Cetrion is a character that I might have bounced off of if I wasn't having a lot of fun playing her, and if I wasn't so drawn to 'fight with elemental forces' type characters and gameplay. Although she's supposed to just be a goddess of virtue, and one of her intros is her in a Buddha pose (google tells me that it is the Protection/Overcoming Fear asana/Attitude but the website is an English-language website that seems to be very, very keen to sell you things so take it with a grain of salt) her dialogue gives me evangelical vibes.

On the other hand as I wrote that I was like 'well, that's an interesting idea--' because the point of Cetrion's character is that she's a goddess of virtue helping her mother do terrible things because of an 'ends justify the means' mentality of balancing good and evil in the world. But the story reveals, in moments it might have been able to spend more time on if not for the vast cast it had to juggle, that despite her devotion to her mother--who uses and abuses her in the name of her grand scheme for the universe--the nature of her divinity rebels and in her heart she knows that no justification or self-righteousness excuses what they're doing.

There's not that much space for it in the story--for the record I think they did a decent job of handling such a large cast, centralizing the people whose arcs were played out through and carried the story and allowing the background characters to have their intriguing and illustrative moments--and many of her voicelines are still said full of that sort of blithe, superior absoluteness that reminds me of a certain type of preacher. But there's a lot of character potential and I'm curious to see what they do with her going forward, if they bring her back in the next game.

I have to admit some of those voicelines give me the squinty eyed growly reflex lol. Maybe that should be a mark to their credit? When she's being a god so convinced of her (mother's) own infallibility that she treats mortals as misguided for opposing her and shows no meaningful concern for the lives she destroys, she's infuriating. When you see the forces that shaped her, and the domineering influence that uses her, manipulates her and ultimately throws her life away to serve their purpose it's kind of heartbreaking. That scene really hit home.