Can somebody please explain the whole deal with Darien? (Attractiveness)

Sylvermynx

I've never had any use for him - or any of the npcs really. Always glad when they're out of my hair once I'm done with the quest line.

I'll third Merric at-Aswala though. He came across to me as someone upstanding as well as interesting. But then, I tend to appreciate Redguards more than any other race except Breton, which gets about the same amount of appreciation.

LalMirchi

Pixels here,

Darien = Please love me

Jakarn = I am the cute

Ardanir= Alone in the Dark

karliahquinn

Team Bradan

https://ibb.co/tJZkNnh

vibeborn

Darien still owes me a drink nah I cannot afford to be picky, pixel or not

spartaxoxo

Sheezabeast wrote: »

Darien died. He should have stayed dead. I hate when ZOS brings back characters that died in my story. So Darien is a pest. While he was living, he was meh.

He was never dead and people had awaiting his return for years? They hinted from the very beginning he was special somehow and not dead. Gabrielle was determined to find him too.

Lisa

I think his confidence is his most endearing quality. During one interaction I recall him telling a female NPC that he'll be back someday (or something like that), and she was just like, "What are you talking about?" I laughed out loud. He's an adorable flirt.

Bradyfjord

He's a cute, dumb guy with a heart of gold. I'd sacrifice him to Boethia and be done with it.

M_Volsung

DawnsLight65 wrote: »

KalyanLazair wrote: »

Jakarn is flirty but I kind of like him. Darien, he was just sending me on pointless errands when it was imperative that we did what we had to do before Falchou realized I had managed to sneak into the town... and naturally he actually noticed. That's mainly the reason I want to punch him, lol.

I got to admit he did get better as the story progressed, and I did like the whole mystery behind his weird dreams.

Also, don't take me wrong. I don't hate the guy, it's actually neat that the devs managed to make me feel that way about him because that's a character I'm definitely not going to forget. He's kind of generic but he is ok, and the voice acting is nicely done. Still, my favorite main characters are Raz and Naryu. I love those two.

I love Raz and Naryu just loves to flirt doesnt she?

Yeah...

TheImperfect

I can see the Ardanir fascination.

bmnoble

Sheezabeast wrote: »

Darien died. He should have stayed dead. I hate when ZOS brings back characters that died in my story. So Darien is a pest. While he was living, he was meh.

The palace in Summerset has his final farewell in a lorebook, up the stairs on the right side on one of the benches at the back. I only recently found it myself when cleaning up side quests in various zones.

JoDiMageio

bmnoble wrote: »

Sheezabeast wrote: »

Darien died. He should have stayed dead. I hate when ZOS brings back characters that died in my story. So Darien is a pest. While he was living, he was meh.

The palace in Summerset has his final farewell in a lorebook, up the stairs on the right side on one of the benches at the back. I only recently found it myself when cleaning up side quests in various zones.

Well, "final farewells" appear to be loose terms in this game.
I have to admit to hoping that it's not the last time we hear from him.

LadyLethalla

Darien might be eye candy but his philandering broke my main's heart. Then she met Fennorian.

Sheezabeast

DawnsLight65 wrote: »

Sheezabeast wrote: »

Darien died. He should have stayed dead. I hate when ZOS brings back characters that died in my story. So Darien is a pest. While he was living, he was meh.

If he died and came back, he is either zombie or lich. He isnt a magic dealer, so Darien is a zombie. That should kill any romantic notions right there. Unless you are a necro-romancer.... pun intended.

spartaxoxo wrote: »

Sheezabeast wrote: »

Darien died. He should have stayed dead. I hate when ZOS brings back characters that died in my story. So Darien is a pest. While he was living, he was meh.

He was never dead and people had awaiting his return for years? They hinted from the very beginning he was special somehow and not dead. Gabrielle was determined to find him too.

In my perception, in my main story, he died. That's why I was disgusted to see him again in Summerset. He may have just disappeared, and reappeared, but in my perception, based on events and gameplay, I perceived him to be dead. Like how I perceived Sai Sahan to be dead when I chose him to be sacrificed. Only for him to be back, alive...fighting dragons...djalfjaewlfjqewfjewf I hate it I HATE IT I HATE IT with a passion when they don't stay dead because of a plot twist.

JoDiMageio

@Sheezabeast ... If you search enough in Wrothgar, you know well before Summerset that this isn't the case, though.

Edit: Also, in the MQ, it's never confirmed exactly what happens whereas other choices definitely had what seemed like more permanent consequences, and we never really get an explanation for that mess of companions returning willy nilly.

Sheezabeast

JoDiMageio wrote: »

@Sheezabeast ... If you search enough in Wrothgar, you know well before Summerset that this isn't the case, though.

Edit: Also, in the MQ, it's never confirmed exactly what happens...

I guess in my viewpoint I am only considering a playthrough that is seeing Darien from the viewpoint from someone who has completed Cadwell's Gold (all 3 zones) main story, and excluded DLCs in that characters continuity. So that is where I am thrown off, because to me, he died in the main story, base game, and then got brought back in a DLC to make ZOS money.

JoDiMageio

Sheezabeast wrote: »

JoDiMageio wrote: »

@Sheezabeast ... If you search enough in Wrothgar, you know well before Summerset that this isn't the case, though.

Edit: Also, in the MQ, it's never confirmed exactly what happens...

I guess in my viewpoint I am only considering a playthrough that is seeing Darien from the viewpoint from someone who has completed Cadwell's Gold (all 3 zones) main story, and excluded DLCs in that characters continuity. So that is where I am thrown off, because to me, he died in the main story, base game, and then got brought back in a DLC to make ZOS money.

Ah ok, in that case I definitely understand.

In terms of overall sensical stuffs, though, at least they had the decency to explain what happens with Darien, so his return is less of a shocker if your character travels to Wrothgar.

I am 100% with you on the return of the others, though.
Just. No.

Sheezabeast

JoDiMageio wrote: »

Sheezabeast wrote: »

JoDiMageio wrote: »

@Sheezabeast ... If you search enough in Wrothgar, you know well before Summerset that this isn't the case, though.

Edit: Also, in the MQ, it's never confirmed exactly what happens...

I guess in my viewpoint I am only considering a playthrough that is seeing Darien from the viewpoint from someone who has completed Cadwell's Gold (all 3 zones) main story, and excluded DLCs in that characters continuity. So that is where I am thrown off, because to me, he died in the main story, base game, and then got brought back in a DLC to make ZOS money.

Ah ok, in that case I definitely understand.

In terms of overall sensical stuffs, though, at least they had the decency to explain what happens with Darien, so his return is less of a shocker if your character travels to Wrothgar.

I am 100% with you on the return of the others, though.
Just. No.

Yes, that is true, they do link it well in the two DLCs.

I just wish it didn't cheapen his sacrifice. He 'died' a heroic death, I won't deny him that. It's just...every new character I do a main story on now, it's like...oh there goes Darien, he doesn't really die here...

Sju

He's a womanizer, and a *** canoe. But at the same time, he was kind of a likeable character.

JoDiMageio

Sheezabeast wrote: »

JoDiMageio wrote: »

Sheezabeast wrote: »

JoDiMageio wrote: »

@Sheezabeast ... If you search enough in Wrothgar, you know well before Summerset that this isn't the case, though.

Edit: Also, in the MQ, it's never confirmed exactly what happens...

I guess in my viewpoint I am only considering a playthrough that is seeing Darien from the viewpoint from someone who has completed Cadwell's Gold (all 3 zones) main story, and excluded DLCs in that characters continuity. So that is where I am thrown off, because to me, he died in the main story, base game, and then got brought back in a DLC to make ZOS money.

Ah ok, in that case I definitely understand.

In terms of overall sensical stuffs, though, at least they had the decency to explain what happens with Darien, so his return is less of a shocker if your character travels to Wrothgar.

I am 100% with you on the return of the others, though.
Just. No.

Yes, that is true, they do link it well in the two DLCs.

I just wish it didn't cheapen his sacrifice. He 'died' a heroic death, I won't deny him that. It's just...every new character I do a main story on now, it's like...oh there goes Darien, he doesn't really die here...

I like to see the different viewpoints here. I never saw the original disappearance as a sacrifice. Wrong place, wrong time, poof! Whereas what happens in Summerset... Made me like the guy that much more. I see that as the true sacrifice.

Which, to keep this relevant to OP's question, may add to all the admirers!

LadyLethalla

Sheezabeast wrote: »

Like how I perceived Sai Sahan to be dead when I chose him to be sacrificed.

Sai's lines on his reappearance made little sense to me because I only ever chose Varen to die. IMO they should have made him say something relevant depending on the player's choice at that juncture.

hasi

JoDiMageio wrote: »

Sheezabeast wrote: »

JoDiMageio wrote: »

@Sheezabeast ... If you search enough in Wrothgar, you know well before Summerset that this isn't the case, though.

Edit: Also, in the MQ, it's never confirmed exactly what happens...

I guess in my viewpoint I am only considering a playthrough that is seeing Darien from the viewpoint from someone who has completed Cadwell's Gold (all 3 zones) main story, and excluded DLCs in that characters continuity. So that is where I am thrown off, because to me, he died in the main story, base game, and then got brought back in a DLC to make ZOS money.

Ah ok, in that case I definitely understand.

In terms of overall sensical stuffs, though, at least they had the decency to explain what happens with Darien, so his return is less of a shocker if your character travels to Wrothgar.

I am 100% with you on the return of the others, though.
Just. No.

ALSO, in the Gold Coast you can meet Gabrielle Bernele still searching for him. She says he might not be dead, because his body was never found.

In CWC he's also part of the prophecy concerning Summerset, although we did not know back then.

Darien's Story was planned like this from the start, it's not as random as Lyris/Sai returning if you sacrificed them.

Nightowl_74

He's flirtatious and funny but guileless, which is an attractive combination.

AlnilamE

Minyassa wrote: »

He's not really my type as far as attraction goes, but I did grow to like him enough to be really upset at his fate and to hope that something can be done about it. His growth and development as a person and his sincerity with his help later made me feel friendly toward him. It probably helps that I haven't played any female characters around him so he's never flirted with me. Jakarn isn't really my type either but I'll admit he got me grinning a few times.

Yeah, pretty much this.

He's like a friend that's always getting into trouble. You start off thinking "who's that bozo" and then he grows on you.

zaria

DawnsLight65 wrote: »

zaria wrote: »

Well this one and Raz is more interesting.
Now at the confrontation with the other three Khajiit ladies Raz ignored Zaria even then she was there with his son.

As you see he is just like his father. Still Raz is something special.

which zone is this?

That is at the end of Elsweyr zone quest, you got an party at the palace as you won and got an new queen.
You can talk to various npc you ran into during quests and Raz pet ended up in an inappropriate position to an alfiq.

Note that pets position is local, had one there it looked like he was playing with the tail of an Argonian in out dungeon group
But the Argonian saw him at another location.

TiaFrye

Darien: The one man who sacrificed himself so you and the world could live another day and says that he wouldn't do that for anyone else but you
People: Still not over Raz and Naryu, characters who would kill you without any hesitation if they're ordered to do so, friends or no

Ah, figures.

spartaxoxo

Sheezabeast wrote: »

JoDiMageio wrote: »

@Sheezabeast ... If you search enough in Wrothgar, you know well before Summerset that this isn't the case, though.

Edit: Also, in the MQ, it's never confirmed exactly what happens...

I guess in my viewpoint I am only considering a playthrough that is seeing Darien from the viewpoint from someone who has completed Cadwell's Gold (all 3 zones) main story, and excluded DLCs in that characters continuity. So that is where I am thrown off, because to me, he died in the main story, base game, and then got brought back in a DLC to make ZOS money.

I guess. But if you exclude dlc from the characters continuity, it's to be expected you may miss major character development that happens in your absence. Even in a game with more respected choices, it would have played out with his return. Because it was foreshadowed from the beginning, and he didn't rely on the vestige to save him from the colored rooms.

In the Main quest it's hinted pretty heavily with Darien's strange dreams that he's got a closer daedric connection to the plot than anyone else in the story. But never revealed quite how other than he's supposed to be there.

Gabrielle in the MQ says she don't actually know what happened to Darien, but she thinks he's gone simply because he's not in the chapel.

In Wrothgar, he writes a note begging for help and mentions he's in the colored rooms. In Anvil, Gabrielle realizes he couldn't be dead but he's not on Nirn, and is trying to solve the mystery. If you found the note, she says that it's Meridia's realm.

Then in CWC his return is hinted at with the grand prognosticator telling of a golden knight.

And then he finally returns in Summerset as Meridia's champion. She's been playing this daedric game a long time and used him for her purposes. That's what it was all about, what his strange fate has always been about.

You can finally inform Gabrielle of his fate in Greymoor.

The Darien we know is dead, sacrificing himself deep down in a weird way he always knew he would. If he ever comes back, it won't be as the Darien we knew. Which he explicitly states.

Hallothiel

From all the things in game, I came to the conclusion that he’s not human but a construct of Meridia’s, a personification of her desire to influence things indirectly, and that’s why he such an archetypal ‘hunk’; but that rubbing shoulders with reality had an affect on him & changed him so was less her puppet now.

redlink1979

He makes me laugh.
Some of those moments:

"I wonder if there are any beautiful ladies in Coldharbour? Or is that a different Daedric Prince?"

"You don't have to worry about me. I've got plenty of options for companionship. Take Gwendis, for instance. She might be a vampire, but she's got a great set of … um … fangs."

"Take them out? But we just got here. We want to help take down Montclair! Neither of us has had a good fight in … well, it's been at least a couple of minutes."

jssriot

First, he's a bunch of pixels and I'm not sexually nor romantically attracted to pixels. Anything attractive about him would be in how he's written and acted. But he's voiced by Jon Curry who also voiced (in addition to many other ESO NPCs) Marcurio in Skyrim, who's my fav follower in that game and, like Deacon from FO4, I basically see as an old friend I go on road trips down memory lane with. Granted, I really, really like Curry's voice acting for Darien, but because I'm so aware it's Jon Curry, Prolific Voice Actor, some of the immersion gets lost, and so it's more of an appreciation for how Darien is written and acted. But as talented as Jon Curry is, I don't find his voice to be what I find "hot" and I don't really like that "hey, there, pretty lady" type that Darien is, at least before the end of the Main Quest.

There ARE two male voices actors in ESO I think have super sexy voices--Steven Jay Blum, who most notably voiced Jakarn, and Robbie Daymond, who voiced Dirge Truptor and Fennorian. ZOS really needs to give those two more work. Also whoever voiced Novice Holli, the daily delve quest giver in CWC--dang, I wish I had a smexy, smokey voice like her.

FrancisCrawford

In the main quest, Darien disappeared in a burst of magic. This is a dangerous thing to experience, obviously, but it is NOT necessarily fatal. So, no, he didn't die then, even if we assume that life/death are exactly the same for him as they are for ordinary mortals (who lack resurrection magic).

What's more, while he certainly appears to have reached the end of the line in Summerset/The Colored Rooms/whatever, there's a little wiggle room in that the assessment that he's done for could be mistaken (or have relied on Meridia not changing her mind later).