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[Cape Mario]

 As is common knowledge, Leandra Hawke, the player's mom, dies during the Act 2 Quest, "All That Remains". If you don't know that, then you shouldn't be in the Spoilers forum.

As may not be common knowledge, there was originally a way for the player to save her that was removed from a myriad of reasons.

The question I would like to ask anyone who knows is how the player would do this.

I mean, there's no way to save her in the finished retail game and no functionality will ever be restored, right? So is there any harm in letting us know what the player could have done in the alpha/beta that would have saved her? I'm asking only for curiosity's sake.

[Mary Kirby]

Cape Mario wrote...

 As is common knowledge, Leandra Hawke, the player's mom, dies during the Act 2 Quest, "All That Remains". If you don't know that, then you shouldn't be in the Spoilers forum.

As may not be common knowledge, there was originally a way for the player to save her that was removed from a myriad of reasons.

The question I would like to ask anyone who knows is how the player would do this.

I mean, there's no way to save her in the finished retail game and no functionality will ever be restored, right? So is there any harm in letting us know what the player could have done in the alpha/beta that would have saved her? I'm asking only for curiosity's sake.

Actually, I think you misunderstood. This was never cut. We never had a way to save your mother. The question came up at one point whether we should add a way to save her, and we considered it. There would need to be a heavy cost to saving her -- something that the player would not be willing to pay without question -- or it would become the only "right" solution to the plot. We couldn't decide on a satisfying way to make that work, so no change was made.

[Mary Kirby]

Cape Mario wrote...

Thank you for taking the time to reply to my post.

So it was never implimented at any level? That's goes against what I had picked up around the forums. But it probably was just misinformation. Do you, perhaps, remember any of the 'heavy costs' that were suggested? I only ask because I find the things left out of games (either being removed during development or merely considered but never included) very interesting. If you don't, that's fine, too.

Thank you for your time.

Suggestions included:

• Sacrifice a follower. Your romance, if you had one. Or whoever had the most frienship.
• Make the player become a serial killer. You'd have to murder a number of innocent and sympathetic characters in order to restore your mother to life.
• Let Merrill sustain the spell (possibly costing her attribute points) and keep Leandra in her horrible patchwork zombie state in a back room of your mansion.