If memory serves, post weisshaupt and right after finding out about aelia is when you get the "hey btw romance might be an option" alert for her on the hardened track. So i would love that point for sure and i love rook being there for learning about aelia but now that i think about it, i raise you two things:
One going back to minrathous to help some civilians and finding the state of the city and neve being like YEAH IT'S AWFUL and it's giving me nightmares
Two rook asking about neve's magic one day, if that's something she would do! We could fold this into the post aelia stuff or anywhere tbh. I just like that being something else neve has to work through that rook could help with.
But your thoughts on the Choice are how i see it too. Minrathous had the shadows. It should have been okay. Except they didn't know the deep details. With the knowledge they had, that was the right choice. But someone was going to take some kind of fall no matter what and it was just worse than they knew. Which i think also helps neve later, once it sinks in that it wasn't a conscious abandonment.
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One going back to minrathous to help some civilians and finding the state of the city and neve being like YEAH IT'S AWFUL and it's giving me nightmares
Two rook asking about neve's magic one day, if that's something she would do! We could fold this into the post aelia stuff or anywhere tbh. I just like that being something else neve has to work through that rook could help with.
But your thoughts on the Choice are how i see it too. Minrathous had the shadows. It should have been okay. Except they didn't know the deep details. With the knowledge they had, that was the right choice. But someone was going to take some kind of fall no matter what and it was just worse than they knew. Which i think also helps neve later, once it sinks in that it wasn't a conscious abandonment.