ephraim route > eirika route because instead of being formattis going "HAHAHAHA LYON IS DEAD LOL I'M GONNA DESTROY EVERYTHING HAHAHAHA" for the last few chapters you have a lyon clinging for control goading ephriam into a trap so he can destroy the stone and do the ritual because he sees it as the only way to prevent a natural disaster from hitting grado, and the final tragic twist is that he was playing into formattis's hand the whole time, he died completely in vain. nothing could prevent the natural disaster