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[OnlineDM]

I feel sorrier for Haley and V. All those slaves they helped to escape, getting tracked down and crucifired. Heck, Elan's dad probably knew exactly what they were doing, and let it happen just so there'd be enough slaves for the sign.

I'd give XP for "crucifired" if I hadn't apparently given some to MarkB recently. Could someone cover me?

 

[Theo R Cwithin]

I'd give XP for "crucifired" if I hadn't apparently given some to MarkB recently. Could someone cover me?

Good call. Covered.

 

[Nymrohd]

Now if only elan did the intelligent thing and stabbed his murderous bastard of a father in the heart, followed by pushing him into the arena . . .

 

[Relique du Madde]

Wouldn't it be easier to toss a can of hamburger helper onto his father's head while the Empress of blood is in the room and have her eat him?

 

[Orius]

This biggest problem with this is that is seems Genre Blind for Tarquin. He knows Elan is good-aligned, so he should know that this sort of thing could lead to betrayal from his other son. Especially since he seems to want to use Elan to further some end of his (probably help him achieve dominance of the Western Continent).

I think the problem is out of universe. Probably Rich feels he needs to hammer just how evil Tarquin is into the heads of his readers. Look at how many OotS fans were/are in denial about Belkar being evil. I'll bet there's a lot of fans who thinks Tarquin is cool, and he's doing this to counter that. Problem is that it seems to undermnine some of his characterization.

 

[MarkB]

This biggest problem with this is that is seems Genre Blind for Tarquin. He knows Elan is good-aligned, so he should know that this sort of thing could lead to betrayal from his other son. Especially since he seems to want to use Elan to further some end of his (probably help him achieve dominance of the Western Continent).

I think the problem is out of universe. Probably Rich feels he needs to hammer just how evil Tarquin is into the heads of his readers. Look at how many OotS fans were/are in denial about Belkar being evil. I'll bet there's a lot of fans who thinks Tarquin is cool, and he's doing this to counter that. Problem is that it seems to undermnine some of his characterization.

Lots of people have an emotional blind spot when it comes to partners or family. In Tarquin's case it's a genre-blind spot.

Besides, I don't think he's exactly been doing a superb job of hiding his evil nature from Elan even before this - it's just that Elan was blinded by his emotions until now.

 

[Remus Lupin]

The problem is that, sans helmet, Tarquin can come across as a very pleasant guy, no doubt because he's oblivious of his own evil. It probably doesn't even dawn on him that Elan would have a problem with his cruciflambe of the slaves, since he means it with what he himself perceives to be good intent.

 

[Relique du Madde]

It' not really Genre Blindness. Look at all the red flags that Tarkin waved before Elan's face without Elan reacting to his evilness. If it wasn't for the brick joke Elan would have been fine with the cruxicifire.

 

[Orius]

That might be possible, but Tarquin also seems to be the sort of guy that does his evil subtly, rather than loudly flamboyantly doing things for the "evulz". He learned the hard way that gets your ass kicked on this continent fast, that's why he's setting up patsies and pulling the strings.

This though comes off as anything but subtle. Maybe it's just being blinded by the affection he has for Elan, but I still think it was done more to set up a punchline than anything else.

 

[Aran Thule]

Also Tarquin thinks Elan is putting on the innocent naive behavour to remind him of his childhood.
Giant In the Playground Games
He doesn't seem to have realised thats just what he is like.