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* The Protagonist being converted into Cruz's personal Successor is one thing, but Jack specifically kills them ''very'' shortly after they had been exposed to her miasma directly, which would be a death sentence for any Revenant -- but a Successor, who technically lives on as their internalized Relic and can even resurrect from it so long as the Relic remains intact. Which means Cruz converted the Protagonist in the span of a minute or two, completely and fundamentally changing the very core essence of their entire being under Jack's nose. Now imagine if Cruz had the mind to not just convert people into her monstrous mutants but make more Successors before anyone knew how to handle them.

** Even the "Dwellers in the Dark" GoldenEnding seemingly fails to address this problem. Blood bead are in abundance and humans no longer need to be kept as livestock, but nothing else has changed. Unless there is a way for more people to leave like the protagonist and their companions did, everyone else is still stuck. And even if it is possible, there's still the matter of how to escort everyone past the Aragami to safety among the humans living outside.

* Why does the protagonist wake on a ruined city road instead of at the bottom of the chasm they fell into after their fight with the Queen? Io probably found them unconscious down there after they reformed, and moved them somewhere they would be safe until they regained consciousness.

* While everything is being done to keep the few remaining humans safe, their numbers ''will'' eventually begin to dwindle. Due to either illness, Lost breaching their sanctuaries' defenses, or old age. Unless they begin breeding, their population, as well as the Revenants' only other source of fresh blood, will vanish. Depending on how many humans remain in Vein, they could be subject to all the genetic issues that come from a small, isolated population that can't get new immigrants from the outside.
** Even the "Dwellers in the Dark" GoldenEnding seemingly fails to address this problem. While blood bead are in abundance and humans no longer need to be kept as livestock, nothing else has changed. Unless there is a way for more people to leave like the protagonist and their companions did, everyone else is still stuck. And, even if it is possible to leave, there is still the matter of how, or if it would even be feasible, to escort everyone safely past the Aragami and to safety among the humans living outside.

* Louis/Rui was an excellent student with good grades in all his subjects. Is it any wonder that he ended up becoming a JackOfAllStats with balanced ability ratings and skills in swordplay and gifts?

* The reason Jack and Eva fight so aggressively is due to them being Successors, and therefore immortal. There's little reason for them to worry about defense, when not even a blow to the heart can permanently kill them anymore. And in the event that they do die, they will reform around their relic almost instantaneously. As a result, they are free to focus purely on speed and aggression, paying no heed to endurance or durability.

* Karen, the successor of the Heart is hidden deep inside the Cathedral, protected by the successor of the Ribcage. Kinda like how the ribcage protects vital organs.
** Jack Rutherford mentions that a Successor should shape their Crypt into something that puts them at ease. Aurora, the Successor of the Ribcage, chose to be entombed close to someone she loved.

** Jack also has his [[InvisibilityCloak "Night Fog Veil"]] gift. Allowing them to not only get the drop on most targets, but avoid fighting altogether if they want. Cutting back on their use of regeneration and restorative items.
* Jack didn't just appear out of nowhere when he attacked Mido in the City of Falling Flames. He was there the whole time, and was using [[InvisibilityCloak "Night Fog Veil"]] to remain undetected.

* How is Io able to become such a good fighter, despite telling the Protagonist that she is not one after they meet? There are actually two ways this can be interpreted. It could be that her dedication to serving the Protagonist as their Attendant gave her the strength and drive to become stronger. At the same time, it could be that her desire to [[GrewBeyondTheirProgramming grow and gain a purpose beyond just being the protagonist's Attendant allowed her to realize her full potential.]]

* While everything is being done to keep the few remaining humans safe, their numbers ''will'' eventually begin to dwindle, either due to illness, Lost breaching their sanctuaries' defenses, or old age. Unless they begin breeding, their population, as well as the Revenants' only other source of fresh blood, will vanish. Depending on how many humans remain in Vein, they could be subject to all the genetic issues that come from a small, isolated population that can't get new immigrants from the outside.

* [[MadScientist Juzo]] [[TheSociopath Mido]] does not drop a blood code. This may have been intentional meta/story wise, as [[spoiler: the developers did not want to give him [[HateSink any potential sympathetic qualities or character development through vestiges]], which did give a lot of backstory through other characters.]]

*** Arguably, it's a combination of external significance and implicit concern. A sword is just that. A sword. A hunk of metal and machinery forged to fight. But a Blood Code is much more. To take on a Blood Code is to take on a part of the original bearer. To become one with them. Taking on Mido's Code would be a twisted form of accepting some bit of him into ourselves, and that is something our character is unwilling to do. Plus, in doing that, it's almost granting his wish of evolution. He becomes a part of something greater. Instead, by leaving it, we leave him to rot forever, to fade away until nothing is left.

** [[spoiler:Karen]]'s blood code is Demeter, the goddess of harvest. [[spoiler:As the Successor of the Heart, she produces the blood springs and thirst quenching bloodbeads which allow the Revenants to survive.]]
** Jack's code [[spoiler:is named after Heimdall, the all-seeing guardian of the Bifrost Bridge. As the watcher and successor of the eye, Jack keeps vigil over the other successors, and can see how close they are to frenzy.]]
** [[spoiler:Hades is the god of the underworld, and despite his dubious reputation, was not as bad as he's been made out to be. Silva is a WellIntentionedExtremist whose done quite a few questionable things, but ultimately has humanities' best interests at heart. Silva also created the Gaol of the Mists to keep the Lost and the Revenants contained so neither would threaten the outside world, similar to how Hades kept the dead locked away in the underworld.]]
** Isis was the Egyptian goddess of magic, and Aurora's code specializes in offensive dark gifts. [[spoiler:Isis was also the wife of Osiris, and went to great length to find her husband after he was killed and dismembered by his brother Set. Aurora became a successor and placed her crypt above Karen's in order to protect her.]]

** Io's appearance is ''startlingly'' [[IdenticalStranger similar]] to Karen, Louis' sister. Beyond the obvious color changes and looking more disheveled and {{Stripperific}}, there's arguably a very justified reason for this that the game never touches on: [[spoiler: as the Attendants are all ArtificialHuman clones made by Cruz specifically to care for the Successors, it's entirely plausible that Cruz modeled all of them after Karen, who specifically was her caretaker during Project Q.U.E.E.N.]]
** This also gets reflected elsewhere [[spoiler: such as the "Dwellers in the Dark" ending, where Io becomes a tree that helps protect Vein in an identical fashion to Karen becoming the Source of the Blood Beads keeping at least some of the Revenants sane and stable. Or the fact that Karen's attire as a Successor invokes a very similar woman-in-white role to Io.]]
* The Cathedral of The Sacred Blood is a giant labyrinth which has earned a spot as ThatOneLevel on the YMMV page. The Successor of the Ribcage, [[spoiler: Aurora Valentino, may have done this on purpose in order to help protect Karen, who dwells beneath her crypt and is the source of the Blood Beads helping to sustain the Revenants. Casual looters would take one look at it and turn around, and only the most determined Revenants would even get halfway through the maze... and if they somehow got to the end without turning into Lost, they would likely be running on fumes and be easy prey for Aurora's Attendant.]]
* Why does the protagonist [[spoiler:wake on a ruined city road instead of at the bottom of the chasm they fell into after their fight with the Queen? Io probably found them unconscious down there after they reformed, and moved them somewhere they would be safe until they regained consciousness.]]
* [[spoiler:Karen, the successor of the Heart]] is hidden deep inside the Cathedral, protected by the successor of the Ribcage. Kinda like how the ribcage protects vital organs.
** Jack Rutherford mentions that [[spoiler:a Successor should shape their crypt into something that puts them at ease. Aurora, the successor of the Ribcage, chose to be entombed close to someone she loved.]]
* The game mentions in background lore that the Gen One revenants were deployed against and successfully drove out or killed all the "Horrors" in the city and surrounding area. [[spoiler:It's why we never encounter any Aragami in the game, they'd been driven back by the time the Gaol of the Mists trapped everything inside. There's no telling if this means Revenants are some form of God Eater or if their own abilities are just effective due to their nature, but they apparently work regardless.]]
* How is Io able to become such a good fighter, despite telling the Protagonist that she is not one after they meet? There are actually two ways this can be interpreted. [[spoiler:It could be that her dedication to serving the Protagonist as their attendant gave her the strength and drive to become stronger. At the same time, it could be that her desire to [[GrewBeyondTheirProgramming grow and gain a purpose beyond just being the protagonist's attendant allowed her to realize her full potential.]]]]
* Juzo Mido experiments on Revenants and the Lost. What status aliment does he inflict? Inhibit. Which shuts down the powers of both, making all the harder for them to fight back.
* The reason Jack and Eva fight so aggressively is [[spoiler:due to them being Successors, and therefore immortal. There's little reason for them to worry about defense, when not even a blow to the heart can permanently kill them anymore. And in the event that they do die, they will reform around their relic almost instantaneously. As a result, they are free to focus purely on speed and aggression, paying no heed to endurance or durability.]]

* Jack [[spoiler:didn't just appear out of nowhere when he attacked Mido in the City of Falling Flames. He was there the whole time, and was using [[InvisibilityCloak "Night Fog Veil"]] to remain undetected.]]

* TheReveal towards the end of the game that beyond the Gaol of the Mist [[spoiler: lies [[VideoGame/GodEater Aragami]]]] flips the entire plot on its head. [[spoiler: Not only are Aragami canonically a nigh-unstoppable existence of ExtremeOmnivore that can automatically devour whatever they come into contact with, but they can evolve based on that. The Revenants we see victimized turn to dead ash like any other, but if one were able to genuinely consume a Revenant in whole, ''god only knows'' what might result.]]
* Given the vampiric nature of the Revenants, [[spoiler: even if they somehow bonded with a God Arc or were able to fight an Aragami to a victory, what happens if a Revenant consumes ''Oracle Cells''? Possibly something far, far more dangerous than even what was seen in the game perhaps.]]

** It would be even worse if this had occurred before entering the Cathedral of Sacred Blood, [[spoiler:since nobody knew the Protagonist was a Successor before then. Jack and Eva would have no idea that there was a frenzied Successor on the loose and probably wouldn't realize what was happening until they became a major threat, having absorbed more than one of the Queen's parts.]]

* Given the vampiric nature of the Revenants, [[spoiler: even if they somehow bonded with a God Arc or were able to fight an Aragami to a victory, what happens if a Revenant consumed ''Oracle Cells''? Possibly something far, far more dangerous than even what was seen in the game perhaps.]]

* While everything is being done to keep the few remaining Humans safe, their numbers ''will'' eventually begin to dwindle. Either due to illness, Lost breaching their sanctuaries' defenses, or old age. Unless they begin breeding, their population, as well as the Revenants' only other source of fresh blood, will vanish. Depending on how many humans remain in Vein, they could be subject to all the genetic issues that come from a small, isolated population that can't get new immigrants from the outside.

* Each Bloodcode is a reflection of the owner in some way or another.

** [[spoiler:Hades is the god of the underworld, and despite his dubious reputation, was not as bad as he's been made out to be. Silva is a WellIntentionedExtremist whose done quite a few questionable things, but ultimately has humanities' best interests at heart. Silva also created the Goal of the Mists to keep the Lost and the Revenants contained so neither would threaten the outside world, similar to how Hades kept the dead locked away in the underworld.]]

* The game mentions in background lore that the Gen One revenants were deployed against and successfully drove out or killed all the "Horrors" in the city and surrounding area. [[spoiler:It's why we never encounter any Aragami in the game, they'd been driven back by the time the Goal of Mists trapped everything inside. There's no telling if this means Revenants are some form of God Eater or if their own abilities are just effective due to their nature, but they apparently work regardless.]]

* TheReveal towards the end of the game that beyond the Gaol of the Mist [[spoiler: lies [[VideoGame/GodEater Aragami]]]] flips the entire plot on its head. [[spoiler: Not only are Aragami canonically a nigh-unstoppable existence of ExtremeOmnivore that can automatically devour whatever they come into contact with, but they can evolve based on that. The Revenants we see victimized turn to dead ash like any other, but if one were to able to genuinely consume a Revenant in whole, ''god only knows'' what might result.]]

** It would be even worse if this had occurred before entering the Cathedral of Sacred Blood, [[spoiler:since nobody knew the Protagonist was a successor before then. Jack and Eva would have no idea that there was a frenzied Successor on the loose and probably wouldn't realize what was happening until they became a major threat.]]
* While everything is being done to keep the few remaining Humans safe, their numbers ''will'' eventually begin to dwindle. Either due to illness or old age. Unless they begin breeding, their population, as well as the Revenants only other source of fresh blood, will vanish.

* Jack [[spoiler:didn't just appear out of nowhere when he attacked Mido in the City of Falling Flames. He was there the whole time, but was using his [[InvisibilityCloak "Night Fog Veil"]] Gift to remain undetected.]]

* Louis/Rui chooses to be a JackOfAllStats because a leader must be able to adapt and react to any situation. He chose a more balanced and versatile skill set so he'll be ready for anything.
* Oliver Collins is a very strong CrutchCharacter who can kill most early enemies in one or two hits. Is it any wonder he becomes a boss after succumbing to bloodlust and turning into a Lost?

* How did Jack [[spoiler:suddenly appear out of nowhere to attack Mido in the City of Falling Flames? One of his Blood Code's abilities is an InvisibilityCloak that makes him almost impossible to detect. Jack was there the whole time, he was just waiting for the best moment to strike.]]

** It would be even worse if this had occurred before entering the Cathedral of Sacred Blood, [[spoiler:since nobody knew the Protagonist was a successor before then. Jack and Eva would have no idea that there was a frenzied Successor on the loose and probably wouldn't realize what was happening until they became a major threat.]]

* Imagine how dangerous the Protagonist would be if they ever became a Lost. Not only would they be insanely powerful, but also able to absorb the blood code of any Revenants they killed to become even stronger.

* Imagine how dangerous the Protagonist would be if they were ever to become a Lost. In addition to being insanely strong they would also be able to absorb the blood code of any Revenant they killed and grow stronger.

* Given the vampiric nature of the Revenants, [[spoiler: even if they somehow bonded with a God Arc or were able to fight an Aragami to a victory, what happens if a Revenant consumed ''Oracle Cells''? Possibly something far, far more dangerous than even what was seen in the game perhaps.]]

** [[spoiler:Hades is the god of the underworld, and despite his dubious reputation, was not as bad as he's been made out to be. Silva is a WellIntentionedExtremist whose done quite a few questionable things, but ultimately has humanities' best interests at heart.]]