Arthes storyline guide for the Legion

Guide to the factions of the County of Arthes storyline, and how to side with the Legion

The factions

A short PSA. I tried looking for info about this quest or a walkthrough, since the devs didn't bother investing in any proper lore or even a proper storyline, but couldn't find any details. I've seen many posts asking about this but never got a detailed answer.

My main issue with the County of Arthes storyline is that after the one in Teltris, where some genius writer thought you'd enjoy choosing between eating feces and excrement (I'm not judging, you do you), I wanted to figure out what is going on in Arthes before accidentally siding with someone.

In short: there are two a-hole nobles, one of whom is all about birthright-shmirthright, the other one about some skydaddy, and they are tearing the land apart. So, is it a repeat of the previous storyline? Not quite, there is a third faction, tadaa, the Legion, who is a bit less a-holeish, but of course, it's the one you discover last, maybe even after helping one noble or the other. The following section gives the steps required to side with the Legion.

Their camp is to the NW of the map, just follow the road north from Cortia as it arches to the west and you'll get there. Basically what you have to do is do a quest for the Legion, then take quests from the nobles, yet kill everyone involved to screw them over. You may want to stop reading here if you don't want any spoilers btw.

The quest steps (spoliers)

1/ I went to the Legion camp and hunted deserters for them.

2/ I went to Lord Vernalis' castle and helped *prevent* the poisoning of their well. Didn't tip the balance. Also, some old posts mention this step as a prerequisite for unlocking his vendor and getting the Porridge recipe from her, but I bought it from a vendor in Arthes even before I knew it may have been a problem.

3/ I went to Lord Leahart's castle and took the caravan destruction mission, done it, but as a last step had to kill his guy Hostes so he didn't get money back to his master. It wasn't the last quest I did, but I suppose from what happened in the next one, sparing him would have implied siding with his master.

4/ Did the Abbott quest from the Saint Eleor Abbey, working for Vernalis. Except at the end I had to kill the Abbott himself, otherwise I got summoned by his master and that was not the goal (uber writing again, congrats devs).

5/ Now that you've more or less balanced your a-hattery, you are summoned by the Legion.

End result, in the storyline window:



PS: don't worry about the bridge ;)

[Gorynych]

I tried to go this way:
1. Completed the task of recruiting deserters for Vernalia.
2. Poisoned Vernalia's well, but killed the poisoners.
3. Completed the quest with the black caravans and released the captain with the money.
4. He helped the abbot to feed the wounded and did not kill him.

In theory, it turned out to be 2x2, but I was invited to Vernali castle.
It seems that without accepting a mission from the Legion, which gives a neutral result, you cannot get the Legion ending. You will simply receive an invitation to the castle of the feudal lord, whose task was completed last.

Neutral Legion mission forces us to make one of the lords' assignments neutral. And that's only possible over the dead body of a captain or abbot.

[Gorynych]

Anyway, I definitely need to kill one of the companions. Otherwise, I won't get the legion ending?

[Gaunt]

ok this is what I did, killed abbot, poisoned well, stopped black caravans and let them return money

[Killerkitty641]

After testing, with my method you can't spare the Abbot as well. Maybe if you do poison the well and betray the poisoners you could, but I CBA to go back and try that lol.
You can, however, damage the abbot. If your party is big enough, it might trigger the "flee" response (from the top bar) and you can let him run away. My headcannon is that he survives.

[Killerkitty641]

Update - can confirm that this works

[Killerkitty641]

Do you think it'll be possible to do it without betraying Lehart's guy Hostes? He actually seems kinda nice, so if I keep him alive, and then also kill the abbot, it'll be balanced? I've already stopped the well poisoning so I can't undo that for the sake of balance.
My thinking being:
- Killed deserters (Neutral)
- Saved Vernalis's last well - +1 to Vernalis
- Spare Hostes - +1 to Leahart
- Kill Abbot - Neutral (since mission complete but also killed the abbot)

[neofit]

@Golden Boy Don't remember much 1.5 years later, IIRC it's more about feeling less of an a-hole by siding with either of the two nobles.

[Golden Boy]

currently doing it what do we gain if we side with the legion?

[Galahad]

And what happens at the end of the quest chain? Should we kill both Lord Vernalius and Lord Lahart? How did the war end?

[TheBully]

Did almost the same as the author except:
1. Killed 2 groups of deserters, and bribed the third.
2. The storyteller deprived the army of Lord Vernalius of supplies, but did not kill the companions.

In the end, also the ending with the Legion)))