Update Time!

Instead of going to find Maximus, I instead ran into Sigfrei, a character from Bailmont's story who is wandering about and causing mischief. I stopped him from trying to summon a primordial spirit in the region Urpina's future sister-in-law is from and even managed to find the guys homeland which involved a wild questline involving a wishing tree that arrows with notes keep getting shot into sending Urpina on a wild fetch quest. This questline had a pretty cool ending to it so I won't spoil it. Another questline I was doing involved a doppelganger of Urpina that kept causing trouble in her home region, but actually... was really helping out. This quest didn't have quite the satisfying ending I wanted, but it was still fun, especially when the doppelganger got Urpina secretly engaged to a local girl named Lady, who eventually joined my entourage.

Currently, I'm back in the region where I fought the Sarvok cultist and it looks like Sigfrei's own cultist are trying to summon another primal spiritual. We'll see how this goes.

I do love the game's world building. There is a minstrel figure you can occasionally run into who sings tales about the region or the Celestials. There is a also an acing troupe that perform plays about the Firebringer and his past. There is some good mythology going on here with the Firebringer getting some interesting characterization. He's portrayed as a Loki style figure being a trickster god who spent half his time screwing over the Spirituals and infernals for the Celestials sake, and the other half of the time being a pain in the ass to the Celestials themselves. Besides that and giving mankind the gift of fire though, the game still hasn't really explained why he was exiled from the pantheon. I mean yes, he's a nuisance to the Celestials as well. but no word on what he specifically did to get exiled yet. Interestingly enough, the Loki parallel is pretty strong here as well because one of the plays implies that the Firebringer may not be the same race as the Celestials.