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4* Louis/Rui was noted to be an excellent student with good grades in every subject. He, and by extension his Blood Code, is a JackOfAllStats with balanced ability scores that mixes gifts and swordplay.
5* 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?
6* Bayonets using ichor instead of regular bullets: Not only would ammunition be difficult to produce in large quantities in the devastated world, they probably wouldn't be powerful enough to do any real damage to creatures like the Lost. Ichor on the other hand can be turned into powerful munitions thanks to the Revenant's powers, is plentiful and renewable, can be gained by battling enemies, and would not weigh them down like regular ammo. Making it a perfect alternative.
7* [[MadScientist Juzo]] [[TheSociopath Mido]] does not drop a blood code. This may have been intentional meta/story wise, as 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.
8** Assuming that the Protagonist has the power to choose whether or not they'll absorb a blood code, it could be that they decided to reject it. Since they didn't want any trace of that monster to live on, especially within themselves.
9** Alternatively, he doesn't drop one because he explodes rather than turning to ash after being defeated, which most likely destroyed his heart and perma-killed him, leaving no Vestige behind. After all, the Protagonist certainly doesn't mind taking his sword and using it, so why would they feel differently about using his blood code?
10*** 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, a being that transcends limits and overcomes all who face them. Instead, by leaving it, we leave him to rot forever, to fade away until nothing is left.
11* Your checkpoints are ''mistles''. Mistletoe is a parasitic plant that attaches to trees and sucks nutrition out of them. In other words, it's a vampire plant.
12* Each Blood Code is a reflection of the owner in some way or another.
13** Riki's code, Assassin, is a GlassCannon that specializes in sneak attacks and offers large buffs to offense as long as you avoid being hit. Representing how Riki would fight when it suited him and do it well, but was always ready to cut his losses and run when things looked bad.
14** Yakumo's code, Atlas, focuses on close combat with tremendous physical strength and endurance. The titan Atlas was known for holding the world on his shoulders, and Yakumo is willing to put himself in harm's way and endure enormous struggles to protect his friends.
15** What did Prometheus steal from the gods to give to humanity? Fire. Louis makes extensive use of blood, and he pursues the secrets of the bloodsprings to provide it to all revenants.
16** Karen's blood code is Demeter, the goddess of harvest. As the Successor of the Heart, she produces the blood springs and thirst-quenching bloodbeads which allow the Revenants to survive.
17** Jack's code 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.
18** 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.
19** Isis was the Egyptian goddess of magic, and Aurora's code specializes in offensive dark gifts. Isis was also the wife of Osiris, and went to great lengths 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.
20** Rin's code is Hephaestus, the forge god who was cast out for having a physical flaw. Rin was scared by her experiences during the war and gave up fighting in favor of becoming a merchant and weapons smith.
21* Io and Karen:
22** 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: 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.
23** This also gets reflected elsewhere 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.
24* 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, 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.
25** 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.
26** 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.
27* 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. 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.
28* 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, or that her desire to [[GrewBeyondTheirProgramming grow and gain a purpose beyond that allowed her to realize her full potential.]]
29* Juzo Mido experiments on Revenants and the Lost. What status aliment does he inflict? Inhibit. Which shuts down the powers of both, making it all the harder for them to fight back.
30* The reason Jack and Eva fight so aggressively is due to them being Successors, and therefore immortal. They don't need to worry about defense when not even a blow to the heart can kill them anymore. And in the event that they do die, they will just reform around their relic almost instantaneously. As a result, they're free to focus purely on speed and aggression while paying no heed to endurance or durability.
31** Jack's [[InvisibilityCloak "Night Fog Veil"]] Gift lets him essentially get the jump on anything he fights and avoid anything he can't handle, so he can comfortably be aggressive on fights he knows he'll win quickly. This same Gift also explains how he seems to come out of nowhere in cutscenes -- he's been following the party undetected.
32* The game is an example of NotUsingTheZWord: the characters are not "vampires" but "revenants." But it actually makes a lot more sense when you learn that the goal of creating the revenants was to reanimate corpses as undying, immortal soldiers, which ''is'' a more accurate description of a revenant. The blood-drinking was an unexpected, and unwanted side-effect, and the thing that causes most of the game's conflict in one way or another, and something several of the characters have sought to cure.
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35* TheReveal towards the end of the game that beyond the Gaol of the Mist lies [[VideoGame/GodEater Aragami]] flips the entire plot on its head. 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.
36* Given the vampiric nature of the Revenants, 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.
37* 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.
38** It would be even worse if this had occurred before entering the Cathedral of Sacred Blood, 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.
39* While everything is being done to keep the few remaining humans safe, their numbers ''will'' eventually begin to dwindle. Either due to illness, the Lost invading their sanctuaries, or old age. Unless they start having kids, 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.
40** 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.

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