Speaking of canon, do you guys think there is a canon pairing for the Arisen?
I never did the Selene quests my first playthrough, so I think I missed out on some really interesting stuff with her. I read that she's basically like your pawn is at the end of the game, having inhabited her master's body. Does she say this during a quest or at the very end if you romance her?
She doesn't actually take over her master's body, she just becomes human. You meet her master at the end of the Witch Hunt quest and she looks significantly older than Selene, though she does mention that Selene looks a lot like she did when she was younger and says that pawns frequently take on characteristics of their master.
It doesn't seem the same as what happens to your pawn at the end. That whole sidequest line is kind of vague, Selene's master doesn't seem to have ever met the dragon, unlike Edmun and the Dragonforged, who apparently went the distance but made the sacrifice.
edit: on the topic of Aelinore and Selene, I had Aelinore as my LI for The Final Battle, but both of them were in my house at the start of postgame. Is Selene always there or did the game derp out?
Selene always goes to your house after Witch Hunt. She can't very well stay in the woods seeing as how there's mobs with torches and pitchforks showing up looking for her. She phrases it as a request but in reality she's just telling you that she's going to be asserting squatter's rights over your former home.
She's pretty decisive, that Selene. She'd probably get along well with Madeleine.
I had her hanging out there along with Aelinore in the post-game too. I imagine the tour was a little awkward.
"So over here is the crate that always seems to reassemble itself no matter how many times my pawns smash it, over there is the bedroom, that's the fireplace, and that's the weird witch with a speech impediment that brews weird herbal beer for me. I usually throw a blanket or something over her when company's coming, but I figure I might as well just introduce you seeing as how you're going to be living here and all."
Ah ha ha ha, who am I kidding? This is the Arisen we're talking about. The tour consisted of an arched eyebrow, an awkward look askance, and an unsettling expression vaguely resembling a smile. Unless the Arisen was wearing a helmet at the time, in which case the tour consisted entirely of textures distorting.
This is Feste's background information (courtesy of the official YouTube channel) for anyone curious:
I vastly prefer the explanation that Edmun just kept sitting him down in the tutoring chair and demanding more jokes about dangly parts.
No Feste,
don't target archers and spellcasters first. Put a silly hat on their head and then sit on my throne.
How many times do I have to explain this?
