Warning: This article contains spoilers for Avowed’s second region, Emerald Stair. The second act of Avowed ends tragically.
Fior mes Ivèrno, the town at the centre of the Emerald Stair region, burns to the ground. Its people, already pushed to the edge of starvation thanks to failed harvests, are driven from their homeland by the tyrannical Steel Garotte, an army of fanatical paladins from the invading Aedyr Empire.
When the flames finally fade, the city is removed from your map, its ruins occupied by the paladins who razed it. But this is an Obsidian game.
And so, as the developer’s tradition of branching storylines and player choice dictates, there is a way to prevent the town from burning.
But unlike most choice-supporting RPGs, this isn’t achieved via completing an opposing mission branch. There simply isn’t a quest to stop this event from happening.