History Headscratchers / Bastion

* Is it just me? or do you move slower while [[spoiler:holding Zulf's body]] than when you hold [[spoiler:the Battering ram]]? It probably to be more dramatic, but still.

* If a health tonic can heal any injury, why [[spoiler:carry Zulf out]], when The Kid could have just given him a health tonic and kept the [[spoiler:Battering Ram]]?
** Who's to say the tonic would work on anyone besides The Kid? Besides, the health tonic [[spoiler:wouldn't stop the Ura from shooting Zulf]]. The Kid's tenacity certainly did, though.

** From what it sounded like, the Mancers didn't necessarily want to eliminate the Ura, just the Tazel Terminals since it was essentially a massive tunnel network. The best way to render tunnels useless is to literally rip them out of the ground, which is exactly what the Calamity did. It's also possible that [[spoiler:when Venn sabotaged the calamity, he also modified it to destroy all the Caelondians.]]

* Did it bother anyone else that even if you [[spoiler:choose the Evacuation ending first, Rucks still shows signs of deja vu]]?
** Ideally, [[spoiler:once you choose the Evacuation ending that would be the logical conclusion of the game. Storywise, New Game Plus is only possible if you chose the Restoration ending.]]
** [[spoiler:With Evacuation, the story has indeed ended and the loop halted. New Game Plus is just another loop, so there are still past loops Rucks seems to remember. Apply some Gameplay and story Segregation here, players wont appreciate a game end choice that locks you from new game+]]

** I imagine he's not exactly repenting (Remember, he doesn't know that [[spoiler:his people caused the calamity)]], probably just praying. The Gods most likely empower his enemies primarily because they're putting him to a test and rewarding him with fragments to make sure he's worthy of them, and secondarily [[spoiler:because they're punishing him for his people's sins.]]

** Even the comment he gives when you select the hammer and carbine implies that he was a Trigger during the Ura-Calondia war. It would be hardly surprising if there was a lot of movement between guilds after the war ended.

* Were the Ura evil or the Caelondians? Zulf's backstory said he wanted to to show that the Ura had changed, was he just being an Uncle Tom or something?

** It is implied that the Kid and Rucks can communicate ''somehow'' when the Kid is out and about. When the Kid goes into Jawsong's Bog Rucks warns him that "he'll get lost, and I won't be able to guide him back," and in the Kid's Dream Rucks says how the Kid wakes up after the Calamity "with only a Stranger's voice to guide him." However, the Tazel Terminals kicks off with Rucks saying "I can't hear him at all anymore. He's to far away." Everything the player hears during the final level is being told to Zia only, and Rucks is ''quite'' oblivious to exactly what's going down between the Kid and Zulf.

** [[spoiler:With Evacuation, the story has indeed ended and the loop halted. New Game Plus is just another loop, so there are still past loops Zulf seems to remember. Apply some Gameplay and story Segregation here, players wont appreciate a game end choice that locks you from new game+]]

** [[spoiler:With Evacuation, the story has indeed ended and the loop halted. New Game Plus is just another loop, so there are still past loops. Apply some Gameplay and story Segregation here, players wont appreciate a game end choice that locks you from new game+]]