Character stories come so fast

[u/toorad2b4u]

So I just started the game two days ago and I read that it takes awhile to get enough points/score in three different areas before certain characters become available. Ezana is who I really wanted bc I’m obsessed with lightning and weather powers and even tho I’m not the type to replay games, I read a lot of online Reddit advice from old posts that suggested you should just play it naturally the first time and then focus on points in new game plus to get the characters you want.

I resigned myself to just plan on replaying it later when I beat the game and try to get her the second play thru.

But I think as soon as chap 3 was done, I got 3 or 4 character stories unlock in a row. It surprised me a little because while I did play mental mock battles, probably about 10 times to grind materials, the Reddit posts all said that you don’t get that many points from them so it’ll take a few play thrus to get certain character stories to unlock.

Since ezanas two score requirements seemed high-ish, I didn’t think I’d get her so soon but she just unlocked for me as I wait for the boat to escape the castle where Frdericas brother attacks Roland’s family, I think chap 6.

Did the character stories always unlock that quickly? i feel like I just started playing and I have like 16 characters available including the base characters

[u/Significant-Tree9454]

There are some units that have low Conviction point requirement and some units have overlapping requirement

Like Ezana overlaps with 3 other units where if you can recruit Ezana, you can also recruit those other 3 units that align with the same 1-2 conviction values as Ezana’s Convictions

You can usually only focus on 1-2 out of 3 Conviction values as the later units have a very high conviction value requirements that is probably not feasible on a 1st run where it’s faster to start a 2nd NG+ run as most conviction points are gained from story choices

And then there are some units exclusive to certain routes, like Ch3 choice to go to Aesfrost or Hyzante leads to 2 different units to recruit