Warrior Monk: Difference between revisions

* ''[[Mass Effect 2]]'' adds not one but two Warrior Monks to [[Player Character|Commander Shepard]]'s team. First is Samara, a member of a very rare sect of asari warriors who swear off having family or possessions beyond weapons and armor, and follow a strict Code which obligates them to protect the innocent and stop lawbreakers. Samara at one point compares herself to a [[Knight Errant]] or a samurai.

** On a more informal level, meanwhile, there is Thane Krios, a drell [[Career Killers|assassin]] and devout polytheist who kills people he believes deserve to die in an effort to [[Hitman with a Heart|make the galaxy a better place]]. Best illustrated in his first lines:

'''Thane:''' Not for her. For me. }}

** Neither of these are straightforwardly "holy" characters. Samara's Code takes a [[Principles Zealot|very hardline stance]] toward crime, and though she's capable of finessing situations to keep from being forced to take unnecessary action, she makes it clear that this only goes so far. Thane's religion, meanwhile, takes the concept of a soul separate from the body a step or two beyond human faiths, to the point that he makes a clear distinction between acts of his own personal volition and acts that are performed solely by his body (for example, in the service of others, a mindset doubtless informed by the fact that he was raised as an assassin from the age of six) - he holds himself no more responsible for the latter than he would consider a gun to blame for shooting someone, a philosophy that would probably make prosecuting a drell serial killer a real headache.