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is it all the mirrors or just megaThe download links (at least Win/Linux) don't seem to work? Some note that file's removed, others just simply timeout?
I'm sure Veronica's question to Olivia that hinted at sacrificing Seth will be presented in some way to Kane before the end. Even though there is no biological link between Olivia and the others, she had them as adopted brothers for ~20 years.Is there any discussion yet about "Fratricide" (= the act of killing one's own brother)?
I don't think it is by accident that we have 2 brothers as MCs who are named after 2 of the most well known brother killers in mythologie.
Kane or Cain killed his (younger) brother Abel in the biblical Book of Genesis.
"Cain, the firstborn, was a farmer, and his brother Abel was a shepherd. The brothers made sacrifices to God, but God favored Abel's sacrifice instead of Cain's. Cain then murdered Abel, whereupon God punished Cain by condemning him to a life of wandering."
Set or Seth killed his (older) brother Osiris in egyptian mythologie.
"Set is a god of deserts, storms, disorder, violence, and foreigners in ancient Egyptian religion. In Ancient Greek, the god's name is given as Sēth. Set had a positive role where he accompanies Ra on his barque to repel Apep, the serpent of Chaos. Set had a vital role as a reconciled combatant. He was lord of the Red Land (desert), where he was the balance to Horus' role as lord of the Black Land (fertile land)."
"Osiris is the god of fertility, agriculture, the afterlife, the dead, resurrection, life, and vegetation in ancient Egyptian religion."
"In the Osiris myth, the most important Egyptian myth, Set is portrayed as the usurper who murdered and mutilated his own brother, Osiris."
So there might be endings where Kane kills Seth and vice versa, maybe based on good versus evil rating. (Evil Kane kills Seth to take over the company, good Seth kills evil Kane to save the world, ...)
is it all the mirrors or just mega
There is also Project Noah, I have always wondered if they were just some references, or if all those names had a specific meaning. Especially when the most important choice in the last episode also adds flags referencing Sumerian gods.Seth is the younger brother of Cain and Abel, born after Cain slew Abel and was cursed to wander the Earth. In Genesis he's the ancestor of Noah and thereby all of humanity that survives the Flood.
I ain't gonna speculate on the significance, if any, but any parent who names their kids Kane and Seth may have some ... peculiar ambitions on their behalf.
Noah might most likely just be a reference to "Noah's Ark", "the ship in the Genesis flood narrative through which God spares Noah, his family, and examples of all the world's animals from a global deluge."There is also Project Noah, I have always wondered if they were just some references, or if all those names had a specific meaning. Especially when the most important choice in the last episode also adds flags referencing Sumerian gods.
I think Seth and his disease are just there by accident, not by plan. Callista and her children most of the years lived on their own outside of Karlsson's reach. Seth could have easily died and the Karlsson's would not have noticed. They intervened just when the Game had started ca 3 months after Karlsson's death and at that time Seth was almost dead, a hopeless case unless you spend millions of dollars and use best equipment and personell. Seth was (un)lucky to still be alive to participate in the game....
At 1st I thought Seth's disease was just a convenient plot device, but as the story went on, it felt more & more important, especially after Astrid was revealed. It can even be considered that the disease is the biggest reason he's in the Gambit, his main role.
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Ch6+7 flashbacks already established it more or less that it's not a coincidence that the concerns you stated (mc or Seth dying) didn't come to pass.I think Seth and his disease are just there by accident, not by plan. Callista and her children most of the years lived on their own outside of Karlsson's reach. Seth could have easily died and the Karlsson's would not have noticed. They intervened just when the Game had started ca 3 months after Karlsson's death and at that time Seth was almost dead, a hopeless case unless you spend millions of dollars and use best equipment and personell. Seth was (un)lucky to still be alive to participate in the game.
It seems that the world in KG is much more dangerous than our own world today (unless you live in a war zone.) So even Kane could have died by accident, in a fight with the wrong people, having a car accident, getting cancer, etc. Longtime plans based on only a few individuals are too uncertain for important matters.
If Seth's disease is caused by a genetical defect which is inherited from and so is present in one or more members of the big clans like the deKock or Karlsson, then the genetical defect is not new information and should be known to Veronica from previous cases. So Seth is more like another Guinea Pig to find a possible cure for a rare disease (which might be not so rare among the Karlssons and/or DeKocks.)
Callista died or vanished some time (years?) ago.If Seth really was in danger, & Callista wanted to save him, she had more than enough avenues.
Callista being alive & kicking as the gambit queen is a popular theory (I'm not confident enough to say 100% after the grymgudinna fakeout, but it's very likely)Callista died or vanished some time (years?) ago.
Also, then the whole dialog of Olivia and the doctor regarding Seth in hospital in ch. 1 does not make much sense. (Especially since we know that Olivia knows more ...) Wouldn't Olivia save Seth's health before permanent damage eg to his legs occured?
What other avenues did she have? Nobody including veronica has the cure and the karllsons are the closest to understanding the disease. She absolutely needs the karllsons to heal her son. She didnt even train Kane for the game ahead which shows just how little that she planned for that eventuality.Ch6+7 flashbacks already established it more or less that it's not a coincidence that the concerns you stated (mc or Seth dying) didn't come to pass.
Mistress Callista had access to a helicopter & Otto. (also a car iirc, even tho mc & olivia state to the karlssons that they only learned to drive through a car repair shop job they had - i.e. no personal cars)
If Seth really was in danger, & Callista wanted to save him, she had more than enough avenues.
CRAZIEST theories:
Project Noah is quite literal. 99% of animal life on Earth been infected/corrupted by alien/mutant lifeforms of a microscopic nature. (think the flood, or mushrooms from the last of us) Veronica and Dominique are trying to restore/rebuild long after most have given up hope on building a better world then humanity has managed to scrape together currently.
The unlivable zone is unlivable for humans because IT can live there.
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Olivia Karlsson is the Karlsson sister from the opening hospital scene in the dark. She found a way to contact her father remotely via messaging and pulled the plug on him to accelerate the trial and thusly, her own advancement.
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Juliette is a constantly oozing wound of resentment and bitterness towards her environment and circumstances and can be healed if everything falls into her place re, the gambit. She enjoys witnessing others suffering through no fault or failure of their own and feels cheated by the world.
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The miss Karlsson that came out of cryo was actually the aunt who resembles Olivia and at some point she is going to attempt to impersonate/replace Olivia. The Karlsson sister with the stage 5 condition was a red herring for the coming out of cryo scene.
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Seth and K5 sister's "super rare" condition is actually the blight upon Earth and almost everyone got it and/or has it.
Read the hiking flashback. Or the Stacy flashback. MC was trained a lot. Not specifically for the game, but rather for success.She didnt even train Kane for the game ahead which shows just how little that she planned for that eventuality.
She could reach out to Veronica disregarding everything if she was desperate for Seth's life. It's been established how brilliant she is, so she could've worked with her solve the disease much faster & saved her son soo much pain.What other avenues did she have?
Maybe not 100% guaranteed (DeKocks, Callista herself is brilliant, etc.) but true enough.Nobody including veronica has the cure and the karllsons are the closest to understanding the disease. She absolutely needs the karllsons to heal her son.
compare kanes training to olivias. Kane was just educated really well, nothing he was pushed in helped him in the game. Hell, he didnt even know that the karllsons were coming for him. If she did train him for the gambit, she failed, badly. Meanwhile not only did Olivia get acting and music lessons, but she also was well aware that the karlssons would be coming for her. Couple that with the fact that Olivia and Kane were raised as brother and sister which puts Olivia at a severe disadvantage, tells me that she wasnt planning on Kane being part of the gambit and her hand was likely forced.Read the hiking flashback. Or the Stacy flashback. MC was trained a lot. Not specifically for the game, but rather for success.
She basically made him study the complete subject instead of making him solve practice papers for a specific exam.
She could reach out to Veronica disregarding everything if she was desperate for Seth's life. It's been established how brilliant she is, so she could've worked with her solve the disease much faster & saved her son soo much pain.
She could've partnered up with the DeKocks & their researchers to work on it.
At the very least, it'd have been better than a public institute with a lack of funds.
Seth would've been more comfortable at the least & could've been frozen like Astrid at the worst.
Remember the DeKocks are on par with the Karlssons, despite not having a Veronica.
Maybe not 100% guaranteed (DeKocks, Callista herself is brilliant, etc.) but true enough.
Yet Callista didn't desperately knock on their doors, showing she still had some amount of control over the situation.
I didn't mean she could save him, but that she had options/avenues other than leaving him in a subpar public hospital.
But that's what happened. The great Callista, spoken of so highly by everyone in the game, could only manage to leave the fate of her terminally ill son to a subpar hospital.
It just doesn't match. Rather it's more convincing & in-line with her image if it was deliberate. ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯
Eh. Mc seems to be doing well. Olivia was trained as an agent while MC was trained as a examinee. He didn't need to know specifics to do well as long as he developed the skills required. You can see others praising Callista's tutelage directly or indirectly, i.e. she didn't fail.compare kanes training to olivias. Kane was just educated really well, nothing he was pushed in helped him in the game. Hell, he didnt even know that the karllsons were coming for him. If she did train him for the gambit, she failed, badly. Meanwhile not only did Olivia get acting and music lessons, but she also was well aware that the karlssons would be coming for her. Couple that with the fact that Olivia and Kane were raised as brother and sister which puts Olivia at a severe disadvantage, tells me that she wasnt planning on Kane being part of the gambit and her hand was likely forced.
Yup. The Astrid reveal, changing the k4 to k5 sisters, would be a more appropriate example tho.Imho :
You should not forget that KG is a story in development.
When ch.1 was written, not much was known and fixed how the story would evolve. The longer the game and so the story is developed, the more twists and inconsistencies may occur.
Olivia is one of the main protagonists. The player has to do decisions for her but in early chapters has no clue that she probably knows everything about the Gambit, probably even more than the other Karlsson girls. Instead she acts in early chapters like she knows nothing. This feels very strange in retrospective. Imagine that in later chapters it might be revealed that Kane and Seth also knew everything about the Gambit upfront and were trained and everything was just a charade to deceive other characters and the player ...
The single chapters are best viewed as a series of separate short stories with a consecutive cast and theme but not yet as parts of a consistent full novel since this novel is still in development and not finished. Once the game has reached its end, it would be wise to go back to start and rework dialogs and scenes so that the early parts of the game are consistent with the late game story.
Nevertheless it is interesting to see how the overall story evolves and changes from chapter to chapter ...