Okay, that made me laugh.

That’s amazing 💀

Hol'up SHE IS A MERCHANT IN MY PLAYTHROUGH

I unknowingly did that...

@@GodOfCulturealso turned her into a merchant so that banter where Partitio takes Throné dress shopping becomes canon.

Cant remember Claude being a rapist. Personally I think he has W rizz

⁠@@GeorgefloydthesneedsterI think that it’s because he impregnated the women against their will. That’s the inference I made

The king of NTR

"Welcome to O.T 2 journey"

@@Georgefloydthesneedster Talking to and Inquiring/Scrutinizing the inhabitants of Lostseed definitely gives off the vibe that Claude committed rape in some way or another (if not outright forcing himself on women, then at least rape by deception). I mean, look at how fucking mentally destroyed everyone is there.

Claude do be sowing some wild oats.

HAHAHA

No no. Claude's objective is about coming IN, bro.

Same, the fact she wasn't even in control of her own journey, its so sad.

​@@silverwinterwolf2064😢

I was not only shocked, but disgusted and surprised at the amazingly planned out ending.

Better than Primrose imo

@@GodOfCulture Never beat Octopath 1, assuming that’s true 🥲

I also didn't fight the shadows, and I wasn't even overleveled... Claude was the easiest boss for me. I battled Dolcinaea at the same level and she was _much_ harder

Unironically I think Dolcinaea is one of the hardest final bosses in this game​@@Pao-vo8mf

​@@Pao-vo8mf Almost by definition, if you killed him so fast he didn't get to use his gimmick, you WERE, in fact, over leveled.

​@@kingofbudokaiI was like 5-6 levels below the recommended level, dude just has no health

Yo wtf you forgor Ochette 🗿 But I agree, her story is just really messed up and a bit scary too. When you think you finally get it, they pull the Lostseed thing at the end and it's insane, like how no one noticed an entire abandoned city right down there?? 💀

​@@AlphaPHKthe city was not underground. It was across the valley on top of the mountains only accessed by the gondola.

the parent killing motiff is what makes throné's story awesome imo. it really captures how family bonds can be the darkest thing in the world and the quest to become free and end abuse by commiting what's widely considered to be the worst crime of all

father not being her father, and her true mother (marietta) not being the obvious good woman among snakes but turning out to be rotten like the rest of them, were incredible plot twists, too.

@@AlphaPHK Ochette's story was so grim and sad, too, underneath her cuteness. One of the three Guardians was killed. Another one's eggs were destroyed, driving her mad with grief. And then whichever companion you DIDN'T pick for Ochette goes on to be captured and tortured/experimented on for who knows how long, becoming an anguished monstrosity driven mad by the pain and hatred they experienced, and you have to basically mercy kill them... at least their final moments are spent in the company of someone who cares for them, but still.

Hikari is amazing that's why

He has the lowest health of all the final chapter bosses, sitting at around 65k when most have 80-100k. Granted he does have the phantom specters but depending on your setup you can nuke him before he can even get through most of them.

​@@CrazyPills-465 I killed him accidentally after just the first specter. His gimmick with disabling main job skills is scary but ended up not being much of a problem.

You know hollow knight didn't invent the word "vessel", right?

@@ksawerx9277 they're literally named after specific hollow knight characters like pure vessel or broken vessel

​@@vladi3862consider investing in a dictionary

Considering Trousseau and Castti visited Lostseed and at that time Claude corrupted Trousseau, I reckon it was a kingdom but is slowly falling down. Then Claude received D’arquest's accursed blood to become immortal and made it a base for his plot.

The Tale of Lostseed that the gondola guide tells you about a prince and princess of enemy kingdoms falling in love, in which their love causes a way, and they flee to a valley with their loyal retainers, creating Lostseed, are likely Claude's parents. D'arqest was the grandfather of Claude, and while Claude was in the womb, he imbued him with the blood of Vide, which made him immortal. D'arqest likely wasn't the king of either the prince's or the princess' kingdom, (as he's an evil archmage) but rather impregnated the queen of one of the sides (likely without consent or without the king or queen even knowing). Those prince and princess kingdoms were Fj'all and Delstach, (kingdoms referenced in Masoud's Mercantile Manuscript from Partitio's Scent of Commerce) with the Great Wall (outside of what would be now Stormhail) between them. Fj'all eventually fell and became Stormhail and Delstach became New Delsta (you can see the ruins of Delstach north of New Delsta in the open plains region) The giant hole in the Great Wall is named the Pit of D'arqest. And the creation of the hole in the wall was one of the other catalysts for the war, along with the prince and princess love. And they couldn't separate as the princess was already pregnant. D'arqest likely created the Pit to cause the war, so they could flee and he could give Claude the blood of Vide and raise him to become a vessel TLDR: D'arqest created a war between two nations so his child and the other prince/princess would flee and create Lostseed, far away from any other influence, and allow D'arqest to make Clauds into his vessel.