Also bringing her with you is probably the most strategically viable option. Like even if we don’t know about the people who can hurt us, we can only kill so quickly and the slower we are, the more civilians die.
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How about adoption?
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That would depend on inheritance law in this world. Historically it was pretty rare for feudal societies to allow adopted children to be recognized as heirs. At least in Europe.
Ironically in Rome, which everyone wanted to be the successor to, this happened on several occasions. A lot of positions (I think including Emperor, at least initially) let you pick whoever you wanted as successor. It was usually family anyway but didn’t have to be.
This does make me wonder if our empire can have a sort of senate system.
Emberford has some sort of system in place for various interest groups to pick their preferred heir, having a representative democracy of sorts seems a logical progression.
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I touched on this a bit in the writer support thread, but it’ll be explored more thoroughly later in the story.
This is for nobles in general, for royalty its even more important, so this would be a pretty big point of conflict in romancing Ecbert or Theresa.
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Need a way to grow Homunculi. You could just grow an heir in a glass flask. Wouldn’t matter who with.
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You can try the good old magic ritual or depending on how involved the deities are in the mortal world affairs they can try asking for the help of one of them.
The knowledge of the rituals can be obscure, lost or it doesn’t exist and MC and royal RO need to order someone to research it, I feel like Cassiel would probably pay the MC for the chance.
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I do wonder if Grafast is sincere about their amnesty offer. Are we ever gonna find out?
Come to think of it, if we don’t kill the other subjects, I fear that may give Grafast an edge. They seem to be in league.
On a somewhat related note, I’m hoping we can endure the Seafolk with minimal deaths. I’d feel really bad getting all these people to come with me instead of taking an amnesty deal and then them dying. Then again, our group could probably make mincemeat out of them as soon as they reach the deck of the ship. Just toss rum barrels like Donkey Kong and have them just vaporize a dozen pirates each. Arael and Lyra could take out whoever’s left in a second or two.
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I believe so, maybe not in every route, but it will be explored in some of them.
As for the other subjects, they’ll definitely make a return. Even if the MC takes out the ones attacking Ruby, there were others in the city who survived, and a number of them had already vanished during missions and were presumed dead long before that.
Regarding the Seafolk, they shouldn’t pose too much of a threat. They tend to target poorly defended ships, and if they meet serious resistance, they usually retreat back into the sea. A ship full of seasoned fighters and elite warriors would likely be more than they can handle.
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How do they figure out we’re seasoned fighters before attacking? They’re under water, they can’t see who’s aboard.
Though the fact that they don’t like attacking heavily defended ships but have attacked the crusader fleets the kingdoms sent is interesting.
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Desperate measures for desperate times
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Oh, they won’t notice anything while underwater—but I imagine the moment the Warden punches one of their heads clean off, they might start reconsidering whether it’s worth the effort, haha. But hey, we’ll see how it plays out once we get there.
They did pose challenge for the soldiers who attacked Laphis all those years ago—but what truly convinced them it wasn’t worth the effort was what they encountered on land. It’s interesting, though, that back then they attacked well-defended ships, but stopped afterwards. I’ll dive deeper into that once we reach Laphis.
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I sea what you did there.
Too bad we have to worry about the ship or we could just flash boil them before they board.
Edit: new pun
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I did think Arael clinging to us while sleeping was really sweet.
Come to think of it are her wings always out or do they manifest like ours? She mentioned concealing her race before.
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Her wings are always visible. When she tried to hide the fact that she was an Aurelian, Arael used a large, loose cloak and kept her wings tightly pressed against her back. It was far from a perfect disguise, of course—and it never took long for people to figure out what she really was.
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I always thought their wings shrunk a lil bc i can can imagine sleeping with big wings would be annoying
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Yeah, the wings can be really uncomfortable sometimes, but Aurelians can fold them tightly against their backs to fit into tighter spaces. Still, trying to sleep on their backs would be pretty bad, haha.
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Gotta sleep in the air like a migratory bird.
Actually wait they can’t fly that long.
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Hope our kids take from my side of the family. Them wings gonna be annoying. Like with ya leg hanging off the bed or sleeping on ya arm wrong 
my poor lil dragon chicks
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2 sets of wings.
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Also pretty neat you have both Ruby and Arael tutoring you on flight. Nice bonding exercise.
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