Following last week’s Cindered Shadows character profiles, we have profiles for the remaining two members of the Ashen Wolves!

(Screenshot and video translations provided by @SatsumaFS)

Balthus

Hapi

Also, we now have a few more details about how Cindered Shadows interacts with the main story. For those unaware, Cindered Shadows will be accessed separately from the main story–and it will have its own save file(s).

Although the two stories are separate, your progress in Cindered Shadows will affect the main story. Firstly, after clearing Chapter 1 of Cindered Shadows, you can visit Abyss when exploring the monastery in the main story.

Furthermore, during Part 1 of the main story, you’ll be able to interact with the Ashen Wolves students while exploring. Depending on your progress in Cindered Shadows, it will be possible to recruit these students to your own house.

Students recruited to your house will, of course, participate in battles and lessons. They’ll also appear in Part 2, with grown up appearances. Effectively, they’ll function like normal students (and via data-mining, we know they have support conversations too).

By the way, here’s the possible requirements to recruit each student, once they’re eligible to be recruited. That said, there’s a chance that the game won’t check these requirements.

Note: These are the base requirements (with no support level). To see how they’re affected by support levels, please check the hidden tables in our Recruitment page.