I just finished Avernum 6.

That ending....

The TVTropes "End of an Era" assessment was right.

For me, I did the two most Avernum friendly Melanchion quests (might try killing him at some point, and a different one to do all of the quests), completed all the Gladwell quests, then killed the bastard, avoided killing those farmers outside of Spire, and I can't think of anything else.

I guess it was appropriate for things to end kind of how they began.

More later when I don't have a migraine.

Thoughts?

I actually wasn't expecting the ending to come as quickly as it did, seeing as I still had a long laundry list of quests. Also, I was thinking that it wasn't going to be the end, instead leading to the surface world, that for all I understand, is conspicuously absent in Avenum 4-6.

Perhaps it was the massive space compression that happened in 4-6, but it didn't feel like I was playing as big an adventure and wonder what became of Upper Avernum, Deep Avernum, and what of the entirety of Ermarian, orbiting around Alxus.

It just leaves me with questions, really.

Also, Avernum 6 is quite dull to solo, unlike how I recall that it was recommended to try and do a solo run in the classic series.

I wrote a somewhat long response; then, the forum ate my post.

So, in brief.
Futility of the party's impact on the world felt vaguely like Geneforge.
Small world frustrating, less epic.
Is Ermarian the name of the world? I never picked that word up anywhere.

Well, according to the Avernum/Exile wiki that's an invite only wiki found here, but the sources are...scattered, to say the least.