#mad hermit

[dragon-age-tournament]

Round #1 — Match 37 of 104

Mad Hermit

“i’m obsessed with the mad hermit because you’re on this big serious holy pilgrimage and then you have to go negotiate with a guy who lives in a tree and talks like he’s been yelling at birds for ten years”

vs. Niall

“niall died in the fade doing customer service for strangers. saint behavior.”

“niall is one of those tiny dao characters who makes the circle quest hit harder because he’s not a monster or a boss fight, he’s just a guy who ended up trapped in the worst place imaginable and still tried to help other people. he’s calm in that “i have accepted my fate” way, and it’s so easy to miss how sad that is because you’re focused on the mechanics of the fade section. but every time i replay, i’m like… damn. he never gets out. he never gets thanked. he just buys you a chance. vote niall because i’m a sucker for doomed helpful characters and because he deserves better than being remembered as “that fade guy.””

Who should advance?

Mad Hermit

Niall

Voting ended onDec 25, 2025

[arofili]

Maeglin/Celebrimbor + 28?

“I thought this was supposed to be happy,” Maeglin said from the shadows.

Celebrimbor sighed, laying a hand on his shoulder. Maeglin repressed the urge to flinch away, reminding himself that this was Tyelpë, who ment such gestures genuinely. He was safe with Tyelpë, even amid...all this.

“In this family, any reunion is bound to result in trouble,” Celebrimbor said. “Even having only met Turukáno and Itarillë, surely you must have known that.”

Maeglin shrugged, letting himself lean against his friend for support. It was nice, to have someone like Celebrimbor to rely on. He hadn’t known it could be this nice.

“I’d hoped...” Maeglin grimaced. More fool him for hoping at all. All that time in Mandos had made him soft. “Well, I’d hoped the others would be different. I didn’t expect my mother to be the one causing the trouble...”

“Well, she and my uncle and father have...unfinished business,” Celebrimbor explained. “I know you said she spoke fondly of them, when you were young, but...it’s still complicated.”

“Well, however unhappy this family reunion is, it’s still worlds better than Nan Elmoth,” Maeglin muttered.

“And it’s better for me that you are here,” Celebrimbor murmured, and kissed him softly in the darkness, where no one else could see.

[notebooks-and-laptops]

Who Is The Worst Dude In Thedas: annoying 'H' edition?

Hubert

Mad Hermit

Voting ended onApr 8, 2023

All the brackets for the Who Is The Worst Dude (Gender Neutral) in Thedas Tournament

[varrics-chesthair]

DA:O SEXYMAN ROUND 1

Swiftrunner: head werewolf, also apparently only 1 word

Mad Hermit: blood mage living in the Brecilian Forest, acorn thief

Voting ended onFeb 8, 2023

[dirtybiowareconfessions]

Confession: You know how the Mad Hermit smalled his tower to fit in a stump, but can he unsmall it? And can this mode of magic be applied to the penile area?

[mizua]

Visit Original Link

[oldschoolfrp]

The mad hermit in his hollow oak tree (Erol Otus, B2: The Keep on the Borderlands, TSR, 1980)

[randomshoes]

I don't get it, what is so bad about the Mad Hermit? I haven't played the game for years, I just remember him as a difficult mini boss

Oh, fighting him isn’t the issue.

It’s if you DON’T want your character to attempt to steal from/kill a random dude just because he’s crazy.

See, he has three items, one of which is plot related and two of which are not, although a new player might not know that for sure. The way you can get them from him (bar killing him) is to trade. So far so good. Except: 1) There is no indication anywhere about what he will or will not want; 2) Before you ask him any question, including whether he’d be willing to trade, he wants to ask you a question; 3) It is only after he asks you this question and you ask to trade that the dialogue possibilities pop up and you discover what, if anything, you have that he might want; and 4) HE QUICKLY RUNS OUT OF QUESTIONS FOR YOU AND WILL THEN REFUSE TO TALK TO YOU. AND THERE IS NO INDICATION OF THIS FACT UNTIL IT HAPPENS.

So, 1) You could easily use up most of your questions on asking him about himself, which is supposed to be a large part of the gameplay in this game and Bioware games in general. The game has so far taught you to ask a lot of questions and learn about other characters. And now out of the blue you’re being punished for being interested in an NPC. 

2) As a first-time player, without a walkthrough, the only way I can determine what he might want to use up a question. So I could easily end up coming back to him multiple times and wasting a question on discovering that I currently have nothing he would like. And the items he wants are not specifically marked, so I could easily have sold them, because my inventory is not fucking infinite. And again, as a first time player, I will then discover, possibly after a lot of time running back and forth through TWO different areas to check things with him, possibly after doing other plot related stuff in between, that now all that work was for nothing and I am now FORCED to kill him, or the giant oak. And remember, there is ZERO indication that he will run out of questions. ZERO.

Is there anyway at all I don’t come out of this interaction wanting to throw my computer across the room?

So I am now seriously considering killing him (even though it’s way out of character for my Warden) purely because I’m mad at the game.