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PostPosted: 07 Sep 2010, 01:58 
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Edit: never mind my previous questions!!!!!!!

So I finally finished the game, I've tested out each and every ending just to listen to the different poems.
I was wondering if anyone has any personal interpretations of what the poems mean? What kind of world is created through the ascension of a chosen sister/yourself?
Throdax's youtube channel has each of the endings there, in-case anyone wants to listen: http://www.youtube.com/user/Throdax

It sucks that there is no transcription for the poems, it would be easier to analyze instead of listening to the audio over and over again :|
If there's enough interest, perhaps I can transcribe each poem?

Anyways, good job Ice-Pick! Thank you for the experience!


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PostPosted: 07 Sep 2010, 08:19 
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I've decided to transcribe the poems. I'll do a few of them everyday and post them up!
Thanks again to Throdax's youtube page for the audio files


Ole's Poem:

Who saw the dreams and knew the names
Who heard the grasses talking to each other
Who learned the will of their ancient father
and listened to the songs of tidal waves
The ones whose souls have been purified
The ones harnessed to the pain of challenge
Who lit the mystic candles on the fringe
Who became a pure shade of darkest nights
Who didn't squeeze their grape to sinful glass
and didn't seek the joys of earthly leisure
Not in the priestess's dance
Nor in the pleasure
But who descended into Hell's morass
To meet their shadow at the very bottom
They don't expect hearts with love to blossom


(My favorite sister) Una's Poem:

They're not alive, but neither are they dead
They're deaf to words, and their touch is senseless
They're blunt to smell and their pain is endless
Their doom, unaltered by any event, is sealed in darkness
But light giver Phoebus bestows the blind
With overwhelming awe in sight of God
And the concealed cave is turned to Christmas den
By holy vortex, the primal night who bore him in her womb
The offspring, sent to her by miser father
Is carrying her gifts to fateful brother
The one by solar rage who was entombed
Who has become the toy of fateless play
Who is alive, yet destined to be fey


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Yani's:
"Those, to earth, who are forever hurled
Cannot enjoy the vastness of the fields
As time's each passing moment yields
The dancing shadows of other worlds
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And to him, even death does simply nod
Him who saw the dreams and knew the names
"
Makes me recall that Yani has talked with dead sisters (Ino and Ani) in her dreams and, in fact, been the closest to the border between worlds along with Ole.

Ima's:
"Who yearned to be but failed to become"
She was willing to sacrifice herself for "the dragon" she mentioned constantly, but later found out that it was illusional.

"The duty is failed, the promises are broken
The path unwalked
And our doom is nigh
"
The despair she personifies.

Self-ascension:
"Above the rippling surface waves
Has grown a solemn, rocky island built of bricks
With chasms black and floods of crimson rocks
And boundaries woeful of the land unknown
I see the dreams so marvellously sad
The creeks of land so solid and encrusted
Where wave and tide upon shores are busted
While singing by the mournful twilight's bed
And canvas in the dark plies a quiet course
Trembling with an ancient mystic force
The force of wind and raspy, breathless ripple
In ways of constant dare and righteous struggle
My boat is led along by sheering tumult
And skies are lit with starry, shining sparkle
"
It could refer to the Void itself, how we brought life to it and went through it at last.
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