Even now, it is important while dealing with Sovereignty, and could net us followers should we finally elect to actually visit that goddamn camp near the temple for some goddamn party members.
But we can do that even without picking Inksky, that's my point. I just consider Edeldross a more mechanically and thematically (maybe not aestethically, if you really like evening sky's look) fitting choice at the moment.
Does it really synergize that much though? To me it looks like we're playing a tug-of-war of buffs and debuffs and ending up with something that is somewhat acceptable but not really that great. Now, something that added our Willpower (or some other stat) to Charisma would be exactly what we're looking for, but that's just me hopelessly dreaming, at least for the moment...
We have literally thousands of years to get around to the ruling part. Right now, how exactly we're going to conquer and rule is really not a concern. Power begets more power. Once we have outscaled the curse completely and are no longer in danger of suddenly getting ganked/killed, we can easily invest a century or so in a comprehensive rulership scheme, of which supernatural charisma is only one option. We don't need supernatural majesty. It is one way to deal with that issue, but I can think of many others. And if we do want to already bother with ways to ensure rulership, being able to nonlethally teleport enemies and dissidents far away could do a lot for Hunger's mental wellbeing.
Oof, after waking up and reading the arguments and especially your warnings about picking Inksky - hm, how much of a shot would Edeldross have if I requested my omake power be split 50/50 between Edeldross and Inksky?
Would that change if we empowered them with the ring of blood?
Inksky means that in future we have a set of Charisma buff options that will still be paying off better than normal (either 40% or 70% better than baseline), to offset the fact that a lot of our existing Charisma buffs and buff options just got nerfed.
OK, but that already happened- it's a ship that has sailed. Those blood-based options for charisma enhancement no longer work as well as they used to, ever since we took Uttermost. Now we need a different way to achieve the same thing.
I will admit that being able to say "fine, go be protestors on literally the other side of the planet," *BAMF,* would be kind of darkly amusing.
Considering Gisena has Findross running through her bloodstream, we'll work out something like that too one day (and again, I disagree that we're in a hurry to get carisma bonuses). Maybe it wouldn't even matter, since if matter can control when generating Edeldross inside the body during the stress of a combat situation, it should be absolutely rivial to gain the buff in a normal situation. And I think we risk buffing our enemies only when outputting it in a way our allies can benefit from it, and that's an option both of the other Elements lack.
If I'm getting this right, that means that an overall buff to all our stats means that our "one attribute boosts another" stats benefit from it even more. And considering we could likely increase that overall boost, and that when we get the chance we're likely going to get Stranglethorn with its sweet doubling of Might and Willpower... Ooooooh boy
And I think that in the future we might find some other way to compensate or nullify the debuff, without having to renounce something that at least to me is extremely appealing. It's a bet that I'm fully aware not everyone will agree with, but I trust this will not be the last time (or even the best one) for us to find a way to improve our social aspects (and again another bet, Edeldross could end up helping with that as well).
