“burden of command” should have been about negotiating a deal between whichever desert commander you chose, and the oseram trespassers in desert tenakth territory settling in an area with an abundance of drinking water, and i will die on this hill.
regardless of who you chose, it could have been a great opportunity for growth of aloy and both tenakth npcs. yarra would have to realise she can’t solve everything with bloodshed and to give diplomacy a try. drakka could easily have set himself apart and shown that he has the capacity to lead the entire clan, not just a small settlement. and aloy could have brokered a peaceful resolution that provides desert tenakth with a precious resource, while maybe the oseram could, idk, not colonize more land with absolutely no repercussions.
it also could have addressed why there are so many oseram “trespassers,” as the tenakth call them, building settlements in tenakth territory and making themselves at home when there are tenakth who even say that if they catch oseram, they bury them alive in sand.
it’s obvious that aloy needs the different tribes aligned for the final instalment of the trilogy and this could have been a small but wildly important stepping stone in that direction.
and if they need a machine fight in the quest, there’s a tremortusk right there, it and a stormbird and heck, throw in the slitherfang too, could have all interrupted negotiations and aloy, the desert tenakth, and the oseram could have had to work together to take them down.
i love aloy with kids but this errand as-is had no real impact on the decision aloy made on choosing a leader, especially since the dialogue was almost the same regardless of who you chose.
for the most part, horizon forbidden west did a good job with the side quests and errands advancing aloy as a character as well as (to a lesser degree) npcs, but this one fell a little flat for me personally in the overall-arc regard.
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One thing I really love about young fawns is their complete inability to chill. In another month they will be able to walk calmly and nap in the shade. But for now everything is done with, at bare minimum, a frolic.
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I saw a comment recently that was like “season two (of hotd) just seems like it’s going to be two teenagers trying to fight experienced dragon riders and war veterans at this point” and if that doesn’t perfectly describe what it looks like they’ve set up lmfao
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