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All Endings and main branches

By Vongrak

A giude that explains all endings possible in the game.

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Guide Index

Overview

Friendly Tips and a warning

The main Branches.

The main attraction: The endings

Little Secrets

Good Luck! and Goodbye!

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Friendly Tips and a warning

First thing. If you have already completed the game and want to see all the other content. Go to settings. Set your skip to "seen" content and remove transitions. This allows you to press the right leaf in the bottom middle of your screen to skip any content you have viewed before ( even on other saves ) and only see the new content and make your choices.

Warning the rest of the giude does contain spoilers do not continue if you want to play through the game for your fist time

The main Branches.

The big difference in the game comes from if you let Hek fight the gray mage or not. This provides several different scenes post choice. However it has no effect on which ending you get.

I personally like how letting Hek fight the gray mage plays out. As good as it is to fight it yourself, I feel you get more information letting Hek fight it.

The other main branch is if you choose to go to the gardens or the training grounds, it effects a few scenes but its not as major.

The main attraction: The endings

Basically the endings in this game are based on the number of "evil" points you get. You know this occurs because when picking the "evil" options a little angry Ash face pops up. 1,2 gives you the good ending. 3-6 gives you the "balanced" ending and more than six will give you the evil ending.
Since there is no "good points" for all choices I will list the bad option. If going for a good playthrough just select another option

The choices that influence your endings are as follows:

Staying with the heads or Follow Hektor
Choose to stay with the heads if you want a negative point. Then you are offerd The choice between, defending, criticising or intimadating. Intimadating offers an evil point

For the Ladies night. ( Food?/Leave me alone )
Selecting "Leave me alone" will give you a negative piont

When you are asked if you Imagine the voices ( Of couse/Are you accusing me of lying)
Responding with "Are you accusing me of lying" gives you an evil point

When presented with the chat options for Prude ( Apoligize/Talk/Seduce )
"Seduce" grants you an evil point

When asked of what activity to do ( Insult Hektor/ Subtly sugest something else )
Insulting hector gives you an evil point

When Hektor confesses that he likes Prude ( Sympasise/ Resent )
Selecting "Resent" gives the the evil point

Interacting with Hektor in the library ( Find out what Prude sees in him/Give him a piece of his mind )
Selecting "Give him a piece of his mind" gives the evil point
Side point. You kiss him if you "Find out what Prude sees in him" I always regret choosing that even on a good playthrough

Warning Belinda Aelfnod is gay ( Try to warn her/Keep quiet )
"Keep quiet" gives you the evil point

When choosing what to do after finding out Hektor is a gray mage ( Comfort him/press him for information ) ( Only if you choose to fight the grey mage yourself )
Choose "Press him for infomation" to get the evil point

Express how you feel about Belinda mentioning your dead father ( Its fine/ You should be )
Saying "You should be" gives you the evil point

The choices that do not influence the ending are as follows:
Gardens/Training grounds
Chesee and Pasta/Booze/Chocolate.
Who?/Shut Up!
Could we ask the heads?/Hektor you are insane
Explain what Hector needs/Explain the importance of the experiment
Ask him about where he is from/Ask about Hektor
No/Yes ( In regards to Hektor being a Gray mage )
Because of me/Because of Hektor ( In regards to Gray mage following you )
Run/Like Hell! ( This is a major split but not good or bad )
Cast a spell/Defend with a sword ( If you choose to fight the grey mage yourself )
It can wait till morning/Go to the kitchen

Little Secrets

Terra appears in the following choices:
Going to the garden
Going to the barracks
Attempting to Seduce Prude
Attempting to talk to Prude
The baker when choosing to go and have a midnight snack ( She looks like the real Chef. Though this is speculation not confirmed )

Any additional secrets, feel free to let me know and I will update this giude

Good Luck! and Goodbye!

Well now you know how to be a heartless necromancer and what major paths you can walk, let me know if this giude was useful and any improvements and I can make.

Side question, what is everyones favourite ending?
I like the balanced one the best, but I got the good ending on my first playthrough

Next question
What choice do you always regret from your first playthrough?
Mine was kissing Hektor, I had no idea what was going to happen, I really did not think she was going to just kiss him. Granted he makes no issue of it understanding your reasons but, it still is really wierd to give the option, like maybe you were going to talk to him for a bit, see if he is a good person, NOPE you just kiss him.

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Vongrak [author] 17 Aug, 2021 @ 10:55pm

Ah yes I see. That makes sense. I can agree with you that it was not necessarily the time or place for that.

Mysti_Fogg 15 Aug, 2021 @ 6:57am

I absolutely agree with mentioning it for the purposes of the walkthrough. You just ended by asking about choices I regret. And while I do not regret it, exactly, aside from the points, I don't understand the logic of it. It is the choice I have the most reservations about because of game mechanics.

Vongrak [author] 14 Aug, 2021 @ 9:50pm

I agree with you, and it's one of the choices I made on my first playthrough. However, because this is all about the points and what endings they let you get, it's listed as a bad choice

Mysti_Fogg 1 Aug, 2021 @ 1:14pm

The one "bad" choice I made on my first playthrough was not telling Belinda about her gay partner.

That one confuses me because it just didn't seem like the right time or place to have that conversation, and that it was more a conversation the two of them needed to have because whether they're romantically paired or not, Pair Bonding seems like a deeply intimate relationship. I just didn't feel it was Ash's place to say anything when Aelfnod seemed perfectly capable of talking about himself when the time was right. And embarrassing Belinda in front of the whole group wasn't a nice thing to do. Maybe if she and Ash were alone, I would have said something.

Vongrak [author] 23 Nov, 2015 @ 10:04pm

Aah yeah, I was confused at that one, I was like, which is even the good option? Do I have the right to tell Belinda about Aelfnod's sexuality, he had said prior he did not talk about it to others so I was really not sure what to do.

Osmium 23 Nov, 2015 @ 2:39am

I had a similar experience. I got the good ending first but preferred the balanced one. The only negative choice I had picked on my initial playthrough was on accident because I didn't understand the options. It was where you warn Balinda that Aelfnod is gay. I thought it was asking me to warn the entire group against attracting the attention of the royal guards.

The epilogue seems to be identical for neutral and good ending, but the final fight plays out differently. During my good ending, I was thinking "OK, Zakaria seems to require a lot of concentration to heal her wife when she's wounded, why doesn't Ash just bury a sword in her neck while she's distracted?" Ash just let Zakaria get good and pissed and use the full force of her paladin abilities after she recovered. Apparently my character wasn't enough of a jerk to notice the opportunity to slit her throat.

Vongrak [author] 22 Nov, 2015 @ 9:58pm

I knew someone was going to comment that after Dodger went nuts about body snatchers. I agree with you though so I will add it in.

Stray 22 Nov, 2015 @ 8:22pm

Terra also appears if you choose to go to the kitchens during the night for a snack.

Vongrak [author] 17 Nov, 2015 @ 6:11pm

Yeah and she is also the cook. The guy cook that is. She isnt just the "old" lady cook, but I am trying to only mention the times where she does not specificly say she is Terra and has her distinct eyes, if you notice, both her guard form and her cook boy form do not have her eyes and she specificly tells you she was those characters, so its not much of a secret.

MrDarkyuubi 17 Nov, 2015 @ 8:38am

Terra also happens to be the only female guard she mentioned it in my run of the balanced ending.

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