>>531736567
Nah I got them.

My understanding of how the system works, which could be wrong, is this:

To get the heart, you need to check 4 boxes:
1. Kill Helmut
2. Kill Octanaris or Melgina
3. Be Bronze Rank
4. ACHIEVE a trust level of roughly 2.5 pages on a 4 page character. The heart does not go away if you fall below this.

The trust level for the bondmate heart required is SLIGHTLY below the trust level required for the best dialogue. I've only run into this once on a voiced character, but I think this is why people sometimes get level 4 bondmates. To get a level 5 bondmate, you need the best dialogue, plus attach two level 5 bondmates. Of course if you're dismissing anonymous adventurers, they don't have dialogue, so I just do 5 more camp conversations after I get the heart to make sure.

The major thing is that trust doesn't seem to have BOUNDS. It can go infinitely negative or positive. And anonymous adventurers don't really give you a way to check.

This is something I think is still being explored so take it with a grain of salt.