Quote Originally Posted by GloatingSwine View Post
Right, but explain how being dead does not impede Sarevok's plan.
Sure...as soon as you address the fact that there is no actually possible way for the Ducal Palace fight to end with him dead. If you save the dukes and show them the evidence like the whole chapter points you toward, Winski teleports him out. If you go in thinking "screw all this evidence crap, I just need to hit Sarevok as hard as I can," your character winds up dead from stupidity. You can complain about the cosmetic implementation of "you're now in a walking dead state, Flame Strike," but that's what it is--cosmetic implementation of the fact that your character has just stupidly guaranteed they cannot win and the designers chose to take you straight to the Game Over screen in that case--and so that's functionally identical to complaining about Arkanis Gath in BG2.

And if Dukes Belt and Lia die, the person in charge of arranging resurrections for the dead Dukes would probably be the surviving Duke. How he's going to keep postponing that after you're dead...is a matter you won't be around to worry about.