Added a second character, on the Defiant side. I sent an email to the Dal. And yes, if anyone's curious, "Kuraijonetsu", or "Dark Passion" is basically a port of an Exalted Abyssal Knight I built for Epsilon's game about a year ago. In that game, she was basically "dark comic relief." She had Exalted in that city where everyone is geased to follow the leader's orders, in the middle of High Mass, in the main temple. Everyone in sight was ordered to kill her, so she didn't live long. Since she Exalted out of a belief that this kind of mind control was wrong, and the Unconquered Sun was wrong to allow it, she personally believed he Exalted her specifically to punish her for her line of thought. She was offered a chance to "make him pay" by the Abyssal Primevals.
Of course, he really had no control over the process, and as a result, whenever the Unconquered Sun gave gifts of power to the PC's, he also gave them to her, which both confused and angered her further. She was a fun character to play. I didn't take her too seriously, no matter how she acted in-game. Every now and then, she did something obnoxiously visible, just to add to the comic value of the character. (Summoning a giant skeletal "hand" chair in a human city just to establish her bona fides, or using Irresistible Succubus Style to offer herself as a one-night prize to the last soldier standing in a whole fort full of Dragonborn the PC's had to get past. He got lucky, too. Although I think he killed himself in shame the next morning...)
Meanwhile, it's interesting that the "dark" side in Rift isn't really about being evil, this time. It's about a group of people who are all that's left of the whole world, who lost the war against Regulos, and attempted to send someone back in time. If the Guardians worked the stick out of their butts, they might realize everyone's on the same side.
Of course, if they did, I think the line from Joker in ME2 sums it up. "It's nice to see Garrus work that stick out of his butt, but now he's trying to beat people to death with it. I can't believe I like the old Garrus better..."
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Those who fear the darkness have never seen what the light can do.
Of course, he really had no control over the process, and as a result, whenever the Unconquered Sun gave gifts of power to the PC's, he also gave them to her, which both confused and angered her further. She was a fun character to play. I didn't take her too seriously, no matter how she acted in-game. Every now and then, she did something obnoxiously visible, just to add to the comic value of the character. (Summoning a giant skeletal "hand" chair in a human city just to establish her bona fides, or using Irresistible Succubus Style to offer herself as a one-night prize to the last soldier standing in a whole fort full of Dragonborn the PC's had to get past. He got lucky, too. Although I think he killed himself in shame the next morning...)
Meanwhile, it's interesting that the "dark" side in Rift isn't really about being evil, this time. It's about a group of people who are all that's left of the whole world, who lost the war against Regulos, and attempted to send someone back in time. If the Guardians worked the stick out of their butts, they might realize everyone's on the same side.
Of course, if they did, I think the line from Joker in ME2 sums it up. "It's nice to see Garrus work that stick out of his butt, but now he's trying to beat people to death with it. I can't believe I like the old Garrus better..."
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Those who fear the darkness have never seen what the light can do.