[SLIGHT SPOILER] Any path explain who is the village's kid?

[Gamer de esquerda]

In Ziluan's memory, they claim the village was guarding a child, and since they refused to give the child up to the Han, they burned the village. But is it ever stated who the child was, or if the child survived?

[Dell]

it was clearly harry potter, you can see hagrids bike behind the peach blossom

[Doomvora]

Originally posted by Gamer de esquerda:

In Ziluan's memory, they claim the village was guarding a child, and since they refused to give the child up to the Han, they burned the village. But is it ever stated who the child was, or if the child survived?

Don't think it's ever explicitly explained but your character is the only outsider mentioned, given that bailuan is an enemy and grown up in some missions, ziluan might've been that kid, assuming they were a kid at that time (which is possible but never stated)

I've only done wu and true wu (doing shu currently) and I've not seen any indication so far. Though one of the ultimate warrior ending cutscenes might explain it.

[At@At]

Originally posted by Doomvora:

Originally posted by Gamer de esquerda:

In Ziluan's memory, they claim the village was guarding a child, and since they refused to give the child up to the Han, they burned the village. But is it ever stated who the child was, or if the child survived?

Don't think it's ever explicitly explained but your character is the only outsider mentioned, given that bailuan is an enemy and grown up in some missions, ziluan might've been that kid, assuming they were a kid at that time (which is possible but never stated)

I've only done wu and true wu (doing shu currently) and I've not seen any indication so far. Though one of the ultimate warrior ending cutscenes might explain it.

Ziluan isn't the kid. He protected the kid from the guards who wanted to eliminate the child for the Han.

[Doomvora]

Originally posted by At@At:

Ziluan isn't the kid. He protected the kid from the guards who wanted to eliminate the child for the Han.

My point is that Ziluan doesn't change in age but Bailuan does. It's never explicitly stated who the kid is.

And considering the lowkey schizo backdrop of Ziluan, I wouldn't be surprised.

[At@At]

Originally posted by Doomvora:

Originally posted by At@At:

Ziluan isn't the kid. He protected the kid from the guards who wanted to eliminate the child for the Han.

My point is that Ziluan doesn't change in age but Bailuan does. It's never explicitly stated who the kid is.

And considering the lowkey schizo backdrop of Ziluan, I wouldn't be surprised.

So why not just say there was no kid and no Han soldiers at all. Ziluan just went crazy Anakin style and burned the whole place down in a fit of incense induced rage.

It's explicitly stated that Ziluan prevented the other members of the village from turning the kid over to the Han.

[Doomvora]

Originally posted by At@At:

So why not just say there was no kid and no Han soldiers at all. Ziluan just went crazy Anakin style and burned the whole place down in a fit of incense induced rage.

It's explicitly stated that Ziluan prevented the other members of the village from turning the kid over to the Han.

Whatever helps you sleep at night bud, I'm not the one jumping on someone for stating a theoretical.

[저지]

Originally posted by Gamer de esquerda:

In Ziluan's memory, they claim the village was guarding a child, and since they refused to give the child up to the Han, they burned the village. But is it ever stated who the child was, or if the child survived?

The whole Guardian of Peace storyarc was inserted into a "mostly accurate" historical story and theres no indiciation anything of that ever happened. Considering that, we can pretty much disregard anything that happens in those cutscenes and the only reason for them to exist is to provide a playable character and a somewhat plausible reason for why you interact with historical figures.

[awanderingswordsman]

I was also wondering if it'd end up as someone important. I don't think it can be bailuan given bailuan knows the incense techniques and clearly has a bond with you and zhuhe. If zhang jiao was younger I could see MAYBE it being him, but he isn't.

I have a tiny suspicion that DLC will allow us to play a new route starting in the village and make the village massacre playable and let us save characters and get zhuhe as a companion. At that point, it might turn out the kid is someone important for that storyline. Zuo Ci in particular is basically already doing what guadians of peace do (searching for a hero to unite the land) and he presumably was the sage zhang jiao ran into so I could see him being important to that route as well.

Do we know Diaochan's background? Could she have been the kid? Right age and reasonable position to be saved by Wang Yun (or whatever his name was) and trained into his personal assassin.

[At@At]

Originally posted by Doomvora:

Originally posted by At@At:

So why not just say there was no kid and no Han soldiers at all. Ziluan just went crazy Anakin style and burned the whole place down in a fit of incense induced rage.

It's explicitly stated that Ziluan prevented the other members of the village from turning the kid over to the Han.

Whatever helps you sleep at night bud, I'm not the one jumping on someone for stating a theoretical.

Jumping on someone? I simply stated that you were wrong. Your theoretical directly contradicts the cutscene and then when you doubled down I poked fun of it. Is someone disagreeing with you jumping someone now?

Han Dang being the child that no one remember makes more sense then what you wrote and it's funnier.

[xvin879x]

unless it ever gets revealed, its gonna be diao chan in my head. in her background dialogue she mentions she was saved by wang yun as a child after setting fire(?) to her village. its a nice connection that MC have met her prior to losing his memories.

[Kiltro]

Conspiracy theory: you don't play as THE Ziluan from the flashbacks. You are the kid that was harbored. He observed and learned. Ziluan and Zhugue died and a traumatized kid grows up taking the Ziluan name.

[Abaddon]

I like that one, or the Diaochan one.

[circuitdragon]

Originally posted by Kiltro:

Conspiracy theory: you don't play as THE Ziluan from the flashbacks. You are the kid that was harbored. He observed and learned. Ziluan and Zhugue died and a traumatized kid grows up taking the Ziluan name.

If that were the case Bailuan would have called you out as such. The game does not show the passage of time well as the game takes place over the course of 25 years but playing through it you'd think it was only 3.

[Frid]

Originally posted by xvin879x:

unless it ever gets revealed, its gonna be diao chan in my head. in her background dialogue she mentions she was saved by wang yun as a child after setting fire(?) to her village. its a nice connection that MC have met her prior to losing his memories.

Although I do find it funny that they made Ziluan and Diao Chan backstory to be basically the same, they are probably two different unrelated ninja villages.
Wang Yun said that he personally burned down DC village and only spared her and he also said that when the Guardian village was burned down, he stood idly by, implying that he had nothing to do with it and was nowhere near it when it happened.

I think it doesn't matter who the kid was, the point was that there were a LOT of people being executed because at the time Han was crumbling down and drowning in corruption.

[zeta]

it's the same kid as the opening scene, more or less. does it matter?
The opening scene is a great call back to the whole village story line, but I guess it's too subtle?
your entire village was burned down and everyone died, because of helping a kid. Now you see the same thing happen, are you going to step up again?