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You didnât know? If you tried the escape scene in Book 2 demo, youâll learn that Tahlia can see all the thoughts of everyone in Arcadia.
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Oh, I never bothered with that path. itâs one of the reasons Iâm not as all in on the Tahlia hate. I donât LIKE her, at least barring future character development, but this is all secondhand information for me. Itâs why I wasnât mad about the collar. I didnât want to run anyway, why should I care?
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Actually, even without trying that scene, it has been hinted here and there that Tahlia can kinda read peopleâs thoughts, like if you choose to stay in her office instead of going out and spend some time with either Yu or F.
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At least you can reconfigure your mageâs coup plans around this new information.
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Interesting. Of course, this only means she knew of Sisterâs plan if she came up with it in Arcadia, if I understand correctly.
Then again, she does seem like the type to approve such a plan.
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Yes. I imagine Tahlia wouldnât mind Mireil blowing up the entire Sienan Capital with a human-nuke.
Again, I donât hate Tahlia. I can understand her hatred for Param and Salantira, but Iâm not interested to be a pawn in her war game. Although Iâm not a fan of hers, I am very grateful to her for bringing both Eli and the MC back to life. It is thanks to her that the MC can have a reunion with Eli at all.
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I believe she refers to it as an âunfortunate occurrenceâ Where she wishes Mireil was a good dog who stayed to do what Thalia wanted. But isnât wholly upset that two kingdoms she plans on decimating are actively killing one another.
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Well, the war was part of the plan from the start Iâd imagine. Thatâs kinda the idea. Secret shadowy conspiracy and all.
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I remember a Tumblr post from Parivir that stated the reason it took a year to revive MC was that Parivir needed Param and Salantira to still be weak from the war, to give Arcadia a believable chance of winning the conflict.
In-game, I imagine Tahlia was perfectly happy to see Sister bleeding Param dry, though I imagine she mightâve regretted that a bit when the war turned against Sister. A lot of the Salantira mages who died mightâve had Arcadian blood after all.
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Honestly, I donât think Tahlia actually would care. She cares about the idea of Arcadia as a whole, not separate individuals as shown when she didnât rescue MC and other kids from experiments and is forcing people to work for her. She longs for a once glorious civilization, long gone and impossible to restore. She is too stuck in the past to try to cultivate a new future for Arcadians and will use anyone she can to bring back her great country even if she has to walk on corpses, Arcadian or otherwise.
I didnât know it was to that extent. I thought she had to be in someoneâs presence to fully read their mind and access their memories, otherwise, she gets a PING! from a general direction where someone is. Add to that the unlimited supply of mana I hear about and we got a massively OP character. Yeah, there is no way she didnât know about Sisterâs plans, and if that is the case why did she let her go along with it? Why Arcadia didnât make a move against Param during the war? Or what purpose DID the war serve that we donât know about?
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Thatâs quitter talk!
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My personal thought is she hopes to essentially do a massive coup of ex arcadian territory, assuming such a thing is cohesive to a functioning empire. As is pointed out by some of the separate paths especially the nightsaber one, when they deal with nobles who actively go against Arcadians they are more prone to replacing the noble line entirely than to just kill whoever is the issue. My thought process around this would be if you were to fill the âEx-Arcadianâ territories with these nobles sympathetic to the Arcadians they would more likely join a new Arcadian Empire rather than be against it.
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But after the BBQ Leon would be super sympathetic toward MC, and even before he was kind to Arcadians and Tahlia still wants to axe him. Even tho MC could just guild trip him to giving them a bunch of lands, maybe even independence.
Quick! Play the Rocky theme!
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Yea I think thats the kinda the problem and the reason why most people donât really want to pick sides and/or participate in this conflict. There is no actual good reason for it. Sure, in the past weâve seen why this conflict happen and both sides have some pointers but at the moment there is no good reason to go to war. Arcadians are not treated as some sort of sub-humans by Param (apart from nobles), most people donât really care about them. And most arcadians donât have a hatred and resentment towards Param - meaning you can easily make a peace between both nations. There are hints that the Church might be doing some shady things but its too early to say anything.
Me, after realizing I can get revenge on my old friend for setting me on fire (this matter can only be settled in a ring)
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Yes but that doesnât sate my lust for conquest.
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I may not care about the Arcadian cause, but laying waste to Param with war will hurt Leon more, so Iâm all for it.
And maybe Iâll be able to usurp Tahlia and end up in chargeâŚ
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I keep seeing people saying theyâll spare Saine and Ilya, theyâll convince Arcadia to spare them, even though both are frankly, the second and third names on Arcadiaâs hitlist after Leon himself. And not only that, but yâall are assuming they wonât take issue with âArcadiaâ invading their country, killing their people (because if you think âArcadiaâ wonât commit atrocities, youâre naive), and also killing Leon, who, despite their anger, I have not seen anything to indicate that they hate him enough to want/be ok with him being murdered. Like⌠have yâall not considered that you might make an enemy of them in your crusade?
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Sure, but that doesnât mean they WILL be enemies, just that they CAN.
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I donât know. I have a feeling Parivir will let us persuade Arcadians and/or Thalia to not kill them (not saying Thalia will just let them go freely, but its still better than death if you ask me) if we play our cards right. But I have to agree with you, they probably wont hate once they learn we picked Arcadiaâs side, but that revelation will be a huge blow for them and they become our unwanted enemies if we choose to go that path
I can see Ilya being ok with us killing Leon (it heavily depends on circumstances but still) but we are talking about conquering an entire nation. Sooner or later, innocent people will die and I donât see our old friends being okay with something like that - they have no connection to Arcadia apart from us, why would they betray their country and their people for something like that?
âI know what I have to do but I donât know if I have the strength to do itâ
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