He lets us know that the more powerful the artefacts he feeds it, the better. We'll have to disagree about the escalation – from my perspective, what he tells you from the outset, is that he needs magical artefacts – plural – to feed this hungry chunk of weave, and that if he doesn't keep it fed, continuously, it's going to do some real bad things. It's a big thing to admit you need help with, for someone like him. It's purely a security blanket for him, because he feels better having that promise there before he tells you about the biggest source of shame and personal failure in his life – and that is exactly what he is telling you about his biggest failure and his greatest shame, and the way in which it is continuing to make problems for him and everyone around him, and is making him a burden, when he's used to being the one with all the answers and all the power. and if he's right, and you are trustworthy, then the promise is also meaningless because you're not going to freak our or act rashly anyway. then the promise itself means nothing if he's wrong about you, then that promise will not stop the things he's worried about and it won't serve any purpose or hold any value. He knows that if he tells you, and he's incorrect about whether you will accept that, and not freak out about it, or do something rash. No, it's a security blanket for him – it's not about you at all, and it does not give him ANY control. You eventually learn that he needs artifacts without making any promises - so what was the the purpose of the extracting the promise in the first place? Answer: he wants to make the request in a manner that allows him some degree of control over Tav.
none of that is malicious or deceptive, to me. He used to have a healthy level of self worth and self love (along with an unhealthy degree of ego and pride), but right now he doesn't, and it's eating him alive just as much as his shadow orb is. The more recent loss of the greater majority of his power has left him in a position where his raw intellect and experience are what he must fall back on, so he Must believe that they are tools that are up to solving any and every problem he has – his own sense of self-worth depends upon it… and there Is a very big self-worth wound lurking beneath his academic bravado.
He's more insecure than he wishes to let on, because even after all this time, the blow to his confidence has him over-compensating. I see his flaws as overconfidence, ego, a bit of social awkwardness, but enough self-centred self-assurance to believe that he's actually smooth and charming all the time. I'll stand by the way I feel about these particular things, and blame Larian for what I will most likely call poor writing. Even if I'm wrong (and I may be, when the full game comes out). All good ^.^ this is friendly and I think we're going to keep seeing the situation differently, but that's okay.
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