I think this may be my favorite tidbit of background story. I honestly hope this means Julianna totally ignored his advances and then wooed his sister right in front of him. Or Julianna totally ignored his advances while Brin seduced her away.

Now that's very interesting. When I chose to delay the wedding to Talarist in my playthrough, I ended up with the Earl of Pastries, just missing the line about their children. But I was also hexed by Lucille, so that might have been a factor. I'll have to try a run where she's the Duchess or dead.Tsunamiracle wrote:I've found a few interesting endgame things:
First, it seems that you have the option to brush off Lucille's advice in a Dead Joslyn scenario if you're already engaged to Talarist. You can either continue planning for the wedding quickly, or delay it longer. I tried it within the same file, and it seemed like the only difference was whether I got the "pomp and splendor" version of their marriage or the "Talarist dotes on his kids" version...? Of course, this is also a file where Lucille becomes the Duchess of Merva, so I haven't explored all my options there. I'm unsure if this same choice comes up for any other scenario where Elodie is already engaged, as I haven't tested those yet.
I tried a delayed marriage to Banion but I'm getting the Earl of Pastries. Is the implication that their engagement got broken off at some point or is this a bug like with Talarist (the reason I ask)?Mir wrote:I don't know what kind of epilogue you get if you delay your wedding with Banion.
Oooh, how'd you get that?Tsunamiracle wrote:Another Fun New Epilogue I finally figured out how to get gives some in-game proof that Lucille intended to kill Laurent, too.
To get that, I had to kill Lucille at the grand ball, hire Sabine as a spy, and keep Charlotte alive. In the epilogue, Lucille's journals are retrieved and decoded, revealing that she planned to kill Elodie and Laurent. I'm not sure if Ciphering is needed, too? (I leveled it up anyway because I needed general Intrigue for Sabine, but I forgot how much I had.) I just went by the list of new things in the update, which mentioned using Sabine*. I remember there being an old comment about this on a thread here, but it's nice to have something in-game that explicitly confirms it.indigomay wrote:Oooh, how'd you get that?Tsunamiracle wrote:Another Fun New Epilogue I finally figured out how to get gives some in-game proof that Lucille intended to kill Laurent, too.