• Schmedes@lemmy.world
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    If you chose to back Lilith, the eternal conflict would’ve ended…with her winning and everyone else losing. I’m not sure why there are so many Lilith supporters, Guulrahn made it pretty clear she doesn’t care about humans and is just using them as a tool for her own power.

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      Everyone was already constantly losing against the Prime Evils anyways. I think she does care somewhat about humanity in general or at least striving for what she thinks an elevated humanity might be, but she isn’t against doing whatever is necessary to achieve her goals. Her ends definitely did not justify the means. Still I think, given a choice, siding with Lilith still would have been better than what ended up getting in the end, which was

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      Neyrelle disappearing and doing god knows what with Mephisto. She’s probably already being slowly corrupted.

      All I am saying is that at least Lilith was hinting at a different path for humanity, whereas Mephisto has always just been straight up evil. Like…given those choices, who would you rather pick?

      Man…Lemmy really needs inline spoilers.

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        Now imagine Mephisto outside of the soulstone but with another major demon’s power on top of his.

        That’s what Lilith would have been after consuming him. The Neyrelle dumb decision is a separate issue.

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          It’s the other way around. Imagine Lilith with another major demon’s power on top of hers. Lilith being the driver is better than Mephisto IMHO. Mephisto has no qualms saying what he plans for humanity. I think Lilith, having had a major hand in creating Sanctuary and humanity in the first place, would have had at least some overlapping interests that would have worked in our favor.

          It’s like picking between one person who says they’re definitely going to kill you and another person who says they’ll maybe kill you if the need arises.

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            Again, that’s not any better.

            If someone tells you they’re going to slap you and another one doesn’t, you’re still getting slapped. And in this case, you didn’t get slapped by either but you might down the road.

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              Like I said, at least some of what Lilith wants aligns with humanity’s interests. Enemy of my enemy is my friend type deal. I am not saying Lilith is a saint, I am just saying you can at least bargain with her. We’re all just trying to pick the lesser of two evils.

              Besides, siding with Mephisto just means doing the same shit we’ve been doing for the past 3 games and we all know how that worked out. Even if we’re getting slapped eventually, at least we aren’t doing the same thing that we already know hasn’t worked for us before.

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                I feel like battling Mephisto and winning at least keeps humanity alive in its current form.

                Lilith might actually enslave everyone.

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                  Yes, I did watch the lore videos. None of them change my view on the matter actually. Angels and demons have been killing each other since the dawn of creation so I don’t see Lilith’s actions as any different or any more ruthless. Also, she did that in defense of the Nephalem, which humanity descended from, so I feel like I have more in common with her goals than Mephisto’s.

                  Existence under Lilith would be one of totalitarian dictatorship of the worst kind – not really worth living, if you ask me.

                  So would existence under any of the Prime Evils.

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      Guulrahn made it pretty clear she doesn’t care about humans and is just using them as a tool for her own power.

      Uhh, I thought the point was both Inarius and Lilith didn’t care one bit about humans except for as a tool

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        I’d agree that was the overall point but the choice isn’t between Inarius and Lilith, we can choose neither because they’re both awful.

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      She actually had made clear the opposite; she wanted the humans to regain their strength, back to the levels of the original Nephalem, that both heaven and hell feared.

      Multiple times she references how so much was stolen from her children and how she would return them back to their power.

      It was Inarius that gave up on the humans and regretted making them; using them only as a tool to get what he wanted: a way back into heaven.

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        Oh Inarius was definitely just using humans.

        But I don’t really trust a word that Lilith says. I think she’s manipulative as a core trait of her character which was really well written just from how many players she has convinced.