Continuing my aesthetic series of everyone Rhen saves:
Devin is very important to me. One of the reasons I'm so adamant about playing Ahriman's Prophecy first is that it establishes his character and arc and the importance of the places he mentions and it makes the scene in the Wildwoods shack SO much more impactful. If you don’t know Thais from before, if you haven’t already felt the life in its atmosphere, the opportunity, the glorious adventure waiting to happen, and if you don’t know how noble and ardent and ambitious Devin was before, you will miss out on how shocking and sad the meeting in AV1 is. And you miss out on the sweetness and simple profundity of how, after all he's lost, he can still be saved-- finally be saved-- when simple curiosity and friendliness leads the new hero to find him. And then on the second playthrough you get the additional thrill of knowing the new hero is his daughter. Gah! The poetry of these games, I'm so in love
