Characters who remember what you did

Trust that carries over

Every character has a level of trust in you, from Captain Muiron to General Dugommier. Junot’s trust at the end of Toulon is where it starts in Paris, two years later. Treat him well and he greets you as a friend; ignore him and he keeps his distance.

Concrete memories

The characters remember specific moments. Junot brings up the cannonball that covered your letter with earth, the white flag you made him carry to Admiral Hood, or the report you had his name put in. Barras knows that Saliceti called you ambitious. Joseph’s letter mentions the pay you sent your mother. Your old wound aches in the evening damp.

A life, not a level

Slowmarch tells whole lives in episodes. Because the story remembers, your Napoleon becomes yours: more loyal, more ruthless or more cautious than the real one, with the consequences that come with it.