This last point may have been confirmed with a piece of dialogue from the latest trailer suggesting such ].

When that happens, she will tell him that she realised she loved the idea of him, rather than what he actually was. If the player makes more ruthless choices, she will leave and join with Gustadolf. If the player makes Serenoa choose more compassionate choices, he will grow to love Frederica and her feelings will evolve from infatuation to loving the real him. So she keeps her feelings inside and supports him, whether he learns to love her or not.Īs for if that actually happens, it depends on the player’s choices. Of course she would be aware that while Serenoa is amicable towards her, he isn’t exactly head-over-heels in love with her. This would also be a subversion of the usual trappings of the Arranged Marriage trope where it is portrayed as a negative thing and one or both parties actively oppose the arrangement. And it happened to be just her luck that she was betrothed to someone she was already infatuated with. Frederica’s personality type would make her prone to Single Woman Seeks Good Man. Since there was peace for years before everything went down, it can be safe to assume that Frederica and Serenoa met at least once before being betrothed - most likely at feasts or tourneys. And this will be a source of emotional drama and Character Development Her mother was a Rosellan from Hyzante, who escaped and married into the royal family on her own merits leading an uprising, which made her a royal badass in the eyes of Aesfrost, which is why she has pink hair.įrederica actually fancies Serenoa.

The second demo more or less confirms this.

Building on the above WMG about Gustadolf, he was probably the only royal sibling to treat her with some kindness, which is why she still believes in him. It can also be assumed this made her the Unfavorite growing up. Her personality is also at odds with the rest of her siblings - being focused on peace and compassion and being a magic user instead of a warmongering physical combatant.

Since sexism doesn’t appear to be an issue in this game’s setting, it would be reasonable to assume she wasn’t married off to Serenoa because she was a woman, but because she wasn’t seen as a legitimate royal. And they have much more menacing facial features and designs compared to her. Her siblings have silver hair and light eyes, while she has red hair and dark eyes.

That said, he has a nuanced set of virtues and principles, and he has a sympathetic goal of breaking Hyzante’s salt monopoly over the continent, but nonetheless goes to ruthless extremes in achieving it.įrederica is a Heroic Bastard or the daughter of a mistress/concubine, and the White Sheep of her family Jossed, Gustadolph is a textbook sociopath.He could be trying to unite the land against a common threat, and believes that he must conquer the other nations. After all, while he does kill King Regna, he actively seems to be wanting the support of the other houses of Glenbrook, and shows disappointment if the heroes refuse to hand over Roland. Given the history of the developers' games, Gustadolph could be a Well-Intentioned Extremist.Alternately, the pretexts he gives for invading Glenbrook (that King Regna extorted the iron mines and had his cousin murdered when he found out) are actually Cassandra Truths, which will result in a brutal Broken Pedestal moment for Roland.So the atrocities he committed weren't really his fault but the true Big Bad who was just someone too powerful for him to defy. Maybe he got controlled by the true Big Bad or at least forced to cooperate, having his loved ones threatened(maybe even his sister). Gustadolph Did Nothing Wrong.Frederica seemed to imply that Gustadolph wasn't always the complete dick he acted like in the demo.

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