not that I’ve seen but i might have to replay and check again
If it’s not there, screenshot that for me so I can try and see what might have gone wrong since I just went through DashingDon and I found the option there.
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I’m sorry for the confusion I just replayed the game and found the choice
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I get we’re only supposed to nitpick the demo, but that is Act I, Act II, and Act III, respectively, right? Just checking for my own understanding.
And when you said the demo was coming at the end of the week, I didn’t think you meant the next day! What a pleasant surprise.
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Yep.
It was a surprise for me too! I went oh damn, did some playtests and readovers, and sent it off.
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When an author gives a deadline for the next update, I can expect a delay. But to actually come ahead of schedule, now that’s something one rarely sees. Praise be days off!
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So it’s going to take a bit to play through Chapter III, but I just wanted to confirm that the new stat for Augusta is the puppet-tyrant-paragon triad, correct? A way of tracking the sort of leader we are shaping her to be?
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It’s a night and day difference with titus when you romance julia and when you aren’t. When i first played the julia ro route (which i decided to be my main route), it was like whiplash seeing how mean he was.
Although i sympathize with partners who are in relationships where one is “cheating,” titus has to get with the program. Julia out the gate made her intentions towards him very clear. Then, didn’t the story pretty much say she didn’t really have a choice in the marriage. It was either that or dying, right?
Honestly if i was in an “arranged marriage” type of situation and my partner has a side piece then im going to have a side piece, 2 piece dinner, and a drink on the side tf.
Then the whole thing with Augusta he can not seriously blame us for him gallivanting in la la land which resulted in him neglecting his daughter (and wife really but does that even matter?
) to the point where she barely regards him as a father. Like, i dont even remember what he was doing while he was away. That’s how minute it is.
All in all, an “arranged marriage” is not a guarantee of love. Take that love and give it somebody who deserves it.
Titus…
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@kb12 To be fair, Titus didn’t really have a choice either. He was a pawn for his family’s matriarch. Though I agree everyone would be better off if Titus decided to stay in Attika and find a lover there. Both he and Julia were forced into this and there’s no need to pretend like they weren’t. Marry each other and then continue going about your lives as before (at least for Titus; Julia is now Empress).
If he really wanted to, Titus could have been of service and simultaneously consolidate his own power by raising Augusta and thus ensuring his own influence upon and favor with the next Empress. However, Titus has neither the inclination nor the temperament to be a good father figure, and does not have the cunning nor the ambition to seek power under the next Imperial administration. So he stays away making statues and such. Really, he should have kept at it.
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Yep! Puppet represents Augusta being weak and pliable, Tyrant represents her becoming cold and ruthless, Paragon represents her becoming kind-hearted and trying to see the best in people.
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In case Augusta has two of these stats relatively high, will you take that into account? Say that she has high paragon and tyrant, would that result in her balancing between compassion and ruthlessness in her rule?
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At a certain point, her personality will lock into one of those three categories. However, the MC can always attempt to counsel her against her first impulse. How she processes and takes that advice depends on Trust & Willfulness.
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Julia state is conceening to say the least all her conceening traits are amplified it seems by the current circumstances.
Life will be tough for her romancers such as myself😔.
Awesome update as always 
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Yep that’s an error, I just put the fix into DashingDon hopefully.
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That is odd because that section of dialogue should only show up if you refused to bring the Commander to the council meeting or if you invited Ceto. I’ll try to fix that again.
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My verdict on this chapter can be summed up as
That family tree sure was a teaser for this chapter. So much information and so many inferences were done from it, and seems like we were right on quite a few theories.
SPOILERS!!!
This post will tackle what I call the “Galerii Family Bonding Time Event”
First we have Augusta not wanting to study — as having once been a 13-year-old, I can relate. Then Titus comes in and does a Titus, no need to elaborate.
Then we have Leta, who is I daresay by far the best Galerii alive. If the behaviour she had during our meeting was genuine (and I’m inclined to believe so), then she is a truly reasonable, even “normal”, human being, by Iudian standards of course. And, shockingly, she seems kind of nice. She even thanks the Prefect for their thankless work! My goodness, actual acknowledgement! So we can safely assume that there is no Galerii Madness curse and it’s just Scilla and her two eldest daughters being the exception. I had a feeling I was going to like her, and I was proven quite right.
By far the best part from the interaction we had with her were the parallels with the Prefect. Surprise surprise, she was Scilla’s prefect. She had to steer the sinking ship while Scilla descended into paranoia. But, as much as she loved her sister, she put the Empire above her own feelings, hence she didn’t intervene in the Civil War. A most admirable decision.
If asked by the Prefect for some wisdom, she straight up asks us who we prioritise: do we put Julia above the Empire, or the reverse? This is 100%, unashamed foreshadowing. I don’t know the circumstances (might have something to do with the Church, Key of Heaven and whatnot), but it will definitely happen.
It seems that Scilla’s situation ended up being a combination of my and @Aeternitas’ assesement of her. She was indeed a fine lady — so much so that her mother wanted her to succeed her — but then her older sister got jealous that she got kicked down the succession ladder and attempted to kill her. In a clear act of kindness, she even took Titus in, her assasins’ child, as her own son.
But then the event scarred her to such a degree that over a decade or so she began to grow more and more mysantrophic and eventually paranoid. So, the fact that she ended up a “Twit” was the result of jealousy and ambition, aka Iudian politics — a true tragedy, as Leta says, and I fully agree with that opinion.
Not going to lie, Leta makes me waver in my loyalty towards our lovely Tyrant. Until now I thought we could have our cake and eat it too: have Julia on the throne AND have the Empire down a good path. Sure, I could let some innocents get killed and have some tyranny run amok, morality be damned. But what about the Empire? if Julia were to put the Empire in danger and we couldn’t dissuade her, would I go against her? I’m sorry my fellow Loyal Prefects, my faith is failing me.
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Looks like refreshing the game did the trick, so it works now.
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Damn, I went through that faster than Rome fell.
Thanks for the hard work!
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