I appreciate your kind words and suggestions.
I think there are several other people that feel the same way you do about Ray; I have gotten several requests regarding him. Right now he is either hostile or friendly to you depending on if you saved the villagers in the well. I think a redemption arc for him wouldn't be a bad thing.
My only worry about Bo and Karn is creating their spell kit to add something to your party and not be a duplicate of Bosch or Sten.
I finished BOF2 several times before. During my playthrough , I always feel that Ray is such a wasted character because he always wanted to help others and there are several missions from Ray where he ask you to help some people. I think that in the original game the black dragon clan doesn't get enough explanation of their clan and relevance to the story. Adding an option to recruit Ray can help you to make the story more interesting and give more details on his clan. Recruiting him will also make the black dragon clan relevant to the story. That's why I really wanted Ray to join Ryu's group.
If the option to be able to recruit Ray on your party becomes available. I can suggest a story for his background, just in case you wanted to pursue on Ray joining your party. So here's what I come up for his background story.
Ray's village was attacked by demons and he is the only survivor. After that Habaruku/Father Haulk found him and decided to kill but a demon suggest that he can use Ray, since he belongs to a powerful dragon clan. (it would be perfect if the demon that erase memories that you fight on great wise tree's mind "Aruhamel" will the one to suggest that Ray can be easily manipulated because he is still a child they think that they can put him on a great use) . Then after the demon who erase memories suggested that he can erase his memories and put a curse to make Ray a loyal pawn to Habaruku.
After the fight between Ray and Ryu in Evrai. His curse has been broken because in order to lift Ray's curse a more powerful member can break curse of Ray, since Ryu is that guy it makes the story more interesting again. In main story line after Ray's has been defeated he will give you a powerful dragon spell. After a short dialogue he realize that he did so many bad things in his life, so he decided to join his group. In this story he will still give you the dragon spell and ask to join your group to avenge his clan and redeem himself.
Also, he will get his revenge on Habaruku if he was able to join the group before the fight in Gate. It will give a more engaging part of the story because you can have a dialogue on every dragon clan members. (Ryu, Yua and Ray)
Again, Bro! You're doing a great job for accepting other peoples suggestions. You're such a great game developer.
I greatly appreciate your kind words. Hearing that people are enjoying the game really makes it worth while. I agree with you that Ray is an untapped vein I need to look into, especially now that you can choose between light and dark dragon tree. I will use what you wrote for some inspiration on next patch for Ray. Thank you for all your feedback and suggestions!
