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Saren mass effect8/4/2023 ![]() ![]() Throughout Evolution, Saren is aloof and doesn’t socialize well, but is generally amicable. At the end, Saren is forced to call down an orbital strike on the temple with Desolas inside. The setting hops around until settling in Temple Palaven, an important religious place for turians on take a wild guess which planet, and more bad things happen. Reaper tech is found, and bad things happen. Brief summary: in 2157, the man who would become the Illusive Man, henceforth referred to as Jack Harper, encounters General Desolas Arterius, Saren’s elder brother, and his squadron (including Saren himself and my personal favorite character, Lieutenant Abrudas) on Shanxi during the Relay 314 Incident. While not the first medium published, Evolution is the first point in the timeline in which Saren appears, so we’ll start here. Mass Effect: Evolution and the Fall of Desolas Arterius But is he really? The answer, of course, is far more complex than a simple “yes” or “no.” The purpose of this article is to trace Saren’s character arc from when he is sequentially introduced in Evolution to his status in Mass Effect, and try to construct a more detailed portrait than what is fed to us in-game. It’s very easy to brush off Saren as “just an asshole,” “just indoctrinated,” or even “crazy” and “a psychopath,” all of which are real things people have told me he is when discussing his character. Extended universe content, namely the comic Mass Effect: Evolution and the novel Mass Effect: Revelation, find him at vastly different points in his personal timeline, and his character changes accordingly. Even in just the first game, Saren appears to be a simple “for the evulz” villain figure, but as the game progresses, it’s revealed he’s being controlled by a robotic Eldritch horror, and in fact a victim of something much greater than anything imaginable. Saren Arterius is, in short, an incredibly complex character. There are spoilers for the Mass Effect books and comics in this guest post. This week Ierian is going to talk to us about Saren and his character development. They’re autistic and have a special interest in Mass Effect, and sometimes get yelled at for talking about it too much. Our guest blogger: Ierian is but a simple 20-year-old, trying to survive capitalism and an aerospace engineering major. ![]()
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