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The original was posted on /r/twobestfriendsplay by /u/Deadeye117 on 2023-06-26 19:53:38+00:00.

Sotha Sil from Elder Scrolls Online is the coolest. He’s a science man who is so enlightened and big brained that he can predict everything around him, even his own death centuries in advance. But this science has also imprisoned him, since he’s so good at calculating everything he’s almost become a Dr. Manhattan-like figure. He’s become too smart for his own good. Only the Prisoner, one who defies fate, can reject everything he has foreseen.

And yet if you look at the memorials in his garden and his memories in the Mnemonic Planisphere, you can see that despite his cold exterior, he is constantly burdened by the death of his sister and his betrayal of big-dick hero man Saint Nerevar. Despite being the most distant and aloof of the Tribunal, he is the one most trapped by his regret, and it becomes clear that his whole life philosophy is him trying to justify to himself that all he has done had to happen.

He has to believe that the world can be figured out, that he is constrained by the limitations of the formula that defines him, because if he wasn’t, if he could take the step that the Prisoner can take and believe that he could choose otherwise, it would mean that his clan’s death wasn’t a mathetical certainty, and that he also willingly killed Nerevar of his own volition, and that would suck.

Man, I love terrible coping mechanisms. Give me more.