Episode 3 Finale Sneak Peek #8

SPOILER WARNING

The following preview is of the Episode 3 finale. If you have not played the alpha build up to the very end of its current content, or if you would like to avoid major spoilers for how things play out, you may want to skip this post. As the finale is very dependent on companion and approval levels, prior actions, and player choice, the following is only a sample of what may occur on some routes.

[CHOICE] 3. “Tell me something, Quirinus. How does one become both a heretic and a Grand Archsage? Seems to me the two don’t go together.” 

Quirinus throws his back and bursts into laughter. “Oh, my dear,” he says with a devilish smile. “What a question! What a thought! And how easily said—only a Wayfarer could put it such a way, truly.” 

“Are you going to answer the question or not?” 

“Yes, I think I just might.” His smile only grows. “Simply because of your charming phrasing.” 

“I assure you I have no intention to charm.” 

“Of course. That much is evident.” He regards you evenly. How long as he been waiting for this, you wonder? This moment where he can proudly unveil his intentions and present his true self. He is relishing in it. “Heretic. A fascinating word, don’t you think? Misbeliever. Cynic. Skeptic. The Meissandium would say I am all these things and more, and yet we maintain an amiable relationship.” 

“That’s it then? You keep your mouth shut and the Meissandium is happy to turn a blind eye?” 

“We may have our disagreements, but I am not such a fool so as not to recognize their position and worth. Regardless of my personal beliefs, I am still of value to them, just as they are to me. I am the first triple-attuned individual to be born to this world; my existence proves their doctrine as much as it proves my own theorems.” He pauses. “Do you know what it was that first declared me a heretic? A spark. An idea. A concept. That magic is perhaps not limited by its laws as we know them. That perhaps there is more to the Hexatheon’s influence upon the Hexade than we first believed. But to the Meissandium to posit there are more spheres of magic than the six we know is sacrilege, for it would imply the unthinkable.” 

Your jaw clenches. You don’t like where this is going. “What?” 

“That perhaps the pantheon is larger than just the six.” He pauses, watching you carefully. “I see you find the idea unsettling.” 

“I’m not unsettled.” Frankly you don’t know what to think, but you’re not about to let him know that. “These are questions that don’t need answers, it doesn’t change that I am magianis and everything that comes with it.” 

“And if it did?”