Sultan’s Game Lumera: Another Option for Taking Down the Magician

In Sultan’s Game, Lumera is a major follower that players can acquire easily at the early stage of the game. As a girl who loves reading, she can read all the books in Sultan’s Game, ignoring the reading requirements. After finishing her storyline, players can also opt for making Lumera ascend to become the star-souled. Other than Zazie’s storyline, Lumera’s storyline is another option available to counter the magician’s influence at the end of the game. This post explains how to proceed in Lumera’s storyline, how to transform her into the star-souled, and how to use her power to counter the magician.

Who Is Sultan’s Game Lumera?

In Sultan’s Game, Lumera is the descendant of an ancient clan, which is related to the star spirits and involves the ancient wisdom of magic and spells. However, the Sultan’s rule has replaced the royalty rule from Lumera’s ancestor, as suggested in the later story about ancient language learning.

The girl appears in the game first as a knowledge-seeking beggar girl. She is timid and shy, and it seems like no family is taking care of her. Her character stands out because of her knowledge-crazed attitude, and her ability to read all books without the point check. Thus, she becomes the follower who has the most potential in attribute growth.

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The game also allows players to decide how they want to educate Lumera and decide her future. Lumera can either become the star-souled or embark on the revenge story, which is completely up to players’ response to her events and stories.

Lumera becomes extremely useful when players choose to let her become a star-souled. She will become a card for passive use when confronting the Sultan’s signet ring in the rebellion ending and when confronting the magician in the escape ending.

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How to Make Lumera a Follower?

Lumera will first appear as a beggar girl in the event called “The Beggar Girl”, in which players need to give her a book. If players prepare to take Lumera in as a follower, it’d be best to always keep one book in stock, in case the event occurs at the early stage of the game.

Several days later, Lumera will come back to return the book. Players need to place in either 5 or 10 golds to take her as a step-daughter. Lumera will become one of Arzu’s followers after this. She is one of the early-stage characters that players can take in as a follower. Her ability to read books without the character attributes check makes her the character who has the most potential for growth through large amounts of reading.

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How to Transform Lumera to the Star-Souled?

There are two major routes for Lumera’s character arc: one is ascending to be the star-souled, and the other is to avenge. To help with the confrontation against the magician, players need to go for the arc of the star-souled ascension. After this, Lumera becomes a passive assistant card. She will descend later in the ending to counter the magician.

Reading Stage

Firstly, after reading five books, there will be exclamation marks appearing on top of Lumera’s character card. Whenever the marks appear, it means that the conditions are met to trigger the next step of Lumera’s storyline. Players need to drag her card to Methinks, and she will post a question to Arzu.

Lumera will ask why there are no stories about ordinary people in the books, and players can choose either “the writers were narrow-minded” or “They weren’t written on paper”. Both choices can trigger the next reading pop-up.

The second pop-up is the most important choice, in which Lumera asks if Apolos should have kept the milk given by her enemy. Players need to choose to have Apolos keep the milk. The arc of the star-souled ascension is about letting go of the hatred and seeking the kindness and good. If players choose to dump the milk, Lumera’s storyline will embark on the revenge route instead.

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Ancient Language and Editing

The next event is the ancient language lessons. Players need to agree with her learning the ancient language, and have Arzu attend the ancient language lesson event. Before this event, players need to increase Arzu’s and Lumera’s wisdom to pass the test. It requires 2 points to pass the check.

After acquiring the ancient language, there will be another pop-up window about the ancient language teacher asking Lumera to help with sorting the ancient materials. Players need to agree so that Lumera can have access to the ancient files. Then, the event of the pain of editing will be triggered. The event only requires Lumera to attend without any checking or additional conditions. Lumera needs to attend the event three times.

After several days of finishing the editing, Arzu will learn from the ancient language teacher that Lumera refuses to hand over a very opaque spell she discovers. She tries to keep the spells away from the nobles despite their language and physical abuse of her. Arzu needs to choose “I think you’re the one who should apologize” and side with Lumera.

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Ascension

Upon siding with Lumera when confronting the ancient language teacher, Arzu will receive the spell that Lumera has been protecting. It is the Fragment of the Star-Souled Glyphs. Players need to drag this card into Methinks and have both Arzu and Lumera attending the deciphering of the spell.

Later, the game will tell the story of Lumera obsessing over the ancient spell. Players have the option of whether to call Lumera back or praise the unknown existence. Players need to choose to praise the unknown existence. This choice will open up the pathway to the last step of Lumera’s ascension.

In the next event, “Star-Souled Night”, Lumera will ascend to be one of the stars, returning to the home she belongs to. Players simply need to start this event with no other cards needed to be put in. However, as Lumera becomes a star-souled, she will disappear from the follower group. Players cannot use her character card anymore. In the end, Lumera will be a passive card triggered by certain events and endings. It gives players timely magical assistance.

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How Does the Star-Souled Affect the Endings?

There are several benefits of returning Lumera to be one of the stars. Finishing this character arc will add more stories to the endings. Without the star-souled’s help, players will not have any way to counter the magician in the escape endings. Moreover, the star-souled can be used in cancelling out the magic power from the Sultan’s ring in the rebellion endings as well.

Firstly, in the escape endings, be it escaping to the distant oasis or China, the magician will stop Arzu from running away. Without the star-souled, players need to make a sacrifice either on Arzu or on other followers escaping with Arzu. Different final Sultan’s card leads to different ending texts. For example, Arzu will be forced to use the carnality card with the magician. He will lose the ability to love in the ending text without the star-souled’s help.

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However, if players finish Lumera’s storyline and unlock the star-souled, the star-souled card will be placed in the slot. It interrupts the magician’s trick. The star will descend from the sky and tear the magician apart, giving Arzu the time to escape. The same divine interventions will happen no matter which Sultan’s card players have in the escape route.

Similar divine interventions will happen in the rebellion ending as well. When confronting the Sultan’s signet ring in the rebellion route, Lumera will descend from the sky and destroy the signet ring. Both the star-souled and the Ring of Inevitability can destroy the signet ring and skip the magic points check.

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Is Lumera’s Storyline More Useful Than Zazie’s?

As to the divine intervention, Zazie’s storyline also gives players help from the stars. However, the trapped star and the starlight beacon from Zazie’s Nightmare can only be used in the rebellion route. These two cards are not powerful enough to fight against the magician when the Sultan, her protection, is not killed.

Therefore, it seems like Lumera’s storyline of the star-souled is more flexible in dealing with the rebellion and the escape ending. The star-souled will intervene in the magician’s trick in the escape ending. It will avoid using the last Sultan’s card on anyone, and help players skip the magic point check in the Dance of Light event in the rebellion ending as well. The only drawback is that Lumera will not descend to help defeat the magician in the rebellion ending after the Sultan’s death.

On the other hand, in Sultan’s Game, Lumera has an easier storyline and character arc for players to finish. Most of the time, players only need to assign reading tasks to Lumera and respond accordingly to her pop-up stories and events. The ascension only ends in losing Sultan’s Game Lumera as a follower card.

Compared to Sultan’s Game Lumera’s, Zazie’s storyline is much more difficult and demanding. It not only demands the contributions of coins and tools, but also requires several rounds of checks in her series of events in the limited timeline. It is fair to say that in Sultan’s Game, Lumera offers more return with less effort, contributing to her character arc.

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Conclusion: Sultan’s Game Lumera

Lumera is one of the key characters in Sultan’s Game. Even when she first appears as a beggar girl, eager for reading and knowledge, she has already shown potential to be one of the strongest allies for Arzu in the later stories.

On the one hand, her unique characteristic as a girl obsessed with books makes her accessible to all the book readings without preconditions. On the other hand, her storyline is one of the ways to achieve divine help from the stars as well, as a countermeasure against the Sultan and the magician.

In sum, to complete Sultan’s Game Lumera’s ascension, players need to take care not to indulge the bloodshed or carnality card on her, not to sacrifice her, (and not to marry her to Fardak!)