Ending Interpretations [Spoilers]

[Citizenkane]

So Lockshy dies, the fate spirits possess Nella, and she decides to sacrifice herself and ensure the machine is destroyed. At least, that's what the other 7 party members seem to believe.

It seems fairly obvious that Lockshy is the one to possess Nella. When the boss fight ends he still has 5% health, and then the cinematic begins. He says "our fates are entwined" and then disappears in a red swirl - we never actually kill him. After the group leaves, Nella laughs and says "I am goddess!" right before the credits roll.

Furthermore, Nella is the only Wheel Sword remaining under contract. According to a prior cinematic, the way Lockshy is able to control people is by leading them to break their contracts - that triggers the blood magic or something. By refusing to hand over the orb, and by attacking Lockshy, Nella has broken her contract.

I have a few questions and I wonder what you guy think:

• Why Nella? According to her bio she was being groomed to become a Patron herself, so perhaps Lockshy views her as the most powerful? But then why were the fate spirits speaking to her?
  
• Were Nella's visions of the fate spirits part of Lockshy's plan, or did the fate spirits simply fail to prevent Lockshy taking over their machine? We know that Nella wasn't the only one to have visions from the fate spirits - in Motcha's bio it mentions he saw them before joining the Wheel Swords.
  
• Does this mean that Lockshy succeeded? Or is Nella possessed partially by the fate spirits as well? If Lockshy succeeded, does that mean the other 7 party members become possessed immediatly after the ending? Does the entire world of Aarklash?

The ending was a real cliffhanger. So many unknowns. I love this game, and really hope there's a sequel - maybe with a bit more exploration and interesting loot!

[alexshiro]

The way I saw it, Nella played everybody. Entwined fates and stuff I just took as a "I made you" speech.

[Citizenkane]

Originally posted by alexshiro:

The way I saw it, Nella played everybody.

Hmm interesting. I hadn't thought about that interpretation. Don't you think that's a bit out of character for Nella? That would mean she's a lot more wicked then she lets on...

What do you think about the fate spirits?

[alexshiro]

Originally posted by Citizenkane:

Don't you think that's a bit out of character for Nella? That would mean she's a lot more wicked then she lets on...

Well, she's a mercenary. That's about as mercenary as it gets, no?

Originally posted by Citizenkane:

What do you think about the fate spirits?

I don't really remember, it's been a while since I played.

[Lou]

Everywhere, the symbol on the ground is the same as the hat of Nella, it is just the symbol of the guild ? Or something else.

And, about Nella, she was too calm, too focused, compared to other character she was kinda blank, maybe all of that was an act.

But the "Lockshy take control" is a really good guess, she did broke her contract with him.

And about Motcha, i don't think their the same spirit, he's a shaman orc not a "fate weaver" or something like this, so the spirit he where talking was probably earth and elemental spirit or thing like that.

[(WTH) SKIN]

I'm a little late to the party but here we go.
When they are scowering the library for contracts Nella's isn't there; it's not as if she could fake it not being there because it is Leck Lorus who is searching for it.

Therefore, some possibilities arise:

1) Nella is not her mother given name, as this is what Leck Lorus requested in order to find each person's contract. (Credit to girlfriend for noticing this!)

2) Lockshy purposefully found and stole Nella's contract so it could not be destroyed. Why is a mystery.

Either Lockshy succeeded and this would open room for a sequel where the rest of the wheelswords (who destroyed their contracts, unlike Nella, and thus likely are not affected by Lockshy) would fight back. Or this was simply meant to be a negative ending!

[Flikis]

There is more players in this apart from Lockshy and Nella. The symbol in the old city as well as Nella's connection to the voices makes it possible that she got possessed by those living in the city prior or even possibly the gods who the people had broken free of.

As Lockshy sounded pretty uninterested about what the mashine was for originally it makes me think he actually had nothing to do wih this. Leaving Nella as either the new god or possessedby the old gods. Perhaps because those who broke free of the gods found themselves in a world they regretted making.

Anyhow, the game leaves it up in question regardless.

[katukinabarra]

Thank you for your input.