Lucanis' beef with Davrin is basically "you have the blight and will die, ur annoying" and Davrin doesn't like that Lucanis kills people for coin and is wary of the demon, I did not catch anything deeper in the like 80ish hours I've played the game for. They tease and make jabs at each other which is fun ig? The conflict doesn't feel genuine and it's the main one we're meant to take seriously?? I genuinely have to be missing smth. da2 adds the worldbuilding to the characters and their dynamics which makes it much more interesting, you can feel how the world and it's politics have shaped people and understand why certain characters butt heads or outright hate each other AND why most people aren't totally wrong and are at least understandable in their views if not justifiable, the characters feel like people with flaws who have been influenced by their experiences, DaV doesn't really do anything?? Everything and everyone is so shallow, there's no genuine head butting or conflicting world views cause there's like no world views. The "mage killer" assassin actually only kills evil bloodmages who are all evil cultists and are a basic enemy that spawn everywhere, and none of the mages on the team care about it. People were thinking they were gonna get another fenris with the "mage killer" title lol.. i love da2 😭😭
it's soooo surface level, i keep waiting for the conflict to evolve into something but it's just the same conversation over and over... it feels like they have the bones of something interesting but where is the MEAT.
i think it really is caused by flattening the worldbuilding tbh. like yeah mage killer who was possessed by a demon, there are sooo many things you can do with that. BUT because there's so little context for possession (they mention it can usually only happen to mages but forget the fact that the south has like an entire prison system and army built because people are afraid of abominations) it feels like a very generic possession story that could happen in any other fantasy game. what if he DID have complicated feelings about magic, what if he claimed to only target evil mages but his grasp on good and evil had been eroded over years of killing. what if the mages in the party didn't instantly believe him and relax when he told them he only kills blood mages. and every character seems to have this same problem aside from taash.