
Averted in one patched-in story option when dealing with the Lumen wife-killer. Oh, and if you try to call her out on withholding information, she gives you a withering, threatening speech about how Lumens are beholden to Nova itself - not easily killable Queens. Your own FATHER can do more than her in the endgame. She steps in to handle attacks by monsters such as the snake or the creeping shade but refuses to divulge useful information about Lumens until after Elodie figures them out herself, and doesn't do anything to organise the resistance against Shanjia, even when she obviously could have. Julianna just sort of hangs around the castle if Elodie doesn't send her away (or imprison her). He's also actively adversarial to Elodie over the issue of her mother's Lumen gem, keeping it from her with the castle guards. By "dissuade", we mean "possibly throw her into the dungeons for life". In fact, he can make things worse - he gives Elodie the idea to ramp up punishments if she's scared about plots against her (which she can then gleefully enforce), and can dissuade Elodie from taking Julianna in, based on highly circumstantial evidence. Until the end, if Elodie never gets her Lumen gem, where he willingly fights for his daughter with his Lumen gem. Execute your family and be an all-around brat? Pout. Inventions that would greatly advance Nova's power? Silence. Despite supposedly being available as an advisor, Elodie's father, the King Dowager, never provides help to his daughter with any of the problems that get dropped on her. Actually Pretty Funny: If you choose not to be disgusted by the poem involving Elodie and the squid, this is literally her reaction. Action Pet: Your falcon can, in fact, save your life if you train falconry to max level. It's a vicious circle with an awful lot of spokes, and the Duchess is the hub.
which caused him to come live with his sister in the first place. That brother, Kevan, is emotionally unstable because he was "seduced" as a young teenager by his own stepfather Kevan's younger brother Thaddeus witnessed it, and when the Duchess of Lillah found out, she immediately divorced her husband and had him killed for trying to continue his affair with Kevan, and is implied to have thrown Kevan out of her home entirely for it. Then we have her parents, who are on the verge of divorce because her mother is having an affair with her own brother.
Starting from the bottom, Briony is neglected by her parents. Abusive Parents: A veritable conga-line of them through the Duchess of Lillah's brood.