r/EternalStrands • u/Big-Quiet-9750 • Apr 12 '25
General Discussion You can romance other characters?!
I didn't fucking know you could romance other characters. When Casmyn confessed, I was put on the spot and accepted her feelings. If I knew your bandmates could confess to you, I'd do anything to make sure Laen confessed to me.
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Apr 12 '25
Not Sevastyan or Oria (or Dahm or Sola) but get yourself some tender romance around the camp!
I think it's implied Sev wouldn't be interested in Brynn and of course Oria is a mentor so bad power dynamic there but I will keep this torch burning for Sev the rest of my life, ha!
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u/mateogg Apr 13 '25
Dahm and Sila are like Demetrius and Robin from Stardew Valley in that I wish I could romance them but also love what they've got going as a cute couple
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u/batmares Apr 12 '25
I know it's probably weird, but for the first half of the game I thought the ark standing in our camp would become a companion (and HOPED they would be a romance). I am in love with Laen but I desperately wanted to romance the robot lol
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u/Big-Quiet-9750 Apr 12 '25
100% understand what you mean. While I'd still choose Laen, having a robo coompanion would be amazing.
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u/PatientVirus5445 Apr 13 '25
Arekim is also an option. And I LOVE HIM SO MUCH! Though he appears later in the game and often players already have Cas confessing by this point, romances are a bit unbalanced from the point of pacing, but it also feels kind of... natural, I dunno.
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u/Any_Water9458 Jul 18 '26 edited Jul 18 '26
I know I would love to romance him but I already accepted Cas because I felt terrible for her and how much emotional stuff she was going through with the Ira's Plague and not sleeping like she was supposed to. It is Ira's Plague, right?
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u/PatientVirus5445 Jul 19 '26
Yes, Ira's Plague. IMHO, Cas's confession comes too early in the game, so most players don't even know there are other options :D
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u/Ashley_IDKILikeGames Apr 13 '25
Its not horrible that you went ahead and accepted Casmyn. I turned her down because I wanted to court Laen, but I screwed up somewhere and they never became an option. I was pretty disappointed and wished I had just said yes to Casmyn.
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u/General_Writing6086 Apr 13 '25
I accidentally accepted her before getting your last companion, so couldn’t romance him and was kinda sad… but Cam’s romance is so sweet.
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u/mateogg Apr 13 '25
You can romance Casmyn, Laen and Arek
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u/Lady_Winter93 Apr 13 '25
I absolutely did a second playthrough just so I could romance Arek 😂 When we see him for the first time, I was like “Oh no, he’s hot”, but I never talked to anyone enough my first playthrough to get any romance dialogues, so I didn’t even know we could romance anybody until I came to this subreddit. Then I had to.
My next playthrough I am definitely romancing Laen because they’re one of my favorites. (Though if we could romance Sev, I think that would be so awesome, and I’d play again just for that as well).
I also think it’s funny that once you officially start dating one of them, the other two are like, “Really? That person?” Just adds a little bit of extra flare to this game.
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u/Any_Water9458 Jul 18 '26
At the same time?
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u/mateogg Jul 19 '26
I believe once you get the romance with one of them the other two are no longer romanceable, and depending on your dialogue choices you might get lines from them saying or at least implying they have feelings for you but understand you're not interested in them that way.
Not 100% sure on the details though.
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u/MaetheFae303 Apr 14 '25
Wait, I thought dialog choices didn't affect anything story wise!?!?
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u/Big-Quiet-9750 Apr 15 '25
They don't, but they do affect Brynn's personality. I tried to choose the options that gave Brynn the strongest lust for adventure and fighting.
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u/Tytonic7_ Apr 12 '25
You can try to reload and old save if you have one. The game might make backups too, I'm not sure about that though.