The Chosen Ones

"You're in love with someone you know nothing about. There are just small hints all over the campaign what truly Tharo is."

exactly what i said. its the mystery i love.

thats also true to the other characters. characters are loveable because you know SOMETHING about them but not everything, so the heavier and fewer the little things are, the more interesting a character becomes. tharo for example. hes perfect.

the problem arrises when you try to tell the backstory of a really cool character (like itachi or tharo) and then just make complete predictable smoochy-poochy nonsense out of it (like itachi). sure i dont expect you to do so, but after all, the less the player is told about the big secrets, the more he can imagine.

for example, did you watch LOST, the TV show?
its all very mystical and **** and you theorize years about whats going on since its really well made and you only get information bit by bit but you always get more mystery than information so all the questions pile up endlessly and that is actually a really really good thing since every question makes sense by itself somehow so that you dont need the "true" answer to find it good but your own suspicions and fantasies are enough.
LOST has 6 seasons and in season 5 they started to reveal the plot more and more, and the more they told us about the background and ****, the worse it has gotten. season 6 was so bad that i and many other lost fans rather wanted their lifetime back than to have watched it.

so what im saying is: dont take away the imaginations of the players when revealing big secrets. its a thin line to walk but since you seemingly played legend of dragoon, you should know your business ; )