All Choices And Outcomes In Chapter 1 Of The Life And Suffering Of Sir Brante

When you first create your future dignitary in The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante, you’ll need a name and the answers to a few important philosophical questions before you’re born into the world and given nearly free rein over how your life will shape up in the end.

The first chapter of The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante is the Childhood section, covering from birth to adolescence, and while it’s one of the shorter ages in the game, there are plenty of formative things to learn early on to try and set yourself up for the best life.

We’ve done our best to limit them, but there are heavy spoilers ahead for The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante.

Introduction

Getting into a new save for The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante is easy enough from the main menu, but there are a few things you’ll need to select before you’re given the rundown of the game, like your name and a few gameplay settings.

After these are decided, you’ll be given a rundown of the game’s theme, told how your decisions will all weigh on one another and lead you down a path where your decisions matter in the end. There are a handful of different endings in The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante, and which one you see on any given playthrough comes down to the choices you’ve made along the way.

Once you’ve been born, you’ll gain access to four menus along the left side of the book of your life. In order, these are:

1. Destiny, where you’ll see the main story beats leading toward your character’s overall personhood in later chapters. There are four destiny beats in the first chapter of the game, which we’ll detail below.
2. Personality to keep track of who your character is and who they’re becoming. You’ll see your Perception, Determination, and Willpower stats in this category, along with your age, estate, occupation, and the number of deaths you’ve experienced so far.
3. House of Brante, which details the family’s current Reputation among the people, Wealth behind the name, and Unity of the Brante family. The decisions you make that impact these three stats will have an effect on everyone, and potentially their relationships with you.
4. Family, providing a detailed look at the Brante family’s lineage. During your childhood, it’s only your immediate family – your parents, Robert and Lydia, and two siblings, Stephan and Gloria – along with your grandfather Robert, as well as Stephan’s birth mother and your father’s deceased wife, Amalia. Click on each portrait to see information about the character’s history and their relationship with your character.

Be sure to check these tabs often, since they inform who your character is becoming and who they’re bringing with them on the journey. More tabs unlock as you age, but a child doesn’t have to worry about those while they’re still new to the world.

You’ll play the bulk of The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante in this storybook style, with dialogue or questions on the left page and a mixture of photos, stats, or choices on the right. Every decision you make will result in a gain or loss in one or more of your stats. You might also find that you’re altering relationships early on through these choices, with relatives reacting to your choices and either gaining or losing relationship with you in the process.

Your Character’s Destiny

The very first tab of your storybook menu is the Destiny tab, and here, you’ll keep track of the events that shape your character’s destiny. There are a handful of them in each chapter, and your Childhood has four. We’ve detailed their unlock conditions and what might happen in the table below.

All Destinies In Chapter One: Childhood

Complete Chapter One Guide

1118: Birth

The first decision you’re able to make comes as soon as you’re born. You’ll see three figures in the room when you’re born, and you’ll see a stat change for your character depending on the choices you make.

1119: Hide And Seek

You’re given a bit more story here, introduced to your older siblings during your first year, 1119. You meet your step-siblings, Stephan and Gloria, and you’re brought along to play hide-and-seek with them. Gloria leaves you in a hiding place, and you choose how to react.

1120: The Great Descent

You reach the day of a solemn festival and are put into a room with your sister, away from the commotion. Gloria sings a song, and you’re given two options for how to finish it when it’s your turn to sing.

1121: The Lot Of Suffering

You and Stephan stand before your mother, both injured and annoyed. Stephan hit you, so you hit Stephan, and Mother says that to be punished for hurting a nobleman like your brother is your Lot in life as given by the Twins. You choose how to proceed when she tells you you’ll be punished for your actions with Stephan.

1122: Gloria’s Rhymes And The Newborn’s Cry

Your sister has taken to writing poems, but with writing reserved for Nobles, a Commoner like Gloria isn’t supposed to be doing this. Mother finds Gloria writing instead of caring for you one day and burns her poems back at the house.

You’ll experience a section next called “Winter. The Coming Sacrament” that requires no input from you, where Gloria and Stephen both accept their Sacraments and endure their Lots for the first time. You’ll lose a point with Stephan as he ascends to nobility, but you gain a point of Unity for the scene.

Shortly after, your brother Nathan is born, but he ends up being a fussy baby. You find Mother run ragged one night, and she begins to shake the baby to make him stop crying.

1123: Toy Soldiers

Your father takes you out shopping and you choose a set of toy soldiers to take home with you as a gift, but a noble child takes the toy you want before you can, and you push him. His father gets angry, and your father also gets involved.

1124: The Intrusion

To your father’s dismay, your grandfather arrives and takes up residence in your estate. He finds your toys from the previous year and burns them in the fireplace.

Choosing to strike your grandfather here is the first chance you’ve got in The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante where your character can face a Minor Death, something relatively easy to come back from with a bit of redoing your previous choice that doesn’t lead to a major game over. You’ll see a scene being revived and you’ll return with one stripe on your arm. On your fourth Minor Death, you’ll actually die, so be mindful!

1124: An Illustrious Guest

Your grandfather disagrees with your father’s choice to marry your mother and have you together, and he invites a Baroness to the estate to meet your father and potentially become engaged. You’ll need to decide how to respond to her arrival.

1125: The Kaleidoscope

One day, you join Gloria as she’s looking at a “tube,” which she reveals to be a Kaleidoscope. You’ll choose how to respond after you look through the Kaleidoscope and see cavalry in the images.

1125: Sweet Temptation

Your grandfather leaves a bowl of candied fruit unattended, and you and Gloria decide to try and steal your grandfather’s sweets, but he catches you. Gloria says you were trying to stop her.

1125: The Sacrament

It’s you and Nathan’s turn to accept your Lot before the Twins and take your Sacrament as your grandfather intends. Nathan goes first, and when it’s your turn at the altar, the choice is yours on how to handle the Lot you’re given.

Father’s Sword

The scene labeled as Father’s Sword unlocks as soon as you have more than four Determination on your stats screen, and it will trigger automatically once this condition is met.

The Ant Farm

Like the previous scene but with a different one of your stats, you’ll unlock The Ant Farm scene once you’ve got more than four Perception.