RPGM Noblesse Oblige [v0.17.1.0] [Lord Forte Games]

[maroder]

Kill Somnus or Xinthos? What's the better path?

there is not better path. both choices are valid. you can choose whichever you whant.
i will say that choice will have Future consequences no matter what you do

 

[MonNomEst]

there is not better path. both choices are valid. you can choose whichever you whant.
i will say that choice will have Future consequences no matter what you do

What are the future consequences are what I'm asking then.

 

[maroder]

What are the future consequences are what I'm asking then.

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[MonNomEst]

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[Hersom9912]

If I recall she says she's always found women attractive, but that attraction became more pronounced after being mistreated by previous partners which caused her distrust for most men. I don't recall her ever saying she never found any other man attractive nor her clarifying that's she's only ever been with women. I find it especially unlikely she's only been with women, not just due to the aforementioned mistreatment by previous partners, but because after the banquet with the dukes she says she was worried Alexander might think she was too experienced, which would be a weird thing to worry about if her only experience (other than with Alexander) was with pleasuring women and not men.

To my knowledge she was like a college frat girl in the academy.......She stated many early on that many guys claimed her as conquest and she grew tired of this.

 

[Hersom9912]

On the above stated comment i decided to abandon this game.

I checked the comments and learned that you get kinda romantical with her not to mention you are a king.
In essence even if you are a cuck by having a position of a future king (and caring for that position) you would not allow your future wife to be fucked by strangers.

On the other point. Some people think open love is great, good for them. Sadly sex is a dance between dominant and subserviant, you can swap with your intimate partner (between being dom and sub, even normal sex has elements to it).
Males usually show dominance thus establish pseudo-hiearchy. In current day and age it's muddled but subconsiously still holds true.

I kinda don't care about open relationship thing as long as i don't experience it 1st hand or 2nd hand. I would not mind cucking someone as long as they are not my friend, sadly subconsiously i would look down on them after fucking their wife. I would greet them and smile but i would somehow feel that they are beneth me. I'm not the exception, i'm a rule. I would not mock or ridicule but there is always a but in this thing. No matter how we wish certain elements rarely change.
Men in general are more possesive and meeting your ex with someone else can get you feeling superior or inferior. It changes with age and experience but undertones stil exist. While young those tones are strong, when older you just don't care as much (but as you get older you generally don't care as much about EVERYTHING.)

So this game element broke the final straw (there were multitude of other things). Not being able to reject someone is a major turn off. Be a cuck, be promiscous but don't come near me if the game forces you to accept modern idiocy then the only rejection i have is to reject the whole piece, sadly. It's especially funny that MC is a king and a narcissist but somehow accepts free love.

Author took the modern day dynamic i.e. marriage between rich children (clans) and decided to implement it in fantasy setting. The problem is modern day dynamic is usually acting in public but having SEPARATE lifes outside of that public for the rich and powefull and when open marriage or sleeping with others is made public they are forced to divorce OR take a huge social penalty that might affect their wealth (stocks).

Just venting here due to oversatured content of free love and ntr, i thought only Japanese were sick with this thing. I was wrong.

P.S. I decided to write this tantrum only because there were no tags or warnings about this. I don't comment or review genres or tags if i don't like them and am informed that they exist there. I may play them but i know in majority of cases i will dislike them for their genre or tags. Here i had expectations due to MC being a royalty but he turned up to be a modern day open marriage type of person whom i do not wish to RP in RPG not to mention they had that arrangment and FMC openly said he didn't use it while she indulged, author implemented this not thinking that in many parts of our world that comment is a direct insult or disrespect towards your partner and even if you have political marriage you don't disrespect your partners by sharing information. It seems common sense is lacking here.

 

[gatto]

The game triggers too much FOMO with the choices, I just can't play dang it.

 

[Hersom9912]

The game triggers too much FOMO with the choices, I just can't play dang it.

Why so? It just gives you an option to replay after some months or years. It's actually a cool point in RPGS that. If Rpg doesn't have a sandbox element it needs branching story in order for people to replay it.

 

[Znorkh]

On the above stated comment i decided to abandon this game.

I checked the comments and learned that you get kinda romantical with her not to mention you are a king.
In essence even if you are a cuck by having a position of a future king (and caring for that position) you would not allow your future wife to be fucked by strangers.

On the other point. Some people think open love is great, good for them. Sadly sex is a dance between dominant and subserviant, you can swap with your intimate partner (between being dom and sub, even normal sex has elements to it).
Males usually show dominance thus establish pseudo-hiearchy. In current day and age it's muddled but subconsiously still holds true.

I kinda don't care about open relationship thing as long as i don't experience it 1st hand or 2nd hand. I would not mind cucking someone as long as they are not my friend, sadly subconsiously i would look down on them after fucking their wife. I would greet them and smile but i would somehow feel that they are beneth me. I'm not the exception, i'm a rule. I would not mock or ridicule but there is always a but in this thing. No matter how we wish certain elements rarely change.
Men in general are more possesive and meeting your ex with someone else can get you feeling superior or inferior. It changes with age and experience but undertones stil exist. While young those tones are strong, when older you just don't care as much (but as you get older you generally don't care as much about EVERYTHING.)

So this game element broke the final straw (there were multitude of other things). Not being able to reject someone is a major turn off. Be a cuck, be promiscous but don't come near me if the game forces you to accept modern idiocy then the only rejection i have is to reject the whole piece, sadly. It's especially funny that MC is a king and a narcissist but somehow accepts free love.

Author took the modern day dynamic i.e. marriage between rich children (clans) and decided to implement it in fantasy setting. The problem is modern day dynamic is usually acting in public but having SEPARATE lifes outside of that public for the rich and powefull and when open marriage or sleeping with others is made public they are forced to divorce OR take a huge social penalty that might affect their wealth (stocks).

Just venting here due to oversatured content of free love and ntr, i thought only Japanese were sick with this thing. I was wrong.

P.S. I decided to write this tantrum only because there were no tags or warnings about this. I don't comment or review genres or tags if i don't like them and am informed that they exist there. I may play them but i know in majority of cases i will dislike them for their genre or tags. Here i had expectations due to MC being a royalty but he turned up to be a modern day open marriage type of person whom i do not wish to RP in RPG not to mention they had that arrangment and FMC openly said he didn't use it while she indulged, author implemented this not thinking that in many parts of our world that comment is a direct insult or disrespect towards your partner and even if you have political marriage you don't disrespect your partners by sharing information. It seems common sense is lacking here.

You clearly haven't read anything about european nobility's mores during the 16th to 18th centuries. Here you describe 19th century bourgeois morality.

 

[Hersom9912]

You clearly haven't read anything about european nobility's mores during the 16th to 18th centuries. Here you describe 19th century bourgeois morality.

Please elaborate. The concept of "sharing your" partner isn't new of course but let's say only really sick people would do it pre-contraception age or pre-dna age.
I will elaborate this with basic fear that all men shared pre those ages i.e. raising someone who isn't your blood kin.
And as i described, i didn't describe 19th century bourgeois morality i ment modern i.e. as in today.

I didn't read much history about sexual exploits of our ancestors just a surface level brush.
Also i might be mistaken (due to my lack of extensive knowledge in sexual history) but whatever you've read likely wasn't the description of the trend or fashion but more like local cases of perverted authors and maybe overly perverted people (i.e. vastest minority). I pressume that because some LGBT+ groups heavily promoted that ancient Greece was quite open to gay relationship whilst in reality it was just cherry picked by the interest group (i.e. LGBT+ advocates).

I'm genuinely interested in elaboration, since i know practically nothing about this.

 

[Znorkh]

Well, first of all, the setting establish very clearly that contraception spells are a thing. Secondly, the "fear" you describe is absolutely not universal through time and space : a lot of human societies put way less emphasis on blood ties than, say, the Victorians - hell, even in the über-patriarcal roman society, adoptive bonds frequently superseded blood bonds. Human society is VERY flexible and the conservatives vision of sexuality is, in fact, quite recent historically.

About european nobility during the early modern period, well, there's a lot of factors leading to this (very quickly, the Reformation and after that the Enlightenment eroding Church influence, absolutism destroying the old feodal rules of transmission, etc.) but let's say it was quite the fuckfest.

(as a footnote, I must say that talking about "sick" and "perverted" peoples on a porn forum is... kinda ironic)

 

[Hersom9912]

Well, first of all, the setting establish very clearly that contraception spells are a thing. Secondly, the "fear" you describe is absolutely not universal through time and space : a lot of human societies put way less emphasis on blood ties than, say, the Victorians - hell, even in the über-patriarcal roman society, adoptive bonds frequently superseded blood bonds. Human society is VERY flexible and the conservatives vision of sexuality is, in fact, quite recent historically.

About european nobility during the early modern period, well, there's a lot of factors leading to this (very quickly, the Reformation and after that the Enlightenment eroding Church influence, absolutism destroying the old feodal rules of transmission, etc.) but let's say it was quite the fuckfest.

(as a footnote, I must say that talking about "sick" and "perverted" peoples on a porn forum is... kinda ironic)

Yeah while writting i held an incling of an idea about the contraception spell and while answering you I even remembered that there was a DNA spell in the game. (MC tells a story how his father ordered a Baron to take care of the child.
For me though almost any kink is a go as long as 3rd party doesn't particapate. So authors inclination of sharing and open marriage thing left me with a bad impression. I would be fine if there would be an option to stay friends but when you are forced into this? Nope. That's more in sub realm.

As for the Roman reference...Not as frequent as it seems blood bonds always were paramount, actually only after christianity took over the Rome "soul" bonds were gaining traction. Before? People were more about flesh and blood. We could take into account that it was and is universal even today. Media, soft indocrination and spiritual information (religions basically) made us more accepting of non-blood related kin.
Prior to all that to my knowledge attitude and relationship towards non - relative was on the lacking side to say the least whilst there were opposite cases majority wasn't like that.(Even up to our age though our age is far more accepting).

As for European nobility.
Good to know, if i will have a window i will try to check it out. I knew that people became far more liberal after age of Enlightenment. But to my knowledge cases you describe were once again rare and few and not rarely we could not distinguish fiction from non-fiction. Though you have given me a nice idea to research.

As for sick and perverted thing. I do not see anything bad about saying perverted. It's considering that people are on a scale from Pruddish to Perverted, majority here? Perverted, yes me included though i mostly seek some nice games that don't have corprate rules built in and leave an option for adult behaviour. (PG 18). i.e. expading horizons beyond steam;epic and etc.

As for sickness.........Well i'm not gonna shield or defend sick behaviour even if i might be one of the sick cases. Sickness is when your kinks are destructive either to you or even worse to others. Any form of self-destructing or destructing behaviour is sickness.
For example open marriage thing (or relationship) in my book is considered a sickness since it is proven to be not functional nor does it provide positive loop. There are rare exceptions and it requires ardious work to make it work.
Cucking is also quite a sick behaviour.

Generally speaking in this context i regard sickness as something needing containment or to be healed. Above stated kinks are quite hazardous and have a tendecy to ruin lifes easily. As a form of expression via media? Sure why not, it's an outlet to contain that sickness. I also have kinks that i contain so in those terms i'm medicated but ultimetely a sick person.

P.S. I tend to use "harsh" words and more directness, especially when tired ( and i was and am tired while writting this and what i wrote before). Due to low sensitivity i tend to forget that people can get quite touchy about some word usage. i.e. social filters are down due to tiredness.

 

[Znorkh]

I... Don't understand why you keep referring to DNA. DNA is something we discovered yesterday, before that we had a much less precise understanding of heredity. A lot of ancient societies, and a few even today, used matrilineal transmission because they thought that the role of the father was negligible in conception.

Also, the only real case of "sharing" present in the game as of now is Alexander having a wife and a mistress (with really heavy hints that it would evolve into a throuple), the only other scene being a religious ritual and restricted to a certain path. What you refer as "sharing" or "cucking" would be better described as "exploring before committing" and that's an attitude as old as humanity.

One last thing : Alexander is not meant to be a blank slate you can use as a self-insert. He has made choices in the past, and while you make choices for him during the game, these are limited by what he could possibly chose considering his personality and history, not yours. If you can't fathom this type of main character, perhaps the game is not meant for you - but you're missing a masterpiece.

 

[Hersom9912]

I... Don't understand why you keep referring to DNA. DNA is something we discovered yesterday, before that we had a much less precise understanding of heredity. A lot of ancient societies, and a few even today, used matrilineal transmission because they thought that the role of the father was negligible in conception.

Also, the only real case of "sharing" present in the game as of now is Alexander having a wife and a mistress (with really heavy hints that it would evolve into a throuple), the only other scene being a religious ritual and restricted to a certain path. What you refer as "sharing" or "cucking" would be better described as "exploring before committing" and that's an attitude as old as humanity.

One last thing : Alexander is not meant to be a blank slate you can use as a self-insert. He has made choices in the past, and while you make choices for him during the game, these are limited by what he could possibly chose considering his personality and history, not yours. If you can't fathom this type of main character, perhaps the game is not meant for you - but you're missing a masterpiece.

I refer to DNA as DNA because THEY HAVE MAGIC to understand if that child belongs to you literally MC's talking point during 1st chapter. Contraception and knowing that it is really your child are 2 different things. And game maker actually covered both of those things. That's why i'm refering it as DNA also i simply do not remember how exactly it was pronounced in the game. (To clarify that wasn't a bashing point towards the game)

As i stated before hand their arrangement essentially was open marriage simply political without anything else. I did not state that MC did that but i do consider open marriage/cucking(aka sharing)/swinging all closely related fetishes.
My main grind with our talking point started when i've read some comments stating their messed up relationship. Correct me if i'm wrong:
Initially they had quite good and close relationship they even were having sex but at some point one of them likely her proposed to have open marriage setting. Basically they stay friends but have their own relationships, only rule they can't have children from other people. Somewhere before academy or during it she was fooling around with guys to the point where she was dissapointed with them and felt betrayed/disgusted by them because they saw her as a conquest and body to fuck not a person.
MC on the other hand did not sleep around or have messy relationship during their whole arrangment (she stated that during camping scene while talking to Ligaea).

Exploring before committing - Might be old but intially it wasn't a popular idea for multides of reasons. I also agree that it is normal for ordinary people to mess around since their life's have much lesser spillage effect. We are talking about royalty though. The so called exploration wasn't meant so much about sex and sleeping around as dating (without sex) and getting to know people who you might build your life with.

So i was already somewhat weirded out by royalty setting this standard but was okay thinking that like ok, they got to know each other it seemed they didn't have the chemistry and decided to stay strictly political and friendly.
Then i learn via comments that they get steady once again.....And this was the point where i decided i do not wish to see that. (There were other points that i didn't like already but i value narrative and story than other game elements).
Essentially this whole mess of their relationship felt like those weird and stupid stories: We were steady then one of us decided to explore or found someone interesting so one of us decided to open our relation after getting dissapointed and understanding this was a mistake decided to get back to their "safe" choice.
Though i found comedy in that regard that author inserted my thoughts: when FMC told Ligaea that she seems more like a princess than FMC herself (my thoughts were the same). IF FMC was a baronett, commoner and etc. i would not mind much but princess somewhat bragging about being an easy going frat girl? It just felt like Ligaea and FMC should have been reversed.

Also as one commentator stated it gave off this weird cuck vibe when she stated that she slept around while MC didn't not (her talking to Ligaea). Not to mention if i understood correctely Alexander was quite concerned with maintaining his image as a noble and royalty and well having a queen with frat girl past puts a shade on his image. As i stated correct me if i'm wrong. I just saved the game and quit it and decided to read a bit about the story and after learning their dynamic via comments here i decided not to continue.

As for the self-inserting element...Well there is a tipping point where you cannot follow the story where main character is too far off for your pleasure. Unlike movies or books, you are far more engaged in the game you somewhat self-insert yourself and when you are given (or not given a choice) with which you would not under any circumstances agree it brings displeasure.
For me specifically it felt like i would be forced to follow through something i would not agree.

I might pick it up again but if what i stated and read is correct likely i won't.
I stopped playing right at the point where we arrived to a village (after the airship mission).
My other concerns were that despite it being branching story it felt like linear story. RPG elements are dumbed down and i didn't even experience kingdom managment stage and i fear it would also be not what i expect (for example like Mass Effect 3 gaining alies, you complete missions gain some points that help you during last mission or during chapter endings i.e. gather enough military support to have specific outcome).
But hey if you say that the true game starts after arriving to that village i might rethink. It's simply that point by point i was growing dissapointed and after learning future relationship dynamic (though not a big element game wise it was a major blow for me story/plot wise and i play for the plot for the most part).

 

[gatto]

Why so? It just gives you an option to replay after some months or years. It's actually a cool point in RPGS that. If Rpg doesn't have a sandbox element it needs branching story in order for people to replay it.

Well, I don't see a correlation between replayability after a certain time and multiple routes. If you're hooked by the game you want to continue and explore the others route right now and if you come back you would most likely be interested to see the story continue instead of reading a new one. Not only that, the amount of game-time is reduced per update since multiple version of the has to be made.

As i did read in the forum, the cast is not that big but deep, and at least 4 of them are routes exclusive and 1 is a childhood friend where you are just sidelined.
It really feels, for someone who doesn't like to repeat to play a game, the majority of interesting Woman are just a tease you can't get, and that is utterly frustrating.

 

[Znorkh]

Correct me if i'm wrong:
Initially they had quite good and close relationship they even were having sex but at some point one of them likely her proposed to have open marriage setting. Basically they stay friends but have their own relationships, only rule they can't have children from other people. Somewhere before academy or during it she was fooling around with guys to the point where she was dissapointed with them and felt betrayed/disgusted by them because they saw her as a conquest and body to fuck not a person.
MC on the other hand did not sleep around or have messy relationship during their whole arrangment (she stated that during camping scene while talking to Ligaea).

This whole point is null : at this time in the story they are not married, they're engaged. And Ariadne don't say that Alexander "did not sleep around", she say that he has done that less than her IIRC

Exploring before committing - Might be old but intially it wasn't a popular idea for multides of reasons. I also agree that it is normal for ordinary people to mess around since their life's have much lesser spillage effect. We are talking about royalty though. The so called exploration wasn't meant so much about sex and sleeping around as dating (without sex) and getting to know people who you might build your life with.

The number of royal bastards throughout history prove you wrong.

So i was already somewhat weirded out by royalty setting this standard but was okay thinking that like ok, they got to know each other it seemed they didn't have the chemistry and decided to stay strictly political and friendly.
Then i learn via comments that they get steady once again.....And this was the point where i decided i do not wish to see that. (There were other points that i didn't like already but i value narrative and story than other game elements).
Essentially this whole mess of their relationship felt like those weird and stupid stories: We were steady then one of us decided to explore or found someone interesting so one of us decided to open our relation after getting dissapointed and understanding this was a mistake decided to get back to their "safe" choice.
Though i found comedy in that regard that author inserted my thoughts: when FMC told Ligaea that she seems more like a princess than FMC herself (my thoughts were the same). IF FMC was a baronett, commoner and etc. i would not mind much but princess somewhat bragging about being an easy going frat girl? It just felt like Ligaea and FMC should have been reversed.

That's a bit of a spoiler, but they were teens when they first sleep with each other. Reconnecting as young adults doesn't seems weird nor stupid to me.

I don't really understand what a "frat girl" is to you (do you mean a sorority girl?) and how Ariadne could be considered one : in chapter one she's presented as quite distant from the other students, having her own private tower and whatnot. But her remark to Ligaea has nothing to do with her sex life, it's all about her disgust of court formalities and politicking (which is explained later, when we meet her family). In fact her whole arc in the current content is coming to terms with her upbringing and accepting her role as Sorceress Queen, and sex has very little to do in that.

Also as one commentator stated it gave off this weird cuck vibe when she stated that she slept around while MC didn't not (her talking to Ligaea). Not to mention if i understood correctely Alexander was quite concerned with maintaining his image as a noble and royalty and well having a queen with frat girl past puts a shade on his image. As i stated correct me if i'm wrong. I just saved the game and quit it and decided to read a bit about the story and after learning their dynamic via comments here i decided not to continue.

cf. my response to the first point. Also, Ch.1 Alexander is very NOT concerned with maintaining his image as royalty because he's hiding it, presenting as a minor noble from a different kingdom...

As for the self-inserting element...Well there is a tipping point where you cannot follow the story where main character is too far off for your pleasure. Unlike movies or books, you are far more engaged in the game you somewhat self-insert yourself and when you are given (or not given a choice) with which you would not under any circumstances agree it brings displeasure.
For me specifically it felt like i would be forced to follow through something i would not agree.

I don't have a response to that, it is clearly a matter of preferences.

I might pick it up again but if what i stated and read is correct likely i won't.
I stopped playing right at the point where we arrived to a village (after the airship mission).
My other concerns were that despite it being branching story it felt like linear story. RPG elements are dumbed down and i didn't even experience kingdom managment stage and i fear it would also be not what i expect (for example like Mass Effect 3 gaining alies, you complete missions gain some points that help you during last mission or during chapter endings i.e. gather enough military support to have specific outcome).
But hey if you say that the true game starts after arriving to that village i might rethink. It's simply that point by point i was growing dissapointed and after learning future relationship dynamic (though not a big element game wise it was a major blow for me story/plot wise and i play for the plot for the most part).

Well, you're in Ch.2 and the first big branching point was at the end of Ch.1, you just doesn't have seen the repercussions yet. As of now, the game is 15 chapters long and counting, and the management aspects begin in Ch.5 (but your decisions in previous chapters influence the outcomes).

 

[Hersom9912]

This whole point is null : at this time in the story they are not married, they're engaged. And Ariadne don't say that Alexander "did not sleep around", she say that he has done that less than her IIRC

If i remember correctly she stated: I indulged (or benefited) from this arrangment while Alexander did not. - Implying that only one of them used their arrangment.

The number of royal bastards throughout history prove you wrong.

That's plain debauchery coupled with non-existent contraception at the time. Mainly regarded towards men in power who had ability and resources to abuse this be it through force/power or wealth. Exploration thing is mostly regarded as mutual positive thing. What you state is a negative effects of people in power.
I will also add this. It's not even history, you can find many "bastards" from wealthy men even today (and unlike in older times they deliberately knock-up women, most of the time give a solid summ and forget them in better cases they act like estranged fathers.).

I don't really understand what a "frat girl" is to you (do you mean a sorority girl?) and how Ariadne could be considered one : in chapter one she's presented as quite distant from the other students, having her own private tower and whatnot. But her remark to Ligaea has nothing to do with her sex life, it's all about her disgust of court formalities and politicking (which is explained later, when we meet her family). In fact her whole arc in the current content is coming to terms with her upbringing and accepting her role as Sorceress Queen, and sex has very little to do in that.

The frat girl or sorority girl thing - Is basically a soft naming of hoe phase during college years in my stament.
As for her talk with Ligaea, i will reinstall the game and check it out again. But i was under strongest impression that their talk at the camp was exactly about that: relationship and sexual life.
With that dialogue she wanted to give a pass towards Ligaea. She stated that they have this arrangment despite them being engaged and she clearly stated (i will double check it later on) that unlike Alexander she benefited from this arrangement.
At minimum authors choice of words and/or her background and story creation is something that would make many male players lose disposition towards her. What makes it worse you are sort of bound to her and cannot reject her.

Also, Ch.1 Alexander is very NOT concerned with maintaining his image as royalty because he's hiding it, presenting as a minor noble from a different kingdom...

Yes and no. He tried to maintain the general "ideal" image of nobility. And even if he didn't play a role of royalty, eventually as he is crowned everybody would know who he is. Past is our constant shadow.

Well, you're in Ch.2 and the first big branching point was at the end of Ch.1, you just doesn't have seen the repercussions yet. As of now, the game is 15 chapters long and counting, and the management aspects begin in Ch.5 (but your decisions in previous chapters influence the outcomes).

My main question does it continue to be the same? In my experience up to that point it was quite lineal gameplay.
Next point freedom of movement or open world element - Does it exist?
And lastly what does "managment" entail? Is more like managment game style or a text based quest i.e. managment just being a quest like thing that will affect the plot now or later on.

Simply for me as i've read developers heavy emphasis on RULER Rpg with elements of managment and customization it seemed up to my alley. But up to chapter 2, i didn't see anything remotely like that.
More like classical turn based RPG with light RPG elements and lineal story with every chapter giving you one major branching story choice.
The thing with Adriaende was just a cherry on top as i tried to immerse myself into being Alexander. It was just too immersion breaking for me. The self insertion part depends on your adaptability i'm quite adept at adapting to characters personality but when common sense is challanged and in that sense royal structure, psychology and etc. While still realistic in some sense but i was questioning motives and could not see any reasons for those things.
Clarification about common sense: There 2 things, one is like math which has only one correct answer the other one is statistics and % i.e. likelyhood.
As an example of math: Alexander clearly states that he wants to maintain good image of royalty and nobility and even acts like that throughout the years yet he doesn't hold his future queen up to the same standards which heavily put many question marks towards the story with her.
I would still understand if she was from a greater kingdom or higher ranked than him and if he was marrying into her family. Their arrangment felt more like author forgetting power dynamics because their arrangment didn't help Alexander in anyway to maintain his regal status.

Spoiler: Chapter 1 bandit girl decision or lack of it

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[c4145317]

So uhh does this whole open relationship add anything to the game's narrative, besides MC being cool with his girl being a ho?

 

[maroder]

So uhh does this whole open relationship add anything to the game's narrative, besides MC being cool with his girl being a ho?

it mainly happens before main story which is mainly there for character development. It frankly dose not play any real part in main story as it gose on IF i remeber corectly adriane even ask him to stop these arangment(techichly it gives alexandre justifiaction to have hes own small harem). Reading above post you would think it comes a lot in game but no it dose not. Why they are having these arangement is explored more in further chapters.

 

[maroder]

fighting

My main question does it continue to be the same? In my experience up to that point it was quite lineal gameplay.
Next point freedom of movement or open world element - Does it exist?
And lastly what does "managment" entail? Is more like managment game style or a text based quest i.e. managment just being a quest like thing that will affect the plot now or later on.

IT will stay linear, mostly. when you will return to kingdom you will get more permanent locations, castels where you will be spending a lot of your time and places that you will revisit few times but these always will be more linarly.
As for managment You will get royal fundas wich will let you invest some difrent projects, Petitions where you will make decisions on difrent subjects and some other kind of decisions.
you will be mainly having difrent stats Royal budget, nobles support, popular support, Army size,army qulity, army morale, special units stats ,difrent religious organziations and few secret more. Your decisions will be mainly upon balancing and icnreasing them with your choices. So yhea nobbles dose branching by you making decisions, IT dose branch a lot, there are optional companions, difrent organizations to ally with, making alliances, deploying troops, aditional love intrests and things like that. game really shows these aspects of it after chapter 6. Before these its more of backgorund thing. These game may not be for you but i personaly like it and its what i whanted nothing wrong with not liking it it.