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BetatesterFP wrote: if you want speculation there is mine.

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SPOILERS (or not because it can be false)

Xerces has captured or found the corpse of the dwarven godess of earth and extracts her essence, maybe he wants to become a god of some kind.

Clues

- there's a woman silouette in a tree in his prologue scene

- he is interested in theology (literraly the study of gods)

- he harverst "theoson" what ever it is on the prologue

- the dwatven god is supposed to be dead (stineford) Tertia is also the godess of trees and flowers (eustrin)

- the world suffers from a drought that is worse and worse (if you extract eart godess essence you can expect drawbacks) I was already wondering if Xerces was harvesting Theoson from living beings and this seems entirely plausible to me, plus you have some decent circumstancial evidence from the lore and scenes.

Although the wastelands were because of the war and the "Arsehole of Arclent." draining the area so I don't think the world is under a drought, just the areas near his domain...not saying it's not possible, just that Feroholm is too close to the "Arsehole of Arclent"'s domain to be a good gauge for the world's state of fertility.