The main disagreement was that I clearly said up front, before switching sides, that I would work on increasing difficulty and making more competent enemies so that the quest stops being an unopposed curb stomp romp.
Sure we do!
That would kinda require to actually figure out why Lucan changed instead of just continuing the war on straw like in the Conclave.
While I totally agree that this would be more fun if the enemies were stronger, I also can't recally thread salt ever being about enemies being too strong. Salty about no loot, yes. Salty about the sudden shift in PNCs we thought we had pegged, fine (although IMO revealing that Lucan was in fact sensible was great). Salty about enemies being too strong? When? We win all the time, anyway.
I had a long and draining fight with DP over not having Danelle and Lucan throwing away everything to become happy little Viserys fans. Because he was not happy with the stupendous amount of vitriol and rage being caused by Lucan turning out to be a genuine Paladin.
I don't think so, actually. All we need to do is know about what he's doing now (and his methods), not about his past or anything.
Then why don't you reread that part?
Ayup, and that's kind of the cardinal sin for "an actual Paladin". He just can't be sympathetic because he wields your sins against you like weapons, while not making restitution for his own.
And this sums up my grievances quiet well too.
You are wrong. Lucan isn't blind to his faiths problems. But people never cared enough to learn more about him, instead opting to just conclude he is stupid and secretly evil.
He certainly never mentioned it. No "let's compromise", no "let's work together", no "yeah, we did wrong, we should set this right".
...if it's any consolation, he is an interesting character, be it in hindsight or not.
Of course he wasn't going to mention it, we were in social combat and such an admission would have been inconvenient.
There was blatantly obvious tension between him and his angel, which people blindly took as evidence that Lucan is forcing him to strangle puppies in his spare time.
Him not being willing to cooperate with us who is the closest thing to the anti-Christ of his religion doesn't make him blind to his faith's problems, nor does it make him evil or stupid.
We aren't that, though? We're a Targaryen, our family and the faith had a simple understanding for some time, based on them not bothering us admittedly, but it still worked. It could easily have worked some more, Viserys doesn't even care for the incest thing, which was the last real compromise of the Faith with the Targaryens. If not for the Old Gods getting there first, which is a problem of the Seven's making, an arrangement would be in the cards. And it still could be, with some compromises and a good public apology over the whole Andal Invasion thing.
That angel just acted so pitifully depressed for a creature of its CR that everyone assumed the poor guy was being abused or something.
Viserys: "Trust me, I am the lesser Evil"
Edit: Joking
I mean, we won't actually do much to the faith? The main change is that they have to accept magic and godly competitors, old and new. Justice, mercy, protecting the innocent and all that good stuff, the real important parts of the faith, are all things we're cool with. Admittedly sometimes mercy slacks a bit, but we protect the innocent a ton more and look out for people in general so I say everything evens out.