He falls hard for your shenanigans.
I know this is counterintuitive to its entire premise, but Iâd enjoy Trickster more if it was a more serious story, like if my KC could warp reality for reasons more than just memery.
The best example is:
Trickster Act 4 Spoilers
Turning Vellexia into furniture. Thatâs a good way of enacting a punishment that fits her crime.
I feel you, some kind of Fey-style path where Shyka of the Many gets involved would be neat
It would also be treading on Azata toes though but thereâs a balance
Gimme a prothean gal pal who imparts to me the truth (that the truest nature of reality is absolute freedom [chaos]), and I choose what to do with this information. Iâd love to be more of like⊠a cosmic prankster, giving people the comeuppance I decide they deserve, rather than turning the entire setting into a meta circus.
The Trickster path as it is in the game was fun to do once, when I was a chaotic evil and capricious character who revelled in the carnage, but I like my well-intended characters most of all.
Not often do I find Estonian as inspiration for fantasy names, so when I do itâs pretty funny.
Especially when assuming itâs probably a benefit of Owlcat being Russian devs, but afaik the azata names are in base Pathfinder game too? Where Paizo is an American publisher.
(Uinuja is literally âsleeperâ. Thereâs also a Lillend Azata, and the Painajai demons, which are slightly less direct, but still fitting more or less. Lill is âflowerâ and painaja is ânightmareâ or âtorturerâ. One could suppose itâs Finnish inspired, where painaja apparently means âpressmanâ. 
)
Itâs the fantasy way - start with Western Christianity/Judaism, then go east until you hit Moroi
A hideously underutilised folklore is Celtic and Irish mythology - give me more banshees, more fey, dullahan, CĂș Chulainn, the works
Itâs usually messily eaten raw by a given settingâs elves.
Albion in Warhammer used that sort of stuff.
But didnât get must expansion in later things, which is a shame.
You go try find any central European folklore that isnât heavily filtered through an anglophone pov. Especially if itâs not yet another retelling of the same few selective stories âby the Brothers Grimmâ that have containment-breached all over the place.
Extra difficulty: No Witcher.
The world needs more actively predatory fair folk, full âgive me your nameâ meat-eaters
DA Origins Dalish touched greatness
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Japan, of all places, seems to have a real soft spot for CĂș Chulainn and more of the Gaelic leaning folklore. Crops up in multiple shows and settings, from what Iâve seen.
I came across Setanta (CĂș Chulainnâs human name) in Persona 5 of all places, and was like âwhy have I never heard this excellent folklore from a stoneâs throw away???â
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FWIW the Azata I donât think are based on any Estonian mythology and the names were just âinspiredâ by Estonian words.
Thereâs plenty of Estonian mythology to go around and be utilised, though I think some things are at odds with English translations. Elf (haldjas) is more like a fairy than what we consider Elves now. Haldjas here is more like a protective spirit of some nature object or phenomenon.
So I guess Ulbrig in WoTR calling everything fey or oglins is⊠actually pretty Estonian.
The big banner art for the WoW forum with Alex and the flying background dragons always looked off to me and the more I look at them they look like they were AI generated.
I like the elves in DA sounding Welsh and Irish
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I have a few MTG elf flavour texts burned into my mind.
âThe elves have a reputation for attacking without warning. They claim the first shot is the warning.â
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who doesnât like dunking on the shemlen tbh
âWe fired a warning shot.â
âYou call that a âwarningâ shot? You took out my friendâs eye!â
âThatâs what makes it an effective warning.â
Youâre probably noticing it having been cut together either from different pictures or being a somewhat condensed version of a bigger picture.
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I havenât touched MTG since decades ago when my big brother got me one of the early Starter sets (he kept the foil special that was part of the set, which is fair enough), and yet still I instantly know that that flavour text is from the Llanowar Elves 
Shows it was effective!
Edit: Also, I love how the Carians in Elden Ring were Welsh accented. Itâs a criminally underused accent, tbqh.