#leda (prophet)

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The Journey to the Water

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Every Day Like the Last Pt II

I love how important NPCs in Enderal actually feel like friends. The pacing is cleverly done because there’s built-in downtime that’s nothing but a character asking to hang out with you for a little bit.

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Tonight is the night of Enderal screenshots!

This is Leda, my Prophetess. She’s half-Kiléan and specializes in Elementalism and Thaumaturgy, with a minor in enchanting (and thus the reason for all that jewelry).

Personality-wise she’s snarky, compassionate, and outgoing. Sort of halfway between Calia’s seriousness and Jespar’s laissez-faire attitude. She generally tries to do the right things for the right reasons, but she’s still got an edge to her from her life growing up as a poor orphan in Ostian.

I really enjoy how Enderal gives you structure for your backstory (your mother was of a race who’s marginalized in Nehrim/Enderal, you’re an orphan, your family was murdered, you grew up on the streets of Ostian) but allows you to fill in the details yourself. Consequently, this means that your backstory exists for the purpose of dialogue options. You can invoke your past experiences and see other people react to them. It’s simple, but it’s something that makes the Prophet/ess feel more real.

It also lets you respond to another character sharing their tragic backstory by sharing your own! That never happens! It’s a lot of fun. And it’s nice to feel like your relationships with NPCs are more reciprocal than just constantly being everybody’s psychiatrist like you are in most RPGs.