Thank you for your criticism! It helps us a lot when people give us such a thought out write-up on how their experience with the game was.
I am not exactly surprised you felt that way. For a while I had a nagging doubt that the oath could lead to that reaction. Looking back I think some specific bits of that scene could have used more attention. So in a way seeing it put like that is... reassuring? In a weird way, it is reassuring.
Hopefully some of this weirdness will fade a bit during the next update, but chances are we might go back and improve the oath scene down the road. We might not be able to dust off all the weirdness — you are right that Asterion might be asking too much. But we can definitely improve it and it was a learning experience.
So, yeah, thank you for your input.