Headscratchers / Octopath Traveler II

• During Castti’s final chapter, why on earth would she not have tipped the party off to be wearing waterproof cloaks?
  • The poison ends up in the air too, getting out of the rain is not enough. Plus it's just yet another part of the game where the other members don't seem to be present for some reason.
  • Also, she could've saved some of the necessary medicine for any of the other party members who were in the battle, too. At least that'd fix them up afterwards.
• During Osvald's final chapter, why does he just stand there and listen when Harvey expresses his intent to take Elena's blood instead of barreling forward immediately to attack him before he can actually go through with it?
• Why does Juvah only allow Ochette to take one animal companion? He’s a lion, surely he’s heard of pack hunting.
  • It might be because Ochette is so young at the time that he's trying to ease her into caring for beasts by only allowing her to take one. If the other one hadn't immediately run off, it's likely he would've let her take it later.
• Why would anyone need a license to become a thief?
  • Mechanically, it's probably for the sake of consistency with the other classes. Narratively... well, it is still a group of sorts, so even if it's more in an unofficial sense, it could still be a place where thieves go for training?
  • Could also be Do Wrong, Right, making sure people who really want to know how to steal are going about it properly.
• How did Papp and Partitio never catch on to the slave-trading ring in Oresrush? Surely someone would have been suspicious of people coming from out of town in the middle of the night to go to the (abandoned?) foundry. Did the Blacksnakes strike a deal with Roque or something?
  • Given the power and influence the Blacksnakes (and especially Claude) wield, it's very likely that they indeed bribed Roque or Giff to let them set up shop. Probably Giff, since even at his worst Roque's shown to have some lines he won't cross.
• By the end of Throné's story, whatever happens to Claude's newborn baby? The fate does not appear to be promising as the baby's birth mother, an emaciated woman, begged Throné to kill the baby, maybe as a Mercy Kill. And should the baby live on, if it were to grow up in Lostseed, the baby might grow up broken and hollow like its remaining residents. Aside from Throné remarking that the baby is seemingly crying over Claude's death, Throné's travel banter with Osvald reveals that babies communicate through crying. However, the crying that is heard is of pure sorrow. Was the newborn also fully aware of its situation as Claude's latest vessel attempt to become a perfect Blacksnake assassin and Vide the Wicked's potential new host?
  • The fact that the baby is heard crying afterwards implies that it survived, at least. Whatever happened to it after that is up in the air, though.
• In Partitio's first chapter, the apothecary who gives him the medicine for Papp looks like Malaya◊. Considering that Malaya is actually a hallucination by Castti, at least all the times we see her during Castti's present-day story, does this mean Partitio's first chapter "really" takes place before Castti's? Is it just a (really weird) case of sprite reuse? Or is it maybe a Red Herring for the sake of throwing off any first-time players who notice this?
  • Partitio's chapter one was hinted to take place some time before the present day, seeing as Oresrush can't really liven up in one day. Malaya was probably used there to sell that idea for after the fact.

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