Hello there, when I was thinking about this my neurons activated and thought that the MC is actually sick mentally I’ll explain everything I thing is revelant to this (make sure to add more to the theory if you think there’s more to it)
Firstly gameplay wise, in the story we’re the only player, meaning that fighting other people, hunting them, clan wars are just our imagination.
After Killing a boss, they respawn as mirages letting us fighting again, but here again it’s just our wicked brain seeing hallucinations of when we fought the boss
Boss drops too are actually not what we think, the first and only time we killed the bosses we stole their belongings, but due to our hazy mind we forgot about these and only remember about it after coming back to where we murdered the boss and “killing” the hallucination
The Dark Sea :
In the dark sea we can feel multiple things that aren’t real such as smell of cold metal or blood when there’s nothing.
But we as the player gets to see more things such as ghost ships, ghosts we can talk with, and also even more disturbing our dead crew members as ghosts. Speaking of ghost crew member they aren’t completely due to dark sea since once we’re back in the war seas, they are still here.
Due to insanity effects the most disturbing one are the shadow hallucinations, that seems to judge us, we are the only one to see these within our crew, showing how affected we are by hallucinations
Recap : The MC seems to be affected by two main things which are hallucinations and memory loss (confirmed, but not as strong as this), we notice that the first symptoms of hallucination is from Iris and increase as the time passes, as for memory loss we don’t remember our past, but we still remember our current situation, the only memory loss shown is through boss drops.
Only my opinion but our past memory gradually comes back up as the time passes, proof of it in the dark sea shadow figures that looks at us and judges us. That could corelate with our pityful treatment in Order of Aesir as subjects.
I believe that such things aren’t real in the lore. Great example of this could be the hecate essence which as far as I have heard does not exist there. But I guess it should be obvious that not everything you see in the game is canon.
Well, those things are more likely to be caused by the effects of magic pollution on our mind, aka “insanity”. Btw, even our crewmates get hallucinations.
But I agree with the part about hallucinations being linked to our past. Those effects resemble a state of broken spirit/will and they sometimes quite well fall into similarity with our path.
Ravenna has no ruler, Calvus is dead and Revon is missing. We are responsible for the destruction of Fort Talos, which could have had an impact on the piracy lvl. And Keraxe attacked Sameria. Everything because of our hunt on the Order’s members. Common citizens doesn’t know anything about the Order of Aesir, so it makes sense for them to blame us (Tiberia is an exception). In their perspective we just murdered a king and started a war for no reason at all.
Refers to our memory loss.
Silas The Lost Soul has the same name as the protagonist, so there is a theory that it is their soul. Besides, we have an entire list of people to kill, lol (Order Tab).
It seems like other whispers are pretty much normal and don’t make any sense for now. Sorry for the insanely bad formatting, I hope it is readable.
