Galfrey's capacity to be the stupidest cunt possible to your character even as she believes you to be the fucking avatar of Iomedae is only rivaled by her possibly being the worst commander in the history of fiction. I'm pretty sure the only reason she spared Staunton is because she actually thought he had a good idea, considering she literally repeated it.
Galfrey is the cougar in this farce.
Nothing special. Dumb barbarian.
This is a common priority for Dispels.
Actual based take on current_year female politicians, Daeran's writing is pretty good.
Daeran doesn't just laugh at people's misfortunes though, he thrives on throwing salt onto people's wounds. Recall that story about Galfrey's friend/noble knight who died whose helmet he bought just to shit on the guy's memory. He's not as evil as Camellia, or as stupid as a demon cultist, but he is still an anti social misanthrope with a destructive personality. He also has no compunction about killing people to keep his secrets.
Yes.
I think he's doing them very much with regards to the consequences. He wants to humiliate people, to make them suffer or maybe even die because he himself is a miserable cunt with no way out of his predicament with the Other. He's just a misanthrope with a disregard for life, rather than a serial killer and a torturer. Spite is what drives him, rather than japery. And the only two exceptions to that rule are the PC (who is either a romance or a means to visit his spite on Mendev) and Ember (who is Ember).
Yep, it's a kind of nihilism. He's a dude who lost his family as a kid. He was a brat as a child sure, but it got much worse since his loss is tied to his moral compass. That is, he lost his mother arguably she stuck to the values of selflesness, valor, and everything Iomedae. He's also trapped in a cycle of misery from which he cannot escape except briefly and via rampant hedonism. Daeran is the sort of person to hire a bunch of bodyguards and then endanger himself, fully in the knowledge that his own servants will end up dead and with no chance of survival. He shows cruelty in the face of kindness or loyalty. It makes sense he's neutral evil too since that means he's more or less fated to Oblivion rather than Hell or the Abyss.
It's the Other that's offing people. Whatever Evil that's there is invariably CE (and consists principally of past stories) and that mellows out over time. He's certainly far afield from the usual cold malevolent nihilism of NE. The characteristic feature of NE is Death, which isn't Daeran. He's the life of too many parties, not the death. He's the only one that *lived* through the tragic event that the Inquisitor takes you back to.
