hope they don't find some lame reset button to bring her back when Eastern Solstice comes out. Like they did with Curate Gadayn in Gold Road and Arana in the Markarth DLC. It's cheap and lame, kills all tension, especially in an M-rated game. No need to treat us with kid gloves, ZOS.

It was activated inside Meridia's realm, though, so it could easily not have functioned as the Gift of Death even though it "looked" like it at the time.

Djennku · July 25

Just chiming in here. The "gift of Death" turned out tobe a corrupted meridia lantern which got cleansed when activated in meridia's own realm.

Since Darian is (unconfirmed, but my impression so far), blood-related to Meridia, unless I missed some lore in summerset, who knows what might happen once part 2 drops. I am excited to see what happens, because even if the story is a bit pedictable, ZoS has always delivered with very cinematic-feeling final boss battles, which I am very much a fan of.

Katheriah · July 25

She can't be dead-dead because she is still sending me antiquity messages for the codex.

ArchMikem · July 25

Djennku wrote: »

Just chiming in here. The "gift of Death" turned out tobe a corrupted meridia lantern which got cleansed when activated in meridia's own realm.

Since Darian is (unconfirmed, but my impression so far), blood-related to Meridia, unless I missed some lore in summerset, who knows what might happen once part 2 drops. I am excited to see what happens, because even if the story is a bit pedictable, ZoS has always delivered with very cinematic-feeling final boss battles, which I am very much a fan of.

Darien is a Champion of Meridia, possibly a construct of her own making, meaning he's never been a proper Mortal, Meridia put him on Tamriel for a purpose, most likely to help defeat Molag Bal and the Planemeld, but now he's continuing to serve past that, even if he thinks he has his own free will.

I'm not a big fan of named characters getting killed off like this, since ZOS refuses to establish a canon series of events with game content. The whole "Everything is happening simultaneously in the same year" thing. The events on Solstice are obviously written as a Sequel to the Base Game Questline, but even still, it's very confusing for a player to go through Solstice, see Gabrielle die, then go off to Glenumbra or the Gold Coast for the first time and suddenly she's alive again.

Maitsukas · July 25

Katheriah wrote: »

She can't be dead-dead because she is still sending me antiquity messages for the codex.

Just like

Darien left a note in Wrothgar and a book in Alinor.

Elvenheart · July 25

I want them to bring Gabrielle back somehow. 😟

YstradClud · July 26

I noticed they also brought an Alfiq back as well although I don't think we have met Sashii before.

xbluerosesx · July 29

Katheriah wrote: »

Just flirting with him isn't enough...

if only we could marry NPCs like in Skyrim :')

Katheriah wrote: »

Just flirting with him isn't enough...

Darien dating sim when?

xbluerosesx · July 29

cyclonus11 wrote: »

xbluerosesx wrote: »

I know they established the
Gift of Death to exchange one life for another
to be irreversible, but I hope they don't find some lame reset button to bring her back when Eastern Solstice comes out. Like they did with Curate Gadayn in Gold Road and Arana in the Markarth DLC. It's cheap and lame, kills all tension, especially in an M-rated game. No need to treat us with kid gloves, ZOS.

It was activated inside Meridia's realm, though, so it could easily not have functioned as the Gift of Death even though it "looked" like it at the time.

This is the sort of thing I'm talking about. No more cheap reset buttons. This is TES not Disney

Araneae6537 · July 30

I was really hoping somehow that Verandis would find a way back… alas!

Darien

strikes me as obnoxious as Jakarth. Few things are as obnoxious as people/characters utterly full of themselves — Naryu (on Telvanni Peninsula, I actually liked her in Morrowind), Darien, Jakarth, probably others I’m forgetting… IMO, only Razum-dar can pull it off and still be somehow endearing!

But I agree with part of the point of this post — quests with choices and consequences should be lasting. Undoing that, whether by bringing a character back to life or erasing character development (Eveli) without a REALLY good reason and explanation diminishes the experience.

TX12001rwb17_ESO · July 30

They need to revive Gabrielle because otherwise the game has a massive plothole, she is still present in dozens of Antiquity codex entries, even some on Solstice, also you do not really wanna see people who are supposed to be dead in other zones alive and well.

cyclonus11 · July 30

xbluerosesx wrote: »

cyclonus11 wrote: »

xbluerosesx wrote: »

I know they established the
Gift of Death to exchange one life for another
to be irreversible, but I hope they don't find some lame reset button to bring her back when Eastern Solstice comes out. Like they did with Curate Gadayn in Gold Road and Arana in the Markarth DLC. It's cheap and lame, kills all tension, especially in an M-rated game. No need to treat us with kid gloves, ZOS.

It was activated inside Meridia's realm, though, so it could easily not have functioned as the Gift of Death even though it "looked" like it at the time.

This is the sort of thing I'm talking about. No more cheap reset buttons. This is TES not Disney

Nah - I'd rather they bring Gabrielle back and put Darien back in prison.

It's also not a cheap reset button - it's explained in the quest that the thing was created by Meridia and by bringing it to her realm, it was cleansed. Activating it within her realm isn't going to function like the Gift of Death on Nirn. So not only is it feasible that Gabrielle isn't permanently dead, it should be expected.