You caled yourself a ”murderer” , along with everyone who made the same choices as you.
The game seems to issue a time out penalty for the act of murder.
How am I saying anything else? Are murderers supposed to be rewarded?
Without Cass there is no coup - that is the power of your murderous choice.
There are consequences in this game for such atrocity and we all have to abide if we did the act.
Here is the proof:
You did the same thing Cass wanted to do - only to her.
Your answer is to insult me and my choices?
Parricide is at least frowned upon anywhere you look and it means the same thing whether it is Cass or the king.
The game put a lot of weight behind your murder path -which also means you are going yourself into the Red King prophecy. Who is next?
The king if he disowned you for parricide?
The queen if she was disgusted at your action?
Your sister for disapproving?
We can all give reasosn why this or that, yet we are in full agreement that this story is already storyboarded and is running on rails.
The most easy to spot nudge in this game is the fact that MC has no real reason not to resent the king. Absolutely no reason at all.
MC got shoved off the stage by the king and is living in fear of getting killed for the king ransome on his head.
Irrelevant if this is true or not or if the king has actual guards protecting MC, he is led to believe, practically his whole life, that he is a pariah and is hunted for ransome, dead or alive. There is no way to reconcile something like that and MC and the king never ever reconcile it.
So, for all the bashing we can give the plot for beaing too much Machiavelly or Shakespeare or Game of Thrones, if we think about it for a while, MC was never meant to side with the king - ever.
Here comes the great dev who gives us the impossible option to let the whole life of fear and self loathing MC has been living all the time be water under the bridge and act like MC was at the court always, even if he has been living as a bastard for the longest of times.
We had our fun to pretend MC reconciled with the king when the plot and the story never allows for such tomfullery.
That was the red herring - you went on the made up, fan service - path of pretending not to follow a reasonable plot, of course you will find a dead end.
Choosing between the girl you swore your life to and have spent actual life changing moments with and your absent father who is never there to give you the reigns like a real monarch / father would to his heir - if he ever wanted to use you for anything other than allegiance fodder for the south or the north - then you side with the absentee - that is on you fully.
Anyone who has watched Dune 2 and the duel between faid and paul - there is the answer:
slight of hand and misdirection of keeping MC distracted on her face while she removes the dagger and stops the bleeding with good old plucking - sticking a finger in to stop it then letting herself drop so as not to draw attention or any of the misleading tactics of a master thief/assassin she actually is, like fake bigger clothes, so a stab on her sides or directly would get diverted by a hidden armor plate while baggy thick cloth would trap the weapon and make it seem like it did slice or impale or go through, just not her actual body, but her carefully crafter armor adn garments. This is pure fantasy, just like dune, so anything can and will be explained convincingly in the game.
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