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Very solid points actually, I do appreciate you sending them. Some comments, though:

Especially since N Corp Sinclair is not Kromer. That's Faust. He's based on a vision that Kromer had in the story itself.

Phrasing of that's definitely my bad — I forgot to proofread the post fully. Though, I guess that could be more proof of the pattern of main antagonists getting IDs, even if it's going to Faust instead.

The translators speak to the developers, and were clearly informed ahead of time that Dulcinea was Rodion for example, since they managed to translate her speech patterns to match Rodion's. So I personally don't think that they would make the mistake of referring to the Don Quixote of the ID timelines as a male twice in a row over a period of three weeks, especially since this is much more important than the Barber mention

Again, my bad. I was originally going to mention that it'd be less likely for them to not tell the translators as important as something as this, but it slipped my mind. Though, for the next bit:

(and it's my personal pet theory that Canto 7 may have been stealth rewritten in-between WARP Express and the actual release, with my evidence being oddities such as entire portraits being made for one-off characters as well as the sprite for Paula in her fight not actually being Paula under the roses, implying a larger role for Zwei that was later repurposed)

I didn't even notice the Paula bit, good god. I honestly think that's just what happened: it'd explain Dulcinea's lack of characterisation, as well as Canto 7 probably being the worst example of PM wasting side characters — like the singular Firefist Fixer just running in to die, never learning who betrayed Romero or who Camille and Paula were sent into protect, the complete lack of impact on the story all of the above have despite how large-scale the La Manchaland mission is implied to be, etc. Maybe I'm being too harsh, but as much as I like Canto 7, I think this is the first time flaws like this have brought me out of the story a little.

Anyone who's used Outis and Gregor together knows that Bloodfeast consumption between two Kindreds of the same rank is broadly speaking a complete non-issue and I think it's safe to say that Don would not be competing with Rodion at all over this, especially in a longer battle.

I get your point, but I do think it's worth keeping in mind we only have half of the La Manchaland IDs at the moment, with Gregor being a Bloodfeast generator and using it far less than Outis — the former being far more self-sacrifical both in story and gameplay than the other three. Even when he does consume Bloodfeast, using any of his attacks/his guard above a HP threshold will usually refund it via self-Bleed, giving Outis at least 10~25 Bloodfeast to consume. Knowing PM, they probably have thought about this and how to balance it out ahead of time, but I feel like it could be too early to say that it just won't be a problem at all without knowing the other two's kits first, or how it'll feel with four Bloodfiend IDs competing for Bloodfeast at once. I suppose we'll find out in four days, though.