My biggest complaint with him is that giving a "face" to the corruption kinda goes against the idea that the corruption is this uncontrollable force of nature (especially when we factor in him working with the Dern Beast lol), but I just acknowledge his existence and move on most of the time.
There are characters that are far worse imo though, such as Axelus (though that's more due to how fucking stupid DnD's storyline is to begin with), Garoth and those harry potter twats, etc.
i dunno i feel like there are definitely characters who are used worse
bak'al has an actual purpose/reason to exist, he's partially corrupted and serving the darkness which allows him to influence corruption in helping the darkness, since the rest of it is just mindless
he could certainly use an actually clear motivation but hopefully we'll get that in dern or something like that
there's extremely little, close to no reason that bak'al would actually serve the dernic beast- or rather, that the dernic beast would actually go looking to bak'al for being a servant. bak'al was fine as a bit of a wynn plains miniboss through its discoveries, but past that he really isn't powerful nor important- and i don't think we can even act like he is or should be
if i had to make a top 3 moments that absolutely break lore it would have bak'al in there twice (top 3 would be rol5, recover the past & se final discovery in order)
honestly just the concept of dern and corruption working together just doesn't work- unless the concept of corruption has changed lately the risk for the dark to risk working with the corruption when the light is already weak, is simply far too much (i still think the entire reason the SE even exists the way it does is because of fear of the corruption)
and bak'al is just a commander for the mindless , a single bit of reason between utter chaotic corruption- i've got no clue where he's suddenly being this grand leader of corruption or whatever to be put in the roles he has gotten shoved into (if you're wondering where this came from, bak'al can absolutely not ever beat cow in a million years but then a GM posted on this thread about that that he would)
i hope the way bak'al inevitably dies later on in the story is to his own corrupted to prove that he truthfully has no real control over such a chaotic force
i've always felt like bak'al would be a great end boss for wynn as province, in particular for the military vs corruption storyline that a lot of early wynn works around but just kinda ends up dropping by like lv 40. the realms war really doesn't need any of him around, especially when lari already takes up so much of the already little time given to the actual war.
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