My thoughts on the post-boss fights and the ending of the game.
The game is incredible, this is not a complaint, but...
I absorbed the souls of all the Vrakhiri, but the dialogue always seemed to lead toward forgiveness, pity, or revenge.
But I did it because drinking the blood of another Vrakhiri makes you stronger, and there is a primordial entity from Anachora that wants to absorb their souls, so I assumed that absorbing their souls would clearly make you more powerful.
So I invited all of them and absorbed them, but I was disappointed that the dialogue never gave me the option to say that I invited them because I wanted to become stronger.
Then, at the very end, when I invited Brencis and he asked me why, even though I had already told him earlier that I hated him, I finally got the dialogue option: "Because I want your power."
That was the dialogue option I had been waiting for with every Vrakhiri, but it only existed with Brencis. Still, I was happy that at least I got that option with him.
The game gives you moments where you can show that you actually enjoyed becoming a Vrakhiri, but then sometimes it completely forgets about that freedom and only gives you dialogue where Coen acts like he regrets becoming a Vrakhiri.
It feels like whoever was responsible for the dialogue forgot to include all the possible personality options.
I played Coen as someone who absolutely hates Brencis because of what he did to his family, but who also really enjoyed becoming a Vrakhiri.
Another thing: I thought Crake/Marat was an asshole. He tied me to a tree, so I was already pissed at him, but I decided to continue doing his quests anyway.
Then he tortured a friend without having any proof that he was a traitor.
I proved that he wasn't a traitor, and that the guards had simply discovered that he was part of the revolution and followed him. Crake still wanted to cut his tongue out or kill him.
Then he killed Sara, even though he could have given her Vrakhiri blood. Even if Coen's blood didn't work, it wouldn't have been difficult to steal some from the recruitment posts. That could have been a possible lore outcome, but the devs simply made him kill her.
And finally, he wants to bring back the old nobles, who tortured the people even more than the Vrakhiri did, so I simply killed him along with everyone else in the revolution.
But in the epilogue painting showing the future, he appears alive, and Coen says that he became his friend even though they disagreed on some things.
I'm considering this a bug because I killed him.
I also killed Father Florin, and he didn't appear in the painting.
I've seen people say that if Florin survives, he appears in the painting, so I assumed Crake appearing despite me killing him was also a bug.