don't forget that you can also get influence bumps from finding Felcandra hidden in the overworld! I've just playtested it, and you can get up to 24 influence by mingle phase 3.
felcandra blends in to the diffrent backrounds for example inside the dining hall on act 2 he can sometimes replace the wolf head with a Dalmatian and on the parapet he does the same thing replacing the piller of the wolf and most of the time on act 3 he becomes a bush shaped like himself next to Mathias in the courtyard. Hope this helps Nova