Edict of Stone

[imminence]

There are so many confusing posts about this problem.

My situation:
Rebel, sided with Beastmen, killed all opposing forces on Howling Rock.

Finally I have chosen the option
"...give remanins of Cairn into the custody of the Beastmen..." which brought me favour from them and from Kill-In-Shadows.

Then I took the spire and heard Kill-In_Shadow say something like
"...spire could have saved Cairn..."

As a matter of fact, the stoe edict did not end.

Question:

1) Can I end it on my rebel-path?
2) If yes, what did I miss?

[Erect Lesion]

I believe you can end it on the rebel path if you side with the Forge-Bound in Lethians Crossing who allow you to side with the EarthShakers and end the Edict of Stone.

[imminence]

I sided with the Brotherhood or whatever they call themselves.

Is there really nobody who played the rebel path and ended / failed to end it?

[talgaby]

I did.

You need to choose the Forge-Bound when they present you the binary choice back at Ascension Hall after you finished the entire core Lethian's Crossing storyline. Immediately after that you are tasked to recruit the Earthshakers, whose quest line will be the exact same as the Disfavored path, only here you can convince the beastmen to stand down instead of getting the one option of killing all.
The advantage of this path is that you will be doing Stalwart last, so you can do the longer storyline for more experience (the rebel path is the best one to get the kill-all-archons achievement, so levelling like crazy helps).
The disadvantage is that if you run a mage, then you must skip the entire Burning Library (you will never be able to enter it), missing out on all those spells.
Similarly, with your path, you will be skipping the entire Unbroken quest line and you will only get access to the last spire in Act III as a small compensation.

Similarly in anarchy path, technically you won't be able to kill Cairn if you follow the intended questline, you need to introduce a cute little sequence break to be able to get into the Earthshaker compound and kill all of them before slaying Cairn (mostly you follow the Chorus' less-violent path there).
Both keeping alive Cairn in rebel and killing him in anarchy needs forward planning, probably this is why they are the ones with achievements.

[imminence]

Ok, thx.

Just curious: Is there a hint before one decides to either ally with the forgebound or that legion?

BTW, after allying with the legion I had the choice to go to the Unbroken or the Cairn-thing.

After Cairn I had again to choose between Library or Unbroken.

I guess, there is no way to get them all, right?

[talgaby]

Nope, the game lets you explore, which means no real hand-holding. It is also an incentive to replay it. But to answer it, you only know about the "well, the rebel path is now locked in based on your choice" revelation after you made the choice, not before it.

The only way to do all four main quests (Lethian's Crossing, Stalwart, Stone Sea, Burning Library) is to break the alliance and go the anarchy route (preferably do that in Act I).
Disfavored locks you to Stalwart→Stone Sea→Library. It is the most straightforward but they are also the most rigid ones, as you have zero alternatives but to do exactly what they say (which mostly means killing everyone who is not Disfavored. Funny enough, they produce one of the best end results IMO, just the road there is, well, quite bloody.)
Rebel has mandatory Lethian's with your choice locking you to Stone/Stalwart or Stone/Library.
The Chorus offers all four, but you will forcibly get pushed into Act III after doing three of them, with no option to do the fourth (you will only get access to the spires and nothing more).

[Voldski]

I have not tried this but in theory you should be able to save Cairn, but i am not sure it's possible in game. Since believe with Scarlet Chorus line they said Stonebreaker could revive Cairn channeling the Azurelith into him, so in theory you should be able to revive him using rebel line and have him submit to coalition under your leadership and it would still break the edict. As edict only demand that every archon must submit to our will, since your an agent of Kyros up until end game with rebels it should technically break the edict and have him revived.

But not sure it's possible to so in-game even if you recruit earthshakers sadly, but would been nice if it was since he would made a strong ally for the coalition.