(SPOILERS) Help with understanding ending!

[Filthy Mutt]

Hey, just finished the game recently and i'm not really sure I understood ending, as sad as it may sound lol. I would love it if anyone could quickly summarize it? Thanks!

[Pixel Peeper]

The ending itself is pretty straightforward; the heir kills Johannes and, for the first time in many generations, goes home.

What may or may not make all that much sense is the beginning.

An evil king ruins his own kingdom (by giving all his wealth to Charon) to attain immortality via the fountain of youth. Johannes, thinking he can advance his situation by healing a king he believes to be dying, also enters the castle (apparently thinking healing can be found inside). When he reaches the end, he discovers the king traded the kingdom (including Johannes' potential fortune) for immortality. He immediately kills the evil king.

Having nothing to go back to, he decides to stay in the castle and be immortal.

For some reason, your family starts a quest to "solve" the castle. It's not clear how much they know about previous events and if they are merely motivated by monetary gain. They send one heir per generation into the castle, most of them to their deaths.

My personal take on it all:

Every single character in that story is a idiot.

[Tom]

I actually think Johannes morals were the once I agreed to, killing him made me feel like I was the bad guy. I wish there was an option to not kill him but merely beat him into submission.

He said that the king was the one who had betrayed their family, I think that gives him reason to kill him(I would be mad if someone I trusted betrayed me). He was traitor to the throne and thus to his own family. It might be that you were "fooled" to believe that he was the bad guy but in the end he had his reasons.

The moral to the story might be that there is always several sides of the story and killing a hundred generations of your familiy to achieve a goal might in the end not be worth it. Another thing is that not everything might be as it seems.

On the side the story might have something to do with human evolution, considering every heir get stronger and stronger until you get to beat the game, kind of like it is in real life.(Just a thought)

[Pixel Peeper]

Johannes was right to execute the king, that's for sure.

But why stay in the castle and massacre everyone who gets in?

And if the "family" knew, through Johannes' journals, that the king was evil, indeed, they shouldn't have wanted to kill Johannes. And certainly not enough to send countless heirs to their deaths.

Seriously, everyone in this story...

[Filthy Mutt]

Thanks alot Triporteur and Pure Anger :] That clears things up!

[Dr. Death]

Hello im a necromancer!

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Tripoteur Ventripotent:

Johannes was right to execute the king, that's for sure.

But why stay in the castle and massacre everyone who gets in?

And if the "family" knew, through Johannes' journals, that the king was evil, indeed, they shouldn't have wanted to kill Johannes. And certainly not enough to send countless heirs to their deaths.

Seriously, everyone in this story... :derp:

i think johanne's point is that after giving so much in the cause for his father and sacrificing his own family resources, leaving his wife and children poor, and wasting so much time and effort to try and save the king and the kingdom, realizing seeing the king there that:
1- there was no resources in the kingdom anymore, Charon took it all, its a broken country
2- If the king was immortal, he would never be a heir, he would be refused his right to power and the power he fought so hard to attain.
He decided that there was nothing worth fighting for except for the castle itself. He grew to like the castle so much he wants to fight the player for trying to solve or destroy the castle since its all he has left now. The player family, johannes descendants, either due to duty to seek the treasure thinking it could restore the power of the kingdom (Maybe that's why your manor, supposedly the kings castle, starts as nothing? because charon took it all?) or to take vengeance on Johannes for killing the king, sets on the quest to destroy the castle and prevent it from affecting anyone else, or so i think.

Like Johannes says in the last book, all childrens have to pay for their family's actions regardless if they are responsible. This game story is about the sins of the father dooming an entire lineage or kingdom.

By killing johannes and the fountain its likely you end up (lore wise, i know there's NG+ after that) destroying the castle and freeing your family from the curse of having to fight and die there.