Cycle 16 contains the Kingslayer’s first ultimatum and the third intended shuffled Act Two county opening. The ultimatum records your support strategy; it does not start the battle quest yet.
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 17 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gideon: His Known Origins | Optional Dialogue | Gideon must be recruited, alive, available, and not already spoken for the cycle. |
| Gideon: The Second Affinity Scene | Optional Dialogue | Gideon must be recruited, alive, available, and not already spoken for the cycle. |
| The Kingslayer’s Ultimatum | Major Audience | The Kingslayer’s Ultimatum is fixed in Cycle 16. |
Inherited Route Pool
Earlier callbacks, deaths, county results, and optional scenes can still drift into this stage. 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
No quest route first becomes eligible in this cycle’s current proof window.
Earlier Quest Results Reaching This Stage
No newly timed earlier assignment group first resolves here in the current static window.
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.
Kingslayer Timing
This is the first ultimatum. Your final response selects one of three support-condition sets and unlocks Belladonna’s request. The Kingslayer does not return with the battle quest until Cycle 23, so do not reserve this Round Table for that fight.