I so agree with you. In general, the plot was fine until MC found out about his sister’s death and did nothing about it. The moment with the queen on the ship completely killed me. After all, to put it simply, the whole situation, just imagine: your dear one is kidnapped and taken apart for organs; a few years later, an organ recipient shows up on your doorstep and tells a sob story about how the kidnapper was theirs childhood friend and tried so hard to cure them. And the narrative is constructed as if the reader\MC is supposed to empathize with this? Wtf.
And you can only avenge her death in the bad ending? I don't know, for me the "bad" ending is the most canonical. And logical from the point of view of the development of MC character. You see, in the flashback we are shown that MC has not forgiven humans for the war and does not believe them - Nidhogg believes. She promises that they will change their mind when they follow her. She disappears. Instead of searching for her, MC spends 15 years as an adopted child, 15 years of which are not shown to us at all, even as flashbacks, but for some reason we have to believe that these two adoptive parents changed MC's opinion about humanity so much that MC communicate absolutely friendly with everyone around and with news of the violent death of her sister as a result of betrayal, MC still believe in a peaceful solution? I don't know, I'm very disappointed with the last third game.
Although, considering how much Nidhogg didn’t believe in MC, that she didn’t even want to show her daughter, maybe the closeness of their relationship was exaggerated. Poor Shaun. By the way, why didn’t MC ever check Lilith’s condition? She's a magical being, don't they care about all of them?
Well, Harald, of course, a cool man, for the sake of saving one person, continued a war on a global scale, as a result of which his friend still has a significant chance of dying not by natural causes. A reliable plan, just like a Swiss watch.
Absolutely! Aarya could have better thought about human, but it just 15 years, it's nothing compare to millenia years of war! They could only hate human less at best! And with the news of such a betrayal, how could they take it so... well? Even Emrys first thought is revenge! But I can understand why Nidhoggr didn't dare to bring up about her child to Aarya. She's scared of their reaction and maybe her daughter and her husband safety if they learned about it, consider how much Aarya hate human back then, and Shawn is the result they get from killing Lucius whole clan. I think that's also why she tried to change Aarya's opinion about human first before let them know. That's more about how you know someone well enough to predict their reaction and want to handle it the best you could rather than trust issue to me.
It's more about inconstancy. And she miscalculated. She expected Aarya to take her union with the homunculus and her daughter so badly, considering she wasn't some stranger, while Aarya had absolutely no problem with humans when they were alone. Narrative logic died somewhere here.
Everything looks as if Nidhogg died by accident and Harald simply decided not to let the good things go to waste. And when his action was revealed, he was like “oops, sorry, but I really needed that.” In this case, I would probably really just shrugged, but we are dealing with premeditated murder.