PSA How to pick right dialogue choice Jaethal during final quest

[Sorceress]

1)
Bring Tristian
2)
fight the elves in her final quest
3)
choose you put so much effort in rasing her during dialogue
4)
she explodes

that should save her eventually?

[Balekai]

It should. I don't even think you need Tristian to be there because I saw no flag impact from his dialogue on flags (I use a mod to see them). Same with Jaethal during Tristian's quest. It just seems they have scripted comments for eachothers' quests but not necessary dialogue. The same as other companion lines during the game at plot/area points. Of course some of them do change things, but in those cases I saw flags being changed like: "Set_X_character_convinces_Y: 1".

What seems important is that Tristian and Jaethal make the right decisions that make them understanding of one another in the House.

That seems to be that Tristian has to remain mortal (thus more nuanced and still open to learning more) and not become a Celestial again right away. I'm not sure if the Eye decision has an impact or Betrayer's Flight.

Jaethal needs to make selfless, natural and merciful decisions (not ressing elf girl) during her quests. This causes her to be blown up by her Goddess and becomes sponsored by another. This should also appease Tristian.

So yes explosion = good companion quest ending for her. You're going to have to wait and see if it turns out right at the House at the End of Time. The Tristian and Jaethal questlines throughout the game were the buggiest parts in the beginning. A lot of work was done to correct all the problems so it should work now as intended.

[Ogami]

Originally posted by LadySorceress:

1)
Bring Tristian
2)
fight the elves in her final quest
3)
choose you put so much effort in rasing her during dialogue
4)
she explodes

that should save her eventually?

Did the same things and it worked out for me. Also like mentioned by Balekai, i kept Tristan mortal.

[Balekai]

Originally posted by SoundofSilence:

I just went through this section again, and both lived and I did not make Tristan mortal. So that definitely isn't a prerequisite (or at least unconditional). I also had Jaethal resurrect the elf girl. I did achieve the "good" ending for Jaethal (sacrifice herself).

Sounds to me then that the key has only to do with Jaethal's final quest decision. If you can get her to redeem herself then all is good. Or that in addition to Tristian being redeemed in the eyes of his Goddess. So as long as you get those two things in their questlines you're ok.

[Balekai]

Some more info after playing the scene again. The things pointed out by both companions for the reasons why they didn't kill eachother are (Spoilers):

Jaethal mentions you convincing her to turn from Urgathoa, which pleased Pharasma. She also mentions a mutual acquaintance of yours. A chosen of Pharasma putting in a good word for her. I don't know if that's the Inquisitor that tried to kill her or the more famous one that was at the Castle of Knives that you possibly help (likely the latter who I did help). She also mentions how the illusion seemed fake because Tristian always tries to save everyone, including the Priest of the Kingdom of the Cleansed (You have to convince him not to kill his daughter).

Tristian mentions how you showed mercy to the Kingdom of the Cleansed (letting them go when you could). He does mention that he remembers you convincing Jaethal to turn away from Urgathoa which stayed his hand.

[Jeysie]

Originally posted by Balekai:

or the more famous one that was at the Castle of Knives that you possibly help (likely the latter who I did help).

Yep, it's Salim. There's a dialogue option you can to choose when speaking with him to tell him to look for lost souls in the Narlmarches (ie where Jaethal's showdown happened).