>>536560540
>I watched the babe become a woman - Helena, my shapeshifting beauty, my daughter, and Bhaal's waiting womb.

Hate to be the UUHH ACHKTUALLY guy but this time I'm 100% confident Helena was a Changeling.

Look, this is the way I see it: with an untadpoled Durge, the whole Absolute plan would have gone smoothly, even the Elder Brain can't resist his scalie beauty (yikes).

So, Orin tadpoling Durge actually made sure the Scoobie Gang had a little chance in defeating the Big Bad Guy, because not!lobotomized Durge would have absolutely conquered the whole Sword Coast and killing everybody: the evil Durge ending states as much.
Maybe it's another ironic case of "the Dead Three can't do shit", but still...
>She also murdered a lot of innocent people
Gods forbid a girl have hobbies.
Jokes aside, she's a tragic character, corrupted and manipulated even before her conception. Her moments of realization, when her whole life crumbles down before being transformed into the Slayer, that was pretty rough and intense. I can't help but feel some sort of empathy for her.