#literally what in temenos' story couldve possibly made me as hopeful for kaldena as long as i was

[larnax]

do you have any idea how disappointing it was to visit stormhail before picking up temenos and see this and be like "oh hey octopath 2 is actually gonna reckon with the Implications of having an all-powerful psuedocatholic church the entire continent follows which has a standing army" and in general see that the church was being painted with any degree of moral complexity as opposed to ot1 looking you dead in the eyes and having the clerics story be violently suppressing the only alternative religious leader bc he is an evildemon satanist, only to pick up temenos, and it turns out that the "complexity" is that the evildemon satanist brown woman has infiltrated the church and corrupted it and also the entire thing with the beastlings backstory and also temenos' path action is literally interrogation but uhhhhhh its actually Fine, when he does it, because he just uses his empath powers and so it totally doesn't hurt them at all and also all of his deductions can be trusted completely