Killing Edash wasn't novel, and, exactly, neither was this.
This was the end of an arc that has been building up since like what, level 14? We finally ended it, we stopped the madman that was literally destroying planes with a snap of his fingers, rescued the goddess of life, witnessed her ascension to goddess of life and magic, saved the world, ensured that nobody else had to die to the whims of a madman, and resolved one of the two major things that need to be resolved.
But 9000 XP to go lol. We're going to get it off something utterly lesser. "Keeping with tradition" is a crappy, crappy argument. We don't traditionally become epic level characters. That's never happened before. And it should be a big deal. It should come from doing something that is actually epic level.
This was. It ruins the game for me to not cross the threshold into epic off such a great moment. We won. We finally won. It was costly, but we won. Never win, so when we finally do straight up win, we apparently get nothing for it.
And yeah, like Omega said, we got a huge sum of XP for the dumb session before this one, where we did considerably less. Wat?
Really, the only argument I can support is that the XP distribution was weird. I honestly don't give a single **** about beating Ondal when there was such massive material and spiritual fallout. Like I said, this victory was Phyrric. One more like this one, and everything's undone. That's not what I'd reward with an ascent to Epic...particularly because it's nonsense when coupled with our ED flavors. Whatever yours might be Accel, it doesn't fit Kirie, nor Brona, nor Quentyn (Quentyn's own ED pick got nixed by these events, in fact!). So I don't much care for just pushing a level-up on them.
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