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0:00it's still pretty soon after Dragon
0:01age's Veil guard's release so I'm giving
0:03a verbal warning now but this video does
0:05contain spoilers for Veil guard I am not
0:08holding back here so if you don't want
0:10to be spoiled go finish the game and
0:12I'll see you
0:13later welcome welcome patrons oh my
0:16goodness it's so good to be back using
0:18the old intro and format and welcome new
0:22delens that subbed from my intro to
0:24Theta Series this is my first real video
0:27after the release of veil guard and
0:29frankly one of the reasons I've been
0:31taking so long is that I just don't know
0:34where to start there is so much I want
0:37to say and Talkabout and whatever and
0:42while I didn't want to start out with
0:44this particular topic there's just some
0:46things that were discovered that finally
0:48just pushed this topic to the start of
0:49my schedule so finally getting to the
0:52point let's talk about the secret ending
0:56what is it so some of you might not have
0:59even unlocked after credit scenes so a
1:01quick tutorial on how to do it there are
1:03three strange circles that you must
1:05collect in order to unlock the ending on
1:08screen are where they all in a map and
1:10all three are behind some sort of boss
1:12battle if you aren't sure that you have
1:14collected them check your codec for
1:16these three entries the number of
1:17entries is how many of the parts you
1:19have after that once you beat the game
1:21it will play after the
1:23credits except some of you saw this the
1:27fade had opened and the guard were
1:30free thanks to soless they've woken up
1:34to find their empire their subjects even
1:37their fellow Gods all gone there is a
1:41very weird glitch where if you're
1:43playing on PC and have the game
1:45installed in an HDD Drive the cut scene
1:47after deeta's Crossing has its visuals
1:49replaced with the secret ending um and
1:53also like just today I heard that like
1:55apparently some PS5 users might have it
1:58too like there's there's a couple of
2:00like there might be some more cases
2:02where this applies um I have no idea why
2:04it does this and uh there might even be
2:07more cut scene weirdness on this glitch
2:09so like a small PSA if you have this
2:11game on an HGD uh get it off if you
2:15can it's it's acting funky now for those
2:18of you who can't be [ __ ] to unlock it
2:20or you just have a glitched game for
2:22whatever reason hopefully they patch it
2:23soon uh let me show you what it's
2:25supposed to
2:28be the St STM
2:31quell the sun
2:35dimmed the wolf
2:40defamed at
2:42last we have
2:50balanced guide
2:54it whisper
3:00and soon The Poisoned fruit
3:10ripens we
3:17come now before we go any further we
3:19need to address the elephant in the room
3:21because if I'm not upfront with this
3:23some of you are going to be seething and
3:24heading straight to the comments so like
3:26before you go on your rant let me talk
3:27for like a second please don't waste our
3:29time my thoughts so this is those across
3:33the sea or the executiv which is a
3:35concept that has been in Dragon Age for
3:37a while
3:39now torn isn't quite the word but it's
3:42like close enough to how I feel because
3:45I'm excited about all the new stuff we
3:46have of them uh but also yeah no one
3:50including me likes the idea that they
3:52have been guiding the past events of the
3:54series but why I think the easy answer
3:57is just to say well no one likes plots
3:59where there is a secret even eviler
4:01group of baddies behind the scene but I
4:04I think it's more than that because even
4:06that plot can be done well uh where I
4:08don't know I haven't seen it but the
4:10problem is that it's not about the plot
4:12hook it's about what it implies to the
4:14heart of the series I have said this
4:16time and time again but Dragon Age is
4:18about people and the choices you make
4:21the series shines when its villains are
4:22morally gray and you can sympathize with
4:24them despite disagreeing with their
4:26actions making lowan and even bartran to
4:29have been manipulated into doing their
4:31villainy takes away from that choice it
4:33takes away from their agency as a
4:35character it takes away from the heart
4:37of the series the secret is that Dragon
4:40Age already has a villain and a
4:42mastermind behind everything the villain
4:44in Dragon Age should always be with no
4:47room for compromise trauma and
4:49unprocessed sorrow actions done in Anger
4:52without the thought of others no
4:54Collective no Supernatural forces only
4:57the darkness that is found within us all
5:01I would even say on the off chance that
5:02the executiv are supposed to be the
5:04personification of those emotions that
5:06this is also a bad idea these need to be
5:08in the background and relatable it needs
5:11to come from within and owned not turned
5:14into a figure that you can blame for
5:15that negativity a part of the self not
5:18separate and blamable so pausing here
5:21because I wrote all of this out and a
5:23majority of the rest of the video and
5:25then went to bed and then John Epler
5:27creative director of veil guard went on
5:29to Blue guy to clarify a bit on the
5:31ending uh now the screenshot looks like
5:33gibberish so I should explain that the
5:35devs tend to use r13 to code messages so
5:38they don't spoil people but it
5:39translates to this the word choice of
5:42balance whispered guided is very
5:44deliberate no one was forced or coerced
5:46or controlled into making any choices
5:49it's extremely important that ultimately
5:51everyone made their own choices they
5:53still own the consequences of those
5:55decisions because Dragon AG is still a
5:57series about people making decisions of
5:58their own free will well and those
6:00decisions having consequences our own
6:03history is filled with calamities
6:04avoided or not because of the smallest
6:07of chances if a single person had called
6:09in sick we could have had nuclear war in
6:121983 it does not absolve any of the
6:14people involved with the decision they
6:16made now the 1983 comment is a reference
6:18to a real world event in which the
6:20Soviet Union suddenly had a false
6:22positive on an incoming nuclear attack
6:23from the United States one engineer
6:25decided to wait for more information
6:27before sending the okay to launch
6:28missiles and thankfully learned that it
6:30was a malfunction some more posts from
6:32John it's nice to hear that I won't lie
6:34I was getting the impression that all
6:36these characters decisions and agency
6:37was essentially being Stripped Away for
6:39some higher or other power that was
6:41behind it all thank you for clearing it
6:43up that was always the line I wanted to
6:45walk they absolutely made all their own
6:47choices but mentioning Sophia's
6:49attempted coup at the right time could
6:51be the nudge that Fed Up plans that were
6:52already percolating still though that
6:55was his decision and no one else's now
6:57if you skip Dragon AG origins or some of
6:59its DLC Sophia is Sophia dren or a Grey
7:02Warden with ties to the Falen Throne who
7:04tried to overthrow the king but
7:05ultimately failed and led to the gy
7:07wardens being kicked out of Falon for
7:09quite some time this is also a massive
7:11simplification on what happened in at
7:12DLC but with this video isn't about that
7:14so we moving on for Lan in particular I
7:16feel any stripping of his agency would
7:18have been a betrayal of the character
7:20and honestly of Dave's great work the
7:23difference to adding a layer of context
7:24and changing context entirely thank you
7:27I think this is one case where the
7:28game's light touch with regards to the
7:30world just had a lot of us freaking out
7:32overall tone and all that it's a fair
7:34question to ask people but what works
7:36for one story is necessarily what works
7:38for another and Origins is far more
7:41interesting as a story about flawed
7:42people than a story about someone being
7:45manipulated or controlled into doing
7:46something awful I actually had to sit
7:49with this a bit there were people in the
7:51comments saying that this changed her
7:53perspective on the matter for the better
7:54but I think
7:57ultimately it didn't for me
8:00it did alter my understanding of the
8:01scene and that the executiv act in
8:03subtle manners that are often overlooked
8:05but powerful but I kept asking myself
8:07why I still felt bothered by it is it
8:10because I'm still seeing it in the way I
8:12and many others originally did am I
8:14being persuaded by all the posts I've
8:16seen regarding what other fans believe
8:18about the ending am I torn by a secret
8:21third thing that I don't want the
8:22current Arc to end and I'm scared of
8:24change days after this was posted and me
8:26slapping down my thoughts into words
8:28over and over and over again to see what
8:31Rings true there was a feeling that I
8:33was having trouble grasping and
8:34articulating just in the back of my mind
8:37just wrapping around all of this and I
8:39think I've come up with two points one
8:42is I do see the difference that Epler is
8:43describing between the common fan
8:44interpretation and BioWare is intent but
8:46I think my critique is that right now I
8:51don't see what it could add to the
8:53stories of Logan and bartran to make it
8:55better it might make the world more
8:58interesting in the long run but to drag
8:59out characters that were largely put to
9:02rest just doesn't satisfy me when we
9:04could have had a whole Sue of characters
9:06with unfinished plot lines that could
9:07have been brought up instead for example
9:10if the ending was the exact same but
9:12Logan and bartran was subbed out for the
9:14architect and gr cleric althenia then I
9:16think I would not have had the same
9:18reaction that said I also know that
9:20those are like deep cut characters to
9:22the larger Dragon Age audience and as a
9:24hook to build up a new game would
9:25probably be an odd choice so like I get
9:28it and two
9:30is one that I had the hardest time
9:31actually putting into words so I really
9:33hope this makes sense but what I think
9:35actually bothers me about the
9:37ending is the lack of relatability to
9:41the executiv which is a wild sentence to
9:44hear so like give me a second but all of
9:47the Dragon Age villains and now even the
9:49blight so including the arch demons to
9:51some extent have a nugget of
9:53relatability to their crimes protecting
9:56your country protecting your city
9:58against what you see as evil restoring
10:00your country by becoming what it lacks
10:01because it never existed in the first
10:03place those are motivations I can
10:05understand this all makes sense and I
10:07can relate to it there is a Humanity
10:09there and all the heroes of their games
10:11mirror that idea but sing it in a heroic
10:13tune but so far everything we have
10:16officially on the executors paints them
10:19as an otherworldly and omnipresent and
10:21unknowable and that doesn't catch my
10:23attention so I say all of this and
10:26everything that comes after with this in
10:27mind I'm not trying to erase what I
10:29disliked about the secret ending but I
10:31also hold on to the hope that I can be
10:33proven wrong and that maybe something
10:35does catch me on fire one day and I look
10:37back on this with a new layer of
10:39understanding so with that out of the
10:41way let's talk about the lore we have on
10:43these weird little guys Prevail guard
10:46information so the first time we ever
10:48heard about the executiv was an
10:50inquisition both in the Codex and the
10:52war table missions and the Codex very
10:55specifically the Harden heght toown
10:56series which are small Snippets of one
10:58of Eric's books there is one chapter
11:00where he talks about the executors also
11:02please excuse this extremely old
11:04recording of me reading Harden High
11:05toown I will reuse this until I'm dead
11:07whose seal is that oh it's the executors
11:10of course Maisy peered excitedly at the
11:12Wax Seal holding it up to the window for
11:14better light I should have guessed it
11:16from the silly great Powers nonsense
11:18there's only been one example on the
11:21letter claiming responsibility for the
11:22assassination of Queen maderal in
11:25599 and this one is so much better just
11:28look at that imprint any idea how I'd
11:30contact these executiv Donan asked oh
11:34they're not real of course everyone
11:36knows that now to explain a bit on Queen
11:38madreal she was the queen of antiva at
11:40the end of the exalted age she has
11:42become famous as she went out on a hunt
11:44and came back with four different swords
11:46in her chest her death was so shocking
11:48to the people of thus the Divine of the
11:50time actually named the next age the
11:52steel age in honor of that image but as
11:55you may notice this is located in a work
11:57of fiction in lore does that note
12:00actually exist in the book to Vinter
12:02Knights the short story eight little
12:04Talons brings up the death of the queen
12:06and a group of crow leaders talk about
12:07the death as if it was a famous
12:09assassination by the crows now while I'm
12:12content to assume that the in-law work
12:14of fiction is fictional I think there is
12:16also room here to guess that it could be
12:19both someone had to make a contract on
12:22the Queen's life and it could have been
12:24the executors now all that aside The
12:26Inquisitor ends up stumbling upon the
12:28real faction let's read out the entire
12:30mission to get her facts on the table so
12:33it all starts with investigate the
12:34strange chalk markings excerpt from
12:36rector's report do you know this sign a
12:39triangle Point down two wavy lines
12:41throughout it a lookout spotted it in
12:44chalk on a ruined wall close to one of
12:45our outposts a cursor inquiry into the
12:48symbol has revealed nothing archists are
12:50still looking Argent thinks she saw the
12:52symbol or something very like it
12:54scrolled in a ledger that belonged to
12:55the compest de byard a sweep was done as
12:58you ordered on almost every Outpost of
13:00ours has been marked in this manner many
13:02believe we are being watched to what end
13:04we do not know you can either send
13:06Josephine or Liliana on the mission
13:08which leads to two different outcomes
13:10lady caprina reports having had a
13:11wonderful tea with the compest and has
13:13delivered a transcript of their
13:14conversation the triangle oh I remember
13:17it well drawn in one of my open Ledger
13:19by a visiting an even Trader from whom I
13:21wish to buy a ship the deal immediately
13:23fell through I assume I did not react to
13:26the triangle in a way he anticipated as
13:28he left he said said to me do not be so
13:30eager to ride the waves Madame those
13:32across the sea will come soon enough a
13:34spies report post it up along the
13:37Imperial Highway ostensibly to guard
13:39trade routs and facilitate procuring
13:40supplies for the Inquisition eyes on all
13:43approaches fourth night a caravan
13:45carrying refugees makes camp nearby for
13:47protection after midnight a young woman
13:49on crutches makes small talk with a
13:51patrol guard after he passes she
13:53crouches and makes the mark on a tent
13:55post the woman pretends for half an hour
13:57to know nothing when it becomes clear
13:59the ruse will not work she kisses an
14:01andrastian locket and says glory to
14:03those across the sea she dies the locket
14:06was poison and after you finish that
14:08mission you unlock unmask those across
14:10the sea I had our people remove the
14:12downward pointing triangle symbols from
14:14our Outpost they have not made a
14:16reappearance which means little it's
14:18clear someone has an interest in the
14:19Inquisition someone organized with ties
14:22to those across the sea we've eliminated
14:25the canari as most obvious suspects
14:27nonetheless knowing who they're not does
14:29not tell us who they are what they're
14:31doing or why they're clever we know that
14:34and they have resources but so do we and
14:37they should learn that they are not to
14:38toy with the Inquisition Liliana for
14:41this one you can either choose Liliana
14:42or Cullen compliments to your spy Master
14:45she is a resourceful woman once she
14:47traced her agent to Kami and Brea the
14:49match was ruled in her favor tell sister
14:51Liliana to call off her dogs save them
14:53for chifus we suspect also that she has
14:56gotten all that she can from Sir
14:57helmouth a caterpillar on a leaf does
14:59not know there is a forest about him you
15:02will hear no more from us our intention
15:04was to watch and we have seen enough cus
15:06threatens us all and the Inquisition is
15:08status's only hope for stopping him
15:10remember that for the moment we are not
15:12your enemy as a gesture of Goodwill we
15:14share our knowledge may it prove
15:16valuable in your coming battle on behalf
15:18of powers across the sea the executiv
15:21this option also includes a master demon
15:23slaying room which is the only prize you
15:25get three outposts on the Naran border
15:27were found abandoned with no no sign of
15:29struggle and nothing destroyed or taken
15:31but in every camp this message we hold
15:34your Inquisition in high esteem th's
15:37present troubles are great but you have
15:39the strength to meet and conquer them
15:41more will come we prepare for the day
15:43and hold vigil do not look for your men
15:45do not mourn them they have given
15:47themselves of their own free will to a
15:49higher cause on behalf of powers across
15:51the sea the executors for years this is
15:54all we had until we got to Vinter
15:56Knights In The Last Story dread will
15:58take you the position held a small
16:00Council of interested parties who wanted
16:01to hunt Sol us down one of them actually
16:04being one of the executiv here is how
16:06they are described a figure covered head
16:08to toe in Black Robes of ir antium
16:10samite with a thin mesh dropping down to
16:12cover the hood the dark robes were
16:14trimmed in a pattern Charter had never
16:16seen twisting shapes that curled to
16:18points in places that made her eyes hurt
16:21a cup of what looked like a dark red
16:23wine sat before the figure Untouched by
16:25leather gloved hands but she caught a
16:28faint whiff of the ocean from his robes
16:30and something beyond the ocean the
16:32executive enough the voice that came
16:35from the executive could have been male
16:36or female young or old it was less a
16:39voice than the idea of a voice rendered
16:42acceptably but no more we came because
16:45we possess a shared interest in the wolf
16:48what he is does not concern us the
16:50executive said the word neutral but
16:52carrying a weight that made the wine in
16:54his cup Ripple we across the ocean care
16:56only for his goals and means of
16:58accomplish ing them this does not help
17:00us eliminate the wolf you might as well
17:03suggest we throw a rock at him the
17:05executive turned the featureless black
17:07underneath the hood suddenly looming as
17:09it is centered on the Assassin you stink
17:11of lies and fear the Assassin leaned in
17:14his blade already half from his sheath
17:16and the aard was suddenly between them
17:18one hand raised before the Assassin and
17:20the other resting gently on the
17:21executive's leather glove please miss
17:24Ames if we argue none of us will learn
17:26what we came to find also apologies for
17:28my friend
17:29in the story Solace is there in Disguise
17:31as The Bard and ends up turning the
17:33thing into stone this is also what he
17:35later says about them as a whole
17:37excellent work on the executive Charter
17:39said you petrified him but not his robes
17:42I would caution you in dealing with
17:44those across the sea he said they are
17:46dangerous more dangerous than the elf
17:48who threatened the world Charter asked
17:49and was rewarded with a twitch of his
17:51lips that acknowledged the point now
17:53along with all of that something that I
17:55believe we missed when the book came out
17:57because there was a much more obvious
17:58connection with gillon
18:01Gillan I think horror of horack might be
18:04related to them as well in the story
18:06there is something about a gray liquid
18:08that smells of sea water and it keeps
18:10coming up over and over and over again
18:11I'm going to put a pin on this for a
18:13moment because I want to draw some
18:14possible conclusions that includes some
18:16of the stuff we get later on sort of so
18:18we're moving on new info so if you never
18:22cracked open the Codex the inclusion of
18:24the executiv at the end might have come
18:26as a surprise there are actually a ton
18:28of referen to them within the game and
18:30I'm sure I've missed a few uh honestly
18:33with working on the script I think
18:34there's been a new thing that gets
18:35thrown at me like every single day I'm
18:37sure I'm going to awkwardly include some
18:39in the edit
18:40too
18:42so there's just been a ton of things
18:45coming up to the surface so if you found
18:47another that isn't listed here please
18:49let me know down below and where to find
18:50it also there is a lot so we're going to
18:53just kind of shotgun these let's start
18:55out with the circle you pick up the
18:56three make up the image that is the
18:58ending slid so we will talk about that
18:59in a bit but let's listen to what is
19:01said each time you pick up a
19:06piece they interrupt as
19:11predicted as expected as
19:15hoped what was that learn
19:19adapt
19:27Triumph you return learn we are
19:31content why are you here what do you
19:34want not now not
19:37yet we will show you
19:42soon this just gets weirder every
19:48time
19:50fascinating
19:53unforeseen who are you must not reveal
19:57must not alarm
19:59soon though very
20:03soon now along with that you also gain a
20:06codex now the first codex is from adish
20:08Elf who also found a bit of this
20:10mysterious Circle not the whole thing
20:12but like a bit noting that they don't
20:14think it's from the evanuris nor the
20:15Forgotten ones because this item doesn't
20:17feel Elvin nor does it feel evil it
20:20feels wrong the second codex is from the
20:23same elf and they found the complete
20:25circle in the Deep roads the writer had
20:27been chasing a holla that had somehow
20:29wandered into deep roads and was found
20:30cowering in the presence of the circle
20:33the air in the chamber it was found in
20:35is described as greasy and a magical
20:37light that was cast by the elf
20:38flickering out soon after being casted
20:41the circle itself is cold to the touch
20:43even when next to Fire and covered in
20:45Black triangles and white lines the
20:48final codecs again from the same elf
20:50describe how they had been looking for
20:53more information on the circle finding a
20:55clue in a report from Clan Sab a
20:57collapse section of the deep roads that
20:59smelled like seawater they went into the
21:01ruin and pushed further than the
21:02previous Scouts had and that's when they
21:04saw them they looked like a mass person
21:07though oddly dressed gray robe gray
21:09helmets and a mask then they moved fast
21:14they were suddenly in front of me and
21:15they were reaching out but there was
21:17something wrong with their arm it was
21:19changing shifting eventually the thing
21:22is hit with an arrow in the chest and
21:24while the two elves are escaping they
21:25could feel the entity growing bigger and
21:28the Beyond the Sea emic writes a letter
21:30to balara describing what he knows about
21:32the lands outside of thus all the
21:34information is largely old to us is just
21:36kind of summarizing old lore but he
21:38notes that the lands to the east called
21:40amaranth has been described as either an
21:42untouched Paradise or filled with
21:43settlements made of crystal and obsidian
21:45without a single soul inhabiting them in
21:48another codex is described that in
21:49ancient definer when they still worship
21:51the old gods and they spoke back
21:53followers of lucion and emal had a
21:55disagreement emal's followers wanted to
21:57build a shield around the to defend
21:59against those across the sea while
22:01lucion wanted to create weapons which
22:04based on description are the same
22:05weapons at the start of the game in a
22:07note that andru had used a life force of
22:09slaves to create a ward which she had
22:11claimed was to defend Aran from enemies
22:13across the sea but was actually
22:15empowering her we also have an actual
22:17voice line from the listing Tree in The
22:19Crossroads where gillain and elron talk
22:21about their
22:23dreams what of your
22:27dreams but does the scant refrain and
22:31shadows nothing
22:34more in our prison there was
22:37more I dreamed the songs of the living
22:42abyss and now mased eyes across the sea
22:47a storm that drinks the
22:51sky the future is
22:55intangible only the past and the present
22:58matter
23:01in man rtis there was also a note from
23:02one of the paper vendors mentioning
23:04those across the sea and there's even a
23:05voice line in a crowd about the executiv
23:07as a myth but I've yet to trigger it
23:09myself but like the gist is that the
23:10executiv are known but considered almost
23:12a conspiracy theory there also seems to
23:15be more watch exclusive dialogue with
23:17Emer about a Stillness in the fade and
23:19thank you to Kira for this clip and yet
23:22there's so much more than spirits in the
23:25fade entities and instrumentalities we
23:28know only by their Shadows if you've
23:31spotted something in the
23:32Fades I'm not sure it's only an
23:36occasional Stillness where movement and
23:39light should be let's hope I'm imagining
23:43things we also have the achievements
23:45from getting the end slide which again
23:47references this poison fruit and shows
23:50I'm not even sure what I'm looking at
23:52like a helmet with a bunch of eyeholes
23:55and like a little frill on the top for
23:58what whatever and of course let's talk
24:00about the actual visuals for the ending
24:03normally I'm all for an art critique but
24:05other than pointing out that the major
24:06events in thus are in like the dotted
24:08line that has historically represented
24:10the veil I'm not sure what to say the
24:13text on the Rings is unlike anything
24:15I've seen before or at least remember
24:17and the executive symbol on top looks
24:19slapped on and crude and unwanted kind
24:22of almost get the sense that the circles
24:24actually belong from another culture
24:26that the executiv took over I don't know
24:28why I want to say that almost like the
24:30bodies we see on the executiv could not
24:32be their own but like a culture long
24:34dead and controlled or something I don't
24:35know maybe I'm I'm I'm making this up to
24:37be honest I'm also interested in why
24:40loan and bartran do not have orbs but
24:43are rather replacing Rings themselves
24:46unlike the events of Inquisition and the
24:47breaking of the Golden City and even the
24:49events of this game I don't see any
24:52significance in the number of orbs or
24:54rings as they seem to just be going off
24:56the screen into Infinity I I guess
24:59overall I'm not quite sure what to make
25:02of it visually other than a suggestion
25:05that the executiv have been at least
25:07watching for quite a while however I do
25:09find it curious that for a group that
25:11has a lot of connections to circles they
25:13simple as incredibly angular it almost
25:16seems like a contradiction now something
25:18else I want to bring up here there is
25:20another thing I want to rope into this
25:21discussion the devouring storm the only
25:25connection that the two have that they
25:26both come from across the sea
25:28but just to be complete let's bring in
25:30some devouring storm information now
25:32most of the devouring storm info comes
25:34from Tasha's quest line where we finally
25:36learn the truth of the tablet if
25:37breathed upon by dragon's breath or
25:39byash themselves it reveals the full
25:41message I thought you already had a copy
25:45we destroyed
25:46it why the spirit says that the words
25:50held therein must never be written only
25:53words of fire may carry the message
25:55safely but why bring your fire to the
25:58tablet TSH We Will Show
26:04You by dragon flame come these words
26:07trust no taale not hidden by the fire
26:11when the Great foe struck we embraced
26:13the blood of dragons Champions blessed
26:16with fire protected us and saw the
26:18Unseen we escaped to Distant Shores but
26:22found no peace disease will lay us low
26:26if more of us flee across the ocean it
26:28means our people fail prepare then for
26:32the devouring
26:34storm the weatherman at Tasha's Quest
26:36also says this perhaps I am too
26:39Oklahoman for this but as a side note I
26:41want to throw in that as a child living
26:42in Tornado Alley in the laundry list of
26:45things I was taught to look out for with
26:46tornadoes was green clouds and while not
26:50a foolproof way to predict them they are
26:52common enough that when the sky turns a
26:53bit green I get a little antsy this
26:56mixed with the symbol being very tornado
26:59adjacent makes me curious if the
27:02devouring storm is describing like a
27:04hurricane or a tornado or something like
27:06that Spite has also written some unknown
27:10and slightly confusing stuff about
27:11storms and what I'm reading into as like
27:13an eye of the storm with Stillness in
27:15the center and just because I have a
27:18hunch I also want to throw in an narus
27:20here because of this one line that he
27:22says after you defeat him I will not go
27:26back you will not send
27:31me I must escape it's
27:36I now reading the codec andaris quest
27:38line also gives you a series about a
27:40strange mysterious substance that anars
27:42was studying this substance is always
27:45cold no matter how you heat it and also
27:47devours magic bolara makes note that the
27:50word devour shows up again and again in
27:52these notes and it is very specifically
27:54that word the notes seem to date back
27:56from the time of ancient arth where
27:58anars fed the substance to one of his
28:00minions and while he became stronger
28:02something was odd eventually the minion
28:04found and drank the rest of the
28:06substance his form changing and Shone
28:08with such a strong light it killed the
28:10others that were around him with anars
28:12barely shielding himself in time now
28:15with all of that I have a little
28:17confession to make one of the reasons
28:19this videos is coming out so long after
28:20release is that a few friends and I have
28:22been busy you see we headed into the
28:25mines the data mines so I want to give a
28:29quick disclaimer on this section data
28:31mins are in the end cut content and
28:35things get cut for reasons due to the
28:37nature of how we found this info things
28:39are also super scrambled up and we don't
28:41know the true context of things or even
28:44how final some of the stuff was the best
28:47use of this information is to get a
28:48small idea on where things could have
28:50headed and make educated guesses on what
28:52could be the art book is actually also
28:55super important in piecing some of this
28:56stuff together as well as some the
28:58language used in explaining the concept
29:00art images is the same language we see
29:02in the files as the case with the
29:04Scoundrels I also want to say that we
29:06are by no means an expert on Data Mining
29:08and at this time the data mining tools
29:09are super experimental and there is a
29:11lot we have found but are unable to open
29:13or even look at so more may come out as
29:16time goes on now all that out of the way
29:19hey there is a lot of cut content in
29:21this game oh my God the things we found
29:25we have been sitting on a massive text
29:26document which to give you like a sense
29:28of scale this thing I copy and paste it
29:30into a Word program for a page count and
29:32it's over
29:342,000 Pages we aren't sure what the file
29:38is used for but inside is basically
29:39anything that is written we got codex
29:41entries dialogue item description notes
29:43and weirdly enough some descriptions of
29:46cutscenes and temporary dialogue with
29:48something as big and unsorted as this
29:50thing is at this point we are just
29:52searching for words that are of interest
29:54to us but uh one thing we found is that
29:57at least one version of the ending
29:59didn't actually end with the final
30:00battle you would have gone back to the
30:02lighthouse and even have been able to
30:04continue exploring the world similar to
30:06Inquisition in one description we found
30:08there was to be an all hands meeting
30:10where they talked about the threat of
30:11the executiv and that that was the point
30:13of the veil guard staying Vigilant the
30:16kicker is that we also found some
30:18extremely mixed up dialogue that I I
30:21think was to be spoken by an executive
30:23who we found textures for and who was
30:25even in the art book as something we
30:27could have fought
30:28at this time the tool we have been using
30:30does not open mesh files and sound but
30:32given enough time we might be able to
30:34find a character model and if we're
30:36lucky maybe some voice lines let's talk
30:39about the I'm not even sure what it is
30:43or what to call it I think for the sake
30:44of probably having to refer to this
30:46again in the future I'm going to call
30:47this the poem of the executors given the
30:50bits we have it's uh like we could come
30:53up with a better name this is just what
30:55I'm calling it in this section of the
30:57five is just a bunch of mixed up lines
31:01the words executor is all over here and
31:03there are clearly titles and verses but
31:05I have no idea what the order is and
31:08it's some really juicy stuff but again
31:10given how mixed up this is I hesitate to
31:12try and draw conclusions there might
31:14even be lines in other places are missed
31:16and some of this could just be lines
31:18from other parts of the game that are
31:19mixed in I I will say given the format
31:22is completely different to some of the
31:23other dialogue we have so I I do think
31:25these are chunks that are related but
31:28I'm not 100% sure either but let's talk
31:31about some highlights there is one line
31:33that looks like a title called
31:34sublimation of the executors now that
31:37alone is quite a word for those that
31:39skip sl's class or English is a second
31:41language sublimation is the process of a
31:43solid becoming a gas while skipping the
31:45liquid state and I'm just sort of
31:47reminded of what happened to an nars's
31:49minion here there are also a few lines
31:51that mention a she she was glorious so
31:54were we unfortunately true power cannot
31:57abide claims of the same she had weapons
32:00we must assume no Trace remains save the
32:03craters in existence and I am reminded
32:06here of Gillan name possibly having a
32:08connection with them a few other lines
32:10that sound important but I don't know
32:12what to make of them we cannot see you
32:14but we use your choice to craft
32:16ourselves our way back made by enemies
32:19of one belief of another the Caged gods
32:22of yet another are we up to this task
32:25the path that leads back the storm will
32:27decide
32:28the highest Dragon there is a hand
32:31behind the waves your hand you bring
32:34your own storm having read through it a
32:36couple times now I'm not even sure how
32:38one would order this but at the very
32:41least there is talk about storms choices
32:43and old war and I would even say like a
32:46sense of loss of time like they don't
32:49see time as linear maybe that's just me
32:52now aside of all that there is a
32:53collection of VoiceOver notes to be used
32:55for characters that talk I believe the
32:57in-game voice that we hear when
32:58collecting a circle titled like a bunch
33:00of question marks is voiced by Matt
33:02Mercer but the notes say this about the
33:04direction of the voice a mask and hooded
33:07figure that speaks like someone
33:08unfamiliar with language in general
33:11stilted awkward but with low Menace and
33:14in another section stilted is trying to
33:16form words from thoughts that are far
33:18more complex than a regular person's
33:21again this is all well and good but we
33:23do have to be worried about using cut
33:25content for lore as things change for
33:27reasons
33:28that said Inquisition did have a few
33:30data mind nuggets that ended up being
33:32true in Veil guard so results May Vary
33:36my theory so that was a lot of vague
33:38ideas and I know a bunch of you are
33:40probably asking what all this means and
33:41I want to be clear that I don't
33:44know I I don't know uh but I at least
33:47want to throw my hat in the ring for
33:49what I think is happening and I could be
33:50totally wrong I believe there are two
33:52different groups here the executiv and
33:54those across the sea while the
33:56executives act upon the interest of what
33:58I'm going to officially dub tats because
34:00I can't be [ __ ] saying those across
34:01the sea for how many years we will wait
34:03for this plot point to be revealed uh
34:05but anyway they are acting for them not
34:07actually them and at the very least the
34:09tats are old as old as ancient elvon and
34:13were considered a threat even back then
34:15there is some interaction with the
34:16evanuris and them and I want to say that
34:19Gillan had some sort of dealing with
34:22them either stealing or trading for that
34:24mysterious magic goop that was seen in
34:26horror of horac I also think that this
34:29is what made the lium green yellow in
34:31color and they seem to haunt her for
34:34this and that alone is actually an
34:35incredible feat and I do wonder how much
34:37of this has to do with the property of
34:38the goop being able to nullify magic and
34:41I also think anara stumbled upon this as
34:43well and that perhaps his minion who
34:45drank the substance somehow became an
34:48executive orats in the note and narus
34:50notes that the evanuris will likely be
34:52coming to figure out what happened here
34:54so I'm assuming this might even be how
34:56Gillan first caught wind of the stuff
34:58somewhere in all this the canari are
35:00involved and I think they came from the
35:02land where tats are from there was some
35:05sort of War and the survivors fled to
35:07thus where like Tash who we previously
35:10saw as the scaled ones I believe and
35:11that's a whole other concept that we
35:12have not touched uh but uh they wared
35:14the door centuries ago we're moving on
35:16but they were made to fend them off
35:19somehow but it seems like it was not
35:21enough so trying to shorten this even
35:23further tat seems to be an ancient being
35:26from across the sea and the executors
35:28work for them they're able to nullify
35:30magic but are possibly weak to Dragon
35:33Fire Gillan and maybe anaris had some
35:36dealing with them and they didn't seem
35:38too happy about it and they are a force
35:40that soless warns you against yet
35:43they're also interested in him and his
35:45actions because it affects him somehow
35:48the question we have now is what do they
35:51want what is the poison fruit and what
35:54makes it ripe now the ending bit makes
35:57it seem that the Elven gods were partly
35:58the reason why they didn't act however
36:00they were locked away in asleep for
36:02centuries why act now my guess is blight
36:06related perhaps they are sensitive to
36:08the blight and with that largely
36:10changing out of the picture they can do
36:14whatever they want to do that would then
36:17make thus the poison fruit poisoned by
36:19the blight there is another thought here
36:22that perhaps given the title of
36:23devouring storm and the goop's ability
36:26fizzle out Magic they might consume
36:28magic or dreams if all they wanted was
36:31land they could have easily done so by
36:32now and from here I don't know I really
36:36don't but I want to leave you with one
36:38thing whatever they are the scoop the
36:40substance that absorbs and chills and
36:41seems to twist flesh to horrible
36:43monsters if this belongs to the tats
36:45then it's something that canari feared
36:47and they tried to fight back with the
36:49power of dragons a quote from yavana
36:52another Witch of the Wilds from the
36:53comics that has yet to be really
36:54explained is the blood of the Dragons is
36:57the blood of the world and I just can't
36:59help but shake the feeling that maybe
37:01it's related and that your Patron is all
37:03that I have on the secret ending I'm
37:05sort of throwing just like a bunch of
37:07Concepts together that I'm not even
37:08completely sure are actually related I'm
37:10really just going based on Vibes for
37:13this but what do you think do still
37:15lingering questions proof that I'm wrong
37:17comments about your own fan Theory feel
37:19free to tweet me at acon on Twitter or
37:20blue sky and AR rest your rooll

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