What Are the Talismans?

[Denny Crane]

It mentions I obtained them but what were they? Specifically what do they look like. Was the plant guy's talisman the little plant in a pot in his secret room or the one in his pocket? What about the fire guy? What was his? Could and would someone please list all of them so I can understand better? Denny Crane.

[MrNatas]

You get them when you spare a boss. Spare all the bosses and get the true ending.

[Denny Crane]

No, I know I "get them" when I spare them. WHAT specifically are they? What physical shape talismans are giving them their powers?

[Tr3m0r]

Originally posted by Denny Crane:

It mentions I obtained them but what were they? Specifically what do they look like. Was the plant guy's talisman the little plant in a pot in his secret room or the one in his pocket? What about the fire guy? What was his? Could and would someone please list all of them so I can understand better? Denny Crane.

Were you a member of strafe right? It's been so many years but your name is familiar. Add me if so. I was Straferight_Dave but just go by Tr3m0r on here.

[Denny Crane]

Originally posted by Tr3m0r:

Originally posted by Denny Crane:

It mentions I obtained them but what were they? Specifically what do they look like. Was the plant guy's talisman the little plant in a pot in his secret room or the one in his pocket? What about the fire guy? What was his? Could and would someone please list all of them so I can understand better? Denny Crane.

Were you a member of strafe right? It's been so many years but your name is familiar. Add me if so. I was Straferight_Dave but just go by Tr3m0r on here.

You may have me confused with someone else. I may be a world famous retired lawyer but I have the celebrity face people mistake time and again.
To digress, I don't suppose YOU know what the physical shape these different talismans were that I obtained from the previous owners I spared?

[Rocky McRockerson]

If you're asking what they look like in game, they don't have a look - they're just represented via the talisman circle.

If you're talking about chinese talismans in general - they're typically handheld objects or installed into buildings (according to google), and from what I've seen are usually made of wood or paper, typically fashioned in to slabs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulu

[Denny Crane]

Originally posted by Rocky McRockerson:

If you're asking what they look like in game, they don't have a look - they're just represented via the talisman circle.

If you're talking about chinese talismans in general - they're typically handheld objects or installed into buildings (according to google), and from what I've seen are usually made of wood or paper, typically fashioned in to slabs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulu

Yes, I am asking what they look like in the video game. I don't know what reason this is so confusing. I disagree that they are just "represented." Simply put, those students killed their masters for the talismans the later were guarding. They then used them. Said talismans gave powers (e.g. the coins on a string that allow us to resurrect). The bell is one of them the one-armed chick uses. So what are the other ones?

[Rocky McRockerson]

The bell isn't the talisman, we don't know what they look like in-game, they're never shown.

[Denny Crane]

Then what is the bell called? The coins on a string? Both give a power to the person. What gives the staff guy fire? The machete guy plant growth, whatever the Japanese lady does, the last guy power over death? What are the objects they stole - that gave them power - called? Because to me it seems these talismans (I'm calling them that because I think they are) are just symbolically tied to water, earth, fire, and air.
So what did the plant guy steal specifically? The fire guy and the Japanese lady?

[Rocky McRockerson]

The bell is the lady's weapon and I'm guessing you can pretty much use the talismans however you want, since she activated it with her weapon. Again, we never see the talismans.

[Denny Crane]

Originally posted by Rocky McRockerson:

The bell is the lady's weapon and I'm guessing you can pretty much use the talismans however you want, since she activated it with her weapon. Again, we never see the talismans.

That doesn't make sense. The bell was activated by simply ringing it, like from her desk. It alters reality or it teleports. Her weapon has nothing to do with it since she used it in the opening level fighting the old Sifu. Albeit it was a blade then as but later it's a weight. The level changing during the fight was due to sustained used of the bell talisman. Or perhaps like all the bosses it was something like upping the ante.
After each fight against the last guy or gal of the level, when you spare them it shows an object. Black dagger for the Japanese lady as an example. The fire guy though, when you spare him it shows a large sign with Chinese on it. Was that his talisman?
Before you fight the very last guy, you find a note describing the talismans as objects that corrupt the user no matter how they are used. Just not WHAT objects they are.
I can't be the only one asking this question.