Board Thread:The Last Sovereign Discussion/@comment-29984007-20200516223431/@comment-36170150-20200517120324

Dank Potatoes wrote: Interesting. Suddenly choosing Kerannii at Gawnfall over Esthera finally seems like a viable choice. Refresh my memory, but does choosing both Kerannii and Esmera activate both deals, or neither of them? Could be interesting for events like this Removes both of them with extra penalties if I recall correctly.

Having Kerannii is better for this event, but not really by much. Having Kerannii lets you skip one more of the offers, but it loses you one of Esmera's favors, which can almost make up for the price of any of the offers.

Carina's offer (-3 Ivalan Acceptance) -> Esmera's boost on the church (+2 Ivalan Acceptance), choosing Kerannii only gives a 1 Ivalan Acceptance advantage if you wanted to skip this offer.

Megail's offer (-5 Aram) -> Esmera's boost on Aram (+5 Aram), choosing Kerannii offers no advantages if you wanted to skip this offer (although the "Aram Punitive" switch makes me think you always want to skip this offer unless you really need to save more acceptance).

Iris' offer (-10 Arclent Acceptance) -> Esmera's boost on Arclent (+5 Arclent Acceptance), choosing Kerannii gives a 5 Arclent Acceptance advantage if you wanted to skip this offer (although the game's dialogue heavily encourages taking this choice and not overvaluing Arclent's acceptance of the Doom King in the endgame).

Also I guess having Kerannii makes it easier to access the negotiations in the first place, but I do not know if there's a way to leverage that advantage into anything meaningful (maybe delay the purchase of the airships in Chapter 4, but that has other consequences too).

EDIT: Testing this would be a nightmare, but I wonder if it is legitimately possible to access the negotiations while having less than 10 Arclent Acceptance and less than 5 Ivalan Acceptance. If it is possible, without Kerannii's deal, would it softlock the game?