Does anyone know how to get the "Triumph of Will" and "Failure of Will" scenes from the gallery? I have no idea what i need to do to find them.
Don't welcome the refugees, Have a good relationship with Evette (train strength, defense, and offense; participate and do well in the fencing tournament in the flower festival), and fire the Vizier.
Evette will become your new tutor, later on in her events pulling a red card will give you "A triumph of will", failing to pull a red card will give you "A failure of will".
This I agree with, which is part of some changes coming in .31. Card checks determining major plot points is problematic. Things like which trainer you end up with are major game altering decisions that can't really be recovered from. For the most part, failing checks is something you can overcome over time or actively want for your goal, but kicking out Cecily when you want to play her route is just bad. So anything that hinges on one check like that needs to be changed. For Cecily I'm adding the same system you have with the Vizier, where you can force the Princess to change her decision at the cost of stat penalties. The other one that needs to change is the brother check early on, as that has some fairly pervasive consequences and is actually completely random.
I don't think you need to change the brother check early on, just maybe make the 2 routes more balanced? Right now it feels like there are only downsides to having Adelin as an enemy, give some benefical events tied with being at war from day 1 and I think the 50/50 odds would be fine, would add to the variation and replayability. Also the brother check happens so early on that if someone wants to force the opposite route, resetting is really not too much of a hassle.
EDIT: Maybe having a run where you are enemies with Adelin from the start can have the benefit of giving Colette chances to undermine him, maybe an extra check when meeting each councillor where Colette can share some dirt on him to gain some extra favor.
Otherwise yeah, I like the Vizier concept, for the deciding stuff that happens throughout the game you can give the choice of overriding it, but it comes with heavy penalties for going against Colette's initial instincts in that run.