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when I did this quest I had no idea you could get blood from Rhydder, lol. I went to Penitent Thaw and she made a fake batch

Glad you reconsidered on the crystal goddesses fate, as most people I've watched tend to just kill her because they are not trusting of what kind of effects she'll have on them and/or are diehard supporters of the Union. I have always sided with the crystal goddess simply on principle of playing a very curious, throw caution to the wind, kind of character. But yea gods in this world are very much alien in their world view as compared to mortals. In fact I'd argue there are truly no evil deities in the sense that they are seeking to torture or be cruel just for the sake of being cruel. They simply have a different way of approaching the world and considering things. Paeguth again, is one of the 'kinder' deities, yet that doesn't mean he's a good guy. He's still quite cruel in his methods, but there are obvious tangible benefits to receive from dealing with him, at the cost of some potentially negative downsides (bodily mutation, infertility, pain). The god involved in the endless provided immortality at the cost of the various traumatic experiences accumulated among the endless. I think that's just the simple nature of how gods and magic overall works. In several item descriptions you often read about the downsides/limitations of said items which ultimately relate to cipher. Shielding potions deflect injury and hugs, protection rings can petrify, mana potions can be addictive, etc. The Ferryman is most certainly not a tangible god-entity like with the Crystal Goddess already forming, but instead a collective belief born from shared desire among the endless to have a true death. Especially since its been pointed out before that the endless have no gods (which is why the Union tolerate them). The Crystal Goddess seems quite distinct and separate from the wider belief in this ferryman figure. I believe the loyalty-gates may have been erected some time after the king fled underneath the castle, perhaps during the transition into the endless realm but not when he still ruled.

Fun fact the roaming island was added to the game during early access in the halloween update just prior to the last major update (clockwork kingdom) before 1.0. At the time it was accessible from Hallowshire near Castle Hallow. The fact that the Union has built an entire gatebridge attached to an unstable island is rather bizarre, as it's bound to shift again and destroy said bridge eventually. Seems like a waste of not only construction material, but also everyone who purchased a passport for that particular bridge basically gets screwed over since it'll eventually drift off somewhere else that may not require a bridge to get to or is too far for a bridge to be practical. The Crystal Goddess is certainly one of those gods which most tend to destroy just off the principle of all gods are bad. But beyond this surface level thinking, the Crystal Goddess does pose a conflicting problem. While her purpose is meant to serve as a form of salvation for the Endless, it does seem to come at the cost of a loss of self-identity, as all memories are melded together in one. Furthermore, those who don't necessarily wish to be part of it deal with the painful crystal growth and psychic weight bearing down upon them. Furthermore, it is implied the Goddess herself is somewhat enraged (perhaps by the state of the endless - a concentration of all the deep-seated anger the endless under her control and who empowered her, feel). Unlike with TWOAF who was largely impotent, the Crystal Goddess is very much a real and potential power in this land, and it very much seems like she's the kind of entity to want to have All the endless under her influence - saving them from their suffering at the cost of self-autonomy and choice. Perhaps in a land where endless are either prone to wishing to feast upon the living or roleplay death and waste away, you could argue that the endless are at a point where they themselves are incapable of truly making a decision that best benefits their kind. In that way, having something else decide, take over and be in control could be seen as a better deal than the if you wish to go the route that everything else is for naught with the endless. The Crystal Goddess doesn't seem to have inherently malicious intentions but the methods by which it is likely to go can be potentially hazardous. There is a great comparison to be made with paeguth to or even the dead god aenguin in pwyll. Paeguth was all about sacrifice of pain and grotesque bodily transformations in exchange for euphoria, bliss, and never going hungry or dealing with disease. Yet many hallowshire natives were completely fine with paeguth's presence and relied on him for their way of life, as he was providing a service that was essential to that region's prosperity. Aenguin was the tyrant god of pywll who demanded blood sacrifice in exchange for financial prosperity. Up until it became unsustainable and the pwyllians revolted. Is it possible the Crystal Goddess growth and expansion would become unsustainable for her apparent goals of saving the Endless? It is like you said, at what point does she stop? Where is the cut off? She is a body amalgamate of many different minds refracted in one entity. What happens when enough cadavers get taken over? will they impact her in any way? Also yes there was indeed a hidden bridge in the upper levels of the Cadaver Keep (just like the one at rustburg) visible via truth potion/leech of truth.

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First Myghar and now The Way of All Flesh, pretty soon you'll be dealing with a guilt to rival even the endless. Ultimately it was a sound decision to kill it. Unfortunate but sound. (even though i always choose to spare them personally after feeling awful the first time i killed them). This all could've been solved if you were just able to tell the flesh farm to talk to no one else but you. And maggotson honestly should've just kept his mouth shut especially since he's working for the one woman who literally is responsible for ultimately convincing the queen to put an end to the crusades. Rhydder and his likeminded allies are going to be searching for any exploitable flaw in Penitent's solution and try and use it as leverage in support of their desire to start the crusades again. Of course, it's clear they stand no chance against penitent directly despite the fact that she's unguarded. Also those flying (sometimes winged) sword wielding undead do have in-game info as to what they are. You can talk to the one in sepulcher and i believe the seneschal also mentions them. Not you bullying the poor npc's in their own keep 🤣 just casually walking circles around them, giving yourself a little house tour, critiquing their architecture and then closing the door on their faces lol.

The possibility of the endless worshipping the god who was involved in their creation is such an intriguing idea i've never considered! But in this setting where gods deal in contracts and bargains, it makes complete sense! The god that was involved in the immortality spell that made the endless may have knowingly sabotaged the kingdom, knowing they would eventually languish long enough to become desperate for a savior out of shame and rejection of their unnatural existences. Then again, it may be a stretch to assume a god would be that good at planning so far in the future, given how Paeguth (an ancient god) was so utterly naive to trust you as the sole lynchpin holding up his entire plan in hallowshire. The other thing to consider here is the name ferryman seems to be a name born of a cultural shift in the endless, closely related to the population of endless who support the flesh farms and mausoleums. From that perspective it makes sense for endless who are gripped with shame and regret to invent this idea of a "savior" who will deliver them from their sinful existence, and it could serve as a means to sell the idea of mausoleums in the first place. The Mausoleums are places of reprieve from "living" where the endless may "act dead" as they believe they were meant to be. The Ferryman essentially promises the endless some kind of escape. The fact that the endless need life essence to prevent a true death yet the followers of the ferryman wish to be dead brought up an interesting contradiction too. But I think this goes back to the whole idea of the endless only "pretending" or "roleplaying" being dead. In truth they are immortal monsters who yearn for escape, yet because they've been so out of touch with the concept of mortality they also don't know and comprehend what it really means to die. It could be the fear of the unknown in what happens after death that ironically grips the heart of the ferryman's followers (despite having an idea of what the afterlife will be like - nothingness), preventing them from taking that final step in just abstaining from eating flesh all together. They understand what it will be like but don't know what it will feel like I suppose. That or starving oneself may be seen as a sin (suicide) in the eyes of the ferryman and/or is painful for the endless to endure. This also connects to the reason why no god will come to the endless aid as far as most endless are aware, for the endless are so unnaturally immortal they may be reviled as abominations and an afront to the status quo, that men should be perish and die, whilst the gods remain (for as long as they maintain worship). On the other hand, it does beg the question why no god ever stepped up earlier (prior to the god war during the reign of the gods) to offer salvation and benefit from the worship of an immortal population of followers.🤔 41:52 That statue may be the first instance of a statue which doesn't indicate a hidden area

Ghost in this game are quite interesting (and sad). They are the manifestations of a living beings' trauma and entirely seperate entities from that which bore them. In the case of poor myghar is literally just the recent trauma of the original myghar's final moments before being devoured by a wyrm. Since the ghostly myghar is just a trauma echo his very existence will be forever centered around this exact moment :/. What's even worse, is that as an endless, the original myghar can't even truly die, and is still inside the wyrm that ate them...digested and such. Penitent Thaw is quite an important and impactful figure on the course of Endless society, so she's bound to have some people hate her for flesh farms. Way of All Flesh certainly has traits one could associate with a god, and the fact that he is only able to communicate with living creatures telepathically is quite a difference from other beings. Yet in the context of this game, it is never outright stated if he's a god or not like paeguth, xanarrib, and the death god beyond the initial conversation with it. Yet this isn't the only instance of a unique entity with some traits of the divine in this game as you'll soon find out. The fact that it knows what a brain is and what its purpose could be a result of the clauses defining the concepts of "living flesh" and "human flesh" within the cipher syntax. As cipher magic is just tweaking the language of reality, the knowledge it possesses on its conscious state could simply be it subconsciously drawing upon the foundational spell which bore its existence originally, and as it gained sentience it essentially gained insight into its own makeup. This could also be why it gained sentience in the first place. Perhaps penitent's spell improperly defined how the 'living flesh' should persist and behave OR it could be that the very nature of living things to grow, adapt and evolve cannot be truly prevented. It is simply an inevitability that living things should achieve sentience in this case, especially that which is a substitute for living human flesh. It could also be as you say that it bears some remnants of the memory of the flesh Penitent might have used to even start the process of creating the flesh farm. And if it ever did gain access to cipher magic...combined with how rapidly developing and its desire to achieve omniscience, could end up being a problem for sure.

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Each of the four main islands, in addition to the regional main quest, has a sort of "main sidequest" as well, which determines the fate of that region. In pwyll this was deciding if the kid sacrifices himself to the mushrooms of the god Aenguin to keep the village harvests alive or stop him to let it inevitably dry up. In hallowshire this was deciding to help paeguth reestablish his control over hallowshire or aiding the union in driving out the local cult for good. In the endless realm this will indeed relate to the entombed one. The teleporter isn't in the town proper, but it does happen to be nearby...you'll just have to find it via some good old fashion exploration. Honestly the idea of a race of immortal undead who enjoy plays, roleplaying as different people because they are so bored and detached from the living world is a solid idea. A society based on roleplay, where the leaders are chosen from amongst those who have the most convincing 'personas' and nothing else. As you have learned there are two opposing groups of endless: most endless are ashamed of their nature and their past and prefer to eat the mindless meat and stay in mausoleums to play dead - kind of like a racial atonement for the sin of their unnatural existences. Then you have a select few who are proud of their past as immortal flesh-eating monsters, who hate the mindless meat and dabble in illegal flesh-brokering. They've truly forgotten their humanity. If I recall correctly, there is a reason why living human flesh is preferred over other meat and why the endless don't even eat animal meat. I like how the seneschal asks the player if they have ever seen a god, something which is probably quite rare these days. At this point, the player has most likely interacted/seen 2-3 and possibly even 4 prior to speaking with them, and that's not even counting the dead god under pwyll village or the god skull of the wobbly noggin.

Gods require worship/prayer to sustain themselves, it's like a food source to them, without it, they weaken and ultimately perish. So while they think in cipher and have great power, it means nothing if they can't build up a dedicated follower base, and to do so they enter into contracts with mortals. Thus they grant mortals some kind of benefit while they themselves get power. The endless likely don't upkeep basic infrastructure and comforts because of how long they've lived, and how ingrained certain beliefs are in their stagnant society. They receive almost no visitors from outside their territory and are incredibly ancient civilization compared to the modern day sky realms. There simply is no drive or desire to engage in these simple comforts anymore. As you progress you will likely uncover more information concerning the history and their past, and the weight which every endless seems to carry. You'll notice there are some distinct differences in ideology between groups of endless (represented as new factions).

Yea that locked dilapidated manor was where Ezra thornwood would have sent you had you not angered her and 'violently evicted her'. The fact that I know exactly what you're referencing😅16:52 That tower is indeed part of the endless realm (kind of) in that its first accessible by going through the Endless Realm. It is connected to the lower part of the tower which you couldn't get access to when you were in pwyll. 19:10 Did you pick up a compass in pwyll yet? I could have sworn you did. Those tentacle monsters near the castle should be friendly toward you given you are in good standing with the wikkans. Yea for a god who has been around since the Middle Ages (so way before the emberians and the world rend) he is very very trusting that you wont just double cross him once he gives you something a vital as a god-aspect. However, I guess if you were able to get to him in the first place, he assumes you must be really devout and dedicated to his cause. Ironically it's the Fertile One who could ultimately be responsible for getting their 'father' killed by sending the player over to see paeguth had you turned him in. For a lot of people I've watched play this game, the castle situation has always been a deal breaker for helping paeguth. But the deal as stipulated in the contract between the Duke and Paeguth was: A sacrifice of pain in exchange for staving off the plague. However if the Duke is dead/dying he cant be in pain thus voiding the contract. God-contracts seem to be very literal and carefully worded to invite no room for 'technicalities'. 37:57 nonsense! to be reborn anew by the power of Paeguth's love is nothing to balk at! It is a blessed transformation. Cult shilling aside, there is an implied reason for the whole transformation angle of paeguth's interests rooted in his history and lore. He's a god of life who got ptsd and had his world view shattered (his followers were slain in war and that broke his heart + he was nearly killed) so after hiding in a cave and seeing ugly cave critters survive in their environment, he adopted a new ideology focused on survival and enduring at all costs likely as a defense mechanism to protect himself and his followers/children. Now his followers and him are grotesque but they live long, euphoric lives in exchange, whilst pain is used to elucidate the meaning behind their new forms and his message (pain is what led to his transformation in the first place, pain is what must be endured and survived to truly thrive and live. This is why the duke had to bear pain to survive the plague and why the fertile one bears agonies to fight the famine). At least that's my own interpretation of things.

xanarrib is an eldritch meatball with spindly legs, just a chill lil' guy. You got to see one of the few instances of what could be considered a boss fight in this game and finally you've discovered the bell tower 😆

I wish I got that much of an applause! Lol

The only raid available in this world is the good ol'fashion inquisition 'boots on the ground' kind. Just as effective, but terrible on local morale. Really heavy lore episode this one, but honestly ghlem has got to be one of the most lore heavy characters in the game, and I'm so glad you're the type to read all the books and read all the dialogue on screen. As for the academy's lack of size, I'd say it's more like a prestigious and exclusive traveling research laboratory than something akin to a hogwarts in this universe.

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This game is a vibe, and I'm here for it.

with the factions, the goblin faction was hidden (but can still be seen via debug screen) and unfortunately never given any real functionality besides grouping certain enemy types in the same faction (goblins, moths, and frogs). The reward locked behind the door with the Last (bigheaded) Goblin used to make the goblins and moths friendly when you wore it, but that functionality has been removed. The other 3 factions of Hallowshire: Union, Wikkans, and Outlaws, all are functionally the same in what rewards they give with significant faction reputation: - access to faction-only room (which grants access to a skill buff) - makes generic NPCs of these factions friendly and/or allows the player to have them act as followers who help in combat faction rep between these 3 factions can be increased/decreased via selling godlets or killing other faction members (plus completing certain side quests in favor of these factions): - selling godlets to outlaws improves outlaw rep but lowers union and wikkan rep - selling godlets to wikkans improves wikkan rep but lowers union and outlaw rep - selling godlets to union improves union rep but lowers wikkan and outlaw rep - killing outlaws improves union rep and lowers outlaw rep - killing union guards (those outside hallow town) improves wikkan and outlaw rep but lowers union rep - killing wikkans improves union rep but lowers wikkan rep and yea you actually can get all factions to like you enough

Those tiny green skulls are for a late game side quest, they're scattered all over the map. 9:19 This is just my speculation, but I believe the paeguth artifact has some kind of power of taking and giving life. When you find it on the Typhos, the ship is mostly empty and has been circling around a mountain. The captain asserts that he is making good time (apparently not aware that he's been flying in a circle the entire time) and then he and the other crewmate just end up as shriveled corpses after you take the artifact. This could imply that they were being kept alive by the artifact and after it was collected, they had their lifeforce drained. On the other hand, seems berwing wasn't so lucky and just ended up dead instead. 12:53 And as you may have suspected the rustburg/emberian ruin is a main quest location and it is indeed related to the emberian woman you came across in that other emberian ruin in the forest. Also you can buy a compass to show your position on the map in Pwyll Village. 1:05:03 Thornwood Manor is located on the southern tip of Hallowshire in the swamp with the big green shell. There should be a lift, a distance away, across from the entrance to said shell.

I'd argue those who got turned into the tentacle creatures around the dungeon and golden typhos airship were willing participants (i.e worshippers who were blessed with a new form) given the area is dedicated to Paeguth. There are a few books in-game which hint/explain Paeguth's motives and history and paint the deity in a more tragic light. The ones around the castle on the other hand were more than likely just warped by the god's influence.

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- in the last chamber of the mine you visited before you left, there was a skull which would have opened that gray door. 43:49 - the statues often mark hidden secrets (fake walls); this goes back to what that guy in the house with the red key said about them. 51:31

Excited to see what you decide with which faction to support. Most youtubers I've seen end up siding with the Union since it's the more 'conventional' of the three main factions in Hallowshire, but you seem to be paying attention to the more nuance details showing the flaws/problems with the Union. This'll of course become more prevalent as you explore Hallowshire.

just came from that reddit post(about giving advice, am not the person who post that, just a another random guy thought about watching some videos :D)

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I'ma be real, I clicked off a Penguinz0 video to watch this lol

great vid tbh, keep it up and you'll grow so much :D

Super chill vibes, glad this hit my recommended page.

Hello! The easy way to beat this boss is to exit the level after unlocking the boss area as Devon. Then use Tyrus and spam his special attack on both the horse and Margaret. I'm glad you're playing this game!

People still play Maken omg. I've only played Maken Shao Demon Sword on ps2 and that version of this fight is just as frustrating

I have never heard of this game but I'm glad I found your video, looks fun, I'm looking forward to the next one. -your 7th subscriber ^_^

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