After ending Avowed, I began digging into the totally different ending slide prospects and was shocked at simply what number of permutations there are. Its most difficult and hidden ending not solely calls for a game-long dedication, it additionally leaves the Dwelling Lands in its roughest potential state whereas all of your companions hate your guts. Spoilers forward for Avowed’s endings.
It is foreshadowed all through Avowed that you’ve got the choice of siding with Kreia meets Legate Lanius antagonist, Lödwyn, and her fanatical Metal Garrote paladins. Like Avowed’s different endings, you are not locked out of the Metal Garrote ending by any main decisions, however issues do not precisely go your means if you have not been ideologically coherent.
For those who did not constantly make decisions Lödwyn approves of, siding together with her towards the opposite factions leads to her providing you with a traitor’s reward earlier than the credit roll: She chops your dang head off, after which narrates an abbreviated model of the ending slide sequence the place she takes over the continent with out you.
Massive Dan Gaming on YouTube has a information on tips on how to facet with Lödwyn and never get killed earlier than the curtain falls, unlocking the “Tyranny” achievement at the moment held by solely 0.2% of gamers on Steam on the time of writing. Principally, you need to take advantage of pro-Aedyr, pro-Lödwyn, or anti-Sapadal selection at each main crossroads in the primary story. The precise key decisions are:
- Kill Ygwulf in Paradis.
- Let the Metal Garrote burn Fior.
- Let Kostya destroy Solace Maintain.
- Kill Sapadal within the Backyard.
For those who achieve Lödwyn’s approval by way of these decisions earlier than siding with the Metal Garrote, she knights you on the finish of the sport as a substitute of killing you. Hope it was price it: Your whole companions abandon you for this selection, and the ending slide present makes it clear that Lödwyn’s imaginative and prescient for the Dwelling Lands is her boot stamping on a face without end.
Not the ending for me, however an amazing instance of how your decisions truly matter in Avowed. Obsidian’s newest actually has a comparable stage of written reactivity to Baldur’s Gate 3, with quests not breaking when you end them out of order, in addition to characters making reference to surprisingly small decisions and character background particulars. Avowed primarily falls behind with its lack of systemic interactions, and I nonetheless do not assume I’ve seen a recreation with fairly as many edge case lodging as Baldur’s Gate 3.
However I’ve actually loved how Avowed advised its story, in addition to the way in which it offers a (literal) new perspective on Pillars of Eternity’s setting of Eora. This will not be the final we see of Avowed both: Mission director Carrie Patel has indicated that Obsidian is open to doing sequels or DLC down the road.
