THEY ALWAYS CHARM THE MAIN PAWN AND THEN PROCCED TO DIE 2 RAIDS LATER FOR SOME BULLSHIT

That’s why you must almost always remove highmate’s tongue

That's an actual interesting fact! Do you have any sources or quotes for that? I'd like to mention it in a future video about Rimworld named locations :)

@@thenightarchives4148 you can see it if you randomly generate enough ideoligions, but the information fragments that they generate the descriptions from are defined in a file called something like "place.xml" in the Ideology install files somewhere. I can't look at the files Rn but if you can't find it let me know and I'll look when I get home. I think the wiki lore page also has the info?

@@thenightarchives4148 I swear I replied to this, but YT seems to have lost it. You can see it if you generate enough ideoligion descriptions, but the information fragments that they build the comments out of are also saved somewhere in the Ideology install directory in a file called something like "places.xml". I can't remember off hand exactly where, but if you can't find it, let me know and I'll look at it when I can get back to my computer. I think the wiki also has a copy of all the info on their lore page.

The psychic bond is to control them. You can't betrtay your master if you are psychically bound to them. They only succeeded in their first attempt because of the psychic stuff. They are custom made and then shipped to their new owner and forced to make a pass at them and thus bind them to the person who had them build. The lore makes all of this clear.

That's a positive way to perceive them. You could be right about all of this, but if a highmate was incapable of violence due to empathic reasons, they shouldn't have a problem fighting mechanoids, undead skeletons or creatures that otherwise cannot feel pain/have no emotions. Plus, the feelings and thoughts are not shared. The psychic bond is based 100% just on proximity. If a highmate is kept as a prisoner or as a slave, that won't affect its partner's mood, they will be happy regardless of their partner's situation as long as they are in close proximity.

@@EighmyLupin But the psychic bond doesn't control them. Not more than they control their partner. Any psychic ability that controls, if that's what you mean, the Highmates would be able to use it just as well. The bond is two-sided, not just one, since both parties suffer from separation. This would be like a mutual kill-switch, kinda like you see in some sci-fi prison transports. The fact that they can instantly bond with someone would make them very dangerous. Your last line is kinda what I said as well: the lore is very disconnected from their in-game abilities.

​@@thenightarchives4148 Good point about mechs and zombies. But that seems to be more because of in-game limitations. Like you can just attack grass with a granade, but then it can still blow up humans. Not to mention heavier weapons. Also, Highmates can make weapons, so it's not a complete opposition to violence. For example if they can make weapons, could they set a trap? As far as I know they can do that in-game. Or could they still poison someone (lore-wise)? It's probably not as simple as I said with the psychic bond, but it's also not as absolute as being completely helpless, especially in case of an absuive lover. Furthermore the abusive partner part doesn't make sense to me, since the psychic bond instantly increases the partner's opinion of the highmate. Plus Highmates are delicate, so they would make a terrible punching bag. Yeah, the close proximity is enough, but realistically difficult to maintain, and possibly dangerous. I mean overall highmates seem extremely high maintenance and risky just to have a lover/sex slave. I can get behind them being the perfect mate, but I have a hard time imagining them in a malicious/forced servitude. I'm not saying my version is 100% the correct one, but there are definitely contradictions between lore and in-game.

I would assume that is an exception yes. Eating a meal without a table after all, would turn even a highmate into a serial killer.

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Having one in your colony can be incredibly useful. They can boost everyone's moods and their good social makes them really good moral guides for ideologies and very good negotiators when trading. You can also pair them with pawns that have the pessimist trait to counter that.

They make very good recruiters and royal pawns.

Thats a whole lot of emojis... And speaking about protecting highmates, you can give her shield belt, and if you have Anomaly, you can give her some death refusals

truly the perfect society

a charitable read of Rimworld child highmates is that they are raised to LATER be partners. in game mechanics they can't be in a relationship until they are adults and you could read that as the mental bond and other design features dont mature until the highmate themselves is mature. its still messed up to specifically set that kids entire life path but at least it isnt ...ya know...stuff

@@coalmine9666 it's still grooming

​@PosterityIslesNews 100% yes. Like I said, it's bad.

@@coalmine9666i always assumed they escaped from epsteins moon