Plot explained and discussion (huge spoilers)

[Otomon]

I want to fully comprehend the story, here is a summary as I understand it, but please correct me or explain anything I got wrong!

Plot:

-The "first king", finds a child whom is a descendant of the "Ancients", he believes she is something known as a White Priestess, she has the ability to "Purify". The Ancients also had something known as the Aegis Curio to help them purify, which you need to craft to get the best ending.

-There is a "cursed" rain known as the Blight that turns people into monsters and reanimates dead people.

-As people became depressed, they became atheist and instead began to follow the teachings of the "White Priestess" as their only hope

-The third White Priestess is called Fretia and her guardian Silva (whom was in love with a solider name Siegrid which is your first Spirit)

-Faden (the kings main magician) starts experimenting with the Blight in Vermoten Domain, he comes up with the mask you find ingame to protect against it, and also he wants to find a way so that "Purification" does not cause enormous pain on the White Priestess, instead he begins researching how to use the Blight as a way to make people immortal and superhuman, if he could manage to allow them to retain their consciousness, he also learns there is a a way to attach a soul to a baby, which would allow them to "wield spirits", you are that child called Lily, a clone.

-All the other bosses are minor side characters, for example Miriel was Faden`s assistant, Julius was the illegitimate son of the king, whom became a knight and eventually willingly became Blighted to protect the Priestess.

-Now this is where I get confused, in several of the endings you see Fretia as a spirit holding back the Blight, initially I thought Lily was the soul of Fretia being implanted into a baby, but this is obviously not the case.

-In Ending A you purify Fretia, which sends her spirit away but also purifies the land, and then Lily leaves that land behind, Siegrid says Fretia`s body must remain (probably a reference to Lily being a clone). Fretia say the Blight was her fault, was this ever explained?

-Ending B, you again see Fretia, you fight and purify the "Blight Lord", she again implies the Blight is her fault, and Siegrid says if you purify her you will carry the burden together, again merely becoming just a band-aid for the Blight.

-Ending C, similar to B, except after you defeat Blight Lord, Fretia has what I cant tell if its a dream or a memory... of 8 of her clones being sacrificed to revive her, but then Lily turns out to be powerful enough to purify her, the land, and carry the burden of the Blight alone.

[Reyes]

Siegrid is Silva's sister, Silva took the position of guardian of the White Priestess from her because she did not want her to be in danger.

Faden came to create the immortal knights since it is said that the magicians gave the soldiers something to drink that would give them power, but technically all succumbed to madness, many were converted instantly while others were delayed.

In the ending A, Lily is purified by Fretia because the flower that we found in that area had the last essence of her and the black knight is the one who says that Fretia's true body is still in the deep but he does not mention about the clones in that part.

The little White Priestess were clones that were created from Fretia in order to free her from all the impurity she had, why does she say it's her fault? Because as Faden says, the tentacles that came out of Fretia as well as Lily had the impurity in a concentrated way so he could experiment with them to find a way to save her but in the end they could not control them and that is why it spread throughout the kingdom.

In the ending C I think that at one point they purified Fretia but it was not enough (hence the vision we have of Fretia's memory), so Faden came up with another answer and it was the artifact that we managed to repair to obtain the ending C but he could not do it since first of all he had it as a secret since he did not know if it would work and second, it seems that someone had stolen one of the tombstones because he felt hatred for Faden. By repairing the artifact we are able to purify Fretia without dying and although in the end we see that Lily has some tentacles, these no longer affect her so much and that is why we see that she grew.

[Saavedra]

Land´s End once belonged to the Ancients, a civilization that had learned to control the Blight by purifying with the help of some among them who had natural immunity to it: the White Priestesses. However, one day, a massive civilization immigrated to Land´s End and went to war with the Ancients, eventually wiping them all out down to a single child, a White Priestess. The King of the First Age, the first king of this new civilization in Land´s End, took her in due to his feelings of guilt over exterminating the Ancients. He did not know that the Umbral Knight, the last protector of the White Priestesses among the Ancients, had sworn a Deathless Pact to forever live on as a spirit to protect her lineage.

Some time later, the first Blight invasion took place. The Blight had infected many of the Ancients once the White Priestesses were gone or simply couldn´t do their work due to the war. The Blight invasion was defeated only after the discovery of the White Priestess, who may or may not have been the girl the King of the First Age had taken in. This, or the defeat of a second invasion later on, inspired/allowed the people of Land´s End to build the Twin Spires, a massive fortress to repulse future invasions.

Eventually, there were more than one White Priestess, and a new cult arose to worship them. Their religion, being practical and tangible, pushed all the others out eventually. After all, the White Priestesses were messianic figures healing the people from the Blight. Unfortunately, the Blight did not stop spreading just because massive hordes of Blighted individuals were defeated, and the White Priestesses themselves suffered greatly from purifying the Blighted. The Ancients used to have it all well organized, but their destruction meant losing all the infrastructure and numbers of White Priestesses necessary to truly stop the Blight from spreading. Over time, the Blight began to truly threaten the people of Land´s End.

Experiments were carried out to try and destroy the Blight. From these experiments, performed by sorcerer Faden, came the Deathless Elixir, a formula for immortality made from purified Blighted flesh (though it must be clarified that this is NOT a vaccine against the Blight, it gives immortality and that is it). The knights of the kingdom were made to drink it so they could never die when fighting the Blighted. Faden also developed the ability to morph beings together, such as giving the Bastion knights wings, or creating centaurs at the King´s Castle. More horrifying examples are the bloated flesh piles from the Verboten Domain, where the experimenting on human subjects was carried out, or the huge clawed monsters from the Hamlet (caused by the Blight, not by any experiments). It is possible the "fish" in the Abyss are the final or almost final form of several beings fused together by the Blight. And finally, Faden learned to make clones of then White Priestess Fretia, with her same ability to purify the Blight. Lily is one of them.

Fretia was faced with two challenges then. One, another great invasion that struck the Bastion, which she defeated with the aid of warriors such as Ulv and Gerrod. Another, once it was found the Blight was going to overwhelm the kingdom, was to defeat and purify the Blight Lord. She did this, but as Silva, her Guardian (Siegrid´s sister) would realize, that was a mistake. The Blight overwhelmed Fretia and threatened to kill her from sheer exhaustion. It was then the Sorcerers´ Coven decided Fretia´s clones would be sacrificed, purifying Fretia and dying in the process (so the Blight went to Fretia, and then it would go to the clones, who would die, but Fretia herself would survive and continue with the purification).

It is unclear what happened at that moment: did the rite happen? Did something happen before the rite could be performed? Did Fretia do something herself to stop the ritual and save the White Priestesses?

In any case, the Rain of Death began. The Blight spread all throughout the land using rain, and there was just nothing that anyone could do against that. Fretia was overwhelmed with the Blight, and though she tried to control it, she was fused with it. Either she morphed together with the Blighted Lord, or she BECAME a new Blighted Lord. The White Priestesses spread all over the kingdom and died, presumably from exhaustion through purification, murdered, starved, etc...

In Ending A, Fretia has decided to take on the burden of purifying Land´s End by herself, purifies Lily, and has her leave Land´s End to live her life as she wishes. This is an end aligned with Fretia´s wish to save her clones, as she considers herself their mother.

In Ending B, Lily chooses to sacrifice that chance at happiness to stay with her mother. Fretia and her will work together to purify the Blight. However, in both endings, we do not know if this will actually work.

In Ending C, it is revealed Faden found some stone tables from the Ancients that may have been important. With the Umbral Knight´s help, Lily puts them together and creates the Aegis Curio, an Ancient relic that greatly lessens the impact of the Blight on the White Priestesses. Using this, Lily fights Fretia, defeats her, and chooses to take the burden of purifying Land´s End herself so as to free Fretia from the suffering. The end is a bit of a mess in its presentation at this point: I originally thought that Lily chose to stay behind to purify Land´s End while Fretia was free to go and live her life, an inversion of Ending A, but with the caveat that Fretia is free to move around, hence she buries the White Priestesses and it is assumed she could help Lily in other ways. The more conventional interpretation, which I hate but is probably canon, is that Fretia simply passes away, finally free from her burden and suffering, and Lily stays to purify the Blight once and for all together with the Umbral Knight.

[Gunlord]

I think Saavendra's description is probably the most exhaustive and the truest. Thanks! Though for myself, I'm wondering why Lily was sleeping beneath the cathedral and why she lost her memory, and why she was the only one of the priestesses who was protected by the Umbral Knight, I think his name was Ferin :o

[Saavedra]

Originally posted by Gunlord:

I think Saavendra's description is probably the most exhaustive and the truest. Thanks! Though for myself, I'm wondering why Lily was sleeping beneath the cathedral and why she lost her memory, and why she was the only one of the priestesses who was protected by the Umbral Knight, I think his name was Ferin :o

No need to use the spoiler tool, the whole thread is spoilers and has been marked as such in the title. Anyone coming in can´t complain for being spoiled.

As for your question... I think the best answer would be that Lily was the youngest clone, and the moment when she awakes in the cathedral is basically her "birth". She is not amnesiac, she was literally born yesterday. The memories Lily obtains from those she purified do not belong to her OR feature her. Instead, the Lilies in those memories are the other clones. Siegrid´s Lily was the one on the top floors of the cathedral, Gerrod´s was the one in the hamlet basement and so on.

As for why the Umbral Knight only protected her, I think he was originally protecting Fretia. When Fretia figured out her time was coming, she sent him out to protect her clones. The Umbral Knight searched for one, and the easiest to find was Lily: she is in a recognizable, familiar place, not very well hidden, and wearing the amulet Fretia herself used to wear.

[Gunlord]

Ah-haaaah! So ALL the White Priestesses were identical clones. Very interesting, and that would make sense. Thank you!

[MiracleGhost47]

Originally posted by Gunlord:

Ah-haaaah! So ALL the White Priestesses were identical clones. Very interesting, and that would make sense. Thank you!

Indeed they were. But not everything Saavendra said is true. The lore of Ender Lilies is... hazy, to say the least (no pun intended, Binary Haze Interactive). I did some research of my own. Let me tell you a little of what I have been able to confirm.

Some have speculated that Lily was unconscious since birth, only to be awakened by the Umbral Knight at the start of the game. However, this is debunked by the official Ender Lilies website (link below). In Lily's character description, it asks: "Is it her fate to regain her memories through her journey?" This question implies that she had memories to begin with. Thus, she is confirmed to be an amnesiac. As for how she lost her memories, that has yet to be confirmed.

https://en.enderlilies.com/#character

Edit: After further consideration, I have come to the conclusion that I misunderstood the implication made by the website. While she did indeed lose her memories, it was not the result of amnesia. Rather, she was in a dream-like state while she was sleeping. She was semi-aware, capable of hearing voices around her. However, she could not remember them by the time she awakened.

[Nya]

Originally posted by MiracleGhost47:

Originally posted by Gunlord:

Ah-haaaah! So ALL the White Priestesses were identical clones. Very interesting, and that would make sense. Thank you!

Indeed they were. But not everything Saavendra said is true. The lore of Ender Lilies is... hazy, to say the least (no pun intended, Binary Haze Interactive). I did some research of my own. Let me tell you a little of what I have been able to confirm.

Some have speculated that Lily was unconscious since birth, only to be awakened by the Umbral Knight at the start of the game. However, this is debunked by the official Ender Lilies website (link below). In Lily's character description, it asks: "Is it her fate to regain her memories through her journey?" This question implies that she had memories to begin with. Thus, she is confirmed to be an amnesiac. As for how she lost her memories, that has yet to be confirmed.

https://en.enderlilies.com/#character

Would invite you to read the other thread -> https://steamcommunity.com/app/1369630/discussions/2/3186862752322598809/

as it is more detailed, comprehensive, and cited with ingame materials

[Gazz ¯\_(ツ)_/¯]

Originally posted by Saavedra:

Land´s End once belonged to the Ancients, a civilization that had learned to control the Blight by purifying with the help of some among them who had natural immunity to it: the White Priestesses. However, one day, a massive civilization immigrated to Land´s End and went to war with the Ancients, eventually wiping them all out down to a single child, a White Priestess. The King of the First Age, the first king of this new civilization in Land´s End, took her in due to his feelings of guilt over exterminating the Ancients. He did not know that the Umbral Knight, the last protector of the White Priestesses among the Ancients, had sworn a Deathless Pact to forever live on as a spirit to protect her lineage.

Some time later, the first Blight invasion took place. The Blight had infected many of the Ancients once the White Priestesses were gone or simply couldn´t do their work due to the war. The Blight invasion was defeated only after the discovery of the White Priestess, who may or may not have been the girl the King of the First Age had taken in. This, or the defeat of a second invasion later on, inspired/allowed the people of Land´s End to build the Twin Spires, a massive fortress to repulse future invasions.

Eventually, there were more than one White Priestess, and a new cult arose to worship them. Their religion, being practical and tangible, pushed all the others out eventually. After all, the White Priestesses were messianic figures healing the people from the Blight. Unfortunately, the Blight did not stop spreading just because massive hordes of Blighted individuals were defeated, and the White Priestesses themselves suffered greatly from purifying the Blighted. The Ancients used to have it all well organized, but their destruction meant losing all the infrastructure and numbers of White Priestesses necessary to truly stop the Blight from spreading. Over time, the Blight began to truly threaten the people of Land´s End.

Experiments were carried out to try and destroy the Blight. From these experiments, performed by sorcerer Faden, came the Deathless Elixir, a formula for immortality made from purified Blighted flesh (though it must be clarified that this is NOT a vaccine against the Blight, it gives immortality and that is it). The knights of the kingdom were made to drink it so they could never die when fighting the Blighted. Faden also developed the ability to morph beings together, such as giving the Bastion knights wings, or creating centaurs at the King´s Castle. More horrifying examples are the bloated flesh piles from the Verboten Domain, where the experimenting on human subjects was carried out, or the huge clawed monsters from the Hamlet (caused by the Blight, not by any experiments). It is possible the "fish" in the Abyss are the final or almost final form of several beings fused together by the Blight. And finally, Faden learned to make clones of then White Priestess Fretia, with her same ability to purify the Blight. Lily is one of them.

Fretia was faced with two challenges then. One, another great invasion that struck the Bastion, which she defeated with the aid of warriors such as Ulv and Gerrod. Another, once it was found the Blight was going to overwhelm the kingdom, was to defeat and purify the Blight Lord. She did this, but as Silva, her Guardian (Siegrid´s sister) would realize, that was a mistake. The Blight overwhelmed Fretia and threatened to kill her from sheer exhaustion. It was then the Sorcerers´ Coven decided Fretia´s clones would be sacrificed, purifying Fretia and dying in the process (so the Blight went to Fretia, and then it would go to the clones, who would die, but Fretia herself would survive and continue with the purification).

It is unclear what happened at that moment: did the rite happen? Did something happen before the rite could be performed? Did Fretia do something herself to stop the ritual and save the White Priestesses?

In any case, the Rain of Death began. The Blight spread all throughout the land using rain, and there was just nothing that anyone could do against that. Fretia was overwhelmed with the Blight, and though she tried to control it, she was fused with it. Either she morphed together with the Blighted Lord, or she BECAME a new Blighted Lord. The White Priestesses spread all over the kingdom and died, presumably from exhaustion through purification, murdered, starved, etc...

In Ending A, Fretia has decided to take on the burden of purifying Land´s End by herself, purifies Lily, and has her leave Land´s End to live her life as she wishes. This is an end aligned with Fretia´s wish to save her clones, as she considers herself their mother.

In Ending B, Lily chooses to sacrifice that chance at happiness to stay with her mother. Fretia and her will work together to purify the Blight. However, in both endings, we do not know if this will actually work.

In Ending C, it is revealed Faden found some stone tables from the Ancients that may have been important. With the Umbral Knight´s help, Lily puts them together and creates the Aegis Curio, an Ancient relic that greatly lessens the impact of the Blight on the White Priestesses. Using this, Lily fights Fretia, defeats her, and chooses to take the burden of purifying Land´s End herself so as to free Fretia from the suffering. The end is a bit of a mess in its presentation at this point: I originally thought that Lily chose to stay behind to purify Land´s End while Fretia was free to go and live her life, an inversion of Ending A, but with the caveat that Fretia is free to move around, hence she buries the White Priestesses and it is assumed she could help Lily in other ways. The more conventional interpretation, which I hate but is probably canon, is that Fretia simply passes away, finally free from her burden and suffering, and Lily stays to purify the Blight once and for all together with the Umbral Knight.

Thank you for this. I want to give Lily a hug.

[FakeKraid]

Originally posted by Saavedra:

It is unclear what happened at that moment: did the rite happen? Did something happen before the rite could be performed? Did Fretia do something herself to stop the ritual and save the White Priestesses?

In any case, the Rain of Death began. The Blight spread all throughout the land using rain, and there was just nothing that anyone could do against that. Fretia was overwhelmed with the Blight, and though she tried to control it, she was fused with it. Either she morphed together with the Blighted Lord, or she BECAME a new Blighted Lord. The White Priestesses spread all over the kingdom and died, presumably from exhaustion through purification, murdered, starved, etc...

I believe that the Rain of Death was the thing that made the ritual useless; before enough clones could be sacrificed to purify Fretia, the Rain began falling due to the magnitude of her Blight, created a self-perpetuating cycle (she implies that the blighted red lilies growing from her body summoned the rain, which in turn nourishes the flowers), and destroyed what was left of the imperial civilization, rendering it a failure by default and the nameless girl/Lily #2 ends up simply sleeping until she finally wakes up on her own or because the Umbral Knight wakes her up.

Had they discovered the cloning process and begun the ritual sooner, it would have been inhumane and made Fretia even more miserable, but it might very well have worked. Unfortunately, Faden was too late and the Blight reached a systemic tipping point before it could bear fruit.

[Naewyng]

Originally posted by Saavedra:

Land´s End once belonged to the Ancients, a civilization that had learned to control the Blight by purifying with the help of some among them who had natural immunity to it: the White Priestesses. However, one day, a massive civilization immigrated to Land´s End and went to war with the Ancients, eventually wiping them all out down to a single child, a White Priestess. The King of the First Age, the first king of this new civilization in Land´s End, took her in due to his feelings of guilt over exterminating the Ancients. He did not know that the Umbral Knight, the last protector of the White Priestesses among the Ancients, had sworn a Deathless Pact to forever live on as a spirit to protect her lineage.

Some time later, the first Blight invasion took place. The Blight had infected many of the Ancients once the White Priestesses were gone or simply couldn´t do their work due to the war. The Blight invasion was defeated only after the discovery of the White Priestess, who may or may not have been the girl the King of the First Age had taken in. This, or the defeat of a second invasion later on, inspired/allowed the people of Land´s End to build the Twin Spires, a massive fortress to repulse future invasions.

Eventually, there were more than one White Priestess, and a new cult arose to worship them. Their religion, being practical and tangible, pushed all the others out eventually. After all, the White Priestesses were messianic figures healing the people from the Blight. Unfortunately, the Blight did not stop spreading just because massive hordes of Blighted individuals were defeated, and the White Priestesses themselves suffered greatly from purifying the Blighted. The Ancients used to have it all well organized, but their destruction meant losing all the infrastructure and numbers of White Priestesses necessary to truly stop the Blight from spreading. Over time, the Blight began to truly threaten the people of Land´s End.

Experiments were carried out to try and destroy the Blight. From these experiments, performed by sorcerer Faden, came the Deathless Elixir, a formula for immortality made from purified Blighted flesh (though it must be clarified that this is NOT a vaccine against the Blight, it gives immortality and that is it). The knights of the kingdom were made to drink it so they could never die when fighting the Blighted. Faden also developed the ability to morph beings together, such as giving the Bastion knights wings, or creating centaurs at the King´s Castle. More horrifying examples are the bloated flesh piles from the Verboten Domain, where the experimenting on human subjects was carried out, or the huge clawed monsters from the Hamlet (caused by the Blight, not by any experiments). It is possible the "fish" in the Abyss are the final or almost final form of several beings fused together by the Blight. And finally, Faden learned to make clones of then White Priestess Fretia, with her same ability to purify the Blight. Lily is one of them.

Fretia was faced with two challenges then. One, another great invasion that struck the Bastion, which she defeated with the aid of warriors such as Ulv and Gerrod. Another, once it was found the Blight was going to overwhelm the kingdom, was to defeat and purify the Blight Lord. She did this, but as Silva, her Guardian (Siegrid´s sister) would realize, that was a mistake. The Blight overwhelmed Fretia and threatened to kill her from sheer exhaustion. It was then the Sorcerers´ Coven decided Fretia´s clones would be sacrificed, purifying Fretia and dying in the process (so the Blight went to Fretia, and then it would go to the clones, who would die, but Fretia herself would survive and continue with the purification).

It is unclear what happened at that moment: did the rite happen? Did something happen before the rite could be performed? Did Fretia do something herself to stop the ritual and save the White Priestesses?

In any case, the Rain of Death began. The Blight spread all throughout the land using rain, and there was just nothing that anyone could do against that. Fretia was overwhelmed with the Blight, and though she tried to control it, she was fused with it. Either she morphed together with the Blighted Lord, or she BECAME a new Blighted Lord. The White Priestesses spread all over the kingdom and died, presumably from exhaustion through purification, murdered, starved, etc...

In Ending A, Fretia has decided to take on the burden of purifying Land´s End by herself, purifies Lily, and has her leave Land´s End to live her life as she wishes. This is an end aligned with Fretia´s wish to save her clones, as she considers herself their mother.

In Ending B, Lily chooses to sacrifice that chance at happiness to stay with her mother. Fretia and her will work together to purify the Blight. However, in both endings, we do not know if this will actually work.

In Ending C, it is revealed Faden found some stone tables from the Ancients that may have been important. With the Umbral Knight´s help, Lily puts them together and creates the Aegis Curio, an Ancient relic that greatly lessens the impact of the Blight on the White Priestesses. Using this, Lily fights Fretia, defeats her, and chooses to take the burden of purifying Land´s End herself so as to free Fretia from the suffering. The end is a bit of a mess in its presentation at this point: I originally thought that Lily chose to stay behind to purify Land´s End while Fretia was free to go and live her life, an inversion of Ending A, but with the caveat that Fretia is free to move around, hence she buries the White Priestesses and it is assumed she could help Lily in other ways. The more conventional interpretation, which I hate but is probably canon, is that Fretia simply passes away, finally free from her burden and suffering, and Lily stays to purify the Blight once and for all together with the Umbral Knight.

Something I don't get is why would the first White Priestess child even agree to help the kingdom? It makes no sense.

If your whole society was completely wiped out leaving you the only survivor, would you willingly help the scumbags who exterminated your whole community?

And it doesn't make sense either to say that "she was too young and din't know about the past", since the Umbral Knight was supposed to have been a defender to every White Priestess after the deathless pact was made, so he would most likely have told her everything about the past.

[BeaverBoy99]

Originally posted by Naewyng:

Originally posted by Saavedra:

Land´s End once belonged to the Ancients, a civilization that had learned to control the Blight by purifying with the help of some among them who had natural immunity to it: the White Priestesses. However, one day, a massive civilization immigrated to Land´s End and went to war with the Ancients, eventually wiping them all out down to a single child, a White Priestess. The King of the First Age, the first king of this new civilization in Land´s End, took her in due to his feelings of guilt over exterminating the Ancients. He did not know that the Umbral Knight, the last protector of the White Priestesses among the Ancients, had sworn a Deathless Pact to forever live on as a spirit to protect her lineage.

Some time later, the first Blight invasion took place. The Blight had infected many of the Ancients once the White Priestesses were gone or simply couldn´t do their work due to the war. The Blight invasion was defeated only after the discovery of the White Priestess, who may or may not have been the girl the King of the First Age had taken in. This, or the defeat of a second invasion later on, inspired/allowed the people of Land´s End to build the Twin Spires, a massive fortress to repulse future invasions.

Eventually, there were more than one White Priestess, and a new cult arose to worship them. Their religion, being practical and tangible, pushed all the others out eventually. After all, the White Priestesses were messianic figures healing the people from the Blight. Unfortunately, the Blight did not stop spreading just because massive hordes of Blighted individuals were defeated, and the White Priestesses themselves suffered greatly from purifying the Blighted. The Ancients used to have it all well organized, but their destruction meant losing all the infrastructure and numbers of White Priestesses necessary to truly stop the Blight from spreading. Over time, the Blight began to truly threaten the people of Land´s End.

Experiments were carried out to try and destroy the Blight. From these experiments, performed by sorcerer Faden, came the Deathless Elixir, a formula for immortality made from purified Blighted flesh (though it must be clarified that this is NOT a vaccine against the Blight, it gives immortality and that is it). The knights of the kingdom were made to drink it so they could never die when fighting the Blighted. Faden also developed the ability to morph beings together, such as giving the Bastion knights wings, or creating centaurs at the King´s Castle. More horrifying examples are the bloated flesh piles from the Verboten Domain, where the experimenting on human subjects was carried out, or the huge clawed monsters from the Hamlet (caused by the Blight, not by any experiments). It is possible the "fish" in the Abyss are the final or almost final form of several beings fused together by the Blight. And finally, Faden learned to make clones of then White Priestess Fretia, with her same ability to purify the Blight. Lily is one of them.

Fretia was faced with two challenges then. One, another great invasion that struck the Bastion, which she defeated with the aid of warriors such as Ulv and Gerrod. Another, once it was found the Blight was going to overwhelm the kingdom, was to defeat and purify the Blight Lord. She did this, but as Silva, her Guardian (Siegrid´s sister) would realize, that was a mistake. The Blight overwhelmed Fretia and threatened to kill her from sheer exhaustion. It was then the Sorcerers´ Coven decided Fretia´s clones would be sacrificed, purifying Fretia and dying in the process (so the Blight went to Fretia, and then it would go to the clones, who would die, but Fretia herself would survive and continue with the purification).

It is unclear what happened at that moment: did the rite happen? Did something happen before the rite could be performed? Did Fretia do something herself to stop the ritual and save the White Priestesses?

In any case, the Rain of Death began. The Blight spread all throughout the land using rain, and there was just nothing that anyone could do against that. Fretia was overwhelmed with the Blight, and though she tried to control it, she was fused with it. Either she morphed together with the Blighted Lord, or she BECAME a new Blighted Lord. The White Priestesses spread all over the kingdom and died, presumably from exhaustion through purification, murdered, starved, etc...

In Ending A, Fretia has decided to take on the burden of purifying Land´s End by herself, purifies Lily, and has her leave Land´s End to live her life as she wishes. This is an end aligned with Fretia´s wish to save her clones, as she considers herself their mother.

In Ending B, Lily chooses to sacrifice that chance at happiness to stay with her mother. Fretia and her will work together to purify the Blight. However, in both endings, we do not know if this will actually work.

In Ending C, it is revealed Faden found some stone tables from the Ancients that may have been important. With the Umbral Knight´s help, Lily puts them together and creates the Aegis Curio, an Ancient relic that greatly lessens the impact of the Blight on the White Priestesses. Using this, Lily fights Fretia, defeats her, and chooses to take the burden of purifying Land´s End herself so as to free Fretia from the suffering. The end is a bit of a mess in its presentation at this point: I originally thought that Lily chose to stay behind to purify Land´s End while Fretia was free to go and live her life, an inversion of Ending A, but with the caveat that Fretia is free to move around, hence she buries the White Priestesses and it is assumed she could help Lily in other ways. The more conventional interpretation, which I hate but is probably canon, is that Fretia simply passes away, finally free from her burden and suffering, and Lily stays to purify the Blight once and for all together with the Umbral Knight.

Something I don't get is why would the first White Priestess child even agree to help the kingdom? It makes no sense.

If your whole society was completely wiped out leaving you the only survivor, would you willingly help the scumbags who exterminated your whole community?

And it doesn't make sense either to say that "she was too young and din't know about the past", since the Umbral Knight was supposed to have been a defender to every White Priestess after the deathless pact was made, so he would most likely have told her everything about the past.

If they were adopted by the King young enough they wouldn't have any memories or connection to the Ancients except by blood. Lands End *is* their home. I don't think the Umbral Knight was really around until they wake up Lily. No memory features him, and if he was the White Priestess' guardian I feel like he would appear in with her in the various memories. While a young Priestess would have no connection to the Ancients, the Umbral Knight absolutely would and would hold resentment for it. Why would Fretia have Silva as her guardian if she already had the Umbral Knight? He has been MIA since the Ancients fell and only after everything has fallen does he realize the revenge he wanted doesn't taste so great and he makes one last ditch attempt to help by aiding Lily.