this is neither here nor there but i’m actually considering updating tesh’s arc to better go along with a lot more of the inquisitor class story - because i think her becoming something she Hates and having to find her way back from that is an interesting parallel to charade’s arc, in a way.
tesh starts her sith experience Hating the sith and constantly looking for a way out - but she gets dragged further and further in, and then she’s trying to grab power and gain resources, and then she’s playing the same games that every other sith is. she assures herself it’s just survival, at first. a way to make it to a point where she can leave and no one will come after her and kill her in her sleep. but, really, at a certain point? she’s in it for the power. the sentiment that the more powerful she is, then maybe Nobody can fuck with her ever again - that’s intoxicating, in its own way, and it gets away from her very quickly.
and then i think after thanaton (who was supposed to be her last barrier, the thing she had to Kill to make it out alive), she doesn’t stop being a sith lord. she doesn’t know what else to be, or what else to do. i think she reasons to herself that she already has all this power, might as well use it to make the empire less awful, right? right? and then malgus, and she doesn’t even disagree with him - he’s right! why are there slaves? why are non-human species treated like garbage? all this does is make a weaker empire!
she agrees with him, but she still ends up killing him - and afterwards, i think the awkwardness of that clash of ideals with her actions forces her to actually consider herself and her situation. the realization that she’s just at the beck and call of the empire as a whole, just a servant to an unseen emperor. her, a dark lord, a member of the dark council, someone who’s supposed to Not be under anyone else’s thumb! what is all this power for, anyway? she never wanted to be part of this. she wanted to escape, years ago, and she hasn’t. she’s become just the same - taking apprentices, ordering people around, killing the empire’s foes, playing power games with other lords.
her class story, i think, is her becoming what she despised and what she never wanted any part of, and thus the post-game content is her going to be trying to figure out what that really means, and what she wants to do about it.
i really like tesh but i wasn’t really participating in the class story because i was mostly grinding / not really paying attention - i’d like to come around on that and actually put some work in to give her an interesting arc, rather than just a “oh i didn’t vibe with this so there’s just a weird void there now” sentiment