From the XOR 1 WIP thread by @Havenstone :
It may need a do-over, alas, but if you have
- sufficiently high morale (vis-a-vis the size of your band)
a high leadership score for Breden (say, if you made them your deputy and/or gave them lots to do through the winter)- a 2 CHA [Edit: nope]
it should be possible to save Breden, though depending on your stats and choices you may need to kill Radmar to do it.
If you have the choice to imprison Breden, they should also disappear in the fight leaving no body behind them. For whatever’s that worth.
and also by @Havenstone:
But with CHA 2 you should be able to
Edit: on further review of the code, CHA 2 is otherwise useless for saving Breden. Either you or they have to have enough leadership cred to stop the angry mob (represented by high morale for you and a high leadership score for them) or you need to have them tied up to be dealt with when everyone’s cooled down a bit.
If you have the option to send some of the band away and remain at High Crag to delay the army, you can send Breden away as the leader of the fleeing folks, and thus avoid the whole unpleasantness…
The relevant portion of the source code noted by @Frogs is:
*label dotheyaccept
*if (morale < followers) and (bred_lead < 16)
Picking I don’t believe he did anything wrong. This is all just a terrible accident. in my experience requires using your best skill to stop Radmar and for a wisard that means wasting blood. I always did think it was rather twisted that even if you believe Breden and are romancing Breden, you are still better off confronting Breden if playing a wisard. What I personally do on those occasions when my MC is willing to continue enduring Breden’s personality is I confront and question Breden. followed by I don’t know what to believe…and I’m not going to see anyone killed until I know more.
A skeptical replacement for Breden appears to already be available.
*if skep > 74
the day when your scouts inform you that what appears to be an entire village has left the Norther Rim and is moving toward you.
You send ${deputy} to meet their leaders and find out who they are and why they're coming. ${deputy} returns and, sounding slightly bemused, explains: "They're coming to meet
*if liebreaker
${fname} Lie-Breaker—the
*if not(liebreaker)
the
Great Disbeliever."
Apparently your well-known skepticism has attracted a heretical community from the far-distant mountains where ${whendery} meets the Shayard Reach. The Disbelievers have been persecuted for years by the Ecclesiasts, in part for their agnosticism about the existence of Angels, but especially for their radical insistence that to believe anything based solely on authority is a sin.
They were inspired to begin the long trek southwest when they heard (an apparently somewhat exaggerated account) of your defeat of Zebed and Chirex, spread by Theurges in the Reach, which made you sound like the epitome of sacrilegious disbelief.
Their leader Etthena is a persuasive, charismatic woman of middle years—but she's willing for now to cede to you.
The new option for rejecting Breden at the end-of-winter celebration was just so satisfying even if out-of-character a slightly more diplomatic response might have been better for the good of the rebellion.
That momentary, treacherous flicker of attraction only fuels your fury. “You think you can throw insults at me, call me brainsick to cover up your own cowardice, and still expect a dance?” Your sharp, humorless laugh is probably audible from the Rim. “Go to Taratur, boy. You’ll never have me.”
The outlaws all around you fall silent, shocked at your public shaming of such an influential band member. All Breden’s muscles are tensed as if to run, or strike you. “Angels, de Serin. Where…? All I asked was a bloody dance, and you…”
“Wanted to be plain.” You hadn’t realized before how much you’d resented holding your tongue for the peace of the band. “We’re not friends, Reaper, and certainly nothing more than friendly. Don’t act as if we were.”
“No damned fear of that, Captain.” As his shock recedes, Breden’s face comes to mirror your own contempt. “I know where I stand now.”
Within minutes, Breden is in Ciels’s arms again, circling the bonfire, pointedly ignoring you. Perhaps unsurprisingly, no one else dares ask you to dance. His many friends in the band cast hard glances at you; Radmar, on the other hand, bares his teeth in evident approval.
My MC had to hold the MC’s tongue for years about the Hegemony and then having to do the same thing about Breden was just too much and my MC was so tired of having to tolerate Breden’s personality. The only person with whom my MC would have wanted to dance might not be into dancing anyway.
@Havenstone Hypothetically speaking, if Yebben does become a RO, in what sort of people might Yebben be interested?