For the Pillars asks: Admeth's Wyrt, Cave Coral, Golden Celery, and River Reed for either of your Watcher's!
Those have been popular questions! :-D Since the previous ask answered the first two of those for Vi and the last two for Lenneth, I’ll swap it here. Thank you for the questions!
Admeth’s Wyrt: Howdoes your Watcher view their newfound abilities? Is it a blessing, a curse, orperhaps both?
It’s a curse forLenni, especially the nightmares part and feeling stuck with a past self shenever asked for and whose unfinished business she’s stuck with fixing. That’smore to do with the Awakening than with being a Watcher though. She is also notcrazy about seeing souls and all that, but gets more comfortable with it overtime as it proves handy in one way or another. (also, non-Watcher Lenneth who dealswith her Awakening in Soul & Shield ends up handling it all rather better:maybe in part because it’s just the Awakening, not the Watcher stuff; and inpart because Vi and Aloth are there to help her through it; and in big part,because of the implications for her past life. When Lenneth is the Watcher, herInquisitor-self Glynis had to be the one to betray Iovara and learn the godsweren’t real and see the dark side of the Inquisition and all, and that would tearher up far more than it would for Inquisitor Ianthina, Violet’s past life. Butwhen Violet is the Watcher, and Ianthe deals with all the Inquisition stuff,Glynis is happily off in the Ixamitl Plains having visions of magicalcity-shields, living her best life. So in that world state, Lenneth’s Awakeningis much less traumatic because Glynis’ unfinished business is just “protectCitlatl!”)
Cave Coral: Does your Watcherconform to the culture of the Dyrwood, or do they stick to their roots? (Thiscould mean appearance wise/morally/how they speak etc.)
Lenneth’s roots arekind of scattered; she was so young when she left Rauatai, and her family werenot native to Raiatai anyway, and she loves to travel and being a conartist means she’s also got a tendency to don the mask of whatever cultureshe’s passing through at the time…yeah, she’s never too worried about stickingto her roots. It’s more fun finding new roots!
Golden Celery: Whichof the game one companions were in your Watcher’s main party? Are there anymembers in the party that you ship your Watcher with?
Vi usually had Aloth, Kana, Hiravias,and once I realized Edér was recruitable, always Edér. XD (I missed him whenshe went through Gilded Vale because she talked to him before he becamerecruitable and I didn’t think to talk to him again after the dwarf-on-the-treescene so I just wandered off and left him there. Oops. Saw references to him asa companion online later on and was all the way to Defiance Bay before I cameback to get him!) Hm…I guess the fifth companion varied. She did actually haveDurance in her party pretty often even though Vi had the priest stuff coveredherself, just because Philosopher Vi actually liked all those challengingconversations with him. And after the White March she had the Devil of Caroc alongmuch of the time for her mechanics skills. XD Oh, and I sometimes ship her with Edér, when we’re ignoring Deadfire, i.e. for Soul & Shield.
River Reed: What isyour Watcher’s biggest fear?
Hmmmm during game oneit was probably that she would find out her god really was gone (I mean, shecomes to the Dyrwood as part of a pilgrimage to visit his priests in everyland, so she’s started hearing more of the worrying rumors the further she getsfrom Ixamitl and then gets to the Dyrwood and hears the worst of thenews and isn’t sure what to make of it…). After Deadfire it’s that they won’tbe able to live up to his expectations and find a way to fix the Wheel or livewith its ruin.
Floraof Eora Questions – by @pillarsheadcanons
