Thoughts on ending of Season of the Worm Cult SPOILERS
Okay so I finally got around to finishing the DLC bc I decided it was more important than my final papers, and I have so many thoughts. I kinda knew a little about how it ended, like Naemon coming back, the Mannimarco/Vestige cutscene, and the ending of the "Golden Knight" quest...like once I saw that we got a fade to black romance option with Darien I had to and....
Wow, like Ive never actually experienced that sort of atmosphere before, finally we got a satisfying and unambiguous romance option in an elder scrolls game (Naryu, Raz, and Fennorian I see your future and its bright).
But I do actually want to talk about the lore implications and where they might be going with Darien, what he actually is, and how long the vestige will have him back. He mentioned a falling tower and a name shouted in a language he didn't understand, could it be Ayleid? Something even older? Are we gonna delve further into some Dawn-Merethic era, Magna-Ge shit?? I have no clue, Im even scared to discuss it bc I feel like someone who knows more than me can tell Im clueless.
As well, whatever is left of Darien's light is giving him these memories (maybe even glimpses of the future 🤔) and temporarily taking control of him, and without our bond with him, he could spiral out.
What?? Like Meridia really meant it when she said "I will admit my knight changed after it met you, though...The knight had a single purpose, but somehow you complicated matters. Now the knight actually… cares." OMG if you had told me when I first started playing ESO, that not only would Darien come back twice, but that ZOS would actually make the players connection with him have stakes, I would've felt so vindicated.
But then!!! He said that he couldn't control the light, it was unstable, but he liked it? Y'all, they're gonna make us kill him with hammers in the next DLC I swear 😭 I can see them going the Veya route with him, taking an ally of the vestige, corrupting them with power, and then having us take them down. Deadass, that's where I thought they were going with Gabrielle's character. I genuinely thought her refusal to move on from Darien was going to lead her down a darker path, but I was proven wrong, it wasn't that derivative.
Anywho though, I cannot wait to see more theories about this!! I'll certainly need to adjust my head canons about my vestige's story after all of this. My current vision is that in Darien's absence, they've moved onto Naryu or Fennorian, and that relationship will sever their bond that Vanus was talking about. Yes I'm going full love triangle, telenovela plot with this
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