Yeah, its kinda sad esp as i think EVERYTHING ELSE about the bethroal path is awesome but i cant handle the betrayal against Henrikus lol. I like how ruthless lovell and lorelei are in general, just not about Henrikus
I totally agree, the first time I played, I threw Henricus under the buss to secure alliance with the king and I regretted it.
Not only do you trade in your foster-father for a politician, the alliance with the king doesn't make sense political wise. The king has only the support of 1 major house against 4 with Lord Silver(something). The rude behavior of Lord Silver(something) and Kain, was quite telling how far their plans are and are basically declaring war.
Next I went with solo allegiance path. That made me understand Henricus his motives. That's why I'm rather inclined to trust Henricus over Lockhart.
It's Lockhart that I don't trust, based on how ruthless his henchmen are. Henricus is just trying to prolong his life to survive. Though, if Lockhart wanted to dox Henricus, he would've done so without going to so much trouble to kidnap a noble.
The court lorelei/solo allegiance path will be my main playthrough just for that reason.
Even if it turns out that Henrikus is indeed just a evil villain, i would still stand by that decision, we could still try to stop him than but at this point he apparently made the MC's life so much better that he just owes him way too much to betray him just like that.
Even less as the own lore of the country is about verno who is considered a hero and is a spice weaver which proves that you just cant condemn every single spice weaver for simply existing (which would be wrong anyway, come on lol).
Lockheart isnt even claiming that Henrikus goal is to become the almighty ruler, he just suspects it. And Henrikus seems to think that just the MC explaining his "real motives" to lockheart will be enough to get lockheart to back off which doesnt imply that Lockheart is this dead set on the idea.
And lockheart could have revealed Henrikus being a spice weaver to the king himself but didnt, so yeah.
And Henrikus being not even able to teleport away while in mortal danger at least proved that he's indeed spent.