Winds of Change

Winds of Change

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Achievement Guide
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How to achieve every achievement in Winds of Change.

Character art (c) Tall Tail Studios
Characters except the Monarch (c) Respectful Owners
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Introduction
Since this game is fully released, I'll no longer be updating the guide except for minor corrections. There was an achievement named Share the Love in an earlier version of this guide, but it's been removed because of some issues noted in Patch #9's announcement notes.

Achievement types:
  • Character Achievements
    - These are for the people in the story who are ready to fight in your party
  • Story Achievements
    - These are only triggered when you complete each act of the story up to the epilogue.
  • Travel Achievements
    - You need to go to the specified locations for each achievement
  • Other Achievements
    - Just random achievements for the storyline

If you want to contact me, it's simple.
  1. Click my name in the Created By section
  2. Twitter: @TheFlashyArena
  3. Discord Flash Hound#2014 (Discord Nitro custom tag)

A final note.
  • If you're asking about the heart to hearts in the story, this guide doesn't have the answer you're looking for. Please check the discussions section for the game.
SPOILERS
This guide contains spoilers on how to acquire each achievement. Only use this guide if you need help with any achievement shown below.

Viewer discretion advised.

-Flash Hound
Characters
For a look into the characters in Winds of Change, I'd like to acknowledge this guide from Pierre Starts for their immersive details.
Game Tips
A game tip section to help you out in the story line and may trigger any of the achievements shown in the guide.
  1. Click everywhere on the current scenery. It may trigger an achievement.
  2. Complete all heart-to-hearts before preceding. It's best to fill every character loyalty at the war table. You will unlock a loyalty scene for each comrade in your party.
  3. Watch every parallel chronicle available. If it already has a check mark, go to the next one. If it has an X, go back and do the parallel chronicle(s) you missed. Parallel Chronicles are helpful to understanding the story line, but it's best to do this before proceeding to the next act.
  4. If you see something that's not right, snap a screenshot, upload it to your personal screenshot gallery and either post it on Klace's discord server here[discord.gg] or the official Tall Tail Studios discord server here[discord.gg] so it can be noted faster!
  5. Be sure to talk with your comrades whenever you see their picture on the current scenery. An X means you either haven't talked to that comrade yet or you missed a conversation with them earlier in the story which you might not be able to recover based on where you're at in the story. A check mark means you've already talked to that comrade and you'll have to proceed onward with the story.
  6. When Howl says "We", keep in mind that he's just spirits inside the body of the former leader Salus and it's normal for him to say "We".
  7. Have multiple save files ready. If you want 100% achievement completion, use an older save file to get any achievements you missed.
Special Tribute
This screenshot has a special Easter egg referencing this game from Tall Tail Studios' other game Major\Minor. It's in the introduction of chapter 3.

Character Achievements
This list is not in order of the character appearances.

The Rebel Brawn
- Have Ulrich agree to join your party.

The Scribe-In-Training
- Have Fortaime agree to join your party.

The Scribe
- Have Valessa agree to join your party.

The Handsome Swindler
- Have Pro agree to join your party.

General of the Rebellion
- Have Damek[www.twitch.tv] agree to join your party.

Rage of The Monarchy
- Have Howl (also known as Salus) agree to join your party.

This will completely fill all comrade slots.

In Their Footsteps
- Earn Valessa's loyalty by telling her to keep the daggers.

Reach For The Top
- Earn Fortaime's loyalty by letting him beat you in a race up The Grand Tree.

Ancient History
- Earn Ulric's loyalty by telling him that you'll remove his immortal curse.

Left Behind
- Earn Pro's loyalty by telling him that he's in a true family with you & his other comrades.

Something Borrowed
- Earn Damek[www.twitch.tv]'s loyalty by telling him to leave his mother's pendant behind in the town square of Mazeo.

A Change in Perspective
- Earn Howl's loyalty by believing his theory about the Triumvirate & your blade.

Where It All Began*
- Earn Sovy's loyalty by trusting him to protect you in the battle at Balteus.

Bonds Unbroken*
- You've earned every comrade's loyalty.

*Flash's notes:
  1. If you denied Sovy's offer to assist the rebellion, this achievement will be locked. Remember the game tips above.
  2. See below.
Story Achievements
Foreshadowing
- Progress through the introduction narration and prologue vision of the story.

Fate of Valinorth
- Progress through Act 1 of the story.

Might or Mirth
- Make a decision in Peregrino between turning it into a barrack & keeping the pub as is.

Flashy's Help:
Changing the pub into a barrack is +10% Corruption.
Keeping the pub as it is when you walked in is +10% Purity.

Strength or Identity
- Choose the next Elder between Fortaime and Valessa.

Flashy's Help:
Choosing Fortaime to be the next Elder will be a +10% on Corruption. He's the Scribe-in-Training.
Choosing Valessa to be the next Elder will be a +10% on Purity. She's the Scribe.

Fate of Mazeo
- Make a choice between Alex's plan & Nada's plan inside Gryz's office.

Flashy's Help:
If you go with Alex, you increase your purity by 10%.
If you go with Nada, you increase your corruption by 10%.

Home Sweet Home
- Complete act two of the story.

Punishment or Redemption
- Make an important decision between Gryz and you to take power.

Flashy's Help:
If you let Gryz tap into the power of the idol, you'll increase corruption by +10%.
If you tap into the power of the idol yourself, you'll increase purity by +10%

Life or Death
- Make an important decision at the war table between an undead army & an army of seers.

Flashy's Help:
An undead army means +10% corruption.
An army of seers means +10% purity.

Past or Present
- Make an important decision between Howl and Damek to be your advisor.

Flashy's Help:
If you pick Howl as your advisor, you'll increase corruption +10%
If you pick Damek as your advisor, you'll increase purity +10%

Fate of The Rebellion
- Complete Act Three.

Tradition or Transgression
- Make a choice to side with either Dracyu and Pro or Vivien and Ulric for the fight in the coliseum.

Flashy's Help:
Choosing to side with Vivien and Ulric is +10% Corruption.
Choosing to side with Dracyu and Pro is +10% Purity.

Strength over Words
- You made a choice in combat to either use your sword while the enemy troops are blinded or hold back until the flash of light settles.

There's a point in the story where you make a decision between the choices shown in this screenshot. Whatever choice you make will trigger that associated achievement and lock the other achievement. Remember game tip #7 mentioned above.


Sovy's voice over will say "Well, Monarch...?" or "Well, Exodus..?" (depending on your choice in act 1 on what to be called when you discovered the Blade of Exodus) instead of "Well, [your character's name here]...?"

Lucky Number Seven
- You accepted Sovy's offer to join your party. If you chose this option, the achievement No More Than Six, mentioned below, will be locked from this point onward. On the brightside, you'll unlock heart-to-heart conversations with Sovy thus adding more content to your playthrough including Sovy's loyalty scene. You'll just need to go through every location again to look for Sovy's heart-to-heart conversations in order to unlock his loyalty scene.

No More Than Six
- You declined Sovy's offer to join your party. If you chose this option, the achievement Lucky Number Seven, mentioned above, and Sovy's heart-to-heart content will be locked from this point onward.

Flashy's Help:
Allowing Sovy to assist the rebellion is +10% Corruption.
Denying Sovy to assist the rebellion & telling him to leave is +10% Purity.


Fate of Alarinthia
- You have completed Act Four.

Revenge or Reason
- You've made an important decision between killing Shane or incapacitating Shane.

Flashy's Help:
Incapacitating Shane gives you +10% Purity.
Killing Shane gives you +10% Corruption.


Nom de Plume
- Find out the name of the librarian inside the Grand Library.

Calm Before The Storm
- Rest dear Monarch. You have a battle to win.

Liberty or Death
- You made a decision between the choices shown. One of the screenshots below will be the prompt for this achievement. Tell me in comments.

Screenshot #1


Screenshot #2


Fate of Alestia
- You've completed the game! Results may vary.
Travel Achievements
Cold Shoulder
- From the travel map, click Eastcrow if shown.

Where It All Began
- From the travel map, click Sauleberg if shown.

Corruption or Purity
- View a The Trimvurite parallel chronicle where you interact with them while you're asleep in Peregrino.

A New Frontier
- Get Carmen's permission to enter the port town of Mazeo.

Time To Unwind
- Go to the tavern inside Mazeo.

One Step Down
- Go to Rebel Headquarters.

Scholar
- Go to the library in the Rebel Base. (When Damek gives you the grand tour of his place)

Catching Up
- Go to the barracks in the Rebel Base. (When Damek gives you the grand tour of his place)

A Long Way From Home
- Go to the tribal lands of Alarinthia.

Below Freezing Point
- You've arrived in Balteus.
Other Achievements
So That's What It Stands For
- Click the shields above the fireplace inside Peregrino and hear the story behind the bar.

Time to Study
- Read a book at least twice.

Meanwhile...
- Watch any parallel chronicle.

Some Quality Time
- Talk to someone in your party alone.

Taking Things Further
- Have a heart-to-heart conversation with someone in your party.

Among Friends
- Click on any party conversation between 2 characters you've met up to the current build.

Love Amongst War
- Start a relationship with someone in your party. When talking to a comrade, you need to select responses with the achievement picture shown so it's triggered.

Inauguration
- Take a step forward. This is for a ceremony in Act Three.

The Price of Faith
- When progressing through the cutscenes in Act Three, this will be an auto-trigger based on your choice earlier in the story's 3rd act.

Turning the tables
- You found out that Ulric and Pro staged their efforts in combat at Alarinthia's coliseum.

Unforgettable
- Choose all the Flirty choices from the 1st heart-to-heart to the last heart-to-heart in the entire story. This works with any comrade in your party.

Strength in Unity*
- All your alliances survived the final battle. You just need 90+ morale for everyone to survive (you get 30 just by playing the game and 10 for every loyalty)

Together*
- All your comrades survived the final battle.

Here's how to unlock it:


Ulric: Always survives
Fortaime: Always survives
Valessa: Get her loyalty before the final act
Sovy: Don't let him join, or get his loyalty before the final act
Pro: Don't kill Gryz by taping into the idol yourself
Damek: Spare Shane
Howl: Don't activate their last scene at Balteus (be it by ignoring it or by not getting their loyalty), or activate the scene but don't remove the spirits to power your sword


*Source: Togo via public comments below.
33 Comments
Hypno_Wolf 8 Aug, 2021 @ 1:43am 
Thank you, it helped me. :anzoxhappy:
Bobby Thornbody 11 Jul, 2021 @ 6:00pm 
That's why it doesn't make sense to me. "Getting revenge" just feels wrong. In my mind, that doesn't feel like a 'pure' choice.
76561198143592746  [author] 28 Apr, 2021 @ 11:50pm 
If you choose to help Halin, you're basically forgiving him for the evil stuff he's done for the story line up towards the end when you're going to kill the trimvurite. If you choose to kill Halin, you're getting revenge.
Bobby Thornbody 28 Apr, 2021 @ 8:00pm 
With the "Liberty or Death" achievement, killing Halin gets you 10% Purity where Liberating him gets you 10% Corruption. Something about that feels backward to me. Killing him is a pure thing to do whereas helping is a corrupt choice? How is saving someone a corrupt thing to do?
76561198143592746  [author] 25 Oct, 2019 @ 1:08pm 
The guide branding pic has been updated because the original one was randomly removed. Plus it's for personal branding.
76561198143592746  [author] 24 Aug, 2019 @ 9:25am 
Recent update courtesy of Togo (Read below or next page depending on how you're looking at this section)
Togo 24 Aug, 2019 @ 9:01am 
For the Together and Strength in Unity achievements, you might want to include how to get them.

Strength in Unity is easy, you just need 90+ morale for everyone to survive (you get 30 just by playing the game and 10 for every loyalty)

As for Together :


Ulric: Always survives
Fortaime: Always survives
Valessa: Get her loyalty before the final act
Sovy: Don't let him join, or get his loyalty before the final act
Pro: Don't kill Gryz by taping into the idol yourself
Damek: Spare Shane
Howl: Don't activate their last scene at Balteus (be it by ignoring it or by not getting their loyalty), or activate the scene but don't remove the spirits to power your sword
76561198143592746  [author] 22 Jun, 2019 @ 6:41pm 
Updated
Lamb Of Death 22 Jun, 2019 @ 6:34pm 
The "Together" one says All your comrades survived the final battle.
76561198143592746  [author] 15 Jun, 2019 @ 7:06pm 
This guide might have a finale worthy update once the Balteus final battle update is released later this month.