One final puzzle? (Major endgame + final boss spoilers)

[TheJDude]

So, to enter and eventually defeat The 9th Child, the Alfr Seeres' Prophecies are required with multiple steps. However, by the end of the game, only 4 steps seem to be utilized (bearing in mind, I was chanting sun and moon in the final battle quite a bit)

My question is, if this does not indeed remove the mask of The 9th Child in the third phase, where would we chant sun and moon in the collapsing temple. The exact hint is as follows:

"- The Alfr Seeress' Phophecy Part V -
The Sun has no idea
Of the power it has
The Moon has no idea
That it has power at all
Dazzling stars remain
Smoke and flame rage
Flames frollic in the heavens
For the mighty have vanished
For it's true form cannot be seen by starlight alone"

Any thoughts and speculation are 100% welcome, also let me know if I'm a dumb and just accidentally solved it without realizing!

[Highly Inappropriate]

Originally posted by thr:

Maybe it's not about Sakit, a few things don't seem to fit. you don't need to use an embankment for Sakit. edit: but actually you do, now that i think of it. you open the prison from above.
Trickster's glossary entry is odd in that it mentions him as a 2nd tribe Titan in the info fields, but the glossary description explicitly states that's he's a 6th child.
would be good to see the Japanese entries for these things. these may be simply translation errors.
but i'd bet it's about Sakit.

Yeah, I vaguely recall somebody saying that the Trickster is a giant raised as some other race, or that might have been me reading actual nordic mythology. In Marvel Loki is actually a frost giant too, who just doesn't know that he's adopted.
...so that means that there would be TWO 2nd children Tricksters, unless Sakit IS The Trickster, in disguise.

[Highly Inappropriate]

Another thing about the vessel and the child: I don't know if the same thing happened in La-Mulana 1, and there just wasn't anything else you could do but kill her, but La-Mulana has been permeated by all these eyes that are there just to discourage violence, and instead make you think about clever ways, so when you're given an option about what to do with the child, it feels very un-La-Mulana-esque, to just go "DIE!". ...and it didn't even work either.
I think trying to kill it, produces "the bad ending".

[Highly Inappropriate]

...or maybe we could chant Water, according to the vedas text that the dead return to water.

[TheJDude]

I've been wondering about that Vedas text for quite some time, I'm not sure I ever found a use for that tablet in the game at all thus far.

[Dan]

Originally posted by MegaUltraJMan:

I've been wondering about that Vedas text for quite some time, I'm not sure I ever found a use for that tablet in the game at all thus far.

It's part of the Brahma puzzle set

[Highly Inappropriate]

Originally posted by Dan:

It's part of the Brahma puzzle set

In what way?
Explain the beam puzzle to me, about death, life, virtue and chaos and stuff.

[Highly Inappropriate]

Also, the missing sigil is called "Rebirth", leading me to further believe that you should use the vessel on the child, maybe to get that sigil.

[Highly Inappropriate]

There are many weird tablets in this game.
For example, the Anchient Chaos vertical passage, that you can only get to via the Corridor of Blood, has this weird tablet mumbling about "not getting what you want" and "looking between spaces" or some such. Is this rambling nonsense, or is this a clue? Is "How crazy do you have to be for gold?" a clue? Basically if you took all the forgotten nonsense tablets in this game, you could probably compile them together into a troll story about a secret ending, rivalling that of Silent Hill 2.

...and look at THIS thing: Clear instructions to return to Pangu after you've "defeated the Anunnaki" so that he may "become your ally":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEZE9txY6Pc
(29:22)

[Yung BladerJoe-]

The Vedas Text is related to the Brahma puzzle. (similar to the Malu Prayer Beads, the Padma Lotus and the Kamandalu Water Pot)

In the 9th child fight when you have to climb up the room because the face is on the ceiling, it will wear a mask and you cant deal any damage to it without chanting the mantra. Chanting the mantra will remove the mask.

Sakit is the trickster of the 2nd children, Loki is the trickster of the 6th children (?).

Ignore Flibedi Floop because he clearly hasnt solves ANY of the puzzles without a guide and he has no idea which tablets refer to which puzzle because he never used hints from tablets at all.

[Highly Inappropriate]

Originally posted by Yung BladerJoe-:

Ignore Flibedi Floop because he clearly hasnt solves ANY of the puzzles without a guide and he has no idea which tablets refer to which puzzle because he never used hints from tablets at all.

The only puzzle that I didn't bother to fully understand, was the Brahma puzzle (with virtues and stuff), but there are clearly tablets that are just nonsense. Would those tablets somehow relate to the Brahma puzzle, then I'd just feel sorry for you.

[RabidChoco]

Originally posted by Flibedi-floob:

1. We didn't get to seal Eg-Lana, did we? The child actually escaped. That's because we didn't do all the steps in the Seer's prophecy. We THOUGHT we did, but there's something that we missed, like the pot in the Anubis riddles, maybe? ...or maybe there's a sixth tablet that we forgot about.

Okay. This is a foundational false assumption. Long story short; the whole thing with the seal, and the mantras and the Beherit, all an elaborate setup to literally tear Eg-Lana's soul out. That soul is what you fight as the "9th Child," that soul is what you saw "escape." It's established in the first game, and mentioned by the Philosophers and in the elder Kosugis' notes, that the Mother is the La-Mulana ruins, and thus, the 9th Child's body is Eg-Lana itself.

[JH1000]

The game files have already been ripped apart by people, and at this point it is safe to say that there is nothing hidden in the game that isn't already on the Wiki or the forums. There might be more content coming in the future, either completely new or finished versions of maps already partly in the game, or at least hinted at, like Spring in the Sky or Oanne's Tower.

[Highly Inappropriate]

Originally posted by RabidChoco:

Okay. This is a foundational false assumption. Long story short; the whole thing with the seal, and the mantras and the Beherit, all an elaborate setup to literally tear Eg-Lana's soul out. That soul is what you fight as the "9th Child," that soul is what you saw "escape." It's established in the first game, and mentioned by the Philosophers and in the elder Kosugis' notes, that the Mother is the La-Mulana ruins, and thus, the 9th Child's body is Eg-Lana itself.

So your plan was to tear apart the child's body, in order to free its soul, and that counted as "sealing" it? Sealing it? Really?

Originally posted by Cifer:

The game files have already been ripped apart by people, and at this point it is safe to say that there is nothing hidden in the game that isn't already on the Wiki or the forums. There might be more content coming in the future, either completely new or finished versions of maps already partly in the game, or at least hinted at, like Spring in the Sky or Oanne's Tower.

In that case not even the story itself, makes any sense. Very disappointing.
I'm guessing there's no bug-free way to save Freya yet either, despite there being an achievement for it.

[Yung BladerJoe-]

Man you are so dense its not even funny. Why did you even bother playing this game if you dont understand any of its lore, did not solve any puzzle on your own and just complain about it all the time. Maybe you are just a elaborate troll I dont really care.

[Highly Inappropriate]

Originally posted by Yung BladerJoe-:

Man you are so dense its not even funny. Why did you even bother playing this game if you dont understand any of its lore, did not solve any puzzle on your own and just complain about it all the time. Maybe you are just a elaborate troll I dont really care.

Because it's a platformer with good music and good graphics, kinda like Castlevania. You even get a whip. I liked Castlevania.

...but no, you're the one who's dense. You're dense in a way that makes you make constant excuses for any fault this game may have. "In order to defeat the great Eggbert, you must open the door! * closes the door.* LORE!"