Talk:The Last Big Secret/@comment-7027372-20130327183245/@comment-4332975-20130328154056

I feel like I may have done a poor job explaining, with this one. Or, maybe it's something that you have to have played the games to understand. Either way, I'm going to take a minute to do something I rarely do, and explain.

The story is heavily based in a piece of real SotC history. Shortly after the game came out, within a year or so, rumours started circulating about a "Last Big Secret" hidden in the game, which the developers claimed no one had discovered. There actually was a search for it all over the internet, with pages upon pages of theory, and clues found in multiple areas across the game world, but no hard results (which this story attributes to an active effort to sabotage the search and keep people from learning the truth).

The story was meant to convey, and I mention in one line ("Maybe the fear had clouded their memory, or maybe it was that the search took them years .") that even with all of them working together, it took a long time for them to figure it out, more than "within a couple months".

The last line is actually a reinterperting of one of the first lines of the game: "That place... began from the resonance of intersecting points... They are memories replaced by ens and naught and etched into stone. Blood, young sprouts, sky--and the one with the ability to control beings created from light... In that world, it is said that if one should wish it one can bring back the souls of the dead... But to trespass upon that land is strictly forbidden..."

Interperting the line as a description of playing a game is nothing new. What I was trying to convey was that the "Last Big Secret" wasn't actually somthing in the game at all. Rather, I interpert the game as functioning as a ritual - a digitized spell, if you will. Normally, in the ending of the game, the spell is interrupted by the priest-character Lord Emon and his soldiers arriving, but doing things in a highly specific way, a ritual unto itself, allows the spell to be cast uninterrupted. What I was trying to convey was that the secret is literally the "Last Big Secret", not merely of the game, but of life itself; That the spell does exactly what the game hints at, and calls forth the souls of the dead.

Or, maybe you knew that already, and were just trying to keep the conspiracy alive?