@PretzleMe wrote:
I've played out saving Sloane and I have to say that if I met even a hint of that Sloane beforehand, my decision would have proven more difficult.
Makes me feel like Sloane is forced in someway. Like it was almost their intent to make us not like Sloane. But it seems forced to have her show me virtually no respect at all until I save her life or to have her start to show me the amount she does after I save her.
At least that's what I wonder about.
I guess they wanted to write Sloane in a way similar to Loghain from Dragon Age 1: a controversial character, who had been laid out as a "cool" hero in a backstory book, that has a lot of redeeming factors, but uses wrong means to achieve own goals, and is, well... seriously delusional. And they mixed Bhelen vs. Renvil as far as story goes.
In my opinion the have hardly succeeded - Sloane is not the same paygrade as Loghain was; and the choice is not communicated to players as well as it was for dwarven lords. But, well, since so many people like Sloane, perhaps they succeeded after all?