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Stephen Rooney deserves to feel pride in how he wrote Astarion's climactic scene. Every single option of dialogue is just gut-wrenching. What an amazing writer 🩷
Will Byers is so romantic because imagine telling someone: “I’ve felt abnormal all my life but being in love with you came so natural and easy, and you are such an amazing person that not loving you would be abnormal. I’m normal when I’m loving you.”
I think that many years ago Sol and Galicaea conspired to remove their celestial rivals (Ankarna and Cassandra, respectively) and steal their followers for themselves. The way this was done for Cassandra is known. It has been implied the unnamed god's transition from the more benign 'summer, sun' domain to the more aggressive 'fire, wrath' domain was a gradual transition of faith traditions, but the triggering event for this was not made clear. I suspect that Sol was involved with this, as in the modern day of Spyre he and his son Helio now embody the summer/sun aspects. The Rat Grinders insistence in involving specifically a cleric of Sol is also highly suspicious. There has been a lot of emphasis on the different aspects of the gods and how they might be influenced by their followers, but I don't think we should be discounting the actions gods can make on the mortal world through their followers, and I think teasing out this connection will be essential to solving the mystery. There have been FAR too many references to Galicaea and Sol this season for them to not have a hand in this. The absolutely insane series of events in the Hallowed summoning circle seem to point to this as well.
As for the rage god themselves, they seem to be dangerous, both to the world and to Cassandra specifically. Very possibly they were transformed into some kind of hellish or fiendish god, they became dangerous, and this is what ultimately prompted them being killed. However, I can't escape the thought that there has to be more to it than that. There's been a lot of talk this campaign about 'fairness', and you know what strikes me as exceedingly unfair? Having your domain stolen, your wife killed by her own siblings and being utterly powerless to stop it. It is unfair that you are unable to even mourn them properly or have any hope of their revival. You can't even speak their name. Rage against injustice is not inherently bad and is often needed to trigger meaningful action. What delineates useful anger and useless anger is what you do with it, which is a theme which has constantly popped up this season. Was Ankarna's developing rage justified, but it then turned into something ugly and untenable? Cassandra's domain has been characterized as "scary" and "dark", and in one aspect of her it IS, but it's been made abundantly clear this season that it is also protective and beautiful and needed. She was redeemed and made who she is now by someone recognizing and believing in that. It would make sense to me that the being she once walked hand in hand with would need that kind of belief to be redeemed too.