Psychopomp GOLD

Psychopomp GOLD

51 ratings
WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON HERE??!
By Lalka
Getting to grips with the story and lore of the game. That's it...
I'm already broken, and you're all next! (ノ°▽°)ノ︵┻━┻
6
8
4
2
2
2
2
   
Award
Favorite
Favorited
Unfavorite
Disclamer
This guide is a translation of my original guide. The text may contain translation mistakes and inaccuracies. Some jokes may have lost their sense. Some phrases may not be the same as in-game, but still contain the same meaning. These phrases were taken from another official localization that was used in the original guide, then translated without verification with the English localization. I'm lazy :D
Chapter 1




Any beginning starts with the basics, so in the first part of the guide I suggest to go over the game anew and remember every place and important moment of it.(If you think you remember the game perfectly, you can skip straight to Chapter 2.)





Introduction
Megapolis. It's night outside, and you can't see any clouds or stars in the sky, but you can see... Earth???




The heroine begins her story...

All her life, people around kept her in the dark, hiding the truth. But she will not sit still, she will get to the truth, even if she literally has to get into the heads of everyone around her...

She had created Psychopomp, a helmet that can read people's minds, but it... didn't work. It didn't work the way it was supposed to. It showed the world in its true, hidden form. It revealed everything! Corpses, catacombs, unseen creatures and races.

                                     I will not allow any more secrets to be kept from me.                                      
Tutorial
                                                             You are in the world...!                                                              

Right after the opening scene, the heroine finds herself in some ditch. It's night outside, buildings are all around, and the same lonely Earth is in the sky.

The level is very small and only introduces the basic mechanics of the game. The most notable things in the level are a rather fleshy girl and a dog that can blossom at any moment.















* (The dog says there's a plan for everything...) * (It fills you with determination.)
Main menu


This is where we get to as soon as we crawl out of the ditch. The only important point is the background. If you look closely, you can distinguish buildings, streetlights, trees. That is, this is a city, and there are 3 locations in it: a sewage treatment plant, a hospital and a school.




Sewage treatment
          The buffoon who invented "Locks" and "Windows" has never heard of a hammer.                

With the help of her “friend”, the heroine makes her way inside the station and finds an Elevator, on which she descends into the sewers.

However, it turns out that the sewers aren't as clean as you might expect. It is inhabited by two races - Thraits and Nuggets, and a certain Symbolic Man.

Wandering through the catacombs, she finds the Church of the Thraits, which contains a winged humanoid statue.



There are also 2 notes in the sewers:



























At the end of the heroine's sewer adventures, she kills the Nuggets Queen and finds the Earth Egg, which she carefully throws into the abyss ...



Important dialogs:   
Originally posted by Old Thrait:
I remember when I was young. We would run around these stone halls.                                                    
Originally posted by Thrait priest:
This holy place has been overrun by those sparkle-eyed freaks.                                                             
Originally posted by Nugget with a hammer print on his face:
It's simply so fun to live off of human waste! We funnel human byproduct into our Queen, who in turn replicates the raw material into flesh and milk for us!
Children's Hospital
                    That smell of rust and petrol breaking throught the clean hospital smell.                     

The heroine's next destination turns out to be a state hospital that has a second bottom.

Descending underground, she discovers the “Lower Wing,” which contains the remains of prominent historical figures.

Wandering around the lower wing and lovingly decapitating local living fossils, she discovers
an eye a moon and a tick.












You may also find a note:



After sending the VIP guests to a world more suitable for them, the heroine takes the Earth Egg and tosses it again into the abyss.

Important dialogs:
Originally posted by Heroine:
Hospitals feel like the safest place to me, even thought I know they aren't ... They're a place that will swallow you whole and give you disease. A place that will cut you open and make other's feel good about it.
Originally posted by Nurses:
  • Here we try to preserve the most important individuals of the human race...
  • When patients grow up, they are moved to the main rooms upstairs.
  • Nutrients and meat are sucked out of patients all over the world to sustain our VIP guests!
  • …perfect patients need perfect parasites.
  • This new parasite was bred from the body of a young Berlin teacher.
School...
I look into each of the classrooms and there is only nerve cell clusters sitting at each of the desks.

On a wave of nostalgia, the heroine decides just to walk around the school, and ends up discovering a factory underneath.

The local boss tearfully asks for his head to be stroked with an industrial press. You don't need to be asked twice.

Kindly fulfilling the request of the boss(and killing half the factory in the process, nya), the heroine discovers a note:



After a planned production shutdown, she remembers to launch the Earth Egg into the abyss. (cause why is it standing there)

Important dialogs:
Originally posted by Heroine:
The elevator is down this way. It's like a vein that goes down into the heart.                                          
Originally posted by Medallion Mens:
  • Sometimes I come to those catwalks just to feel closer to the void below.
  • This is where we make parasitic enamel. Once mature, the enamel will be applied to the teeth of the children up above, and will learn new things from the words they speak. This information is fed to a generative model, which will then use it to create new lessons for the children.
  • When a small child has outlasted their use, we melt them down into slag and turn into new butter knives and egg slicers.
Transient locations
In addition to the main zones, there are “Transient Locations” in the city that may or may not have something interesting to offer.

Thrait Village
You can find some graffiti:












Important dialogs:
Originally posted by Thrait:
Our village was forced down here after all of the humans appeared on the surface. It's horrible. This is our home. And to call this place, our world, “Earth”?
Originally posted by Thrait Elder:
Up on the surface the other day. I saw a human get hit by a car. Everything inside of them spilled out. Nothing but dust and clay.

Daddy's Bad Place



A voice comes from the TV:
[Repeat.]
[At 3:45 AM Today, a state of emergency was declared following the appearance of a large insectoid creature in the Melbed Borough of Central City.]
[The creature is unpredictable and is considered to be highly dangerous.]
[This is not a drill.]
[If you are inside, stay inside.]
[If you are outside, find the nearest shelter.]
[If you are thinking, stop thinking.]
[The insect may appear to you as a human.]
[It is not.]
[It is an abberation of your imagination and does not exist.]
[Stay away from the insect, as it is highly dangerous.]
[Do not attempt to communicate with the insect, as it is highly dangerous.]
[The insect is not real.]
[The insect is not real.]
[The insect is not real.]

Missing No



The two spheres are in dialog:
??? [Hey, can you hear me?]
??? [Yes. We can hear you.]
??? [Good. I hope you're doing well.]
??? [It's boooring here. I'm dying of boredom! I can't stand the Desert, bluh! What's the status?]                 
??? [The Queen? She's awake, but still dormant. Trying to hide.]
??? [Doesn't matter though, her progress is perfect. What about the other one?]
??? [The King is still fast asleep. Like big dumb snoring baby.]
??? [Good. Do NOT wake him up until I tell you to.]
??? [The last thing we need is to deal with both of them at the same time. Not until everything is ready.]
??? [Aww, do we have to? There's nothing to do around here.]
??? [Especially these little puppets. They're boring. Not like the real thing.]
??? [These ones don't squirm right, and they make such a mess when they pop.]
??? [Have patience. Soon we'll have more fun than ever before.]
??? [Ahh, if you say so! You're the boss!]
Dog? [*Woof* Heehee. Am I a good boy?]
??? [The best of the boys! The King of all Boys!]
??? [Once we see you again, I'll give you a big nice bone!]
King of the Dogs? [Sounds lovely. I'm look forward to that.]
??? [Oh, wait, is this channel secure?]
King of the Dogs? [Should be. Not like it matters.]
King of the Dogs? [Nobody listening can do anything.]

Starting Point



A huge cocoon... empty.

Important dialogs:
Originally posted by Thrait Elder:
The Queen's Chrysalis hatched. ... There are vermin Dogs who would lead her astray. ...The Queen will return.
Main menu 2



After exploring the state buildings, heroine descends deeper and finds herself in... tailbone? There are 2 locations here: hard structure and instructions.





Hard structure
                                                           Earth is created of buildings that we make.                                                      

Cruising for a bruising, the heroine finds herself in the middle of nowhere.

As she collects the ingredients of the pesticide and takes them to the spraying machine, at the same time committing genocide against the local moths, she sees the moon again:



Descending into ♂️deep dark fantasy♂️ she gives hammer therapy to the great taproot.

Watching the rain from the buildings(I wonder why they started falling (⁄ ⁄•⁄ω⁄•⁄ ⁄)), heroine picks up the Earth Egg and inertially throws it into the abyss.

Important dialogs:
Originally posted by Building beds:
  • When it comes time to reproduce and die, the building releases a special pheromone (black mold) to repel its current inhabitants and encourage inhabitation in their children.
  • …we won't be able to check out the roots of the buildings.
  • It would be so beautiful to feel so many people inside, oh my...
  • All building surfaces are covered with a thin row of microscopic taste buds.
  • This is the great taproot, and every building is indebted to it. They are all genetic clones of it.
Originally posted by Heroine:
The taproot is covered in small thorns, that slightly drink you.                                                                                                                 
Instructions
                                                                      …huh?..                                                                             

Wandering underground, heroine finds herself in places she can't even recognize, but her feet carry her forward.

Unfortunately, her path forward is blocked by a three-meter tumor:



By trying on the role of a DNA engineer, she destroys the tumor at the genetic level, and at the same time destroys the Primordial Information.S h i t happens ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

She takes the fifth Earth Egg and doesn't forget to drop it into the abyss.

Important dialogs:
Originally posted by Глиняная Аллель:
This is where we create instructions. Instructions for everything that has happened to you.              
Originally posted by Первоначало А:
I am the origin who decides how you will suffer.                                                                                                                     
Originally posted by Первоначало Б:
I am the origin who decides how you will decay.                                                                                                             
Ephemeral locations
In addition to the main areas, at the tailbone are arranged “Ephemeral Locations”, which may or may not contain something interesting.

Hollow nursery



Important dialogs:
Originally posted by Thrait Elder:
My Everlasting Queen ... Where have you gone? Even now, the hollow constructs stir from their slumber, ready to act on your will, so I know you must be with us. I am resolute, but how much longer must we wait?

Human seedbed
The room is filled with gray creatures that repeat the same phrases. The hammer scanner showed that they resembled burnt clay.



On the way back, we meet the scariest s h i t in your life.



Important dialogs:
Originally posted by Heroine:
  • The Human proceeds to learn proper speech. As soon as he finishes, his shell hardens and he is ready to depart.
  • Human is just beginning to learn the order of words. It will be a long time before he is sent to the surface.
  • You...

Rust mother artificial cave



The source of all rust...

Natural History Museum



The voice...
  • The first creatures on the planet were humans. These hairy bipeds had a high level of intelligence and presumably used a variety of tools. They were highly emotional, which made them very fun. The last human died in captivity **** years ago... no one has seen them again since.
  • After the extinction of humans, the era of the Thraits began. These creatures lived in small communities and their way of life was quite primitive. They were very strong and masculine, which was very annoying. The last Thrait died in captivity **** years ago, and that's for the best.
  • After the Thraits died out, humans came along. * the tape stops *
Main menu 3



Finally, we go down to the depths, where we find emptiness... and flesh hanging from the ceiling... It's also dripping... There is only one location here: symbols.





Symbols
Entering another building(that somehow ended up underground), heroine doesn't find the elevator. It turns out to be a decoration that hides the abode of ancient Paragons and Person Symbols.



The heroine is immediately criticized: she knows nothing and she is unworthy. But heroine is not a fool and goes to the Paragons for knowledge. And how do we get knowledge? That's right, with a hammer to the liver!

Overwhelmed in her knowledge, she takes the last Earth Egg and throws it into the abyss.

Important dialogs:
Originally posted by Person Symbols:
  • Those doors will open when you come to an awareness of the world and what creates it.
  • Here in the oldest part of the kingdom?
  • The matter is created of four aspects. Four aspects made from the original two thinkers.
Originally posted by Heroine:
  • The ancient Paragon floats sadly in place. He beholds billions of years of life and death.
  • One of the oldest Paragons, made up of younger paragons. It predates the other three Paragons and is their parent.
Originally posted by Paragon of Flesh:
I used to fly over the lands, envigorating the muscles and sinew of the world.                                                                          
Originally posted by Paragon of People:
People are where it all comes together. ... People are the most important aspect, they form the others.                                                                          
Originally posted by Sila Sila:
There's a planet within one other place. When realms come together and are forced into a round shape, we enter into a later phase of a world.                                                                          
Originally posted by GutMom:
There was a time where the Paragons floated gently over the sulfur planes. A time before Humans, a time before Thraits.                                                                          
Aberrant locations
In addition to the main zones, in the abyss are “Aberrant Locations” that may or may not contain something interesting.

Spiral



No comment...

Above the passage hang the words: Hand of the father, Hand of the mother, Heart of the child, Mind of the demon.

Special shower



In the location, we can see a skeleton in a crown who “washes”. His head resembles the heroine.

Nature



Birdies...

At the end is the Avatar of Nature, which seems to dictate instincts.




Ancient future place
The location has a hovering stone that depicts a man and a woman with wings on their heads.



That's all…
Entrance
                                                                     [I'm Falling]                                                                     
                                  [I feel like it's been coming for a while but it never does.]                                  
                      [Deeper into the Earth. Deeper into Dirt and Rock, and Veins and Sinew.]                    



After reaching the bottom, heroine finds herself underwater. Wading through the darkness, she finally arrives at an ancient temple.

There is no 'Queen' on the throne, but just the remains of her skin.



After passing through the throne room, she reaches the center - Center of the Earth. Six Earth Eggs float around it. (the same ones that were previously thrown into the abyss)



Reaching out, she touches the pulsing center and...
[This is it. The lifemeat of the world.]
[I see it and I somehow know exactly what to do.]
[Finger movements and speaking. Words I know but have never heard.]
[A warmth. A love. I will make you anew. Born to flesh from ash and clay.]
[There you are. My wonderful child.]
[The world has been changed. It has been twisted into something it is not.]
[It will change more. Perhaps that is inevitable. Let us awaken your siblings.]                                   
[There are no secrets now. I see everything within my domain.]
[Thank you, dear helmet. You were perfect in every way, baby.]
[I'm feeling pretty good. Let's leave this hole, and never look back.]


Forbidden location
After completing the game, a “Forbidden Location” is added to the “Aberrant Locations”.

Library



There is only one record in the library:



Four eyes will appear on the way out and will intensify the ambiance.


Exit
Creature. It flies away, shattering the screen...



*CONNECTION TO THE SUBJECT LOST*                                                        *TRACKING ALTERNATIVE SUBJECT* *ALTERNATIVE SUBJECT FOUND* *TIME TO WAKE UP*

The hero comes out of a motel room. Day. Desert. Red Earth in the sky... Everything is the same as always.....



Downstairs, the King of All Dogs is already waiting for him to ask for a favor.
[Ah, how nice to meet you...]
[I do say, my dear sir, Your face seems to have broken, and become abstracted.]
[No matter, it happens to the best of us. We have more important things at hand.]
[I am the King of all Dogs, and I bring you a very important warning.]
[Look to the skies, do you not feel it? When you set your eyes upon the Bloody Earth above, do you not see it?]
[Something terrible has awoken.]
[Soon, it will descend upon this landscape and bring about utmost destruction.]
[I must beseech you, you must put an end to it. Only you have the power to do so.]
[I know a business minded individual yourself will have no problem figuring this out.]
[We must make haste. I have some associates that I will introduce you to right away.]
[Come along now. There is no time to lose.]
Meeting place
Following the King of all Dogs, the hero comes to a certain temple in the desert. The King informs him that his colleagues are delayed and asks him to call them.

The coworkers turn out to be three men, after calling them, the hero returns to the temple and passes inside.

While exploring the desert, the hero meets strange statues and no less strange creatures - Evren scouts:












When he arrives at the meeting place, he discovers that everyone is gathered.



However, the meeting is unexpectedly interrupted by an explosion on Bloody Earth, the impact of which reaches the desert and stuns the hero. He falls to the ground...



The End

Looking forward to the next game

But it's not certain

Важные диалоги:
Originally posted by Hero:
The child smiles at you. There are more folds under their eyes than there should be.                                                                                                                    
Originally posted by Child:
Everybody loves puppets. ... Oh good, it's you! I was getting so bored here!                                                                                                                                                                                      
Home
Throughout the game, you can find 6 keys that will allow you to walk through a special location and enter the Garden.



At the end of the garden there are 2 shadows: white and black. When you approach them, gathered.
??? [Hey! Give it back!]
??? [Heh, what is it, some sorta metal stick?]
??? [...A nail.]
??? [Huh?]
??? [It's my nail! I need it, so give it!]
??? [A nail? What can you do with a nail?]
??? [I like hammers better.]
??? [It's better than a hammer, I can build stuff with it!]
??? [Now give! it! Back!]
??? [Hah! You're funny! What's your name?]
??? [Not gonna tell you! Bleeh!]
??? [Tell me or I'm not gonna give it back!]
??? [...Hmmph...]
Mercury […Mercury.]
??? [That's a funny name! Here, catch!]
Venus [I'm Venus! Let's be friends!]
Mercury […]
Venus [Aww, don't make that face! I'm sorry! Say- Heehee- you gotta funny face!]                                                                                                                                   
Mercury [You're mean!]
Venus [C'moooon, let's be friends! I'll show you a secret!]
Mercury [Secret?]
Venus [How to catch Dragonflies! They're the coolest bug ever!]
Mercury [Beetles are cooler.]
Venus [Beetles!? Lame! No way are they cooler!]
Venus [Haha! Mercury likes beetles!]
Mercury [A beetle could beat your little dainty dragonflies any day.]
Venus [Yeah right! Show me then! Bring it on!!]
Then a model of the Solar System appears, with the Sun and all planets except Mercury and Venus crossed out.


Phone
The last piece of the game is the phone, on which you can hear several monologues.

3687 - "FOUR"
[Hey everybody! Hey everybody!]
[Let's have fun today!]
[What kind of fun do I have in mind?]
[I've got a game to play.]
[What kind of game is it?]
[Well, let's say it's a game of tricks.]
[It's a game of tricks and twists and turns.]
[But I think you're really going to enjoy it.]
[And I think we're all going to get along just fine.]                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
2847 - "BUGS"
[I'm so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ tired of these damn bugs.]
[Every which way I go it's mantises or beetles or other s h i t.]
[I can't stand them.]
[I can't stand the way they crunch, the way they smell…]                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
[The sounds they make and those damn worlds they create.]                                                                                                                                                                                     
[Don't worry. We won't be dealing with bugs for very long.]
9676 - "WORM"
[It should come as no surprise that worms would get jealous.]                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
[Left in the dirt. Left to rot.]
[In the mire beneath the darkness of the world...]
[The worms may wonder, and may try...]                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
2639 - "BODY"
[Every night, I have dreamed of a flayed woman in a bathtub.]
[She sits there, submerged waist- high in a mass of her own sliced flesh...]
[Splashing her near-skeletal hands in and out of the foamy remains and looks at me with a smile.]
[Excitedly playing in the delight of flesh becoming an object.]
[Separated from one's self and completely discernable from the whole.]
[The flesh is old and has turned gray.]
[Far more than could have every possibly come from her.]
[And yet it is all from her.]
[She stands up, moving without muscle, only slight tendons on her bones and crawls out of the tub, and runs out into yard.]
[Dancing in joy at that holy release, at the ability to be finally free.]
5464 - "KING"
[Hello! You've reached the Arraroya Inn.]
[I'm very sorry, but there are no vacant rooms at the moment.]
[If you're calling for a guest, he's currently asleep...]
[Please leave a callback number, and we'll get back to you as soon as we can.]                                                                                                                                                               
[Thanks, bye~]
9453 - "WILD"
[You know...]
[I had a dream the other night!]
[I was running through a big field.]
[I just felt like I could keep running forever...]
[And I could end up anywhere I wanted to go.]
[It was like the dream had its fingers in the here and now...]
[But that it was dipping its toes into some other water.]                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
[Just a dream I guess...]
3647 - "DOGS"
[I'm just getting so overwhelmed by this smell...]                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             
[It's in me. It's in my skin and in my teeth...]
[It covers my eyes too...]
[Man's best friend, huh?]
Extras
Verse
In the “Children's Hospital” stage, you can hear a code in one of the corners that unlocks a drawing and a verse on the developer's website:



Achievements
There are 20 achievements in the game. Among them we can highlight a few of the most meaningful ones:















Real World tips
The most important ones, in my opinion:
  • Some Tips are outright lies.
  • Every building, from hospitals to homes, contains a room that acts as the heart of the building, delivering blood and nutrients to the building's extremities. Try to find your houses heart!
  • Trees are not the only organisms capable of inosculation (fusions in botany). Deer, Whales, and Humans are also perfectly capable.
  • Inanimate objects feel pain. Make sure to hit them against things as hard as you can, they deserve it.
  • There is at least one biocomputer mainframe stored in every public government building.
  • The Queen of Dragonflies is sleeping and smiling.
  • There is a Mariana Trench under every town.

Chapter 2



It's time to put the pieces of the puzzle together. This part of the guide is quite light and simply describes the facts that lie on the surface and that the game practically throws in the player's face.




But before that, an important clarification. Some conclusions will be based on the chronology of the game levels.

What's the game's chronology?

It's all quite simple! Here's the sequence of time periods I've highlighted in the game and will use:
  1. Home
  2. Intro
  3. Tutorial
  4. Main Menu - City (all levels)
  5. Main Menu - tailbone (all levels)
  6. Main menu - abyss (all levels except entrance and exit)
  7. Entrance, exit and meeting place
Who's the Heroine?
The first thing that comes to mind after we start - who are we playing for?


The game gives a pretty clear answer to that. The heroine's name is Venus, aka Queen of Venus, aka Queen of Dragonflies, aka C'venash Vishneri, aka Venus, aka Pompy, aka Crazy ♥♥♥♥. Her name is revealed at the “Home” level in her dialog with Mercury, and connecting the heroine to Venus is possible due to her love for hammers and dragonflies. Likewise, Mercury turns out to be the hero of the epilogue.

The strongest proof that Venus is the Queen of Dragonflies is the wings that appear on her at the end of the game. The wording “Queen of Dragonflies” is taken from the real world tip “The Queen of Dragonflies is sleeping and smiling”. The name can be linked to Venus through the “Awoken” achievement, meaning that at the end the Queen is awake and still smiling.



The fact that Venus is the Queen of Venus can be learned from an archaeological note on the “Children's Hospital” level. The note mentions that the Queen of Venus and the King of Mercury were worshipped by someone in ancient times. According to the Thraits in the Village, they are an older race than the current overriding race of humans, so it can be inferred that the notes belong to the Thraits. Also, there is graffiti depicting two humanoid creatures in the Thrait Village, with the symbols of the Queen and King from the note drawn next to them, which confirms this fact.



The connection between the Queen of Venus and the Queen of Dragonflies is proven in conversations with the Thrait Elder. She mentions such facts as the Queen hatching from the Chrysalis (the Queen is an insect), and that the Queen sheds her skin (the skin is similar to a dragonfly).

Interesting fact: Thraits only worship the Queen of Venus despite being aware of the King of Mercury.





Where the hell are we?
This is the second question that arises when playing the game - and it comes up because it's not the Moon that hangs in the sky, but the Earth. But if the Earth is in the sky, where is the heroine and the city she lives in now?



The most direct answer we get at the Exit level is Bloody Earth. Several things point to this assumption.

At the end of “Entrance” Venus grows wings and flies upward. Then at the beginning of “Exit” we see that she doesn't just fly away, but does so with such energy that there is collateral damage. At the end of “Meeting Place”, we see something fly out of the Bloody Earth, spreading shockwaves. Now we look at the achievement for completing the epilogue - “Meanwhile”.



Combining all these facts, we can say with a probability of 99.9% that Venus was on the Bloody Earth all this time, and after awakening flew out of the Bloody Earth core like a rocket and, extremely likely, blew half the planet to hell. Mercury, on the other hand, is on Earth.
However, that wasn't always like this. If we rely on a flashback from the “Home” level, Venus and Mercury used to live in the same place (the exact moment is unknown). Most likely, it was a ordinary Earth - after which Venus ended up on Bloody Earth.



Bloody Earth?
We've figured out where Venus is - but what is that place?



The first answers can be found in the scientist's note in the level “Sewage Treatment”. If you pay attention to the phrase “What about the Earth that's hanging in the sky right now?”, it's easy to assume that the humans were suddenly and rather quickly transported to another planet along with their cities. This is also confirmed by one of the Thraits in the Thrait Village, who says that the humans just showed up in their “World”. Furthermore, this Thrait says that their “World” was named “Earth” by the humans.




This means that humanity didn't even notice that they were transported, and the words in the note “Your statements about it being an instrumental mistake or human factor are just absurd” or “You deny the current situation we find ourselves in” show that they are trying to hide the truth from the few people who realized the truth. Brainwashing is also confirmed by the TV message in the location “Daddy's Bad Place”. The broadcast includes phrases such as “If you think, stop thinking” and “This is a product of your imagination and it doesn't exist”.



Interesting fact: scientist reports that Bloody Earth is smaller than “Earth” in all aspects, and the Earth in the sky is smaller than the moon. If you compare visually, the Bloody Earth in the “Entrance” and “Meeting Place” levels looks bigger than the Earth in the tutorial. But more on that later.
What is Blood Earth?
So, we find out that Bloody Earth is some planet that just appeared and people were transferred to it. The people themselves are under constant brainwashing.
If I had to describe Blood Earth in a nutshell, I'd call it the Human Farm.




Hints of this can be seen here and there. Thus, on the level “Children's Hospital” we learn that people are literally canned meat, from which life is sucked out with the help of artificial parasites, and the parasites are constantly being improved so that they work even on the strongest people. And even the parasites themselves are bred from other people.





At the level “School” we learn that people are also the generator of new knowledge, which is collected, processed and given to people again so that they create more knowledge. In addition, at this level we learn that people are good resource to use. Interestingly, the phrase “When a child has served his time...” can be interpreted as “A person has outlived his usefulness”. If we recall the song of Venus after the end of the game, then people turn out to be the material for almost everything.





In the level “Hard structure” it turns out that people are also food for buildings, but more on that later.

There's also an interesting thing in the level “Symbols”. One of the Paragons calls people as the most important aspect because they create other aspects. The Paragons themselves are also mentioned as aspects.





Who's the mastermind?
If Bloody Earth is a human farm, who is the Farmer? The only suitable option is the Vermin Dogs that Thrait Elder talks about in the “Starting Point” level.





There are few clear facts in the game. There are four Dogs in total: the King of All Dogs, the Child, the Father, and the Mother. This is revealed in the “Meeting Place” level. The King of All Dogs treats the other three like his coworkers. The same ones can be seen in the drawing along with the verse.




There is also a hierarchy among the Dogs. The King of all Dogs is in charge. He is followed by the Child. This is indicated by the conversation between the spheres in the transient location. It is obvious that one of the interlocutors is the boss, who is also a dog. The second interlocutor is more interesting, but everything falls into place if you pay attention to the fact that he is in the desert, as well as doing something with dolls (attribute of the Child). Then the Father and the Mother come. There is no information about them, but they are probably equal to each other.



Also, the purpose of the dogs is also known - they're just having fun. That's it XD. Perfect villains. You can find this out by reading the verse.
Fun will be eternal then We'll play forever more The toys will now have lifes again The better for us four




To have fun, the Dogs have toys - humans and probably the world itself. However, toys are not eternal, and it came to the point of human extinction within the game, so the Dogs want to recreate worlds, and to do that they need Venus and Mercury, whose divinity has finally been awakened. This is all we learn from the verse.





What have the Dogs done?
To understand the structure of the human farm or now the Dogs Sandbox, we need to consider the first four levels.


  • «Sewage treatment»
The sewers are home to the race of Nuggets, who live off human waste recycling, feeding it to their Queen. So the Nuggets are parasitic scavengers. Also, the Nuggets, like the Humans, have only recently appeared on Bloody Earth. This is the thing the Thrait Priest in the level “Sewage treatment” tells us about.
  • «Children's Hospital»
As mentioned, this is where Parasite Worms which suck the life out of people are created.
  • «School»
It's also been said that the factory under the school produces a parasitic enamel that cultivates knowledge through people, and the useless people are recycled there.
  • «Hard structure»
At this level, we learn about the origin of buildings. It turns out that they are also living creatures. The most interesting thing is that they are constantly devouring people, as every centimeter of them is covered with microscopic spines and taste buds. In addition, all buildings come from the same rhizome and share the same genetic code. That is, all buildings can be called mushrooms, and as we know, mushrooms are also parasites.


To sum up, we have an interesting system: a huge part of Bloody Earth is colonies of parasites designed to sustain and process humans. Moreover, none of these parasites are capable of living without humans, which means they were populated along with or shortly before humans. Vermin dogs have built a microworld on parasites.






Also, “Tailbone” has an interesting location - “Human seedbed”. On it, replicas of people are created from, apparently, clay and ash. The Child calls them Dolls, and she doesn't like them as “They're BORING. Not like the real thing”. This can be learned from the dialog of the spheres. The fact that the Dolls are clay people is indicated by the phrase “These ones don't squirm right, and they make such a mess when they pop”.




The dolls are designed to conceal the dwindling human population. Their tight integration is evidenced both by Venus during the location survey and by a Thrait Elder in a Thrait village.

The fact that the Earth's population is not made up of only Dolls (it's not the Queen of Dragonflies personal incubator), is confirmed by the Girl in “Tutorial” who is made up of flesh and blood (and probably infected with a parasite).



Dogs plan?
During the game, the King of All Dogs is using phrases that prove the existence of a clear plan. In addition, the Dogs are watching Venus, and from the dialog of the spheres it appears that all of Venus actions are in line with the Dogs expectations.





Mercury was put to sleep by the Dogs, and it is not known how long he slept - a week, a month or entire years. He was awakened at the moment of Venus awakening.

Moreover, Mercury wasn't just woken up - he was put on a Psychopomp. If we combine this fact with the fact that Venus also wears a Psychopomp and follows the plan of the Dogs, then we can conclude that Venus was given a mental disorder and pushed to make a helmet by the Dogs.





What does it mean to be a Queen or a King?
We have already found out that the Dogs have enough power to relocate people, transform planets, and generally manipulate the world. But why do they need Venus and Mercury? The answer should be obvious by now - they are Gods. The role of Gods is to create the World and probably to keep it. They are capable of destroying it and creating it again.



Despite the power of the Dogs, their abilities are limited, because they are mortal ones. Gods are higher beings, and they are able to breathe life into the World, which is beyond the power of the Dogs. The fact that the Queen of Venus and the King of Mercury are the creators of the World is stated in the note of the archeologists, in the “Bugs” phone call, and even Venus herself speaks about it after her awakening.
Chapter 3


Well, if you haven't already poured a stiff drink, now it would be the right time for this. From now on, the schizophrenia grows stronger and facts turn into theories. Attempts to put the pieces of the puzzle together will make us go beyond the game and look for connections in the real-Real World!




Hmm, where should I start?



Intrigued? Then let's begin.
What's wrong with Venus?
Let's go back to the very beginning, to the “Introduction”. Venus says she created the Psychopomp, which exposed a hidden part of the World. She says there are Catacombs beneath the ground that are inhabited by various beings. At this point, the Identity of Venus that we know is fallen apart.



It makes wonder. Why had Venus known about what was hidden underground before the events of the main game? If Venus had already visited the Catacombs before the events of the game, why hadn't she collect the Earth Eggs? If she did know, why does the main story make her look like she's just put on her helmet and is going underground for the first time? And most importantly, why did Venus awaken if the Traits were waiting for the Queen to hatch?




We have previously concluded that Venus is a God who was reborn and awakened by the Dogs. But what if it's not? What if Venus had been just an ordinary person, but then something changed her and led her to the events of the “Tutorial"?




Based on the “Introduction”, we can confidently say that Venus was exploring the new “World” that Helmet showed her. Add to that the Dogs pulling the strings behind the scenes. Now suppose that Venus could have “accidentally” stumbled upon the Queen of Dragonflies Chrysalis. Combine the pieces: some girl in a supernatural Helmet meets the God Embryo. What could possibly go wrong?




We know that Gods in the world of the game are capable of being reborn. This is hinted at by at least 3 appearances of the Queen of Dragonflies: the form of the dragonfly “Entrance”, the form of a human with wings (many drawings and statues), as well as the awakened form of Venus. This means that the Gods do not have a permanent physical body, and then their true form is some kind of spiritual essence.




Another important point is the helmet itself, the Psychopomp. The Psychopomp in religion is the guide of souls. And, in shamanism, the Psychopomp not only accompanies souls to the Underworld, but also returns the souls of the sick ones, and, most importantly, supports the cycle of rebirth by bringing the Souls from the Underworld into the children, into the World.

Building up a whole theory:

The Dogs want to restart the Worlds. To do this, they decide to create and direct their own King and Queen. That's why, they provoke Venus to create a Psychopomp that will remove Venus brainwashing and force her to explore the Real World. In the process of exploring, she finds the Queen in a Chrysalis. At this point, Psychopomp brings the divine Essence or Soul next to the Chrysalis into Venus. Thus the Essence gets a physical body and the Person becomes a sleeping God. From this point on, Venus becomes the Queen of Dragonflies - a different entity. Though unconsciously, she receives the knowledge that God needs and also subconsciously seeks the Core of the Earth to awaken and finally become Queen.

This theory helps to clarify many aspects of the game.



After merging with the Queen, Venus returns to the surface via the sewers - and so, the newly minted God finds herself in “Tutorial" and starts, so to speak, with a clean slate.


Along the way, she leaves a note with a self-portrait. Now the phrases “I feel like just woke up the other day for the first time”, “I have memories before Sunday, but they just feel so hazy, so much less vivid”, “I feel so awake now, so real” make sense.



It becomes clear why Venus suddenly started collecting Earth Eggs, and why she is dumping them somewhere.

The King of All Dogs phrase “Awake, but still asleep” takes on additional meaning, because Venus has been living her life all this time. But when it comes to the Queen of Dragonflies, everything falls into place.

At the “Entrance” level, you can now understand the phrases “I've been waiting for this for a very long time but it still hasn't happened”, “I see it and somehow I know exactly what I should do”, “Words I know but have never heard”.

The further fate of the chrysalis can be heard in the location “Daddy's Bad Place”. Deprived of its divine essence, the half-human half-dragonfly flew to the surface and was probably eliminated.
What's wrong with Mercury?
In fact, his situation echoes Venus's - only, unlike Venus, the Dogs, on the contrary, put him to sleep. The call “King” includes the phrase “If you're calling for a guest, he's currently asleep...”. Afterward, when the time came, the Dogs put the Psychopomp on him and let the essence of God into him. It could be explained by the call “Wild” given the theory from the previous section. The call includes phrases such as “I had a dream the other night!”, “But that it was dipping its toes into some other water”. The first phrase suggests that Mercury is speaking, and the second shows Mercury's transformation after becoming God.



When Venus went to the Center of the Earth, however, Mercury was awakened by the Dogs.
What's wrong with the Gods?
Enough has been said about the role of Venus and Mercury and, it would seem, what more is there to say? It would have been so, if not for the call "Bugs".

Originally posted by Bugs:
Every which way I go it's mantises or beetles or other s h i t.

What the hell are mantises? Of course, we can assume that we are really talking about insects, without a hidden context - except that it turns out that the same call breaks such a theory...

Originally posted by Bugs:
The sounds they make and those damn worlds they create.

The only insects that can create worlds are the Queen of Dragonflies and the King of Beetles. Now it turns out that we also have the King (or Queen) of Mantises, who is the King of another planet. If you dig into it, it turns out that there is a whole bunch of insects in mythology: bee, fly, butterfly, cicada, dragonfly, mantis, and scarab beetle. (there's two more missing)

It turns out that every Planet in the Solar System has its own God and was created by him. But what happened to all this?



If you remember the model of the Solar System, several thoughts come to mind. The first is that these celestial bodies no longer exist. However, this theory breaks down due to the presence of the Sun in the epilogue. The second is that the Gods of these Worlds are dead. And the third is that these Worlds were devastated by the Dogs. I would combine the second and third versions.

Building up a whole theory:

The Dogs came to the Solar System and, while they were having fun, visited Planets, destroying their Worlds and killing the local God in the process. (as we know the Dogs can handle one God at a time) In the end, they decided to use the two remaining gods to restart all the Worlds.
What's wrong with Bloody Earth?
Bloody Earth could be seen as a copy of Earth, but then this contradicts Dr. Eddison's note on the “Sewage treatment” level, as well as previous theories.

What did Eddison say?
«All the calculations, gravity, trajectory, mass. They're completely identical to a planet that's noticeably smaller than Earth».
Only Venus, Mars, Mercury and Pluto fit this description.
Eddison also wrote:
«What about the Earth that's hanging in the sky right now? It looks exactly like ours, but much smaller, closer to the size of the Moon».
Of the four planets, the closest in size to the Moon (3474.2 km) are Mercury (4879.4 km) and Pluto (2376.6 km). They are contenders for being Earth, which means that only Venus (12103.6 km) and Mars (6780.0 km) remain for Bloody Earth.
Let's compare the Planets and the Moon. (Photoshop wizard at work)



The Moon from Venus memories covers ~10 divisions, the Earth from “Tutorial" covers ~14 divisions - hence the Earth is about 1.4 times the size of the Moon. If we compare Mercury to the Moon, we get the same number: 4879.4 / 3474.2 = 1.4. The other three planets don't fit at all. So the Earth in the world of the game is Mercury.
The Bloody Earth from “Exit” covers ~42 divisions, and after correcting for image distortion it would be ~37 divisions, which is about 3.7 times the size of the Moon and about 2.65 times the size of Mercury. If we do a comparison with Venus, we get 12103.6 / 3474.2 = 3.5 and 12103.6 / 4879.4 = 2.48 respectively. These values are pretty close to game ones. Mars, on the other hand, is almost 2 times smaller than Venus, so it is off the table. So the Bloody Earth in the game world is Venus.

Of course, all these calculations work only if the observed planets are at the same distance from the eye, which is true for Venus and Mercury. The Moon, on the other hand, is more complicated. According to my calculations, visually it should be about 30 times the size of Bloody Earth, but that doesn't match what we see in the game. Basically, the in-game size of the Earth and Bloody Earth does not match any of the planets in the Solar System. Even Jupiter looks about 36 times smaller than the Moon, if you look at it from the Earth...



So there are two versions here. Either it is a game convention to show the difference between the planets clearly, or in the game world Mercury became a satellite of Venus again. The second option is not suitable, because on the model of the Solar System at the end of “Home” we clearly see Mercury and Venus orbits around the Sun. So, let's stop at the game convention.

Now we come to the fact that people have been transferred from Real Earth to Venus and Mercury, and the planets themselves have come to resemble Earth.
What's wrong with the Planets (Worlds)?
What do we know about the Planets? In the previous sections, we determined that their Worlds were destroyed by the Dogs. In addition, humans were transported to Venus and Mercury, and the Planets themselves became Earth-like.





The starting information, of course, is sadly small. BUT! In the location “Symbols” we have a character Sila Sila, who says a rather strange phrase: “There's a planet within one other place. When realms come together and are forced into a round shape, we enter into a later phase of a world”.





The later stage of a World is obviously the time before its disappearance/death. A Kingdom is each individual World or planet ruled by its own God or King/Queen.

Building up a whole theory:

When leaving planets, the Dogs left a dead World, the remnants(Is this a fnaf reference?! О_о)of which were merged with the remaining Worlds. The same happened to the Real Earth. God was killed, and the remnants of the World were transferred to Venus and Mercury together with parts of other Worlds that were on the Earth.
What's underneath Venus?
The deepest inhabited location is the “Symbols”. This “oldest part of the kingdom” is where the Paragons are located.

What is known about the Paragons?

There are four of them, and they represent different aspects. According to Venus, the three Paragons are descended from the Paragon of People. This is in a way confirmed by the Paragon of People himself:
"People are where it all comes together. ... People are the most important aspect, they form the others".
So, the other aspects (Paragons) came from "the most important aspect - humans(Paragon of People)". It is also known that the Paragon of People is made up of "younger Paragons". The Paragons themselves are the oldest beings, living for billions of years. (fun fact: the solar system came into existence 4.6 billion years ago.) Four Paragons created matter(World/Planet), and the Paragons were created by two Original Thinkers. Paragons were not always trapped beneath Venus.

The only problem with the Paragons is certain two Thinkers. It's obvious enough that it's about the Queen of Dragonflies and the King of Beetles. This moment, too, can be explained with a clue from the real-Real World. Initially Mercury was not a separate Planet, but was a Satellite of Venus, then at some point separated from it. Therefore, at the birth of the World, the Queen of Dragonflies and the King of Beetles worked together.
Hence a mini-theory comes:Not only Planets but also other Celestial Bodies have it's own King/Queen.



Go back to the Paragons. The three Paragons were born by the Paragon of People. The Paragon of People is made up of the younger Paragons. (Still remember inosculation? I don't either...) But Symbol Person said that all Paragons are created by the Gods... Something is wrong here.
Originally posted by Author of the guide:
OK, Google, who are the Paragons?
Originally posted by Google woman:
Paragon is a person of outstanding qualities who is their personification or exemplar.

Building up a whole theory:

The original Thinkers, or Gods, created a race of Paragons, who eventually merged into the Paragon of Men, who in turn created three other combined Paragons. Eventually the four Paragons began to form the World of Venus.

The original Venus ends at the Kingdom of Paragons. Next is the “Instructions” location.

First and most importantly, why isn't this location part of the Kingdom of Paragons?



It's very simple here: the heroine has destroyed all knowledge of the Alleles after her visit, but at the same time in the “Symbols” level, Venus says that the GutMom “has an encyclopedic knowledge of the soul DNA of every living thing on the planet”.


In fact, if the Alleles had a connection to the Kingdom of Paragons, they wouldn't have kept all the records in the Primordial Information.



It is also important to note that the level “Instruction” is only about Humans and the design of their DNA. Meanwhile, in the Kingdom of Paragons, there are global discussions about the World.

We can assume that the “Instructions” are part of the original Earth that was transported to Venus with the Humans.

Additional mini-theory: Nurses, Medallion Men, and other creatures are inhabitants of other Worlds that were transferred to Venus when the Worlds were merged. The original inhabitants of Venus are the Thraits, and the original inhabitants of Mercury are the Evrens.

What's wrong with the Dogs?
The last question left unresolved is the origin of the Vermin Dogs, and the last major unworked fact is Caldman Four.





In the game, Caldman Four is described as an interstellar phenomenon consisting of four Lights and a Tail that “hides the light of the stars”. The Lights are depicted in a rose-red color, and what a coincidence that the eyes that appear in the “Forbidden Location” are also red - just like the coincidence that their number stands at Four.






It is also strange that Caldman Four was not discovered earlier, because if its tail is infinite, it should have created a black spot in the sky. If it is finite, which is more likely, then the “Tail” is some kind of cone-shaped capsule that scatters light to its boundaries. Since the size of Caldman Four is finite, and people discovered it suddenly, it can only mean one thing - Caldman Four has come close to the Solar System.




Building up a whole theory:

The Dogs came to the solar system on Kalmen Four, while surrounding it with a Tail that cut the solar system off from the rest of space.

Mini-theories:
The eyes in Forbidden Location can be either Space Ships or some sort of autonomous tracking device, like the one that was broken by Venus in the “Entrance” level.
What's rather odd is that the Dogs look like 3 humans and a dog. Perhaps they are Mimics and are adjusting to the local races.
Unlisted
A small part where I'll touch on the remaining things in the game that weren't mentioned earlier, but somehow intersect with the delirium above without affecting the whole picture (or I just couldn't figure them out).

Moon




We see it three times in the game. Once normal, in the Earth flashback, and twice more we see the Moon with the Eye underneath Venus.

It fits with the theory of Worlds merging, since the Sila Sila said that, in addition to merging, worlds shrink - so it may well be in the voids beneath Venus.




Museum

In the “Natural History Museum” location, we see 3 different races that lived on the Planet.



In the last cage we can see the Clay People, who symbolize the current Humanity, gradually being replaced by the Dolls. Next comes an older race, the Thraits. We are told they are dead, but we know they are not. And an even older race, the Humans. (again?)

Who are they? Assuming there are 2 options: Paragons(before the Paragon of People were born)or Symbolic Persons. I'm leaning towards the second one, since there is a Symbolic Man in the “Sewage Treatment” level.



Silhouette near the spheres

In the location with the Spheres, there is a Silhouette at the top who is watching you. If you take a closer look at him, it will be a mannequin from the Museum location, which represents the Symbol People.



Tailbone

On the 2nd level of the menu we see the bones in the background. One of the Paragons said he was animating the muscles and tendons of the World, and Venus falling into the Mariana Trench said she was falling into the Veins and Tendons. So the World(Planet)is literally alive - and it can literally die.

Level 5

It is an interesting point that before going down in the elevator, Venus can't figure out where she is. This can be explained by the theory that the location “Instructions” belongs to the Real Earth World and underlies it, like the location “Symbols” for Venus.

Hollow Constructs

In the “Hollow nursery” location, there are 6 living statues that Thrait Elder calls Hollow Constructs and says they are waking up. At the end, Venus turns the Lifemeat of the World into a similarly Hollow Constructs.



She also says the phrase “Let us awaken your siblings”, which confirms this fact.

Their purpose is unknown. The Thrait Elder says that the Hollow Constructs must follow the Queen's will. Perhaps they are her personal Servants.

A doll of Venus

In the “Human seedbed” location, on the way out, we encounter a replica of Venus made of clay and dust. This suggests that the Dogs at the time of the game events are ready to replace Venus upon her awakening, as well as many other humans.

Skeleton woman



She can be found in the location “Special Shower”. She is basically Venus, with blue hair, a crown, and a body that has been stripped of its flesh.

Also the Bony Venus is mentioned in the call “Body” You can't learn from it that the woman is Venus. It does say, however, that there is a pile of gray flesh in the bathtub.

Perhaps this is a hint to that the Queen of Dragonflies created the World from her own flesh.





Call “Four”

Most likely a greeting from the King of All Dogs that further demonstrates their primary desire to have fun.

Unclear

The only remaining locations are “Spiral” and “Nature” as well as the “Worm” and “Dogs” calls. I didn't find any sense in those.

The only thing is, in the “Spiral” location, the phrases “Father's Hand, Mother's Hand, Child's Heart, Demon's Mind” most likely refer to each of the Dogs - but it's not clear what it means.
Chapter 4. Extra Theories




This is an extra section where I'll be adding theories that don't have any confirmation, but that do a pretty good job of explaining unsolved moments of the game.





What's with the skeleton in the bathtub? (22.01.25)
Let's return to rotted Venus in the bathtub. There's so little information about her that we'll have to become world champions in mental gymnastics for a while.

So, the first noticeable thing is Skeleton's appearance. How could Venus have stumbled upon a copy of herself? The most logical option is that it was her predecessor god. The identical appearance of the entity after rebirth seems logical enough.

But then another question arises: how does Queen of Venus get both there and here? We clearly know that the real Queen of Venus is the heroine of the game, which means that Skeleton Venus cannot be a god.

But if it's not god, what is it? Let's go over the facts:
  • the creature has the appearance of Venus;
  • her flesh consists of gray clay (similar to Lifemeat of the World by description);
  • she wears a crown, the mark of a Queen, but the real Queen is Venus;
  • she can move tendons (superpower 1);
  • she does not die despite taking damage (superpower 2);
  • she regenerates because there is more flesh than there should be (superpower 3).
It turns out that Skeleton Venus isn't so simple. She has superpowers and tries hard to make us think she's the Queen.

Besides the fact that there can't be two Queens, there should have been no OLD living Queens left in the World, as the Thraits are waiting for the Queen of Venus return/reincarnation.

And here we come to the point. What if the Skeleton Venus is the same God Embryo that was in the Chrysalis? That theory matches the chronology. The embryo hatched in the City, that's where they talked about it on TV, and then we meet it again in Tailbone. That would explain her superpowers. It also explains the fact that she only had enough flesh for a bath - after all, if she'd been ripping it off for years, it would have created tons of flesh. Also her recent birth explains her childish behavior - why she “plays” and “dances”.

However, even in this theory, the problem of the two Venuses has not gone away. If the Queen is reborn into a special body, where did the heroine come from? Also, how could the body of the Queen of Venus (and the King of Mercury) have been born on Earth? There can be no natural reasons for this, only artificial ones remain. In such a case the Dogs become guilty in the birth of Venus and Mercury, but here again there is an inconsistency. The Dogs can only create Dolls from clay and dust, to which the heroine does not belong.

On the “Instruction” level, one Allele says that they had prescribed the heroine's entire life and actions before she was even born - so, in theory, the Dogs could have made the Origins and Alleles create vessels for the King and Queen that they could then direct at their will.
Afterword
Here is the end of my analysis of the entire Psychopomp GOLD story. Thank you all for reading to the end. I hope it was an exciting experience.

It took me three months to create this guide, which I could not expected at the beginning of this journey. However, the result was worth the time spent.

Would love to read your thoughts after reading my vision of this crazy world.

I would also like to say thanks to one Anonymous who did the final proofreading of all the original and translated text.
12 Comments
FouL 4 Jun @ 7:34am 
I have a kind of a weird theory that it may be related to human body parts. Like the "exit" at Hard structure looks like an anus and there is also that weird moaning thing that I feel could be something related to the reproductive system, also cuz the level location is in tailbone. I feel like Venus could be some type of a mother since she ends up "creating" a human (if im not wrong). I also feel like she wasnt completely "brainwashed" by the dogs, like she totally felt that something was wrong about what is doing.
Lalka  [author] 3 Jun @ 10:44pm 
FouL, To be honest, I hadn't thought about it at all, and it'll probably just turn out to be a set piece.
FouL 3 Jun @ 3:56pm 
Amazing guide! Just a quick question, is there any info about what is that weird moaning spinning creature near the key in level Hard structure? Its so annoying I couldnt ignore it lol
H1VE 12 Apr @ 8:22am 
I can't even tell you how wonderful this article is. It is extremely detailed, well-organized, and with a just right amount of humor. You explained everything so well, it all make perfect sense now! I just played the whole game in one sitting and was confused as hell, then the world's greatest lore analysis found me. Thank you truly, I can sleep sound tonight.:steamthumbsup:
Lalka  [author] 12 Apr @ 12:05am 
Kazuya nuzurumi, Chapter 4 is the part of the guide as disconnected from the game as possible, as it is the last attempt to connect unused game facts. As they say “but it's just a theory”.
About the dogs, after all they do have the power to kill a god, and they may well subdue alleles that die from the hammer. About the house, I wrote that Venus and Mercury were born on Earth and then transported with the rest of the people. This idea is based on the alleles knowing the human Venus. I think if you make a less plausible chronology of events, the paragraph from chapter 4 becomes more coherent.
Kazuya nuzurumi 11 Apr @ 9:45pm 
Fantastic guide but as a bit of a lore guy myself, i'd like to ask a question:
Are we sure that the dogs have this much power in controlling both worlds?
My question is trying to disprove one of the points in the third to last line in extras, the idea that the Dogs have planned out V and M.
Even if Bloody earth is bad it holds a small degree of fairness for all suffer: There is no proof that paints it as a society based on privilige. In that case why should the Dogs get preferential treatment by the world? Even with threaths the Alleles can still rebuild and the Dogs are, as you said before, looking for fun. Would they really be able to do something so chorelike? I can't see it. Also, we have the house. Unless its on the same field of Evangelion Asuka's drawings (profethic dreams of what could,couldn't,will and won't happen) it would mean Mercury was taken to Earth. Having said that, good guide. I'd love a deep dive on Abstracting from you once the sequel comes out.
Jarate Gaming 8 Apr @ 10:08am 
HOLY SHIT :dip:
Mastema 6 Apr @ 11:56am 
Insane guide, thanks a lot for writing this, it was a fun and very insightful read. Hope to see you write more when the sequel comes out (hopefully).
V the Snail 4 Apr @ 4:26pm 
Amazing analysis. I thought I knew quite a bit already coming in, but this illuminated me with even more schizotheories than I thought possible.
P0ssiblyP4L 4 Mar @ 9:00am 
Dude this is awesome, holy shit, good work