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Oh I see I played the base version and I didn't tell Vergil about the feral being a nos so I guess that's why I missed it.There was a bug though, in the original release it only showed this stuff if you told Virgil the feral was a Nos, while clearly Markus is only supposed to confide in the MC if you didn't. The hotfix corrects this bug.
Yeah okay I can see that. It is a bit of a leap tbh but I guess with conservation of detail in games like these I could go either way on it.This is where Arigon gets his theory that the feral at the abandoned hospital is the deranged Ileana, because Ileana used to hang out near the big bad. Personally I think that's a giant leap, and there's no evidence in game yet that the feral was Ileana.
Okay thanks for the detailed post, let me first respond to this. What you say here could account for the varied time scale between generations because it took that long for the new vampires to successfully embrace their own children without being wiped out.The thing with trying to lay out a generation vs timeline is not a bad attempt to generalize things, though of course it will be wildly inaccurate in a lot of cases, as any generalization would be. Most of the vampires in VtM that are running around in the modern nights are less than 500 years old. They are 8th generation or higher. The weak blooded are the most recent. That does not mean that 14k years ago there were not 8th generation vampires, they just didn't survive or they gobbled their way up the food chain.
So there could be multiple "8th generations" where it's wiped out a bunch until it's successfully established and you go to the 9th generation being wiped out a bunch. This is still highly unusual and to me strains credibility but it's a lot better than random time differences in generations for no reason.
I feel like this is probably the weakest part of your theory as Markus doesn't seem to know he has this job or really anything about this super elder vampire. His sire apparently didn't know anything either. I guess there could have been an organization to take care of Ereshkigal at one point but there doesn't seem to be any evidence in game for this at all.Markus' sire and whomever came before her watched over Ereshkigal. (Markus and his sire are much much much less powerful than Calisto, I postulate that his sire inherited the job from a series of more ancient vampires who grew bored or careless or both, or were similarly mistreated by Ereshkigal as her Nos bunker brood was)
If Inanna was able to take action to ensure that she is well served by Calisto shouldn't Ereshkigal have done the same to ensure that she had good servants of Calisto's level? Even if let's say she was asleep and so just got unlucky when her servants deserted but Inanna's didn't wouldn't her first step have been to build her power base by not driving those nos to insanity? Or is she just malevolent and can't help herself?
Reading through this it feels like Inanna has the definite upper hand on Ereshkigal and they're not quite equals.