User blog comment:StoryGirl83/The Crown & The Flame Diamond Allies/@comment-35608950-20180526043219/@comment-3452092-20180526132455

I added up all the diamond choices for Endless Summer, Book 1 and they were even more than that (can you imagine the entire series), but yeah, it's an insanely large number of diamonds, but from what I've seen these diamond choices affect more things for longer than anything else Pixelberry has done with diamond choices since.

I have not done nearly as much playing of Choices as I would like over the last few months, but I did recently get enough diamonds to recruit Severin, so I've started out on the path with him. And since I don't currently have any plans for my diamonds once I actually earn them, I might be recruiting someone else this playthrough, too. I currently have four diamonds. . . and enough unplayed chapters to probably recruit the Phoenix without using them.