I’ve only been playing this for a few days now, and certainly haven’t seen everything the game has to offer, but I’ve found it quite compelling in it’s storytelling and world building. In particular, I’ve just completed the whole “Morgana mystery” section of the plot and I’m finding myself wondering more and more about Morgana. I’ve been working through some wild speculation; some spoilers follow if you haven’t played through that yet.
- We have been told
that the MC is in fact substantially more powerful than Morgana, but we’ve also been told by Gramps (who was notably candid, which is rare for him) that Morgana is extremely dangerous. The way I reconcile this is that the MC may have more raw power, but has yet to fully unlock his abilities, while Morgana has far more knowledge and experience, and probably a closet or two full of dangerous artifacts.
- Morgana seems to create her own servants, but seems strangely indifferent to them… except to remind them of their flaws - and seemingly, shames them for that fact. This is interesting, because if they’re flawed, it implies that Morgana isn’t as good at creating servants as she wishes she would be; and she takes her anger out on them instead of blaming herself. That said, it’s also very interesting that she seems unbothered that four of her servants - Pixie,
- end up with MC, along with her failed creation
.
- Speaking of Morgana’s indifference, how has she not figured out Pixie’s true loyalties lay with the MC? She’s pretty indifferent to her servants, true, but she seems like Pixie’s disloyalty would be hard to NOT notice. Or it could be she has noticed, but is playing it close to the chest as part of a longer game - Morgana is a known manipulator, after all.
- The MC’s default name is Robin Goodfellow, better known to Shakespeare fans as Puck, a Fey servant of Oberon, king of the Fey. Are we to infer from this that the MC is himself Fey or partially Fey? (Though if he was, it’s odd that Pixie, who lacks a filter, wouldn’t remark on it - remember how she repeatedly mentions Emma “smelled” funny - if the MC “smelled” funny, why wouldn’t she mention it?) For that matter, where’s Oberon, or Titania, his queen and consort (and occasional nemesis!)
- Following up on that, could Morgana and her fellow council members have overthrown Oberon and Titania? That they’ve overthrown their “rightful” rulers but lack their power or wisdom might explain why, for example, they struggle to create servants or keep order. It could also be why Morgana, normally so indifferent to her servants, seems to go out of her way to behave sadistically towards them - as a means of re-assuring herself of her own power and status. As a (perhaps clumsy) parallel, consider the behavior differences between the nouveau riche (who want to show off all the money they have) and old money people, who generally don’t bother to show off to their lessors, because why bother with the little people?
- What is the relationship between, say, Kana and her people and Fey like Morgana? I take it that Kana’s people are *some* kind of Fey creature, but they don’t seem subordinate to Morgana. in fact, Morgana’s troublemaker specifically avoids going into Kana’s people’s forest - through whether that’s because the troublemaker expects to be given trouble by the wolves or is simply afraid they might pass a message on to Morgana is hard to say.