Topic: Still Finding New Things in Eternal Darkness

[BlackGriffen]

I can't believe that this never clicked with me before. In the very first chapter, you have to destroy a statue to prove your worth. I had initially written this off as nothing more than a quick targeting tutorial. Later, when I finally realized that the statues of the dead characters were lined up in the Chamber of Eternal Darkness (the room with the faces on the floor where you find the tome), I was slightly puzzled at the fact that the statue of Pious Augustus wasn't complete. I figured that it was just symbolism for the fact that he had fallen under the sway of one of the three. I didn't realize until I bought the game recently (I had rented previously) and checked out a Nintendo Power ad that came with the disk that the statue you hack up in the targeting tutorial was the statue of Pious you later find the chamber! Holy crap. Do these statues serve some kind of protective function? Obviously, it was stupid of Pious to hack up a statue of himself. Come, someone explain this! This is even more mysterious, IMHO, than the whole yellow magick thing.

Also, one other detail I've never seen anyone else mention is that the seal on the pantry door in the mansion, when you go to open it, will be one of the three (it's been a while so I can't remember how it relates to chosen path), but if you check it out before you open the Tome of Eternal Darkness, it has a Mantorok Seal on it. Does anyone think that there's anything to this? After all, it would have been relatively simple to only have the seal appear later when Alex's eyes have been opened to the truth (using that explanation) and just have it be locked like the other locked doors.

Just, wow. I beat it on all three paths, but I want to play it again to see if I can catch any more details.... I will say this, after playing ED, and reading the Dyack interviews, I have come to realize that Denis is the master of hiding things in plain sight.

More games, SK! Too Human, Twin Snakes, and whatever else you're working on can't come one minute too soon.

BlackGriffen

[NinGurl69 *huggles]

Once I was a fool.

Now I see.

Now I believe.

[NinGurl69 *huggles]

I'm still a fool.

[Grey Ninja]

Heh.  I was hoping for some new insight, but it's all stuff that I already noticed long ago.  

Ah well, we all know that Denis is the master of hiding things in plain sight.  That's what we love about him.

[ThePerm]

i can't wait to see what the yellow god en'gha looks like.

[Caliban]

There is a green, red, blue, and a purple god but no yellow god(thank god).

[Rogue]

Denis hinted at a yellow god in one of his interviews. The ED universe is apparently a lot bigger than what has been revealed so far.

[Caliban]

Maybe we will see him in some future incarnation of ETERNAL DARNESS.

[Grey Ninja]

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Originally posted by: Caliban
There is a green, red, blue, and a purple god but no yellow god(thank god).

You sure about that?  

Take a look at the magick scroll that Anthony reads, or the magick that zaps Pious in the intro.  

[ThePerm]

him or her?

[Marcus Arillius]

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Originally posted by: Caliban
There is a green, red, blue, and a purple god but no yellow god(thank god).

why are you thanking god that there is no yellow god?

[Caliban]

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Originally posted by: Marcus Arillius

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Originally posted by: Caliban
There is a green, red, blue, and a purple god but no yellow god(thank god).

why are you thanking god that there is no yellow god?

I don't know. Just felt like saying it for no reason.

[Berny]

Chatturga=crab (I'm dyslexic or something cause I wrote crap. I noticed my mistake and deleted it. I do that in writing too.   )
Ulyouth=jellyfish
Xellototh=?alien thingy?
Mantorok=heaping blob of boils and pestilence
Therefore, the yellow god (tentatively titled "Jim") is either a seagull or a pop–tart.

[Grey Ninja]

you completely butchered the spelling in that post...

[Tekkena]

All I want to know is why is Mantorock the god of Chaos is help saving humanity. And I think that all of the gods so far are actually being played by a fifth god. Much like Mantorock tricking all three gods to kill each other in the third ending. With 3 gods out of the way, that leaves only one god for the mystery yellow god to deal with. And I think that since Mantorock is the god of chaos, the other yellow god must be a god of Life and Rebuilding.

[Berny]

Yeah, Grey Ninja. I didn't feel like exerting the energy to look up their real names. Great game but the names confused me. Are they based off something?

[ThePerm]

being that the thread is filled with spoilers

or god the god of order or light.... im bettign the name is En'gha. Thats why the underground city is called the ruins of En'gha. En'gha being the light god is why they have the Order of Light meeting which is trying to stop etenral darkness. One wonders what happened to Mantoroks own leige(he is equivelent to pious...he was the guy who gave the heart to elia...before he lived in cambodia he was an egyptian pharoah(i read this on an n64 site...but his plot was cut out of the game...possibly because he will be a big part of the sequal)...he is also pious' arch nemesis)

[Gup]

I never really bothered playing ED a second time through nor will I since I've already sold it.