Welcome back, tacticians and triangles of all ages. If you’re ready to dive deep into the decision-making web of Triangle Strategy, this guide is your companion. What follows is a comprehensive chapter-by-chapter breakdown of the game’s many branching paths, optional routes, and recruitable characters, with specific notes on how your choices alter the maps, enemies, and eventual access to the game’s true ending.
This guide is spoiler-heavy. While it avoids describing final route endings, it details specific chapter events, character appearances, and branching paths. Let’s begin.
Chapter 3 – Escorting Guests: Early Divergence With Character Recruitment
Your first decision splits into:
- Escort to Aesfrost (Moral): Recruit Rudolph, a trap-using archer with hard-hitting attacks but short range.
- Escort to Hyzante (Utility): Recruit Corentin, an ice mage who provides shields and silence effects.
Maps reconverge quickly, but this affects early game versatility.
Chapters 4–6 – Linear Progression
These chapters move the story forward with no splits. You meet Dragan in the mines, experience a castle siege, and escape across a bridge in a re-creation of the game’s original demo scenario.
Chapter 7 – Roland’s Fate and Fire Traps: A Major Fork
Here’s the first critical decision:
- Protect Roland (Moral): Fight Avalora in Wolffort Castle.
- Optional choice: Use fire traps for easier victory—but this locks you out of the true ending route.
- Surrender Roland (Utility): Fight Landroy, a powerful archer.
This split creates two narrative tracks, which reconverge in Chapter 9, but has long-term ramifications.
Chapter 8 – House Allies and Betrayals
If You Protected Roland:
- Accept Tellior’s Aid (Moral): Travel to his domain. You’re betrayed. Fight Rufus while split across the map.
- Reject Tellior’s Aid (Liberty): Stay at Wolffort and fight Rufus and Tellior as they assault you.
If You Gave Up Roland:
- Accept Sorsley’s Help: Choose to side with or betray Aesfrost. The map remains the same, but:
- Ally with Aesfrost: Avalora fights with you against Booker.
- Betray Aesfrost: Fight Avalora; Booker is your ally.
These outcomes alter the boss, your allies, and the difficulty of the mission.
Chapter 9 – Sorsley’s Salt Trade
Another crucial decision:
- Support Illicit Salt Trade (Utility): Leads to Chapter 10 and Svarog, Frederica’s uncle.
- Expose the Trade (Liberty): You fight Booker in a difficult valley ambush.
Supporting the trade is required for the true ending.
Chapter 10 – Reveal Roland’s Identity or Arena Combat
If You Supported Sorsley:
- Reveal Roland’s Identity to Svarog (Liberty): Needed for the true ending. You gain Svarog’s support.
- Keep Silent: Fight in an arena against Rufus for money after Svarog refuses help.
If You Exposed Sorsley:
- Explore Hyzante for Evidence: If successful, you fight and expose Sorsley.
- Fail the Investigation: Sorsley is put on trial. You duel him in combat. Either path leads you to replacing Sorsley among the Saintly Seven.
Chapter 11 – The Roselle Choice
Now that you’re among the Saintly Seven, you’re asked to return the Roselle to Hyzante.
- Protect the Roselle (Liberty): Required for the true ending. Skip Chapter 11 battle, go straight to Chapter 12.
- Force Their Return (Utility): Fight the Roselle and Jerome, then Tellior and Rufus in Chapter 12.
Chapter 12 – Exploration-Only (if Roselle Protected)
This is a puzzle chapter: explore and find the Salt Crystal or face a game over. It’s the only mandatory exploration chapter with such a requirement.
Chapter 13 – Three-Way Split: Explosives Galore
Choose your path:
- Blow Up the Dam (Utility – Benedict): Easiest map. Sneak into Tellior’s domain. Fight Sycraes.
- Blow Up the Bridge (Moral – Roland): Hardest map. You’re sandwiched between Erika and Thalas.
- Destroy the Boats (Liberty – Frederica): Moderate difficulty. Fight both siblings on a docked ship.
Each path leads to a unique Chapter 14.
Chapter 14 – Outcomes of Chapter 13
- Utility Path: Quick kill-boss battle vs. Erika and Thalas.
- Liberty Path: Brutal indoor fight vs. Avalora with her full moveset.
- Moral Path: Boat map vs. Avalora without her ultimate. Underwhelming compared to the others.
Note: Milo, a temporary dancer unit, is deployed in Chapter 13 and 14. She earns XP but can’t be upgraded or used outside these maps.
Chapter 15 – Milo, Trish, or Travis?
Three outcomes, with different characters:
- Visit Wolffort (Utility): Recruit Milo. Required for the true ending.
- Help Roselle Village (Liberty):
- If Roselle were saved: Fight Trish, recruit her.
- If Roselle were exiled: Recruit Travis.
- Expose Royalists (Moral): Fight Patriatte.
Only the Wolffort option gives access to Milo and the final condition for the true route.
Summary: True Ending Requirements Checklist
To unlock the Serenoa Route in Chapter 17, you must:
- Chapter 7: Defend Roland without using fire traps, or surrender him.
- Chapter 9: Support the illicit salt trade.
- Chapter 10: Reveal Roland’s identity to Svarog.
- Chapter 11: Protect the Roselle.
- Chapter 15: Visit Wolffort and recruit Milo.
Chapter 16 – The Dreaded Mines Map
A notoriously long, sluggish mission involving bomb defusal. Reinforcements spawn far away, making for a tedious trek. Completion leads into the final decision phase.
Chapter 17 – Final Split: Choose Your Ending
The map reveals four routes:
- Roland’s Ending (Moral)
- Benedict’s Ending (Utility)
- Frederica’s Ending (Liberty)
- Serenoa’s True Route (Only unlocked with the above five steps)
Each ending is linear from this point onward.
Final Thoughts
Triangle Strategy’s design encourages replays, route experimentation, and careful decision tracking. With this guide, you should now have a clear map of the branching story and how to steer your path toward your preferred outcome.
If you want every route, recruit every character, and see every ending, take your time and experiment. But if your goal is to unlock the true ending, now you know how.
Stay tactical. And good luck in Norzelia.
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