Cycle 22 is the final preparation stage before the fixed Kingslayer battle audience in Cycle 23. There is still no Kingslayer assignment or Act Three civil-war injection here.
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.
Return to the Cycle 21 walkthrough
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 23 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oliver Affinity 2 | Optional Dialogue | Oliver must play his first affinity scene, gain enough affinity, clear its two-cycle cooldown, remain alive, and be available. |
Inherited Route Pool
This stage also carries 28 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
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.
Before the Kingslayer Battle
Finish repairs and avoid starting optional work that would occupy Knights needed next cycle. The Kingslayer’s before-the-storm audience is fixed in Cycle 23 and unlocks the actual battle quest there.
Not Yet Reachable
- Knight Leaving Oliver: Oliver cannot reach the normal low-affinity departure threshold during the strict Cycle 19-22 forward window.
- Oliver Affinity 3 Mage: This affinity scene requires Oliver’s mage state, which cannot begin before his four-cycle training resolves in Cycle 24.
- Oliver Full Romance: Oliver cannot complete the required affinity and romance sequence before Cycle 23.
- Oliver Gimmick Introduction Mage: Oliver’s four-cycle training cannot resolve and schedule this transformation audience before Cycle 24.