Walkthrough

If it’s your first playthrough make sure and watch the prologue to get a background for the story and where it begins and a nice lewd scene that sets the basis for your hero’s return. You will not miss out on any advantages or character-building points by skipping it, however.

There are four traits/paths that you will build depending on your choices and actions throughout the game. Also, a minor Loyalty trait.

Piety – The quality of being religious or reverent.

Knightly – How chivalrous you are and true to your knighthood.

Lewdness – Self Explanatory.

Ambition – Desire to do or to achieve something of grandeur.

Loyalty – Your commitment to the Countess.

During your playthrough pick the option that best represents your character. If you want to do Piety for example the icon will tell you which option to choose. This will not necessarily change the story, but you may miss out on some events and X out certain romances for the chapter.

**The Romances are detailed in a section below the game’s main story.**

## **Prologue**

- You start out at the Castle of Leffrin and at first all you need to do is go upstairs and talk to Countess Irena.

- You can either choose "With all due respect" or "I will oblige". First choice does not give you any points so feel free to choose how you wish or what you feel as it is of no consequence. "With all due respect" does give you a bit more insight and history on her claim for the Duchy though.

- "I'll proudly oblige" or "I have my doubts" – "I'll proudly oblige" gives plus 5 with Irena and ends the dinner. If you go with, "I have my doubts" Irena will assure you they will be cleared, but you will not gain plus 5 with her and you will lose Loyalty.

- You are put back in the main hall where you started with new people in the area. Make sure to talk to all of them as not only do you have relationship building, but you also get insights from Tobias on each of the regions, learn to negotiate from Tobias, build on your relationship with House Maffren and a romance option Liliana in their daughter, you can also build your relationship with Pierre who is in charge of the guard, and lastly you get 5 points with Avani of the Kandashar delegation.

- Conversation with Pierre. You get three choices: I Prefer to choose "I Only do the Countess Bidding" to increase my loyalty to the Countess. You lose 10 points with Pierre. The first option where you tell him "as first knight of the guard you already know" nets you negative 5 with Pierre. "It's none of your business" will give you Negative 20 loyalty and negative 30 with Pierre and ends the conversation. I feel the best is to gain loyalty with the Countess as it nets you the loyalty and only negative 10.

- You only get this if you choose "you already know" or that "you only do the countess bidding".  I placate him on my second choice and tell him a half truth to get plus 5 with him.

- Tobias conversation - answer “I'll achieve it someway” to gain 5 points with Tobias and gain loyalty. If you choose that you have your doubts you will lose 5 points with Tobias and Loyalty with Irena. Then you will learn how to negotiate and get the Leffrin's Wood and Leffrin's Woods Branches to negotiate with. Learn and gain notes about each of the regions as well.

- Exit the hall after you have talked with everyone. It will give you a note saying "make sure to talk with everyone". If you have done so, simply exit and move on to the next scene with Mina- the maid of the countess and a possible love interest.

- After a conversation you are invited to meet her later. SAVE HERE so you can go through all the choices in the Night. Simply progress to night after the conversation.

- After a cutscene with the Duke you will have your first major choice which will give you a chance for earning Piety points or building a relationship with Liliana or Mina. If you wish to play a path then do as follows. The possible trait outcomes are for mainly Piety or Lewdness, however if you choose Mina (both the Lewd and Piety path gives you options) you have the option to gain Knightly points at the expense of Ambition.

- Piety Path start- Choose that your soul needs healing.

- Note - You will still get a chance to go see Mina or Liliana if you choose Piety so it’s really the best option,as it’s a win in my opinion.

- Your second choice comes right after with a knock on your door from Liliana. You can choose to reject her and she will be Xed out and you lose 20 relationship points with her,  for the rest of chapter one and two and you gain relationship points with Mina or you can choose her and build relationship with her.

- For Piety you want to choose Mina or go to bed as choosing Liliana will automatically get you lewd points plus 10. Picking Mina will get you a total of plus 15 with her and no negatives to Piety.

- Going to bed and not seeing Mina does not net you anymore Piety so Mina is the best choice if you care about relationships in the game.

- If you choose Mina after cuddling you can pick to gain and Start some Knightly points. Option 3 "Of course I love you" gives you Knightly plus 20 but negative 20 Ambition as she is not noble, choices "Maybe I’m not sure" or "That’s quite unexpected" gains you no further relationship points or trait points.

- Lewd Path - Or choose that "you could use some fun" or "you need to rest your soul" as either allows you to choose the fun times before your journey the Lewd path.

- Note and optimal for the Lewd path If you choose Liliana (10 points of lewdness) and still want to see Mina/Katerina let her get up to the point where you get a choice to "release" or "hold it back" and you can either see Mina still or look for Katerina. If you finish on Liliana you gain an additional plus five with her as she likes it, but you will not get to visit Mina or Katerina.

- If you choose Katerina you gain 10 lewdness and start the Romance with her and gain 5 relationship points (you can do this later, so if you are a min/max player read my preference or if you want to be true to Piety follow above or for true Lewdness go with Mina).

- If you choose Mina you will get the "Womanizer" trait and more Lewdness plus 50, which could affect you in certain standings in the future. If you want to be a Womanizer and stay on the true Lewdness path, you pick Liliana and do not finish and then choose Mina you will get plus 50 lewdness.

- The Lewdest points is Liliana, hold back, then Mina. Also get you the womanizer trait. Plus 60

- The second most lewd is Liliana, hold back, then Katerina. Plus 20

- The third is Liliana, finish. – Plus 10

- The Next morning after a parting conversation you receive your Power And Safepassage and letters to deliver. You then set out with your faithful squire Sean and get one question that is up to you to decide and gives you points to advance loyalty, ambition or piety.

- Choose depending on the path that is more correct to your journey. The first gives you 30 Piety, Baron 20 ambition, Count gives you plus 50 ambition, and Duke 100 ambition and some loyalty.

## **Chapter 1 – Crops and Coin**

Your initial goal is to raise the affinity with the Mayor of Penketh and get the best deal for your Countess. To do this the guide will get you to plus 4, which is the max you can get at this time.

### Gypsy Camp

Travel to Penketh and you will encounter a cutscene with a gypsy camp being attacked by bandits.

Your first and only battle in chapter one will occur. Simply strike with W, A, D and block with space bar, if you are losing Sean will come and kill Winchell. If you are going for Piety you want to win as then you can spare him for 20 points. Win the battle and you will get a choice and 20 knightly points.

You can spare the last bandit for Piety plus 20 or get rid of him. Note if you let him go you will see him help someone latter try and hurt you.  You then get to speak the Gypsy leader Minerva and make a choice that gives you lewdness plus 10 or Knightly plus 10  - your second choice will decide if you want to stay and help Minerva or leave (you can return). Stay and Help Minerva and gain 10 knightly points and 5 points with Minerva. If you choose to leave you will incur negative 10 relationship points and gain loyalty to the Countess. Your choice - if you decide to stay it will be for a night. Click on Minerva’s Van to start your Tarot reading. Your Third choice occurs at night with a tarot reading with Minerva (pending that you agreed to stay and help) choose appropriately for your playthrough. You can get either 50 ambition or 50 Piety. Your Fourth choice will give you options for 50 Knightly or 50 ambition points. Your Fifth choice will give you either Piety, Knightly (also gives you loyalty with the countess), or Ambition points. 50 points toward your desired path. Your Sixth choice gives you options for Lewdness, Piety, Knightly. 100 points for your desired path. Choose accordingly. You can visit the campfire at night, but at this time they do not trust you and will not trust you fully for the current version of the game

### Penketh

Travel to Penketh.

- Important: Upon entering Penketh go to the Townhall and talk to Father Charles. Make sure to give him the letter as you will not have another opportunity to do so and thus will not gain one point of affinity with the Mayor. During the conversation with Charles select the option that states you have a letter for him. This will award you 1 affinity which is crucial if you are trying to get the maximum. Go to your inventory and select the Letter for Father Charles that was given to you by Countess Irena.

- He will leave to talk to the Mayor and then lets you know that the Mayor will see you. You may ask him what the letter was about by talking to him again, but he does not say much.

- After a cutscene he will ask for you powers, and you get three conversation options; The mayor does not appreciate the demanding behavior; First Answer will give you negative points, second option is neutral and third option will grant you positive points. Give him your powers and speak with him again to gain another point of affinity with him. In order to open free roam, you must accept the first deal (number five) so speak to him again. You will receive Baralis' Order for 100 Bushels of Grain. Do not worry as this is not final and simply unlocks the ability to free roam and gains you 10 relationship points with the Baralis.

- After your business with Baralis is concluded you will see that it is getting late and you can head to the Inn to collect your squire and meet Robin and Dexter.

- After conversing with Robin you get a choice as you met her earlier in the Baralis' office. You can select to gain 20 points toward Piety or lewdness at the expense of 5 points with Robin for the Piety option or negative 10 for the Lewd, or gain 5 points with Robin by Ignoring the fact.

- You then get a choice to either go and meet an adventuring party, staying and conversing with Robin or minding your own business. Choosing to stay and spend time with Robin gains you an additional 10 points with her for a total of 15 if you ignored the fact earlier. Either way is fine as if you choose the adventuring party first the next time you stay at the Inn and chat with Robin you will gain the points. It’s your call on the order.

- You then wake up and it's morning.

- Go to the market and check out the cloth area first to see a cutscene and open further dialogue with the provisions master Hall. Note: if you do not see the cutscene by checking out the cloth merchant you will not get some funny dialogue with Hall after a rock clunks him in the head. It is also recommended to speak with Mariola and purchase all of her wares in order to get the lewd scene (also some of the items she sells can be used to increase relationship points with several characters).

- Go back to the Inn and this time chat with the adventurers. After a good amount of conversation they reveal that they are on quest to capture Sir Anibal, "The Acallarian Ladykiller" (Not as in a Murderer). You get a choice to pursue romance with Alana. Your choice, but saying no kills any chance of romance with her for now. Romancing her gives you 10 lewdness and 10 relationship. For Piety choose to return to your quarters and you will gain 20 Piety but lose 10 relationship points with Alana.

- You can get further lewd points by exploring all options during the event.

- Next morning go to meet Hall and collect the food provisions from the deal you accepted and then head back to Leffrin and speak to the Countess.

### Leffrin

After arriving to Leffrin go to the upper chambers to see the cutscene and speak to the Countess.

- **Important:** do not tell her it went well, be honest and say it went poorly to gain further points with her. She will also tell you the most important thing would be Food or Coin. Food is gained by 3 affinity with Baralis and 4 affinity gets you Coin and plus five relationship with the Countess.

- After a cutscene you are free to explore I will provide information on the main quest and then how you can focus on your relationships/Romance after the main part but before the final important choice. IE do not return to tell the countess after gaining four affinity and instead do the Relationship side quests before returning to her.

- It will be nightfall so go and sleep in your chambers at the castle go to the lower chamber and then to the chambers. You can click on the bedside to remember if you wish to see previous deeds done in your chamber.

### Akros Manor

At this point you may choose to return home to meet Patrik's mother, sister, and servants. Go to the map and click on Akros Manor.

- You will see a cutscene and be able to chat with Jessica and Daisy.

- You will get a choice in the conversation with Jessica. There are four options that will give you points as follows. Option 1 honoring your position to the countess… will gain you loyalty but you lose 10 relationship points with Jessica, Option 2 will earn you 20 points of Ambition and 10 relationship points with Jessica, but you lose loyalty to the Countess, Option 3 Maybe this will… gives you 50 ambition and 10 relationship points with Jessica at the expense of loyalty, Option 4 I don’t know what may bring… loses you 10 Ambition and five points with Jessica. Choose accordingly.

- **Important:** You will then get a quest that you can pursue for giving the Leffrin's Wood to build a family castle or you can decide against this and give it to Hall.  If you are planning on an aggressive approach in the negotiations with the Mayor and want 4 affinity you need to make sure to give the wood to Hall to help with the Paper issue in the Market.

- Jessica also gives you a picture of Daisy and a quest to find a proper suitor for your sister.

- You then meet the two Servants Jezzebel and Hannah.

- Go to sleep and the next morning enter the house and then exit to speak with Daisy about finding her a suitor.

- Speak with Jessica and you get the option to give her the Leffrin's Wood or give the wood to Tobias in order to convert it to paper. Giving the Leffrin's Wood to Jessica will begin the construction of the Akros castle which also increases your ambition and relationship with your Mother. Do as you wish.

- Do not ask for coin yet, that will come later (see the romance section for chapter 1).

- Travel back to Penketh.

### Penketh

Go back to the Townhall

**Important decision awaits here:** you can make friends with the Mayor, kill him and appoint Hall to his position, or be aggressive but not kill him.

#### Aggressive approach with the Mayor

If you choose the aggressive approach you will gain 100 Knightly points and lose 100 relationship points with Baralis.

You are then pressed with yet another important decision: you can kill him or choose Piety and let him live. Your will gain 200 Piety points and lose 50 Ambition.

##### **Mayor lives**

- If you were aggressive but let him live after the scene when you return to his quarters you will be accompanied by armed guards. Do not accept any deal and instead visit the Market and speak with Hall to obtain the Gypsy quest for the love potion.

- Go to the Gypsy Camp and enter the van as it will be nightfall and speak with Minerva. You can have general chit chat with her or ask about resources you have obtained as well. To get what the Mayor asked select Option one and say you need a potion (you can also ask about what else she does if you like). She will then tell you that she needs the additional ingredient from you. You can choose to do this willingly for 20 lewdness and negative 20 Piety or refrain for 20 Piety and negative 20 Lewdness. Either way she gets the last ingredient.

- Return to Penketh.

- After a cutscene at the market you will see Minerva and offer to escort her around the market as well as back to the gypsy camp. This will gain you relationship points with Minerva as well as the gypsies. You will also receive 20 points for being Knightly and escorting them back to camp and more relationship points with Minerva.

- During the cutscene the assassins from the Duke will try to kill you. You will arrive back at the gypsy camp and can complete the Gypsy missions for now. Note if you spared the bandit earlier you will see him again. If not the scene still happens.

- Note this is now going to deviate from the main story, but since you are at the Gypsy Camp you may as well finish this part and complete Minerva and the gypsies so you do not have to go back later to do so.

- After the cutscene enter the tent and speak with Minerva. Choose “make a request”, "I want something from you", and "Since I’ve seen those." You will not gain or lose any path points for doing this.

- Wait until evening and do the same again choose the new option not the one you did for the ingredient.

- The next morning go to Minerva’s coach and talk to the gypsy you saw in the window during round two with Minerva. Enjoy your time with the new gypsy if you want to get 10 lewdness with the Gypsy girl in front of the Van in the day. Sleep then head back to Penketh in the morning. This ends the Gypsy section for now. You gain Points with Minerva and a new Romance the Gypsies.

- Go back to Penketh's market and speak with Hall to give him the Love potion and gain another point of affinity

- Speak with the Mayor and accept the 3 affinity deal as that is your only option.

##### **Mayor dies**

- If you kill Baralis you lose 50 Piety, gain 100 ambition and some Loyalty with the Countess.

- There will be a cutscene with Sean and you will end up at the Tavern with Robin. You can either earn 50 Piety by going to bed or Advance on her and have some fun and you will gain some further points in the relationship. You will also have a chance for some Lewdness plus 10 if you choose to do anal.  After the fun with Robin however she will be very upset with what you did to the Mayor and you will lose 30 relationship points with her.

- The next morning in the market you will be confronted by Father Charles and informed of the murder of the Mayor. You have two choices: you can lie and lose 30 Piety and negative 15 relationship points with Father Charles or be honest that you killed him for 30 Knightly points and negative five points with the Charles.

- You will appoint Hall to the position and automatically gain up to 3 affinity.

- Speak with Hall again to receive the Gypsy quest for the love potion.

- Travel to the Gypsy Camp and enter the van as it will be nightfall and speak with Minerva. You can have general chit chat with her or ask about resources you have obtained as well. To get what Hall asked for select option one and say you need a potion (you can also ask about what else she does if you like). She will then tell you that she needs the additional ingredient from you. You can choose to do this willingly for 20 lewdness and negative 20 Piety or refrain for 20 Piety and negative 20 Lewdness. Either way she gets the last ingredient.

- Return to Penketh.

- After a cutscene at the market you will see Minerva and offer to escort her around the market as well as back to the gypsy camp. This will gain you relationship points with Minerva as well as the gypsies. You will also receive 20 points for being Knightly and escorting them back to camp and more relationship points with Minerva.

- During the cutscene the assassins from the Duke will try to kill you. You will arrive back at the gypsy camp and can complete the Gypsy missions for now. Note if you spared the bandit earlier you will see him again. If not the scene still happens.

- Note this is now going to deviate from the main story, but since you are at the Gypsy Camp you may as well finish this part and complete Minerva and the gypsies so you do not have to go back later to do so.

- After the cutscene enter the tent and speak with Minerva. Choose “make a request”, "I want something from you", and "Since I’ve seen those." You will not gain or lose any path points for doing this.

- Wait until evening and do the same again choose the new option not the one you did for the ingredient.

- The next morning go to Minerva’s coach and talk to the gypsy you saw in the window during round two with Minerva. Enjoy your time with the new gypsy if you want to get 10 lewdness with the Gypsy girl in front of the Van in the day. Sleep then head back to Penketh in the morning. This ends the Gypsy section for now. You gain Points with Minerva and a new Romance the Gypsies.

- Go back to Penketh's market and speak with Hall to give him the Love potion. You will still need to help control the paper crisis in the Market.

***Leffrin***

- Head back to Leffrin and you will see a cutscene and the Countess is mad if you killed Baralis and you will lose 10 relationship points with her as well as Tobias even though he defends your decision.

- After the cutscene go to bed and you will get a flashback with Patrik's late wife Anna and then a new romance scene with Katerina or the second time if you choose to see her already in the Prologue.

- Speak with Tobias in the morning and choose to manage resources and select Leffrin's Wood and then ask him to turn it into paper for Hall. (If you already gave the Wood to Jessica you will not be able to do this as previously noted). Choose how you wish but without the wood you are only able to get up to 3 affinity, giving Hall the paper will bump you to 4 and give the optimal outcome for the Countess.

- If you made the choice to turn the wood into paper head back to Penketh.

***Penketh***

- Speak with Hall and give him the Leffrin’s Paper to get the 4th point of affinity. Keep in mind giving Hall the paper instead of using the wood for you rfamily will give you negative 10 with Jessica. You will get two choices of 4 affinity – one is food and coin the other is men and coin. Choose how you wish as the Countess will tell you that you then need to secure the other from later meetings.

- After the meeting it is night and you can then go and see Robin and have some fun. If you chose to not do it right after killing the Mayor she is accepting, and you will gain points instead of losing a ton.

- Return to Leffrin and give the Countess the good news. If you achieved 4 affinity you will gain plus 5 with the Countess and she will no longer be mad at you.

Before speaking with the Countess, you may prefer to tie up any lose ends and romances so make sure to go to the romance guide to complete the remaining romances.

#### Making Friends with the Mayor

- Speak to the Mayor again and you can get some info on Penketh. Then ask if he needs any help which will begin the gypsy quest. **IMPORTANT:** if you want 4 affinity you need to get his friendship higher so choose the lewd option as this will net you 5 friendship and allow you to speak with him latter in the tavern. If you do not max out, the affinity will be 3 and you will be forced to accept the food deal before you can speak to him in the tavern.

- Go to the Gypsy Camp and enter the van as it will be nightfall and speak with Minerva. You can have general chit chat with her or ask about resources you have obtained as well. To get what the Mayor asked select Option one and say you need a potion (you can also ask about what else she does if you like). She will then tell you that she needs the additional ingredient from you. You can choose to do this willingly for 20 lewdness and negative 20 Piety or refrain for 20 Piety and negative 20 Lewdness. Either way she gets the last ingredient.

- Return to Baralis and give him the Potion of Love and again choose the lewd response for additional friendship gain 1 affinity.

- Leave his office and go to the market.

- After a cutscene at the market you will see Minerva and offer to escort her around the market as well as back to the gypsy camp. This will gain you relationship points with Minerva as well as the gypsies. You will also receive 20 points for being Knightly and escorting them back to camp and more relationship points with Minerva.

- During the cutscene the assassins from the Duke will try to kill you. You will arrive back at the gypsy camp and can complete the Gypsy missions for now. Note if you spared the bandit earlier you will see him again. If not the scene still happens.

- Note this is now going to deviate from the main story, but since you are at the Gypsy Camp you may as well finish this part and complete Minerva and the gypsies so you do not have to go back later to do so.

- After the cutscene enter the tent and speak with Minerva. Choose “make a request”, "I want something from you", and "Since I’ve seen those." You will not gain or lose any path points for doing this.

- Wait until evening and do the same again choose the new option not the one you did for the ingredient.

- The next morning go to Minerva’s coach and talk to the gypsy you saw in the window during round two with Minerva. Enjoy your time with the new gypsy if you want to get 10 lewdness with the Gypsy girl in front of the Van in the day. Sleep then head back to Penketh in the morning. This ends the Gypsy section for now. You gain Points with Minerva and a new Romance the Gypsies.

- Go back to Penketh and wait until evening and head to the Tavern and speak to the Mayor in the right corner. If you followed this guide to a T you should be able to speak with him if not then it will say you should become better friends first. This means you have to accept the 3 affinity deal as the only way to get to 4 is showing the Mayor you are a man of general lewdness in the previous conversations with the Gypsy quest.

- Select option 2 and ask him about his relationship with Robin. This will also open Robin as a Romance option. To get to 4 affinity with Baralis you need to sard Robin, the other option gives you piety but disappoints the Mayor. Sarding Robin will give you 30 lewdness so if you want to play the Piety path take the 3 affinity offer and move on. Note that this does not limit your playthrough you will just return to the Countess with a fair deal rather than the optimal one. The only difference it makes in the end is points to lewdness or piety for you and plus 5 with the Countess or nothing if you take the fair deal.

- After accepting Baralis' offer return to your room and go to sleep. Robin will come to your room and you will complete the deal and gain the fourth point of affinity. For extra relationship points after sealing the deal, cuddle with Robin.

- The next morning go to Baralis and negotiate a deal and accept the 4 Affinity deal to provide all the levies he can muster.

- Before completing the final mission you may choose to do the Romance options available so you can either end chapter one or continue to the Romance guide at this time for those available.

- This ends your mission with the Mayor and now you can return to Leffrin and give Irena the good news and gain loyalty and plus 5 relationship with her. Wait two nights which will also give you a flashback dream of Patrik's late wife Anna and a fun scene with the Maid.

- After you give the queen the news sleep two nights and visit the upper chambers at night to start the final scene that will complete Chapter 1.

- Sleep two nights and click the upper chambers at night and you will start the dinner. During the dinner you are faced with an **important choice**: you can choose to stop Pierre (this has very negative consequences and will lose you affinity with Leffrin and relationship points with Irena), or you can let Pierre go and punish Mina and you keep the peace. The latter is unfortunately the better option. Mina will forgive you either way so choose how you wish carefully.  Please note that if you want an additional scene later with Mina you must stop Pierre so it's up to you on how to proceed. Remember there are no game overs in this game.

## **Chapter 2**

### Kaelkirk

Upon arriving to Kaelkirk you will get a cutscene and some history on Kaelkirk, if you spoke to Tobias you can get some more information on this area as well.

- After meeting Baron Vael of Kirk, you will get three conversation choices: you can ask him to trust you which will net you 5 positive with him but cost you loyalty with Irena, choose "we should trust Countess Irena" and you will lose 5 relationship points with him but gain loyalty with Irena, or you can tell him that we need to trust the County of Baronne and lose 5 relationship points with him (He does not trust women in charge so to speak) no loyalty is lost in this choice.

- Wait until evening and chat with Vael again. You will start with one affinity and after speaking to Vael the second time during the evening you will get one more point just for chatting with him. You can also ask him about the relics he likes to collect and show him the Pagan Statuette that can be bought from Mariola. If you give him the statuette you will gain another point of affinity with him. In exchange he will give you pelts for it and a further 10 relationship points with Vael will be acquired.

- With your resources open you can also ask Vael about the Leffrin's Woods Branches and Kaelkirk's Mulefat Branches and he will tell you that a Fletcher in Hartlepool could turn those into a Batch of Arrows (once you make arrows should you choose to do so you can give Vael the arrows in order to fortify the pass or keep them to do something else. Should you choose to give him arrows it does not add any affinity but does update your path section for Fortifying the path). You can also ask Vael about his daughter, but he is very evasive and does not wish to talk about this again.

### Akros Manor

While travelling from Kaelkirk to Hartlepool you may visit Patrik's home again.

Spend a couple nights and let Jezzebel come and visit you. Jessica will catch you during the intercourse for a rather funny cutscene. After that speak with Jezzebel (click on her and she will distract Jessica) during the day and while Jessica is away checking on a ghost you will get a scene with Jezzebel. While the scene is going with Jezzebel you will see Hannah come to take a bath and get an option for Hannah to become a romance option or not. Repeat to see all options.

### Hartlepool

While entering Hartlepool you will see a cutscene with a robed woman and will be attacked.

#### Part One

- You will then get to meet Belinda and get your first choice of Chapter 2: you can choose to accept raising the levies in Hartlepool, which will give you a secondary option to either taking the levies or letting that wait (if you agree to help and wait you gain plus 5 relationship points with Belinda); if you choose to push forward with the levies you gain nothing and lose nothing.  Option two "We need your best more than you" will gain you 10 ambition at the expense of 20 Piety and negative 5 relationship points with Belinda. Option three "We need to address your problems" will get you 20 knightly points and 5 relationship points with Belinda.

- After a long cutscene with Iva you will learn about the problems and gain a quest “The Rat Problem” and run into the mercenaries you met in Penketh earlier. After the cutscene is over you can roam freely.

- It will be evening, and you can go to the Northern Docks and after a cutscene with the Port Chief and Avani you will be able to speak with them.  When speaking with Avani you will get two options: you get a plus 10 Lewd option “Ill personally make sure” (this gives you negative five with Avani) and the second option the plus 10 Knightly one “You’re an esteemed guest” will get you 5 points with Avani. This will start the quest the Blockade Laggard.

- Sleep outside or in the fortress.

- In the morning head to the South Docks and see a cutscene with the silk traders. After the cutscene speak with the silk trader and view another cutscene where you will meet Soon and Seiki. Upon receiving the scroll of possible trades, you will get three choices that you can pursue if you like. Pelts for Red Silk, Spices for Salt or Gold, or Powder for Batch of Arrows and 50 Royal Pieces.

- Visit the Porthouse and see a cutscene where you will see Seiki and Soon again. You will then be confronted by some peasants asking for work. You will be able to conclude that they could help you as you increase your lands and bring up a conversation you can have with Irena about rewarding you for your efforts.

- After the cutscene you will enter the Porthouse. Once inside you can ask around about the Canary Trail and Whitley, speak with the Barmaid and buy some new items for your collection, and speak with the The Mistress. Asking around will not yield much information other than to speak to Captain Talvert.  After awhile you will see two familiar ladies from the beginning of the game if you watched the prologue. They will call you over. Meet Maeve and Nesa. You can ask them for more information on your investigation of the Canary Trail and Whitley to which they do not know much, the second choice about the Canary Trail gives a passing hint that if they were pirates they would hide in the Mountains. Last choice to have some fun will give you the option to have fun for 4 gold and 20 lewdness.

- Sleep in the fortress

- In the morning speak with Belinda and Iva. Talk to Iva about both Whitley and the Canary Trail to get some more information and let her know what you have found so far.

- Speak with Belinda. Ask her about both Whitley and the Canary Trail to find a few more bits of Information.

- You can then have Belinda's Fletcher turn branches into a Batch of Arrows. Choose to "check our resources" and select the Leffrin's Woods Branches and Kaelkirk's Mulefat Branches. You will lose both and gain resources in Batch of Arrows. Lastly if you did not take what she could offer as of yet you can choose to take the deal of raising the levies and getting some troops. You can also after receiving the arrows for the branches choose to give the arrows to Belinda and receive more footmen and archers. (on the arrows now, you have two choices thus far and there will be a third available).

- After you have slept at least twice in Hartlepool during the day head to the commons house and you will encounter the woman you saw upon first entering Hartlepool and you will confront her.  For Romance choose the plus 30 Lewd option or choose to gain plus 30 Piety by turning her down and Xing out the Romance with her for now.

- Either way you will get knocked out and see another Sir Anibal i.e. the ladykiller who will question you and your intentions for him. You will Get three options and gain plus 10 Knight for choice one, or plus 10 Ambition for choice two, or -10 Piety for choice three.

- After this scene leave and head to the Northern Docks and look for Avani. You will be given several conversation options with her. You can inquire about her safety to which she really does not understand, you can inquire about Whitley to which she knows anything about, ask about her accommodations to which she is not really happy about at the moment but she trusts you and the quest to get her better accommodations will continue in latter updates, and lastly you can choose to compliment her to which she laughs and seems slightly uncomfortable though no relationship is lost.

***The Porthouse of Hartlepool***

**Please note that if you need to refill your pouch after spending money, which you will in this section just stop by Akros Manor and Jessica will refill your pouch.**

- Go to the right and speak with the Barmaid. For 10 lewdness you can make her turn and check out her backside. Ask about Whitley and the Canary Trail and you will find out about the refugees and that Whitley is a bit unhinged. You can then check out her inventory and buy four current items that she offers: The Igniter, Gold Tunstead Wine (only one available), Green Dream, and Cheap Tunstead Wine. At this point after buying one of each available you may want to sleep and return to Akros Manor to refill your pouch. Also, if you like after refilling your pouch you can swing by the Gypsy Camp to get some information on your new purchases from Minerva. She will not give you anything on the Cheap Tunstead Wine, she will give you info about and you may gift her the Green Dream for plus 5 with her (you can buy another bottle back in Hartlepool).

- Back in Hartlepool meet the Mistress and her bodyguard Cinnamon and you are given several choices so of course inquire on what she knows about Whitley and the Canary Trail. She does not have much to say about Whitley other than that she does not like her, however about the Canary Trail Pirates it seems she knows people that could be of use for trading that could benefit you. This opens the scroll of possible trades with the Mistress. After this you can inquire about the membership which will cost you 20 gold and give you 100 Lewdness. You will receive the Porthouse Copper Membership which will give you access to her girls (One at this time only with more to come).  You can then access the scroll and look at trades. You can trade Gold for pelts and Arrows for Building Materials at this time with more to be added later.

**- You now have all three choices for what you can do with the Arrows. You can give it to Baron Vael of Kirk for the Path reward of Everlasting Siege, Belinda in Hartlepool for the reward of archers and footmen to the war, or trade for Building Materials with the Mistress in The Porthouse after discussing Whitley and the Canary Trail. Trading it may have consequences later.**

- Time to see the Ladies! If you chose to buy the membership, select to see the girls and show The Mistress the Coin that she gave you. If you do not want Lewdness do not do this as buying the coin from her will give you 100 Lewdness (key though if you want the special Mina scene).  You will start with the Northern Warrior who is the only one available at this time. This also opens the New Role Play feature: you can ask her real name during conversation, Role Play what she will call you and you will call her or use real names. If you RP you can change every time, but if not, it will remember your choices on what you call her and she calls you.

- In the evening you can join the Talverts as soon as you enter for some conversation and drinking. You will eventually get a choice of siding with Captain Talvert or his wife on if the future of Hartlepool is in Trade or not. If you side with the Captain, you will gain 5 relationship points with him and lose five with Helen or vice versa if you choose to side with the wife. You will then wake up surprised in a random spot in Hartlepool.

- Speak with the Talverts again and you will learn a little more of Whitley and the Mayors unfortunate demise and again you can side with either the Captain or his wife for five points either way. Again, you will wake up and be surprised how you got there.

- Speak with the Talverts again and repeat who you want to side with. Eventually you will gain enough points with Mrs.Talvert where she will join you for some fun if you have some extra Green Dream with you (if you gave one to Minerva earlier make sure you have purchased another one before this scene). If you choose to remain Silent you will gain 20 Lewdness but at the expense of 20 knightly and piety. You will also not be on good terms with the Captain of the Portguard and lose 20 relationship points with him on top of the -5 you get for each time you side with the wife which will show up in your path.  The other route with net you friendship of the Portguard in you path but will upset Mrs. Talvert and you'll lose 20 relationship points with her.

**Please note that you must speak with them in the evening four times and side with the same person. At the end you will get a big reward with one, but the other will not like you very much. It is repeatable. You get a lewd scene with the wife but at the expense of Captain Talvert being your enemy via your path. The choice is yours.**

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- You need to find as much information as you can on the Canary Trail and Whitley. Start by talking to both Belinda and Iva, then speak to Captain Talvert in his guardhouse where you can also ask him about his books and the Portguard as a whole, last but not least speak with the Port Chief on the Norther Docks during the day. You should if you spoke to everyone at The Porthouse, docks, and Castle get a notification that you got enough information to speak with Belinda.

**Save here so you can pick the different options at the end of the conversations ahead.**

- Go back to the fortress and select that you think you know where the Canary Trail is. You will ask to summon John Talvert to speak to him, Iva, and Belinda. The conversation will go on and you will decide that there may be traitors in the Portguard and you, Talvert and Iva will decide to go.

- You then get three options: Comfort Talvert, Thank Belinda, or Check on Iva. Checking on Iva gains you 10 relationship points with her, Thanking Belinda will also give you plus 10, and comforting Talvert will also gain 5 relationship with him. (Unless you have the Enemisty with the Portguard path choice)

- When you get to the island, a fight will break out and you will once again get to battle with a brute of a man. In the end you will retreat as you find out they have many men.

- Back on the ship you will sit down and speak with Iva and will be presented with two choices when you offer to warm her up. You can choose to say Belinda is wrong about you in regard to wanting to get into Iva’s paints or say she is not wrong. Choosing to say she is wrong will get you 5 points with Iva and additional 5 when you pull her close for warmth.

- When you return to Hartlepool you will be able to speak with Belinda and Talvert about the events that transpired.

- You can meet Sir Dupre's team at the Western Watchtower and take Alana to the tower as she will mention the view. You get to have a scene.

- To progress the story further you will need to go and speak with Anibal. **SAVE HERE**. Go and see Michelle on the street and ask to see Anibal (you can also get another oral scene from her only this time you won't get knocked out). Approach Anibal and you'll have several conversation options with him.

- Asking him why he is staying in Hartlepool will give you information on why he is there and what he is planning. Asking him what he knows about the Canary Trail will give you information that they are aiding the poor and an idea on where the trail will lead. You can ask him about Whitley but he does not seem to know much more than common knowledge. Lastly you can tell him you know where they are and about the possibility of a diplomatic approach and find out the he may know someone important. You can then have him take you to the pirates.

- When you accept Anibal’s help you will change your attire and have and option for Piety (plus 20) or lewdness (plus 20) with Michelle as you would like you to have some fun as a goodbye. After the scene or piety response you will meet two men you briefly had a talk with in The Porthouse when you first arrived to Hartlepool. They are willing to smuggle you into the camp and will need more people. You will bring the trio that originally asked to work for you when you first went to The Porthouse. After a cutscene you and the servants will go to sleep in the cove.

- After meeting the pirates in the cove you will get three choices. You can say that you "Came in good faith to parlay", "Ask where the leader is", or "ask for your sword to end this". Asking any of the questions to the woman in front of will result in a brief conversation and then you get to meet Shannah. Choose how you wish. You will get two choices that will vary in consequences. You can be frank and gain 10 relationship points with Shannah or threaten them. Your threats will net you negative five with Shannah.  You then get another three-way decision. You can choose to ask how you can help the pirates (no bonus’s per say but seems to be the best choice), Whitley is out of control and you cannot help (-5 with Shannah) , or "You better not harm the people I came with" (-5 with Shannah).

- When you return to the city go and talk to Belinda and you will get two choices: one is the pious route that these pirates are of Belinda and the former Mayor's doing (plus 50 Piety), or they are thugs (this will give you plus 10 with Belinda). Sleep on it and enjoy a cutscene.

- After this speak with Anibal and he will offer to mediate the discussion. **You now have two choices: attack with Belinda or let Anibal mediate.**

Version .14 Path Diplomacy ( Anibal)

Hartlepool

- You are now able to decide what to do about the pirates and refuges. (For now you can only go about this with the diplomatic approach).

- You can speak with others about your return trip to the Isle with Anibal’s help (Talvert will lead to you saying you better keep it to yourself) (Belinda you will get a cut scene as they were worried about you and leads to a choice of plus 50 Piety Blame the Hartlepool administration and start the Piety path or They’re just a bunch of Raggeds which will get you plus 10 with Belinda and 10 Ambition) Ether choice will end with the same that you need to think and sleep in a good bed.

- Speak to Anibal again and you can decide whether to Go to war or take the diplomatic approach. As of right now the only way to proceed is the diplomatic approach.

- After a cutscene with Anibal and talking to Shannah with Anibal you start the nitty gritty of the Diplomatic approach.

- She needs food in quantity to feed her people and the refugees. There are three options to get the best outcome These are Grain, Bad Meat, and Good Meat. Now the grain you already have and if you offer it Shannah will look at it as a start and with a positive 5

your provisions will reduce by 50 but it’s a start. Whitey will not like any of this as a note though the good meat does get her some positivity.

- To get the bad meat Head to Penketh and speak to the meat vendor. Here you will have a choice that may have impacts down the line. You can choose to pay 20 from the treasury every year for the bad meat which the vendor will agree to or you can choose to take the meat with your powers and end up getting the achievement of angry merchants. Your choice ether way you get the bad meat. This will net plus 10 with

Shannah and allow you to progress with Affinity 4 not optimal but if you gave your lumber away early this is your only option.

- To get the good meat you first need to have the lumber you received in the beginning of the game in Leffren. Turn the wood into paper and then head back to Hartlepool and speak with the mistress in the tavern. Trade the paper for the good meat supply.

Giving this to Shannah will get you plus 30 with her and with the rest the optimal outcome.

- After you have done all three head back to the cove and parlay with Shannah, Anibal, and Whitey as they will hold a vote on what to do.

- On your journey there you will get the option from the merchant ship to pay your way so to speak. This is a lewd choice where you can have fun (plus 30 lewdness), Anothertime for 30 lewdness, or you may choose piety and decline her lewd offer plus 30 piety,

- After you give the items to Shannah there will be a long cutscene and you will get the agreement you settled for. During Anibal’s speech you will get a choice on what to do with the portguard defectors. You can choose the piety option for plus 50 or choose to

allow them to return to the guard without persecution.

- Keep in mind if you only give them the bad meat you will get some but not the optimal option. After that, it’s party time and you will get a choice of ether a lewd option (Plus 80 Lewdness) with The girls or you can choose the piety option (100 Piety) by choosing to focus on your journey.

- In the end if you get the optimal agreement you will get arrows, Gold shipment, A pagan Disc (Hmm Kaelkirk latter perhaps?) and the portguard along with the defected guard who will join your cause.

- Now if you want to give lumber for Akros manor you should have two sets of arrows if you exchanged the branches from both leffren and Kaelkirk and had the fletcher in Hartlepool make arrows, So with the extra set take them to the porthouse and exchange the arrows you received from the cove for lumber and then give it to your mother. Important BEFORE YOUR PROGRESS WITH THE PIRATES TO THIS SCENE DO THE EXCHANGE FOR ARROWS WITH BELINDA OR YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO AFTER.

- Return to Belinda and you will have a conversation with her in which you will loose 10 points with her after telling her about the outcome. After a nice cutscene with Iva, Dolce, and Belinda you will gain Iva as a follower.

- You get three options toward the end of the conversation outside with Iva you can tell

her she has nothing better to do, Teach her to be a knight, or you would be a great leader. Ether way you get 10 points with her and she becomes a leader and follower for the cause.

- Return to the tower and you will bring Anibal’s body to the mercenaries.

- This will end the Mercenaries until version 15

- At this time you cannot return to Leffren to relate the news (coming soon)

Available Romances

If you have been following this guide you should have already completed a few romances during the main quest playthrough. Romances Completed should be as follows:

**Minerva** (completed during the gypsy quests as stated)

**Lia and Emilia** (completed During the Gypsy Quest)

**Liliana Maffren** (completed during the Prologue) If you choose Mina or Piety path she will not be available again until Chapter 4.

**Alana of Acallaris** (acquired during the second Penketh Tavern scene and continued at Hartlepool)

**Mariola** – the pottery merchant in the Penketh's Market

- Visit her in the market and purchase all of the items she has available which will take all of your 18 gold (do not worry as you can return to Akros Manor and ask Jessica to refill your pouch and which you get 20 Gold). After the purchase leave and speak with her again. Choose option 1 advance on her and you will complete her romance for now. You gain relationship points with Mariola and some lewdness as well. You can if you like take the purchased vases to Minerva for some tips about who would like these lovely items.

**Robin** the innkeeper (completed during the Penketh quest)

**Jezzebel**- Akros Manor Maid (completed during the visit to Akros Manor on Chapter Two)

**Mina of Leffrin**

- Head to Leffrin and go to the lower grounds

- Exit to Garden and speak with Mina (if she is not there or they are both there simply exit, and reenter and she will show up sitting on the bench) If you chose not to come and see her in the Prologue she will be disappointed. To continue your relationship with her you can choose the Lie option or the break up option. Choosing to lie nets you a loss of 20 piety and plus 5 relationship points. The other gains you 20 Piety and plus 5 relationship points. Choose how you wish. Whichever way you choose, she will invite you to her chambers in the evening.

- Exit and wait until evening then go and see her in the lower quarters. Select "search for someone" and select Mina (Please note that you have to speak with her during the day if you wish to see her otherwise you cannot visit her unannounced).

- After a cutscene, you can choose to have children or not , then cuddle when she will suggest Marriage. You can choose what you want; I usually agree and tell her I love her (this nets you negative 20 ambition and positively 20 knightly, the others follow as you expect) as it makes her happy and it's not binding, nor does it prevent anything.

- The next morning visit her again in the garden and suggest meeting up later.

- Go and see her in the evening and you will sit and chat. You have three options: +30 lewdness but net you negatively in your relationship -10 and you get shut down. She will be upset the next time you speak with her, but it too shall pass. This will complete Mina. **Save** and try the other options as the butt one is interesting with her and needed if you are trying to get the specific path scene with her that requires 500 lewdness.

- You Need to choose to protect Mina from Pierre along with 500 Lewdness to see this scene. If you choose to keep the **war assets** and let Pierre punish Mina this will not be an option as of now.  To do the 500 lewdness literally start from the beginning and choose every lewd option you can including in the prologue you will want to choose to get a scene from Liliana and then stop short, and go to Mina to finish then simply choose every lewd option you get a chance to obtain.

**Katerina of Leffrin**

- Sleep your second night at the Leffrin castle and watch the cutscene with Patrik's late wife and then enjoy the first scene with Katerina. Speaking with her one on one in the garden before this scene does not do anything so it’s a waste of time.

- Visit her in the Garden the next day (remember if she is not there simply keep reentering until she is alone). Speak with her and after a cutscene you can gain Piety or Lewdness (she likes this choice). You then will suggest seeing her later and she will invite you to the kitchen. Simply wait until night and go the lower level and search for her. You can gain some lewdness, she will like if you say any of the two options: you gain 10 lewdness and 5 relationship points with her, or say "Mina could learn from you" and gain the same, or say nothing.

- The next morning **SAVE** and visit her in the garden to speak with her. Choose to go into the bushes  Please note that the scene in the bushes can end badly if you care about Mina so keep to the front if you wish to avoid this.  If you have achieved at least 100 Lewdness you can see her cleaning in the upper chamber for a scene. If you have 200 Lewdness you can get a additional scene on the Balcony and hear some interesting chatter while she is doing it, 400 gets you yet another scene.

**Maeve and Nesa** - Upon entering The Porthouse chat with the patrons for information on Whitley and the Canary Trail and they will call out to you. You will recognize them and be reminded of the first time you saw these two. Some awkward conversation about that will ensue. You can chat them up about Whitley and the Canary Trail and for 4 gold you can have some fun with them both completing the Romance. This scene is repeatable.

**Michelle**

- You will first encounter Michelle as you enter the Hartlepool. She distracts Sean as Scoundrel tries to attack you.

- A couple of days later you will meet her again in the common street and she will try to entice you to make up to you. Whichever option you choose, you will be knocked out and start Progress the Anibal quest. If you choose to allow her to apologize you will gain lewdness and if not you will gain Piety.

- The next day you can approach her again and if you choose option two for romance she will give you another apology in the back alley.

**Ladies of The Porthouse**

- For now, there is only one lady available- the Northern warrior woman named Eve. Acquire this romance by giving 20 Gold to the Mistress to receive the Copper Membership and gain 100 lewdness. Show her the coin and pick Eve.

- You can find out her real name or choose to Roleplay and have her call you what you want and you will call her the pet name of your choosing.  Keep in mind that the game will remember your choices, but you can change them each time you choose to see her.

*BFL Wikia team expresses their profound gratitude to the Discord member Dracodadark for the creation of this walkthrough.*