Aww man I did entire questline in second story realm but (spoilers, does this count as bug? not really I think)

[TimeMask]

Merlin tried to attack my siege, lost, and while I got dialog choice to do the ritual, the merlin losing the siege caused his faction to disappear meaning I got ending for defeating him as archons intended immediately after the ritual choice :'D

(I guess ritual is intended to trigger when siege countdown is to 0?)

 

[MichelleK]

Merlin tried to attack my siege, lost, and while I got dialog choice to do the ritual, the merlin losing the siege caused his faction to disappear meaning I got ending for defeating him as archons intended immediately after the ritual choice :'D

(I guess ritual is intended to trigger when siege countdown is to 0?)

Hi @TimeMask, thank you for your report. Could you post a save from before Merlin attacked you? That would be really helpful in tackling this issue!

 

[TimeMask]

Hi @TimeMask, thank you for your report. Could you post a save from before Merlin attacked you? That would be really helpful in tackling this issue!

Oki, like this?

 

[TimeMask]

I have to add that since this is legit hard and time consuming map to complete, I just decided to reload save and do this right until I manage to do the quest right way x'D And I keep "failing" by winning because Merlin keeps attacking my umbral malady depleted units that he has superior number powers towards even if he loses autobattle.

(I eventually did it by having luring Merlin's army out of the city, defeating them and then sieging city with two armies since that's enough to make ai reconsider :'D Its nice, just defeating Merlin normally is bit of bummer and less interesting story event scene wise)