Aghurlal has a phobia of ghosts, spirits, and demi-gods / god-like beings. This has lead to some rather paranoid beliefs about, say, the "Godswood"... he's convinced that if he ever steps foot in the Black Shroud, the Elementals will seize on his inner evilness and "get him", possibly torturing him forever and/or delivering his spirit unto the same realm as his father's somehow so he can torture him.
Several factors have lead into this phobia (and subsequent paranoia) being as bad as they are - like his PTSD relating to his father and his father's death, and his near-lethal encounter with Ifrit - so... I really, really don't want to just handwave it away.
Sure it means for now I basically just can't take him to Gridania, at all. And that's real inconvenient sometimes. But I developed him into this mess - I think it's fair that I'd want to develop him out of it as well.
Several factors have lead into this phobia (and subsequent paranoia) being as bad as they are - like his PTSD relating to his father and his father's death, and his near-lethal encounter with Ifrit - so... I really, really don't want to just handwave it away.
Sure it means for now I basically just can't take him to Gridania, at all. And that's real inconvenient sometimes. But I developed him into this mess - I think it's fair that I'd want to develop him out of it as well.
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