Daily Questions & FAQ Megathread (Jan 14)

why do so many little story things not add up or contradict themselves. really minor things that you're gonna laugh at me for even bringing up, but like i just started SB and the first village you go to and ask the leader for recruits for the resistance and he basically says 'there is barely enough of us as is, if you take anyone we wont be able to work the fields and wont meet our quota for the imperial tithe and will be punished'. then half an hour later the only young fit males in the whole village come up and ask if they can join you and you just leave without talking to the leader again.

ok so everyone's just happy to abandon their friends and family to not meet their quota and get slaughtered or whatever? cool cool.

there's been heaps of these little moments in the msq so far and most people probably don't even notice them they're so minor, and easy to handwave away as like fallible humans wrote the dialogue and story and not everything can be perfect its a videogame etc etc.

but why put that line in there in the first place. the leader could've said something to the same effect but less dramatic and avoided that contradiction all together.

anyway im aware this is obvs way too in depth for how minor this is and it doesn't matter at all lol...

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