Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire - Evil Ending (Aeldys-Led Principi & Everything Bad for Companions)
39One of the worst endings for the base game of Pillars of Eternity 2. An ending for a black-hearted Watcher who prefers not to destroy Eora so that they can make everyone suffer.
Ending Slides in Video:
[00:25] Berath Empowered
[01:14] Aeldys-led Principi take Ukaizo
[03:00] Port Maje Assassinations
[03:52] Neketaka
[04:07] The Gullet Ignored
[04:26] Watershapers Guild Massacred
[04:47] Children of the Dawnstars Lose Faith and Continue their Mission
[05:40] Tikawara Assassination
[06:05] Crookspur Slavers Kept from Expanding by Aeldys
[06:40] Splintered Reef Unvisited
[07:09] Bearn Spurns Eder and Disappears
[07:45] Xoti Break-up
[07:59] Negative Xoti and Eder Relationship
[08:42] Xoti Goes Insane and Disappears
[09:41] Aloth's Death
[10:11] Serafen Sold to Slavers
[10:39] Pallegina's Death
[11:14] Maia Dishonorably Discharged
[12:07] Tekehu Leaves to Make Water Sculptures
[12:40] Watershapers Guild Declines without Tekehu
[13:17] Final Ending
Recording this was a challenge due to finding the conditions for specific slides and the bugs involved with companions. This took two specific playthroughs to get and on the one where I got everything pretty much set the game bugged out and didn't play Pallegina's ending slide despite being alive and in the party. It took some reading to find that the Vailian Trading Company cannot be your rival outside Ondra's Mortar or it'll skip an ending slide for Pallegina altogether, so fortunately I used a backup save to do some quests to have the Royal Deadfire Company show up instead. There is also the issue that this contains Tekehu's break-up slide despite being in a romance with Maia (to get the specific slide where she leaves the navy) and turning him down at every turn. Hopefully these issues get patched or aren't a problem when I start going for recording a good ending(s).
As well, some content may be subjective as to what is the most evil outcome. Empowering Berath seems the best choice for an "evil" ending despite being relatively benign, although in comparison to Eothas taking pity on the souls trapped in the In-Between or inspiring kith, it seems to work better for an evil goal with having a more predictable, possible stagnant world (hopefully causing any fixing of the Wheel to be less likely). It also undermines Eothas' goal of empowering kith.
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