Talk:Arisen's Bond/@comment-75.121.127.89-20130509160422/@comment-202.188.45.98-20130916152336

The problem is, affinity isn't raised equally for everyone.

Like OP, I gifted my target (Mercedes) a ton of her favourite item (definitely at least 30), I gave her the Arisen's Bond, I talked to her every time I went to the duke's castle, etc. But guess who showed up in that cutscene... Ser Daerio. Mr goddamn "I talked to you maybe all of 3 times in the entire game, and gave one stack of gifts (you know, the 5 ambroisal meats Julien told you to give him?!) because I wanted the Windbluff Tower Key". Makes zero sense. I got Madeleine in an earlier playthrough, but that was fine, since I'd been visiting her shop a lot and I did do all of her quests. So yeah my bad, even though I talked to Mercedes just as much plus I didn't even gift Madeleine.

It's almost certain now different characters have a different affinity limit for the game to pick them to appear in the Deny Salvation and end game cutscenes. Either that, or they increase affinity at different rates when you talk/gift/do their quests. No way is it equal, there's too much evidence that contradicts that.