Story, Writing, Immersion
" Because the Beast from PoE1 iirc is there to keep the mad gods in check and when we go full murder hobo mode in there and kill the Beast, it's practically a doomsday event kindof. It's not 'chaotic' or corrupted in nature I think unlike the Beast II which seems to spread corruption wherever it goes. Plus, the story of PoE2 takes place after PoE1 so Beast I is dead. If someone knows the lore better, please correct me ^^ My Hideout -> https://hideoutshowcase.com/hideout/show/2881 (PoE1)
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" Well 'killing' the beast didn't cause a doomsday, that was just the gods waking up and doing their own thing in their mad rush to wake and finding themselves in a new place and time they likely don't remember, and at that point, had been living in a dream for millennium, and likely where a bit confused. Though it's not clear how different the Beast was as a result of Malachi's interference, but we still don't really know what he was planning, and if he succeeded or not. When you extract the Dark Ember, it's 'center' from which that flesh grew from, which Sin revived and extracted using Doedre, Shevronne and Maligaro. Also three people who remained active after dying several times. Peity too, dies several times over the course of the plot before it takes. It's flesh died, but the Beast never died in truth. It's ember remained, and perhaps will always remain. The center of the Spiral so to speak. As to those 'angry' about time travel and PoE using multi-versal theory, Incursion has been messing with the time line since it's release. Aliva has -always- been a time traveler in both of her appearances (very directly in Incursion, and again as Last to Die in Scourge). The vaal there have also gone forward in time when Incusions appeared on maps. We know time is a loop or a spiral from many sources, Hinekora during Ancestors is said to have lived those pervious pasts and that's why she's able to predict the future so well, she's seen a lot of it before. We know Last to Die has seen many versions of the end of time (most of which collapse into the Scourge), so we know they've -always- had looping timelines and interlinked universes. This is aside from the astounding amount of other noted details along those lines. And the original beast did spread corruption, we saw it from the Vaal Cataclysm, destroying the Vaal Empire in a day, and unleashing countless monstrosities (Just as it does in the end game here). The twisted horrors of the Eternal Cataclysm are all over the place, both the surviving gemlings that have devolved, but the experiments to spread corruption by Piety, the Gemling Miscreations (which are born of the beast, as the Gems are FROM highgate, where the Beast nested). Heck you see it directly from Piety and Dominus during their alternate bosses and phases directly. Both of those are those souls getting warped by the Beast (though Piety some how managed to pull herself out after some beating). WAAAY back in the early days (i.e before Einhar), the Forsaken Masters, Haku would talk a TON about the corruption (though he believed it was Kitava, as this was before 'the beast' was a word commonly used). Catarina talked of it by the name "The Darkness", saying the land was seeped in, "Given time and suitable conditions, the dead walk of their own volition in Wraeclast. Why? The Cataclysm remains. In soil and stone, water and air. Look closely, and you will see its dark hues, its corrupted radiance." All of these indicated the Eternal cataclysm let some of that 'beast' out, corrupting the area in a way that never got better on its own, resulting in many of the wrapped animals PoE1 constantly harps on about, and we see (ever wonder why the Rhoa in PoE 1 don't look like birds?), and stuff like Voll, the endlessly rising dead, and the hundreds of other indicators. It's also important to remember, PoE isn't written where it just flatly tells the player things, it's hinted, it's suggested, and the shape of things are made, but it's rare that the game just sits the player down and explains things. Last edited by Northern_Ronin#6465 on Jan 22, 2025, 1:13:36 PM
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" Well, thanks for correcting me, it seems my memory has failed me ^^ My Hideout -> https://hideoutshowcase.com/hideout/show/2881 (PoE1)
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