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As a Moments subpage, all spoilers are unmarked as per policy. You Have Been Warned.


  • The beginning of your adventure, where your companions agree to follow you because they personally like you. When accusations of spies are thrown around, Amiri bets her life it isn't you, even though you've only known each other for a few hours.
  • Svetlana asks you to spare her relative before you fight the Stag Lord. When you do encounter her and remind her of Svetlana, she will not fight you.
    • Oleg's shop becomes the center of a small town, thanks to the player's influence. Svetlana even becomes elected chief.
  • The start of the romance path with Valerie. She's in the tavern Drowning Her Sorrows because all anyone can seem to talk about since her duel is the scar running across her face. She snidely asks the male Baron what he thinks now that her beauty is marred, as the rest of her would-be suitors quickly evaporated.
    Valerie: (Flushing red, Valerie turns to you with an almost daring sneer) It would be strange to expect anything else from you. — You, just like the rest of my admirers, now consider me... how should I put it... damaged goods! Well, where are your compliments now? Do you like this Valerie?
    Male Baron: Yes.
    Valerie: What? (Valerie stops. Blinking a few times, she stares in your face, as if trying to find signs of deceit.) But...
    Male Baron: For me, you're always beautiful. Nothing could ever change that.
  • Linzi notices that Ekundayo is feeling sadder than usual, so she asks the help of the baron to throw a party. They enlist Elina the innkeeper, invite all the party members and celebrate with him. During Linzi's performance, the baron helps Elina get closer to Ekun.
    • Afterwards, Ekun finally gives his dog a name. "Okbo."
    • The funeral service, where Ekun learns to let go. All of the companions are incredibly supportive of him.
      Octavia: My condolences.
      Tristian: The darkest hours are before the sunrise. Hold on. Trust me, you will feel better.
      Linzi: W-we are with you, friend.
    • When Ntavi attacks them at the funeral, Tristian wordlessly takes a step to place himself between her and Elina.
    • At the end of the game, after letting go of his need for vengeance and giving his family a proper funeral, he settles down and marries Elina.
  • At Lake Silverstep Village, Ivar managed to woo his wife, Lissa, with the following line, beating out two other suitors.
    I came late in the evening, after all of them had left, and all I brought was a bunch of wild flowers. I set them on the porch and said, "I saw a nixie crying in the forest. She'd planned to make a lantern of my heart, but she found my heart was already taken! It's bad fortune to make nixies cry, so Lady Lissa, would you go to the forest and give the heart you've taken to anyone who may need it more than you?" You told me I was such a fool, and then you kissed me.
  • At the end of Jubilost's personal quest, after spending months on a wild goose chase pursuing a riddle he got from a fey, he finally figures it out and you go with him to see what it means. You arrive in a cave only to find the ghosts of a group of gnomes led by the gnome wizard Xae, who was responsible for bringing the gnomish people to Golarion thousands of years ago. Xae's ghost has been desperately struggling to reopen the portal to go back to the First World, despite having died to Bleaching long ago, but always failing. After temporarily banishing their spirits in combat, The Host who gave Jubilost the riddle shows up to speak to him, congratulating him on solving the riddle and explaining the origin of the Bleaching as promised. He also offers Jubilost a rare boon - To remove his Bleaching and offer him immortality in the First World. With a little nudging from the Baron, Jubilost declines and instead asks the Host if there's anything he can do for Xae. The Host, both surprised by the refusal and intrigued by the request, remarks that he can... and he reopens the portal before Xae died so the group of gnomes can go home, retroactively sparing them thousands of years of torment as ghosts and ensuring their souls are at peace. Jubilost is completely satisfied with this outcome. In the epilogue, he dedicates all his writings to Xae, although he never reveals to anyone else who this mystery person is.
    • In the end where all of your companions are picked off one by one, how does Jubilost survive? With a little nudge from The Host, Xae repays the favor and saves Jubilost in return.
    • One of the riddles in Jubilost's quest involves somehow making the moon leaves its course. Turns out this "moon" is a woman named Luna, who wishes she could quit her boring messenger job and explore the world with her loved on. You and Jubilost could give her money to live her dream.
  • A woman fell in love with a fey, but this spurned her suitor and his hatred brought upon a curse on the village. You can find her body, preserved by magic, gather some flowers for her and lay them near her body. An even better heartwarming moment happens if you hold off on seriously interacting with her body until you've looted an old wedding ring from the scythe tree in the area- Once in the presence of the woman's body, it starts glowing and you hear the sound of someone sobbing in the distance (which, given the evidence is likely the ghost of her lover, who was turned into the scythe tree). Place the ring on top of the body, and you'll hear a sigh of relief; Unfortunately, if you leave flowers on the body, you can't interact with the body any further, so you'll be locking yourself out of leaving the ring there.
  • Monsters are erupting from the bodies of peasants and the team is trying to research how to stop it. A woman by the name of Madla Stasek offers herself up to experimented on and it's through her bravery that the team learns enough to save lives.
  • While exploring Vordakai's tomb, water starts flooding the room. The book art depicts Linzi on top of the Baron's shoulders.
  • Despite having betrayed the team, the Baron and their companions are still willing to give Tristian another chance.
    Octavia: Why do we want to save him? he's our friend, that's why!
  • At the Inconsequent Debates, one of the competitors is a kobold, who'd brought along two jerboas because the rules require teams of three, and the kobold has no friends. By the end of it, the kobold has lost badly because he answered every question with "Dragon", tying into his wish to become one. Thankfully, the fey host liked how the kobold had made him laugh, and offers to take him into the First World as a friend - the kobold only accepts after being reassured that his jerboa companions can come along, too.
    • Speaking of the debates, it's nice that Jubilost recognizes Linzi's talent and decides to invite her to the debates, even if just to channel her boundless energy.
    • Jubilost will fall under a silly curse and will want to find the perpetrators. When he learns that they are gnomes suffering from the bleaching, he decides to suck it up and let them have their fun.
    • If the question you ask is the identity of your true love, they will tell you that it's who you are currently romancing.
  • At the end of the bloom event, you will be given the option to commemorate the people who have died in your service. Namely, Kesten or Jhod.
  • Sometimes in a character's personal quest, other characters will intervene or comment supportively in their dialogue. Yes, pretty much everyone in your motley crew has a soft spot for each other, however different their beliefs and views may be.
  • Enneo is hunting down Jaethal and he wants us to surrender her to him.
    Amiri: The dead one's scum, of course, but at least she's our scum. And she always helps in fights.
  • Linzi's event in the House at the End of Time. She pretends to turn over to Nyrissa so she can spy on her and lives long enough to tell you where the third key is hidden before being killed. Then she wakes up, her soul having been transferred in the book she's been writing your story on, bringing about a tearful reunion. One of your possible answers is to give the book a big hug.
  • With the release of the Free DLC Arcane Unleashed, Owlcat pulled one in real life by adding in one of their Kickstarter Backer's deceased pet cat "Tiger" into the game as a free pet "so that he may roam with his human friend once more - if only in the Stolen Lands."
  • Making it through to the hidden romance option has Nyrissa pop into your throneroom just as the conflict with Pitax is coming to a head, in order to say goodbye before you come into direct conflict with her. Standing your ground and saying you wish things could have worked out has her remark that you're not so different, and as she turns to leave...
    Nyrissa: Do you know why I couldn't immediately recognize the intrusion, when you and the foolish little robin bard broke into my dreams? Because it wasn't the first time I dreamt of you.
  • After returning Briar to her and breaking her curse, she'll come up with a new name for you - her "spring". And naturally, the conclusion (for Good characters, at least) - Nyrissa finally gets her Kingdom, ruling by your side to the adulation of your subjects, who have forgiven her for her crimes because of how drastic the change in her personality has been.
  • A small but nice moment: while traveling through the House at the End of Time, if you free a trapped water mephit, he'll offer to let you look inside a book of Beauty, which (as its name suggests) shows the reader a picture of what they consider most beautiful. If you accept and have a Love Interest, you'll see their image inside it.
  • The climax of "Betrayer's Flight" if the baroness romanced Tristian. Throughout the questline, she has options to stress that she's worried about him and that she just wants to figure things out together. Though happy about this, he rebuffs her, considering his fate already sealed. When she finally catches up to him at the Temple of the Elk, she finds Nyrissa taunting him while he begs Sarenrae to kill him. After learning the whole sordid truth about his service as The Mole and a battle with a Defaced Sister, Tristian quietly apologizes for everything and then awaits his fate. The baroness's response? She hugs him and tells him to let her bring him home.
  • Before heading into the final battle, the companions will all be clumped into a group so that you can talk to them for one last time before meeting with the Lantern King.

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