Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-92.251.228.132-20141108020915/@comment-27.125.149.22-20150217204005

Hopefully I'm not necromancy-ing too much by responding on this thread. I just wanted to add another point that hasn't really been brought up yet.

Like the OP I'm also roleplaying a "good guy" character. Before getting abducted by Astrid, my character's knowledge of the DB came from a couple of books he'd read, the encounters with random assassins trying to ambush him on the road, the discovery that Maven had performed the DB ritual in her own home, and of course the quest received from the boy Arentino. All pretty unsavory events that don't cast the DB in any sort of good light whatsoever.

My character only accepted Arentino's quest because he's seen how terrible the orphaned kids were treated by Gelrod. Even then he tried to scare the wicked old woman into turning over a new leaf first, but she couldn't care less about his efforts, so putting a final end to her foul deeds was the only good resolution.

So... at the point my character woke up to the realization that the DB were responsible for his abduction, the odds of them being perceived as having any redeemable qualities at all were already stacked sky high against them. But does Astrid do anything to change my character's opinion of her organization? Lol no. She wanted him to make a contractual kill from 3 possible targets, meaning that she was toying with at least 2 innocent (and by innocent I just mean they were not DB targets) lives.

Moral of the story: I agree with most other people here. There's just no way to roleplay a good character who would willingly join the DB.