Cycle 10 is the earliest shuffled Act Two county opening. Exactly one of Almor, Kutnar, or Southbay gets the first target slot, subject to character collisions; this opens county quests, not a new random-audience pack.
Spoiler warning: All newly eligible choices and outcomes are linked below. A route-union entry means the scene can occur on at least one valid history, not that every listed scene can coexist in one playthrough.
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Recommended Order
- Resolve any forced major intervention before planning the selectable morning.
- Play recruitment returns and corruption returns before scenes that check the current Round Table.
- Clear fixed and delayed story audiences, then resolve the random grievances actually drawn on this route.
- Use afternoon conversations before the Round Table only when their state change helps the assignments you are about to make.
- Assign deadline quests first, repair armor before lethal work, and send only callbacks you want competing for the next cycle’s character slots.
- Continue through every result panel until the first Cycle 11 Tower View appears.
Morning Assembly
Direct story audiences, callbacks, quest results, deaths, and current-cycle injections are assembled before random grievances. Same-character conflicts do not delete a valid delayed scene; they move it to the first later cycle where that character is free.
| Direct audiences before filling | Random grievances added |
|---|---|
| 0 or 1 | 2 or 3 |
| 2 | Exactly 2 |
| 3 | 1 or 2 |
| 4 | Exactly 1 |
| 5 or more | None |
The exact live pool is route-dependent because earlier draws permanently remove wrappers and only a separate location-introduction scene activates a county pack. An Act Two county opening starts its quest chain; it does not activate that county’s random pack by itself.
Fixed and Newly Eligible Audiences
| Scene | Earliest route | What it changes |
|---|---|---|
| Almor’s Act Two Opening Audience | Morning Direct Audience | One shuffled Almor, Kutnar, or Southbay opening audience has an initial Cycle 10 target. It opens a county quest; it does not unlock that county’s filler pack. |
| Angelica and Violent Arron | Optional Dialogue | Angelica and Violent Arron can become available from this cycle when its relationship and availability requirements are met. |
| Arlin Reacts to the Traitor Plot | Optional Dialogue | Arlin’s reaction is an optional post-plot scene, not a fixed morning audience. |
| Arron’s Dragon-Heart Affinity Scene 1 | Optional Dialogue | Arron’s Dragon-Heart Affinity Scene 1 can become available from this cycle when its relationship and availability requirements are met. |
| Arron’s Dragon-Heart Follow-Up | Optional Dialogue | Arron’s Dragon-Heart Follow-Up can become available from this cycle when its relationship and availability requirements are met. |
| Interrogating the Traitor | Forced Murder Scene Continuation | The interrogation continues from the forced murder scene. Angelica, Gwendan, and Ursula state variants are preserved separately. |
| Kutnar’s Act Two Opening Audience | Morning Direct Audience | One shuffled Almor, Kutnar, or Southbay opening audience has an initial Cycle 10 target. It opens a county quest; it does not unlock that county’s filler pack. |
| Lady Tower Reacts to the Traitor Plot | Optional Dialogue | Lady Tower’s reaction is an optional post-plot scene, not a fixed morning audience. |
| Silgur’s Second Affinity Scene | Optional Dialogue | Silgur’s Second Affinity Scene can become available from this cycle when its relationship and availability requirements are met. |
| Southbay’s Act Two Opening Audience | Morning Direct Audience | One shuffled Almor, Kutnar, or Southbay opening audience has an initial Cycle 10 target. It opens a county quest; it does not unlock that county’s filler pack. |
| Tarcus Intervenes in Kutnar’s Opening Audience | Inside Kutnar Opening | Tarcus can replace part of Kutnar’s opening route, but only when Kutnar itself is the shuffled in-window opener. |
| The Demon Reacts to the Failed Investigation | Phase Start Intervention | The failed Demon investigation reaction plays once at the next eligible audience-phase start. |
| The Intendant Reacts to the Traitor Plot | Optional Dialogue | the Intendant’s reaction is an optional post-plot scene, not a fixed morning audience. |
| The Traitor Strikes | Phase End Forced Intervention | The murder can force itself into the phase end from Cycle 10 through Cycle 12; the exact cycle depends on your route. |
| Violent Arron and the Wolf | Optional Dialogue | Violent Arron and the Wolf can become available from this cycle when its relationship and availability requirements are met. |
| Replay Insight: Angelica the Traitor | Replay only: Optional Dialogue | This Angelica scene is replay knowledge, not a forward-only Cycle 10-12 guarantee. |
| Replay Insight: Gwendan the Traitor | Replay only: Optional Dialogue | This Gwendan scene is replay knowledge, not a forward-only Cycle 10-12 guarantee. |
| Replay Insight: Ursula the Traitor | Replay only: Optional Dialogue | This Ursula scene is replay knowledge, not a forward-only Cycle 10-12 guarantee. |
Inherited Route Pool
This stage also carries 17 explicitly linked earlier roots. Their choices are not duplicated here; use the Conditional Audience Choices reference and follow only the entries whose prerequisites your route actually satisfies.
Newly Unlockable Quests
| Quest route | Unlock source | Availability |
|---|---|---|
| Expedition to Djinn Island: I know where the lamp is. We’ll be the first to get our hands on it. | Southbay’s Act Two Opening Audience | The Cycle 8 Dragon Knight quest must succeed so Act 2 begins.; This county must win the shuffled first Act 2 introduction slot intended for Cycle 10.; A character collision may displace the scheduled introduction to Cycle 11 or 12, or beyond this delta.; The Sovereign has the Omniscient tag.; wish_granting_lamp_stolen_known is true. |
| Jousting tournament: We’ll participate. | Almor’s Act Two Opening Audience | The Cycle 8 Dragon Knight quest must succeed so Act 2 begins.; This county must win the shuffled first Act 2 introduction slot intended for Cycle 10.; A character collision may displace the scheduled introduction to Cycle 11 or 12, or beyond this delta. |
| Rush in Laik Vallée: We’ll be delighted to compete. | Kutnar’s Act Two Opening Audience | The Cycle 8 Dragon Knight quest must succeed so Act 2 begins.; This county must win the shuffled first Act 2 introduction slot intended for Cycle 10.; A character collision may displace the scheduled introduction to Cycle 11 or 12, or beyond this delta. |
| The Shellington market: We’ll go ask the merchants some questions. | Southbay’s Act Two Opening Audience | The Cycle 8 Dragon Knight quest must succeed so Act 2 begins.; This county must win the shuffled first Act 2 introduction slot intended for Cycle 10.; A character collision may displace the scheduled introduction to Cycle 11 or 12, or beyond this delta.; Merchants satisfaction is at least 10. |
| The harbor pubs: We’ll conduct interrogations in local bars. | Southbay’s Act Two Opening Audience | The Cycle 8 Dragon Knight quest must succeed so Act 2 begins.; This county must win the shuffled first Act 2 introduction slot intended for Cycle 10.; A character collision may displace the scheduled introduction to Cycle 11 or 12, or beyond this delta. |
| The lamp of old tomes: Let’s start by looking for information in our library. | Southbay’s Act Two Opening Audience | The Cycle 8 Dragon Knight quest must succeed so Act 2 begins.; This county must win the shuffled first Act 2 introduction slot intended for Cycle 10.; A character collision may displace the scheduled introduction to Cycle 11 or 12, or beyond this delta.; Scholars satisfaction is at least 10. |
| The mermaid’s cure: I also think I know what’s happening to your father. I will look for a remedy at the same time. | Southbay’s Act Two Opening Audience | The Cycle 8 Dragon Knight quest must succeed so Act 2 begins.; This county must win the shuffled first Act 2 introduction slot intended for Cycle 10.; A character collision may displace the scheduled introduction to Cycle 11 or 12, or beyond this delta.; The Sovereign has the Omniscient tag.; mermaid_cure_known is true. |
Cycle 7 Quest Results Reaching This Stage
| Quest route | Knights whose assignment resolves now |
|---|---|
| Urgent Delivery (Smelling Parcel): Deliver by boat from Grest | Rufus |
| Urgent Delivery (Smelling Parcel): Deliver by road | Angelica, Arron, Brunhilda, Chester, Dulahan, Goberto, Gwendan, Silgur, Tarcus, Ursule, the full requested party |
Route Warnings
- A delayed audience’s target is a minimum, not a promise. A shared visitor moves the later addition forward until the first free cycle.
- A death removes that Knight’s already scheduled future audiences before the death announcement is added.
- A newly triggered low-affinity departure is checked after the current morning is assembled, so its departure card targets a later cycle.
- County quest openings and county location introductions are different scenes. Only the latter unlocks a county’s random audience pack.
Shuffled County Opening
Almor, Kutnar, and Southbay are shuffled. Only the first opening has an initial target inside this batch. Its choices and every quest it can unlock are linked above; do not add that county’s filler pack yet.
Not Yet Reachable
- Arron Babydragon Affinity 3: Not reachable in Cycles 8-12: Arron’s baby-dragon state cannot be established in Cycle 8-12.
- Arron Follow Up Babydragon Gimmick: Not reachable in Cycles 8-12: The Dragon Egg prerequisite is outside this window.
- Arron Get The Egg: Not reachable in Cycles 8-12: The Dragon Egg comes from Moonvale/Act Three content outside this window.
- Conversation: Arron Belladona: Not reachable in Cycles 8-12: The baby-dragon/Moonvale chain required for this pairing is outside the window.
- Conversation: Silgur Ligia: Not reachable in Cycles 8-12: Ligia requires later Southbay progression beyond the Cycle 10 opening audience.
- Gideon Death Announcement: Not reachable in Cycles 8-12: Gideon is not recruited before Cycle 13 in forward Cycle 8-12 play.
- Gwendan Affinity 3 Humble: Not reachable in Cycles 8-12: Reformed Gwendan can return in Cycle 12 at earliest and is marked spoken in his recruitment cycle.
- Gwendan Affinity 4 Humble: Not reachable in Cycles 8-12: Its prerequisite humble affinity scene cannot occur before the window closes.
- Traitors Plot Demon Quest Accept Reaction: Not reachable in Cycles 8-12: The optional scene points to a knot absent from the available English dialogue.
- Traitors Plot Demon Quest Success Reaction: Not reachable in Cycles 8-12: The optional scene points to a knot absent from the available English dialogue.
- Traitors Plot Omniscient Gideon Murderer Reaction: Not reachable in Cycles 8-12: Gideon’s fixed candidacy is Cycle 13, so he cannot be the in-window traitor.