Tales of Graces f: DAY FOUR

[sincere]

Soooo, we were too tired to play last night, but I made up for it by playing a fuckton today.

Unfortunately, all of that playing was to get back to the same point where we already were! That's right. I restarted. Because I saw that I had missed a sidequest and a discovery, and I make good decisions.


Starting from: "Sophie?" has joined the party!

Comments

[sincere]

Not something I missed, but something I only noticed in retrospect. Lord Aston tells his wife that he has to sell Hubert to some other noble family because he doesn't want his sons fighting over who gets to be lord of Lhant after he dies.

Dude, that's a little stupid on a couple of levels.

1) There is a clear order of succession. It's not like Hubert and Asbel are twins. Asbel is older, he inherits. So there's no dilemma to begin with.

2) Hubert was like the most timid thing in the world then. Asbel dominates him so hard he literally apologizes to Asbel when Asbel gets himself in trouble. He is hardly a domineering kid who might lead you to fear that one day he will want so badly to rule that he might be willing to kill his brother for it.

3) Asbel doesn't even want to rule! Asbel wants to be a knight, and when Richard points out that you can't be a knight and a lord, Asbel is all, "Whatever, Hubert can be lord of Lhant, I totally am not interested." So... I don't think he would be willing to kill his brother to become lord of Lhant, okay? Have you ever met either of your children?

4) If you were so afraid for some reason that having two sons would lead to power struggles, why did you have another kid after the first son?! Seems like a 50/50 chance of screwing yourself over. They're only a year apart, you weren't exactly having empty nest syndrome. Dualize a condom, dude!