#Nydas who took Zerxus's child into his (brother's) home

[majorkphob]

Ok but also in the interview Luis was like "oh, I twice tried to tell Nydas, my oldest friend", and then Brennan was like ">:) yeah I know- I had to run interference quick"! Like, of COURSE Zerxus was such an easy target, the whole world shoved him alone in a tower with not a single soul for him to confide in.

is ANYONE else thinking about zerxus ilrez on this fine evening because I am. luis asked brennan to give his character an encounter w a betrayer god and he thought that it’d be something like… he’d see one walking in the shadowy distance… and instead we got the devil crawling into his lap. 

did you know in the final talkback when they talk about zerxus’ backstory luis mentions how zerxus has been fascinated by and reading about the betrayer gods for a very very long time. imagining zerxus in the late hours of the night in avalir’s grand library with tomes around him about the betrayer gods. no WONDER he knew exactly what he wanted to say when he met asmodeus because he had probably practiced that entire spiel over and over until he knew exactly what he wanted to say if (when) he ever met one. and the surety of it and asmodeus showing up exactly in the way he knew would best appeal to zerxus’ sense of moral superiority like a pitcher plant laying a trap for a fly. like ohhhh my god of course he’d want to redeem him. of COURSE he’d want to help.