Addai67 wrote...
Jolly Jenkins wrote...
But couldn't you reason that he'll just kill you in your sleep or whenever you put your guard down?
He's a paid assassin! Sorry, but I don't buy the "I have no choice" reason. The darkspawn have no choice but to be monsters. That didn't stop my hero from mercilessly slaughtering them.
Why should Zevran get special treatment? If he was really a good guy he would have taken the right and difficult choice and stop MURDERING people for money and leave the crows. So the crows will probably have him killed?
The right thing to do isn't always the most practical thing to do.
And you know what, its straight selfish if not downright evil, that he's willing to murder other people to keep his own life.
Sacrifice sucks. But in the end you either choose to do the right thing or you choose to be selfish.
Spoken like someone who wasn't raised without parents in a ****house, starved, sold as a slave at age 7, tortured, and programmed that his only way to be a person is to excel at being a Crow. Prison bars are sometimes in the mind, yes? In Antiva, for another thing, assassins are accepted as a part of life and this high-minded attitude of yours would be considered bizarre. The Crows are basically Antiva's army. Of course, you'll never know any of this about Zevran if you don't talk to him. When Zevran gets the chance to take a new path, he does, and he's an extremely loyal companion.
If you're going to be this dogmatic about everything in the game, you'll miss a lot. Naturally if you cannot see your way to an RP reason to spare Zevran, it's your game.
Now I can see why you sympathize with Zevran. However no amount of torment justifies murder. Zevran is a murderer no matter what you say. He kills for his own selfish well-being. Would your character murder innocents to stay alive?
And just so you know, in the end, my hero sacrificed himself for all of Thedas.
I walk the talk.
Now, my hero , given the situation, will still cut Zevran's throat every time.
As far as my hero knows Zevran is a paid assassin/murdererer sent to take his life. Anything he tells me can be but part of an elaborate lie.
With the cutting of Zevran's throat, the world has one less murderer, and my party's camp will remain safe.
Honestly it doesn't make sense that one would spare Zevran after he tried to cut your throat! If you lose the battle does he show YOU any mercy? I for one know he doesn't, because I lost that battle the first time. (i am not the best strategist, but that is besides the point) My character went down on his knees, looked Zevran straight in the eyes, and the elf still sliced his throat like no one's business. That's what a darkspawn would do btw.
No mercy.
No mercy.
[JollyJenkins shakes his head.]
He's a cold blooded murderer. No different from the blood-lust darkspawn to be honest.
If you would not spare a darkspawn, why should you spare Zevran?