Once they revealed Koana I was like "Either he's gonna be the leader, or they're gonna wind up together." All I needed was a little more "resolve and reason" to know. But I kept my hopes up. The other two competitors were both Mamool Ja so I knew right away that neither of them were gonna be allowed to be that important or pose a real challenge to the throne, because all Square did was talk about humanizing the allied societies. A classic "give em rights but nobody's ready for them to run for [goverment position]". The other one died in office.

Sure enough, both mamool ja were assholes. When my last hope vanished for a companion Mamool Ja was the teams. They just stuck the two player races together and the two lizards together, which was the final straw. So from the start, the game tells you not to worry about the other two; the two more human ones are gonna win.

That was my largest annoyance with predictability: at no point was I under any illusion Wuk Lamat was not going to get the throne, and also share it with Koana.

Sphene was also, pretty obviously, the BBEG of the expansion from the moment they introduced her in the gameplay trailer, so I only had to wonder when she was going to come in and threaten us. I predicted Sphene being like an ancient slumbering AI under Solution 9, but was only half wrong about that... ._.