All 3 routes feel bad. You have several silly options to choose from, all are lacking.
There are many choices in the game and most of them are related to political decisions. My favourite thing about the game is that the political side of the game is completely based on reality, there are no absurd choices. I understand that you are uncomfortable with marriage, but actually it would be illogical if it was the other way around, because marriage is the most important act of gaining allies and alliances for royal families to maintain power and legitimacy. Especially when the only son of a king has no heir, this is a big handicap. Some of the reasons for marriage are touched upon in the game. The old king knows that he is at the end of his life and wants to secure the crown for his son, who will take the throne when he dies, so he has both the prince and the princess married to powerful families as a matter of urgency, in order to gain new alliances.
Thats what makes it worse soo many choices and opportunity to dictate the flow of the story and none for the most important ones. And for what a piece of shit deadbeat father who exiled him, alienated his older daughter and using his kids like pawn. If you choose the correct option mc says that he would even kill both his father and the suitor rather than go ahead with this charade. Then he still quietly like a little bitch goes along with the wedding farce anyways. How's that for logical story flow? Choose all the options to disrespect the kings beforehand too.
But the children of royalty have *always* been nothing but glorified pawns to be married off to this prince or that princess to secure treaties and peaceful relations with your neighboring kingdoms and city-states.
You can "neutralize" the sister's wedding, while keeping her bethroted fiancee as an ally for the Western provinces' political landscape. A win-win situation. Moreover, politically speaking, it would be dumb for the king's heir to refuse a marriage with such powerful parties' heiresses
Did you not read the message or did you not understand it properly? According to what this person is saying the Red Emperor (Kill Cass) path opens the options for conquering the rest of the providences, in other words recreating the empire your ancestor created. It's not your area that's getting conquered, it's you doing it to the other kingdoms. In reality it's one of the two good routes with the White Emperor being the other. Green from what they're saying just leads to you being a puppet state of the west which makes it objectively the worst route you could take. It's literally the only one where your losing power rather than gaining power.
No ?
Who is that ?Ready for Josephine
