1. Previously in comments section few chapters before everyone theorizes that Marcille is a half-elf, and that is correct
2. Poor Thistle become crazy because he wants to safe everyone. From catasthrope and enemies outside of the kingdom. Dergal and everyone forces him into it. Pitiful really
3. The Lion looks reasonable here, but that's because it is doesn't meant it does. Like Frieren Demons it likes to lie and have no remorse, unlike in Frieren this one is a Cthullu superpowerful