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  • Despite having a good look at their personality, nothing is truly known about the Administrator. Their real name, actual age, race, or anything else, for that matter. Everything is left blank on purpose.

  • By the end of "Frozen Corridors", these mysteries aren't revisited:
    • Did Lamda Spatari's sister truly sacrifice herself for Regina, or was it Regina rationalizing her death through Sylkie's words as a result of being touched by the girl's gesture when Regina's health was declining?
    • Why didn't Rivet and Lamda mistake Sylkie for Lamda's sister despite both of them knowing the latter in life and acknowledging Sylkie as "Regina's caretaker" across the event?
      • Rivet can be partially excused as adapting to Regina's delusion. Regina being an Unreliable Narrator still doesn't explain scenes of Sylkie while Regina's absent...
    • Rivet offhandedly mentions that the CEO couldn't sense Sylkie at all. Considering the player was aware of Sylkie, was this actually the CEO Obfuscating Stupidity in front of Rivet?
      • The CEO seems to have wanted Regina to find her inner strength, and Sylkie's words were keeping her from finding it.

  • The Nanaharas were able to revive people using Divinity with no side effects. Why did Edel use human sacrifices to revive Regina, when she had more than enough Divinity as a Demon Lord?
    • Using your Divinity to revive someone makes you lose your Divinity; that was the side effect. Perhaps it's an all-or-nothing deal if you try to cheat it by fragmenting yourself (and Edel won't sacrifice her existence just to save Regina), or perhaps a Demon Lord's Divinity isn't theirs to discard outside a Qliphoth Game (under threat of Tammiel's judgment, maybe).
  • What's the point of the Qilphoth Games? Is it a way to resolve a lover's spat between the Administrator and Tammiel, or is it a benevolent action on Tammiel's part to grant wishes to those who work hard? Why is Tammiel willingly creating and helping raise her own enemy? Is it decide who is a better parent and loser dies? What if the Tammiel and Administrator we see are not their true forms, but Avatars? Would that justify all the life-and-death as literally being a Game? Custody battle via the lives of NPCS/Lower Liforms?

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