Flashpoints

**Flashpoints** are game instances where Aloy is forced to make a choice. Flashpoints offer little to no change in gameplay or plot, serving instead as a way to develop Aloy's character.

For every flashpoint, there are three possible choices:

* **Fist:** Aloy will confront the situation directly and aggressively.
* **Brain:** Aloy will choose a clever, less obvious approach.
* **Heart:** Aloy will display compassion, or give voice to her deepest convictions.

## Main Quest

### Lessons of the Wild

The first flashpoint in the game, which occurs at the end of the first mission.

The young Aloy storms off, steaming that she was shunned for being an outcast, despite saving Teb's life. While she is distracted, Bast throws a rock at her, hitting her above the eye. Yelling at her to stay away, he throws another rock, which Aloy catches.

#### Fist: Aim for his Head

Aloy throws the rock at Bast's head, but Rost shoots it down before it can hurt the boy, warning Aloy that they cannot retaliate against the tribe.

#### Brain: Knock the rock from his hands

Aloy throws the rock back, knocking the rock he was planning to throw from his hand.

#### Heart: Drop your rock

Aloy drops the rock. Bast goes to throw another rock, but is stopped by one of the other children.
In all three choices, a Nora mother calls the other children back, and Rost goes to check the cut Aloy received from Bast.

### The Face of Extinction

The final flashpoint in the game. This flashpoint occurs right after defeating Helis. As Aloy moves to kill him, Helis voices his shock, muttering that this was meant not to be.

#### Fist: I hope this hurts:

Aloy stabs Helis with her spear. As he dies, Aloy taunts him, saying that HADES only chose him because he was a fool, and that he is a failure who will soon be forgotten. Echoing their first encounter, she coldly tells him to turn his face to the Sun before removing her spear, ending his life.

#### Brain: I don't have time for this:

Aloy tells Helis that he is done, and HADES is next. As Helis vainly claims that the Buried Shadow will save him, Aloy kills him.

#### Heart: None of this was meant to be:

Aloy says that none of what happened was meant to be, rather Helis made it happen. Half-lamenting and half-scorning, she states that in spite of all his bloodshed, Helis was ultimately just a pawn controlled by a being beyond his comprehension. When Helis protests at her pity, Aloy tells him to turn his face to the Sun, echoing their first encounter. Knowing that he has lost, Helis accepts his fate: he turns his face as Aloy grants him a quick death.

## Side Quests

### Honor The Fallen

After speaking to the Abiding Jahamin, Aloy demands that he let the Oseram enter the shrine. Jahamin refuses.

#### Brain: You have no authority:

Aloy points out that as Jahamin doesn't believe in the Sun-King, the temple, the army, or Meridian, he has no authority. When the flummoxed Sun-Priest protests that he has the authority of the Sun, Aloy mockingly tells him to call it for help, as no one else will listen.

#### Heart:

In all three choices, Jahamin warns Aloy that there will be a reckoning. Aloy replies that Jahamin that he'll run away from it. Jahamin will leave, allowing the Oseram to enter.

### Sun and Shadow

Aloy returns to Lahavis' estate to inform Elida of Atral's fate.

#### Heart:

In all three options, Aloy finds Lahavis and has him comfort his mourning daughter.

## The Frozen Wilds

### Frontier Justice

After losing his temper and reprimanding Kopilai, Inatut storms off. Aloy finds him overlooking a cliff, wondering what he should do next.

#### Fist: You don't owe the werak anything

Aloy tells Inatut that if his exile proved anything, it's that he isn't defined by his werak. She suggests that he explore the world beyond Banuk territory, as he is more than capable of fighting for himself.

If Aloy completes this mission before The Looming Shadow, Inatut will be one of the allies to join Aloy at the Spire.

#### Heart: Go where you feel you belong

In all three options, Inatut will give Aloy an Extraordinary Reward Box to express his gratitude. The two part ways as friends.