I mean it might ultimately be a kindness to destroy the hidden masters and then resurrect everyone and Hunger leaves never meeting them.
That's where you're wrong, Lord of Murder! We don't have two hands.
That sounds weird. Why wouldn't he give the choice to his companions instead of deciding for himself? Ressurecting them will also probably what will heal a good chunk of Hunger's trauma.
Little bit, yeah! Hunger has an actual wife. We don't know her name, or much of anything about her, but she did die to save him.
You only need one hand for hand holding!
Those are some pretty bold assertions you're making! Stranglethorn offers both defence and offence compared to the other options going all one way or the other and Apex is better off taken after Stranglethorn so we get more rank.
Because it was two arete so it couldn't fit with the 7 arete Evening sky, which was it's primary competition for a voter block.
So what you're saying is Gisena is pretty Awesome!
King of Thieves giving skills and not stats is what killed it for me, that and it limiting future mage options. I also didn't think Thief skills would be that important in most fights.
Yeah, I'm hoping for more about his lost comrades and wife as well. I like Letrizia and Gisena well enough (since this one's not the team-killing nerfbomb so there's no reason not to), but I'd like to know a little bit more about the important people that aren't sitting around the campfire with him anymore.
To be fair to original Gisena she blew up on dying in order to save the lives of all the soldiers and citizens who otherwise would have been helpless against the giant army of orcs.
I actually like the idea that the hero's companions and wife are Isekai'd like he is, either from his world or all different worlds.
Fucking All Paths.²
I don't know, when you get told that certain builds are explicitly short term power and others are greedier, those tend to be flat-out better for the riskier options, which are the combat ones. Even Sweep, though it is less risky, runs into the risk of rolling a high encounter but rolling low on the combat roll. And Stranglethorn gives nothing for social.
I tend to agree; I do think that resurrecting his wife and his companions is a worthwhile thing to do for Hunger's emotional well-being, but I also think that his relationships with them can't feasibly survive the changes he'll have had to undergo to be able to achieve their revival, on top of the memory loss he will have undoubtedly experienced in regards to a significant portion of their time together originally. It would really be the best thing for all of them to be able to get some closure and then move on to live as they can.
Your omakes are enjoyable and that one was no exception, but I had the opposite impression. Hunger seems to have had some amount of control over what he fed to the pyre:
That his memory of Earth's little more than a hazy impression, that he burned his own name rather than abandon his recollections of them? That speaks to both Hunger's nobility of spirit and the depth of their bond. Whether it can survive the eons to come and the inevitable gulf in power following any resurrection's another question, but he does remember.
