Some people complain that they can’t win a battle and somehow I did it by choosing random options and I got this boring 2nd ending. Ugh 
Ending 3 (and Ending 2) is not tied to a battle result—Endings 1 and 4 are.
@Cingulum_diaboli Unfortunately for you, 4 is tied to a battle loss. One way to lose the final battle is to completely ignore the rebel cavalry (and only win the Battle of the Atiming by the slimmest of margins–the quickest way to do that is to attempt a flashy strategy such as the oblique formation and botch it). Also keep your Army Cohesion low.
Boring? Which ending is boring?
I wanted to get 4. But I’m not interested in these military things, so at some point I stopped reading the parts with battle decisions 
It got too boring.
2 was, imo. Besides, I wanted to see Ely die.
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I’ve tried searching for an answer in the thread but there’s over a thousand comments and I have the attention span of a goldfish on cocaine so I’ll just ask: is there a guide out there for the army management stuff for a weapons specialized marshal?
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Lol. I don’t think I have it in me to play a marshal that gets her killed. Or betrays her. I scanned the code for the betrayal route and it just hurts.
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I’m not interested in the betrayal route (unless Elya dies there too, but I read somewhere that she doesn’t). The kid annoyed me throughout the book, I want her out of the story if i’m going to follow this series.
If you have trouble understanding it let me know and i’ll help out best I can.
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I don’t remember how to get there, but to get her killed, I think she has to be weak and you have to really fuck up the final battle. I never got dead Elya, thankfully. If I can manage to understand the code, I’ll see if I can let you know how to do it. All the number crunching in there gives me a damned migraine, though (and this is coming from someone with a master’s in accounting!).
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The best way to do it would be to neglect archers as much as possible and recruit as much cavalry as you can at every point and then you let the enemy cav smash into your front lines and just leave them be. That will almost guarantee a loss.
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In the three endings that are carried forward, Elya is set to be a central character–in Ending 2 she is the queen and the Marshal is backing her, in Ending 3 I think that someone (most likely one of the cowed nobles that witnessed the Marshal’s coronation, who sees Elya as a better puppet queen and possible family connection/wants to support the legitimate Stiedry claimant) will break Elya out of prison and support her claim with force, in Ending 4 her death will likely become one of the nightmares of the Prince(ss)-Regent Marshal (while the player may not care for Elya, the Marshal does, and this ending doesn’t involve their desire for revenge overriding that care). Seeking a route wherein Elya is a bit character (not even as a nemesis, it appears) is a lot like seeking a route in Fallen Hero in which Ortega is a bit character (not even Sidestep’s enemy). There are also only two books (thus far) planned for ITFO.
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I wonder Does MC’s real Mother is truly peasant ? because information from Mira is unhonest.maybe She just want to hurt Marshall by false truth ,just like she always does. I am thinking If MC’s real mother is only peasant.Sobik not need to kill all nurse. Maybe It relates why Sobik send Cadarn to be MC’s Mentor.I think MC’s Mother is something more oridinary peasant.
That why I love you dearest Author hahaha 
Yes the MC witnessed the execution of their mother and knew it was them because they had matching eye color and hair, Sobik got lucky Mira had the same colored hair.
The reason Sobik killed the nurses is because when Mira was “Pregnant” she had to fake it and sobik hired nurses which he paid off to act like she was pregnant. To make sure the nurses wouldn’t be an issue later on he had all of them killed so they would never tell what happened.
Eh…maybe? But not likely, Cadarn was a useful choice because he would be a knight who wasn’t welcomed in Kantonian society because of his nationalist Krorid sentiment. Plus Darin’s opinions of Cadarn in flashbacks show that he thinks Cadarn is not the greatest guy around. So it was probably useful to have someone who wasn’t well liked by noble society to train the MC. As for if the MC’s mother was a noble, there would have likely been a greater scandal if they were and the family of the noble would have likely made a huge issue out of it as it would have made their daughter ineligible to be wed.
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Mc is child.I think maybe they don’t know who is their real mother.Sobik can bring whoever to be thier mother .he can make up scene and let Mc belive that woman is their real mother. he is king anyway.
It’s weird if you let someone who hate your country very much to mentor your hated child.It have risk install some dangerous Idea in child’s head.especsially The child who was thrown to hell by yourself and have change to take revenge on you in future
Imagine Marshall being like, the child of another noblewoman. The drama.
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Very ironic 
That and MC would have probably been raised by their maternal extended family (either out of kindness or because their grandparents wanted the advantages of having the acknowledged royal bastard in the family) or fostered out away from the palace by paid gentry/lesser nobles. Sobik and Mira probably couldn’t do what they did to pass off the Marshal as legitimate with a noblewoman.
Although while I don’t think MC’s bio-mother was anyone special in canon (and I only headcanon her as Rade’s unacknowledged unknown bastard peasant relative because my main Marshal has black hair and gray eyes) I can see a few Kroridians claiming that Inae Dirriman’s bio-mother was a Kroridian expat (with some Kroridian nationalists saying that Inae Dirriman is the child of a Kroridian woman and no one else of much importance).
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He could, but it’s much easier as a king to go and pay a peasant woman to erm… have relations with. Than risk seducing a noble to then have her in court where she causes issues with her and her family, especially when she finds out she’s pregnant.
Not that strange actually. Vlad Tepes (Dracula) was given to the Ottomans as a hostage and was raised within the Ottoman court. He then proceeded to use ottoman support to try and take his kingdom back, failed. Went to Hungary and used Hungarian support to take back Wallachia. Then when Mehmed II wanted Vlad to pay homage he had the Ottomans’ envoys impaled.
TLDR: You can be raised by an enemy and still come out to hate them in the end.
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