(Spoiler alert) Ender Lilies: Bosses's lore

[hughdo19]

I've been playing this game for a week, and I found that every boss has their own lore. I can understand if they are single story, like Siegrid was protecting Lily when bad thing happened, and Gerrod stand guard at Twin Spirral; or Silva was following White Priestess then can't made it return... But to frame in a big picture, I just cant.

For example, after the fight with Ulv, I found a white priestess be hind the wall. Assumed Ulv was the one who protect her, then the White Priestess he talked about is her, not Fretia?

Can someone frame a story about all bosses for me? I really love this game, because of the vibe it brought to me.

Thanks in advance!

[Suspect_X]

to me it's like----there are eight Liliy(s) with their names unknown(or we just call them Lily),they ARE clones of Fretia,the third 'white priestess',and was originally made to take a part of the blight from Fretia,for Fretia wasn't able or simply didn't want to have a child while she couldn't handle the blight herself either,those little girls you found in corners of the world ARE Lily(s),the clones,for some reason they failed to escape from the kingdom edge and just died,the bosses in front of them,like Ulv or Hoenir were the protectors of Lily,all of them have met with Fretia sometime in the past,most of them got help from Fretia,so the priestess they are talking about in the memories or messages IS Fretia(i think that's why they tried to protect Lily,for they are like a symbol of Fretia,who once helped them a lot,meanwhile i think Lily also acts as a symbol of hope,so you can say they are also protecting hope),but they turned mad because they couldn't stand the power of blight,so somehow they ARE separate stories,but they all started from the time when Fretia became a 'white priestess' and started traveling around the nation to purify the blight of others,but if you are talking about the 'priestess' in ancient warrior's memory,that is someone else,they were there so that an ancient warrior who has made a connection with one of them can reborn limitlessly,so the 'priestess' there ISN'T anyone YOU have ever met,they lived in the past,and the last 'priestess' was abandoned in an ancient war while she was just an infant(perhaps because her parents couldn't hang on,not so sure about this),but get adopted by the first king of the kingdom,that 'priestess' became the first 'white priestess' of the kingdom,for she could gather the blight of others,this white priestess's heir became the second and third white priestess,then comes all the stories you have learnt,quite a sad story but i really enjoy it

ps:the knight you have traveled along with IS one of the spirits of the ancient warriors,he's also the only warrior remaining

[hughdo19]

Very nice story, Thank you very much. I was thinking about 8 Lilies, too. But they wasn't "born" or awakened at the same time, was they?

[Suspect_X]

Originally posted by hughdo19:

Very nice story, Thank you very much. I was thinking about 8 Lilies, too. But they wasn't "born" or awakened at the same time, was they?

i'm not sure about it,it seems that none of the plots or messages mentioned that,but if you are gonna make clones of yourself,isn't it better to create them all at one time?(not to mention that Lily was created originally to free Fretia from blight),so i guess they are created at the same time,you see,according to the last cg,all Lilys went alongside Fretia together,so i think that Lilys were created in the heart of the blight,by those magicians,but it WAS Fretia who finally freed them and gave them to different protectors'(Ulv,Heonir,etc.) care and that's why you can find them in different places around this kingdom,but anyway that's simply my imagination since little clue about this is shown in the game,it's ok to connect the stories in your own way(perhaps Binary hasn't thought of this either)

[hughdo19]

Yeah somehow we just can't tell the truth only based on what we see.

One last thing, before Im back to the game and going to 100% it. Who is the Lily that Siegrid protected? Is that the Lily we already familiar with? If that is true, why did Lily sleep at the chamber in the first place?

[Suspect_X]

Originally posted by hughdo19:

Yeah somehow we just can't tell the truth only based on what we see.

One last thing, before Im back to the game and going to 100% it. Who is the Lily that Siegrid protected? Is that the Lily we already familiar with? If that is true, why did Lily sleep at the chamber in the first place?

open your map,find the room of the second bench,you will see a red dot on the top left corner of the box,that's a bunch of hidden rooms,you'll find who Siegrid is protecting there

if you find it hard to get there or get confused by one of the rooms there,here are tips:you'll need Ulv's claw and Heonir's hook and Julius's dash to get all the stuff there

So why Lily sleeps there?Honestly i have no idea,but if i'm gonna make up the story,it will be like:because of the power of the Aegis Curio,a hidden relic,it will only appear after you collect all the tablets,which means you already have Faden with you to unlock the door to the left side of the first room,and it has the similar power to the white priestess's,i think that is what fell Lily asleep there,only to protect her

The only thing that makes me feel really odd is that it seems all the other Lilys don't have the power to purify rotten souls,otherwise it wont be Ulv himself waiting in the rose garden but a Lily with Ulv's spirit,or it might be that they don't originally have strength to fight(like the player's black knight),thus wasn't able to stop protectors from frenzy,which,if you think about it seriously,is such a frustrating thing because who used to protect them finally became their cage,but still,i'm not sure what they actually died of,since the plot just say:she was just a step away from freedom(the Lily in the kingdom edge),but it seems there's nothing that was able to kill her there,except herself,so perhaps all the Lilys have a power limit,like a battery but can't get charged easily,and most of them died of an empty power source,but OUR Lily HAS a power source(the relic i mentioned above) right next to her,that's how she stayed alive after all these had happened,but who brought her here?perhaps it was the black knight,or we never know

[Jadian]

I've been a bit hesitant on chiming in since my PoV was mostly "you'll find more pieces of the story as your progress", but here's what I can piece together by looking through things again.

Originally posted by hughdo19:

Very nice story, Thank you very much. I was thinking about 8 Lilies, too. But they wasn't "born" or awakened at the same time, was they?

Based on note 69, the other Young White Priestesses didn't come into existence all at once ("Is it because I was the first White Priestess born among my sisters?"). The other 8 had to be created at about the same time at least, due to their role in memory Fretia's Recollection where they attempt to purify (or, based on the wording in the memory, at least take some of) the blight afflicting Fretia.

At the same time, I think the playable character was created at a later point, which would help explain her lack of memories, parts of note 70 ("I wonder what her name is" and "She's going to be our new sister"), and part of the memory Purification ("Truthfully, I wish you had been born far in the future")

Originally posted by hughdo19:

If that is true, why did Lily sleep at the chamber in the first place?

Based on the contents of the area behind the locked door where you first wake up, the playable character is likely a final attempt at saving Fretia. While the room contains note 68, it's also related to note 54 and the memory Faden's Memories ("...And yet, I mustn't give up now. Not until your life's work is complete. Not until we save the White Priestess.").

Originally posted by Suspect_X:

The only thing that makes me feel really odd is that it seems all the other Lilys don't have the power to purify rotten souls

I don't know if it's explicitly addressed, but I believe the other young White Priestesses possessed the ability to purify. However, as you mentioned, they didn't have the relic that was passed down the line of White Priestesses.

I'd have play through again and pay close attention to what relics were associated with notes by being next to each other, but making some assumptions....even without the relic being fully charged, it's still protecting our Lily from the burden of performing purification. The other young White Priestesses wouldn't have had this benefit. On top of that, you had Fretia who considered the Blight "her burden to bear", and the new guardians of the young White Priestesses who had all seen the suffering Fretia had gone through due to purifying the blighted...

The young White Priestesses may not have even been fully informed about the purification ritual just so they wouldn't take even more burden on themselves, shortening their lifespan--which was probably already short after the one purification they were made to attempt.

[Suspect_X]

Originally posted by Jadian:

Originally posted by Suspect_X:

The only thing that makes me feel really odd is that it seems all the other Lilys don't have the power to purify rotten souls

I don't know if it's explicitly addressed, but I believe the other young White Priestesses possessed the ability to purify. However, as you mentioned, they didn't have the relic that was passed down the line of White Priestesses.

I'd have play through again and pay close attention to what relics were associated with notes by being next to each other, but making some assumptions....even without the relic being fully charged, it's still protecting our Lily from the burden of performing purification. The other young White Priestesses wouldn't have had this benefit. On top of that, you had Fretia who considered the Blight "her burden to bear", and the new guardians of the young White Priestesses who had all seen the suffering Fretia had gone through due to purifying the blighted...

The young White Priestesses may not have even been fully informed about the purification ritual just so they wouldn't take even more burden on themselves, shortening their lifespan--which was probably already short after the one purification they were made to attempt.

i do agree with you on how the Lily(i'm just used to call her this way) we control was born,it has been like a month since i last played this game so i'm afraid i have forgot everything about those notes and there locations,if the note indicates something,it must be true