Why did my hero Nok-Nok spoiler?

[Synida Pry]

Yo.
I followed the wiki guide and it says;
https://pathfinderkingmaker.fandom.com/wiki/The_Sound_of_a_Thousand_Screams
down at the very bottom of the page for Nok-Nok:
Good outcome: "Completed Nok-Nok and the King's Return (by making him Hero or Jester)"
And I did finish it, he even got a statue as the hero of our proud nation as he deserves to be, yet he dies during that quest anyway. Is this a bug?

[ptirodaktill]

You probably tried to mix them both and failed due to it. The safe parth is to stick with one road - either Hero or Jester and pump in points. If you want to be hero, name Nok-Nok his Warder, push that Warder line in first giant encounter. Let Nok-Nok worship Lamashtu, kill goblin king, let Nok-Nok build a statue. Don`t make silly jokes out of Nok-Nok or he will gain Jester points.

[azaris]

The guides suggest all you need to do is finish their quest line to have them survive. I don't think that's quite true. If you don't accumulate enough points in their chosen path by making enough "good" decisions, they might still die.

There is a lot of confusion with people saying "if you don't do X, they'll die" followed by another person going "I didn't do X and they survived". So either the whole companion fate system is totally bugged, or the guides fundamentally misunderstand how it works.

[Synida Pry]

well, idk. As I said he got statue and became the hero of the nation. And according to the guide of Nok-Nok's last quest that happens only if you have enough boinz for the hero route and even then only specific lines will get u to the point of him getting the statue of a hero. That guide(https://pathfinderkingmaker.fandom.com/wiki/Nok-Nok_and_the_King%27s_Return) also describes this in the bottom perfectly.
Upon checking the gave save editor, I can see the following flag states:
Nok Nok Jester: 3
Nok Nok Hero: 7
There is also Nok Nok Hero Final: 0 - idk what this do, but maybe this didn't change properly(?), although I did finish the "Hero, At Last!" quest, where he gets the statue.

The interesting part was however that when Nyrissa killed him she said something like "if you are such a hero then you can die one" or something like that. Well at least he has a statue, so ppl of the future will look up to him and think he was the hero of the nation and died like one xd

[azaris]

Originally posted by Synida Pry:

well, idk. As I said he got statue and became the hero of the nation. And according to the guide of Nok-Nok's last quest that happens only if you have enough boinz for the hero route and even then only specific lines will get u to the point of him getting the statue of a hero. That guide(https://pathfinderkingmaker.fandom.com/wiki/Nok-Nok_and_the_King%27s_Return) also describes this in the bottom perfectly.
Upon checking the gave save editor, I can see the following flag states:
Nok Nok Jester: 3
Nok Nok Hero: 7
There is also Nok Nok Hero Final: 0 - idk what this do, but maybe this didn't change properly(?), although I did finish the "Hero, At Last!" quest, where he gets the statue.

That is the flag that gets set when you finish the quest. So it did work perfectly well. Why Nok-Nok still died is not explained by the guides. It is possible that there is an additional check to see whether you have enough points. I think you can get a maximum of 10 hero points.