*SPOILERS*
Torment is full of "wow" moments. Moments that make you stop and think. Moments that make you want to reload a saved game file or play the entire game again. In fact, the game is like one big long epic moment. Sure it has up and down slopes but the overall curve it is truly stunning.
I was thinking of my "favorite" moment and while it would be wrong to say I truly have one there is a moment that I have recently been thinking about a lot and that is when The Nameless One meets Vhailor. You see Vhailor is perhaps more akin to The Nameless One than any other NPC or character in the game. (excepting TTO who is a part of TNO) The difference is that it wasn't some misguided ritual performed by a night hag that gave him his immortality (okay so maybe he isn't truly immortal like TNO but you get the idea) rather it was through sheer force of will and dedication to an ideal that literally kept him from dying until his work was through... I dig that... a lot?
Talk about undying loyalty to a cause... such a phrase has always been used metaphorically until Vhailor's character was created. One more reason to love Planescape: Torment. (actually, as an aside, I am reminded of the Thousand Sons Chaos Space Marines from the table top minatures game Warhammer 40k. Their armour was sealed shut by a curse so that their spirits continued to live in their armor long after their physical bodies had turned to dust. Vhailor, however, continues living long past his mortal expiration date to fight for justice through sheer force of will)
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