Should there be a new IB expansion starring the God King (Spoilers)?

**Raidriar** · 12-25-2011, 04:43 AM

I've grown a liking to Raidriar (hence my user name) and I've noticed that his back story actually seems more interesting than Siris himself. So much that I wish we could play him to understand what happened.

A couple things that really spark interest is how he because immortal from being a mortal and his true (ultimate) intentions in the story. I think it's quite plausable the Raidriar is truly a good guy. After all, he tries to stop you from freeing the Worker who we know is evil. The IB seemed to be a way to protect humanity by keeping the Deathless in check. I think Siris just screwed over the humans lol. Raidriar did some evil by killing to power the sword but the point seems to be to finally kill the evil and corrupt Deathless (As he said in IB1 if you join him - which doesn't seem like a bad idea).

Actually the thing that makes me really want to have a game with a back story for Raidriar is when you speak to the librarian. When he talks about the great evil (not sure if that's his exact words) that used to be there but was slain by Raidriar on the Plains of Koroth I was thinking wow... that would be so awesome to play that out. It sounds like Raidriar is some kind of hero just by hearing that. They could definitely expand on that in the game or a new book (i hope!) and give him some more dimension.

After the end of IB2, it looks like Raidriar and Siris are going to have to get over their differences and start being bros

**=Silver=** · 12-25-2011, 05:55 AM

Read some good insights in "unrevealed mysteries" thread.

I think, and it goes best along the whole story, that Raidriar was the leader of the revolution, when he and his followers took over the Old Pantheon (Dragoor, WoS, Ausar and others). Somewhere in the process he finds a way to the QIP tech and becomes deathless. Then he somehow came down to dictatorship, trying to defend the revolution and prepare for Old Pantheon to come back and "claim what is rightfully theirs". This would be a good dramatic twist: once being a Voice of freedom he turned to be the same as those whom he'd overthrown.

"Look at the mirror, my friend, don't you recognize yourself so many millennia ago, it kills me more than your sword... All I did was for higher purpose of freedom... But you..." - would say Raidriar to Ausar in the VoT in the next book.

Yeah, this slippery political path...

If Brandon will not hurry up, we'll write the next book ourself

**Raidriar** · 12-25-2011, 08:57 PM

^ interesting points! i'll have to reread that thread. i think i went by it earlier.

the story has so much unexplained it just begging for a new FULL novel! they need to hire Brandon to just make a trilogy or something for IB

i just REALLY love the twist where it'll turn out that Ausar is actually the bad guy (though he most likely isn't since he imprisoned the evil worker). I guess we just need to find out why he and Raidriar hate each other so much. I used to say that was because Raidriar got his own minions and castles and all Ausar got was some weird goofy tree thing named TEL (i always imagine him looking like that tree character in Tekken named Mokujin lol)

btw Silver, it seems like you should just write your own mini novel. nice quote! and congrats on getting the Sword named after you, even though that was quite a while ago!