One or two days after the camp Mission, Axel and Nauxus will teach you something about their culture. I recommend to stay away from the Bull village and start with Nauxus. After Axels Lesson Nauxus will disappear you must deal with the entire Roushk Questline. I am not showing the Rhoushk Questline, cause it's already well explained in the offical Guide.
After the Rushk Questline I recommend you to create an "Important Save". If you don't like to replay the Roushk Questline you can reload from this savepoint and play the Bull Route while the Lizard Trio is still alive.
You got letter from both leaders and speak to both of them. Decline Axels Quest for now and walk straight to Selye for the shapeshifting potion. You can talk to thane if you like but he will be disappointed if you tell him that you prefer the plan of the chiefs.
It's time to help Nauxus with the Rogue Lizards. The Lizard champion is no match for our well trained Hero...
After the fight report back to Nauxus, Axel and Thane. Helping Nauxus will add 3 SUS-Point to Axel.
SUS-Score: Nauxus: 3 ----- Axel: 4
Now we are going to deal with the Hunt for the Fruits and the Festival. I want to highlight why it's important to give the fruits to the Bull tribe. The Guide says that Axel will execute three Lizard Prisoners if you don't stop him. To make Axel listen, his SUS Score needs to be 3 or less. If we cannot stop the execution, Thane will blame himself and this may result in terrible consequence for him in future Update / later parts of the Story (according to the guide). Aside from the SUS-Score we must give the fruits to join the Bull festival. If we party with the Lizard Tribe, the Hero won't make it in time to the Bull Village to stop the execution.
When the Questline starts meet Axel (and Nauxus if you like) and take the mission. Speak with the Bull shopkeeper next. The Hero will automaticlly investigate the crime scene. The stepped fruits leads to Slime Forest 1. After the Heros complains: "This is redicilous, who far is this thing?" the smell lead you to the area where you met the Spy before: Tomato-Forest.
Fight the Mid-Boss and return to the Bull tribe. You can spend time with Tomahawk and his buddies or Axel. Thane returns severly wounded. The party ends. One the next day stop the execution.
Giving the fruits to the Bull tribe reduces Axel SUS-Point by 2.
FINAL SUS-SCORE: Nauxus: 3 --- Axel: 2
Congratulation: With this Score we will gain all the benefits of the neutral ending: The BEST Neutral/good Ending. Of course we still need to make peace....
After the festival, and Thanes injury: the next time you sleep at the Tavern you will enter a difficult battle - if unprepared. Tipp. Do your thing until the late evening around 22.00 and save. Then use the bathhouse to boost your Stats and go to sleep. As you can see in the picture i started the fight with 480 HP.
After the fight, Snow will show you Axels letter. Report to Axel right away. Axel gives you his final order to infiltrate the Lizards village. Instead we pick the bloody cloth from Thane and move to the secret room inside the temple. Inside the painting we meet our Dragon Lord.
If you have the bloody cloth from thane and both Emblems you will witness the following Scene on your third visit:
Enter the painting and follow Thane without being noticed. If everything goes well, a new location will spawn on the map:
For Heros with high INT it is bascily a MUST to visit the bathhouse and boost your HP. Otherwise the Boss will potentially kill you with one Holy Fist Attack. If everything fails, a) Savescum or B) pay 2000 Gold to Chet to buy an item to respec your Hero. Change you Statpoint by leaving INT at 3.
Once you win: Congratulation. You made peace between both Tribes. You will recieve the Peace Totem from Axel and Nauxus (+3 DEF, +1 CHA) the best item in the game without corruption.
After the WAR: Speak to all people in the Tavern and with both leaders several times. Escort Thane to his mothers grave and watch the happy ending version (by preventing the execution) of Thane's and Axel's reunion. Have a dinner with Nauxus (if you forgave him) and Sex (if you sleep together in your Bed) at the Tavern.
At some point you are dragged into another Bossfight:
Selye got two phases. If you lose to phase one you got a sex scene, and <game over>. More importanly, Selye got a very nasty Multi-Hit Spell. Whenever his Sceptor is glowing, use your "Defend" Skill to block tons of damage. I like this Bossfight because the players need to look out for the enemies attack pattern and react accordingly.
Report back to the Tavern, Nauxus and Axel. You can go into the Snow Mountain Area.
However I propose to deal with three other things first:
1) You will get ONE pot of Honey fron Snow. You may need to talk to him several times. Cock the Honey cake and give it to Bread (you need to cock the Rasberry Oatmeal thing first) . This is your only chance to recruit him before entering the Snow Mountain Area.
2) Finish Thanes Hell Kitchen Quest. With Axel as your third foodtester you will not lose stats points.
3.) check out the sandstorm, Hakan will not be avaible until you return from the Snow Mountain Area.
I have checked the painting multiple times and yet no cutscene triggers
I do not want to follow the route that will lead to the death of anyone, but if I cannot trigger the cutscene I don't know what I can do to stop it
Did I mess everything up with my choices? I'm scared that I'll have to restart from so far back
the only 2 requisites are having Thane's cloth (just go visit him before following the chief's final plan) and buying that emblem at the auction when saving Flo (and not leaving any at the pawn shop).
I figured out I simply had forgotten to trigger the event that allows the cutscene to happen (I had not spoken to the leader to get the mission for the toadstools), but thank you for your reply
... If you mean what to do after Einar's quest about gathering ingredients for the soup with him, you need to also complete Kith's quest about defeating a yeti, and after at least 2 days of being in the village, talk to Rasmus in the pub; Einar should tell you about Rasmus's trial after all that.
(This was also not the thread to ask that in).
