The garden in Exiled Prince
- The whole point of the garden was to be a memorial to all of the Prince's "loved ones." So why was there absolutely nothing dedicated to the memory of his son? I get that it would have been a spoiler for the third game, but still - a little statue or something, just a hint, would have been appropriate.
- Maybe he loved his wives, but hated his child?
- The unlockable content in Snow Queen doesn't seem to indicate anything of the sort, but I guess that's possible.
- Considering none of his other wives had children, he was used to having them all to himself. Gwyn notes in Ballad of Rapunzel that his mother is overprotective of him. It could be that Gwyn occupied a lot of Snow's time, maybe to the point where she ignored James, and James grew jealous of that; it does happen with couples in real life. But it's all conjecture.
- Jossed by Salt Princess, where we learn that he had children with Ivy. The memorial garden doesn't say anything about them either!
- It's entirely possible that the events of Snow Queen took place before Exiled Prince and his son had not died by the time Snow did.
- That's not possible. The ending of Exiled Prince has the Chancellor's daughter briefly encountering Snow White and learning about the events of the third game as something which will happen in the future. The bonus gameplay in the collector's edition of Exiled Prince makes it even more evident that Snow Queen happened afterward.
- Also, Ballad of Rapunzel takes place ten years after Snow Queen. Snow White and Prince Gwyn are very much alive in this game. This is also the game in which we find out that Snow White is immortal because she received the blessings of the goddess Flora.
- It might be that because his son didn't die and that he didn't dedicate a memorial to him because it would mean believing that his son had died while he already believed Snow had died.
- Snow White is immortal, though, just like his first wife, Ivy, was supposed to be. Snow and Ivy got their immortality from the same source (Flora), which is mentioned in Ballad of Rapunzel. I don't know how he wouldn't have known that, though it's possible she didn't tell him.
- If you check the pictures in the parables about the rise of the Snow Queen, you'll notice that while Snow, her father and their advisors are present when the son of the Frog Prince and Snow was cursed, the Prince is not there. That would seem to indicate that the Prince left Snow before the disaster, marrying Cinderella while Snow was still alive. It's certainly game canon that Snow hates the Prince... and if she doesn't know that the Prince thought she was already dead (thanks to a spell or illusion, perhaps?), no wonder she's angry.
- Wait, I thought Snow White was the Prince's fifth wife. Wasn't Cinderella already dead?
- Yes. Snow White was the fifth wife, meaning Cinderella was already dead. Snow White still being alive is a plot point, since the death of each wife reverts the Prince back into a frog. Snow White left him instead of dying, and so he remained a man—but his curse changed as a result of his anger at her leaving him, so that anyone he touched got turned into a frog.
- Uh, one of the portraits in the castle of Rise of the Snow Queen has Snow and the Frog Prince looking over their cursed son. The whole reason they divorced was because of what happened to him.
- Yep. Note that he has his back to his wife and son in that picture, and he's looking at them over his shoulder. It's also indicated that Snow left him, not the other way around. And it could be that he blames their child for him and Snow splitting up, the way Snow blames him for what happened to their son—it's stated that she thought Prince James was too slow in sending people out to look for their son when he didn't return. Rise of the Snow Queen shows that he did try to get her back, but she wasn't having any of it, and killed the messengers James sent.
- It's entirely possible that the Detective simply didn't visit the part of the garden dedicated to him, or since we only see a single "view" of each room, the Detective didn't look at the wall that was dedicated.
- Maybe he loved his wives, but hated his child?
The number of Cinderellas
- The extra Cinderella parables would have one believe that five girls (Ella Blom, Agnes Koch, Shan Mao, Bianca Pace and Katherine Belloni) were the only Cinderellas in history. However, one would think that between all the Godmothers and the centuries passed that there would be scores of Cinderellas. And from what I gather from the parables, the first four Cinderellas were helped by Amelia, the last Godmother. You would think the first Cinderella, Ella Blom, would have been helped by the first Godmother. It's just so confusing!
- Time Travel most likely, or at least, that's the impression I got after playing the bonus game, in which the complete cottage (and Amelia and Geppetto) appear in China. If the Magic Glass Wand is capable of Space Traveling, it's not too far fetched to think that they also traveled through time, and those four Cinderellas were the ones who Amelia personally helped, specially considering that one portrait in the game shows that there are more godmothers than those 4 Cinderellas (5 if you count the Cinderella in game).
- The 5 Cinderellas mentioned in this game are only the ones that were under the charge of the evil godmother before she turned evil. Besides, we know for a fact that Briar Rose had a Godmother of the Rose and that Princess Ivy had a Godmother of Ivy, so it's quite possible that they were Cinderellas as well. Add another three other godmothers that were petrified along with them in the first game, and the evil godmother you defeated in the first game, and you have 6 godmothers mentioned in the entire game series so far.
- I don't think those godmothers in the first game had anything to do with the Godmother of the Cinderella game. Briar Rose and Ivy weren't Cinderellas, they were chosen by the goddess Flora as shown in Ballad of Rapunzel, and thus received immortality and control over a specific plant—the Cinderellas did not receive anything but clothing and help from the Godmother to find a happier life. Those godmothers must have been related somehow to Flora, not the Maiden Goddess who was Amelia's boss. It's too bad the games drop all mention of those godmothers after the first game, because it's confusing as heck who they are or what they do. I got the feeling that the Maiden Goddess only had one Godmother working at a time, and Amelia was the most recent one, which means those girls were the last five Cinderellas ever. I also vaguely recall a mural that had the pictures of previous Godmothers on it, but the pictures were described as being too damaged to be able to identify the women. The mural, I believe, was in the Goddess' temple—but I thought I could make out at least one or two Godmothers that were dressed in Greek or Roman clothing. I very much doubt time-travelling was involved at all, the other Godmothers could have either died or retired at some point—and if I'm wrong and more than one Godmother worked at a time, then time-travel definitely wouldn't have been needed—one Godmother probably covered a certain area. The game did say that Cinderellas were becoming harder to find, which is probably why there's so few of them in Amelia's time and why Amelia seems to have lived a long time while helping so few—and it might also explain why only one Godmother was needed at that point. I also got the feeling that Amelia was gifted with a really long life—if not an immortal one—as well as other magics in her role as Godmother, but this doesn't really explain how Geppetto could live so long as well.
Letters home from the former mermaids?
- In Little Mermaid, when the detective finally gains entrance to Teresa's room, she finds a letter that Teresa sent home to her father, explaining that she has joined the Red Riding Hood Sisters. Teresa only died at the beginning of RRHS, and based on Gerda's dialogue in Rapunzel (which says that Snow Queen happened ten years earlier), it can be inferred that she only escaped from Prasio within roughly the last fifteen years, or maybe twenty tops. So that letter certainly was not sent before Prasio was cursed centuries earlier. How in the world did she send it? Similarly, how did the Frog Prince write to Naida to tell her how to find her orb?
- Mail-cheeked fish, obviously.
The diary in the vault
- In Fallen Star, the detective finds a diary in Valla's secret vault which proves just who is responsible for everything that's happening. This diary is then shown to Leda, who promptly agrees to aid the detective. But... it's also revealed that Valla is nothing but an extremely well-crafted automaton. Why would something like that keep a written diary in the first place?
- Maybe she's trying to emulate human behaviour as much as possible, including writing a diary, something a person would do.
The forgetfulness of Fionnuala
- How on Earth could Fionnuala forget all about a childhood friend she promised to marry? Especially since he left his magic bird with her? I can understand her changing her mind, but she appears to have forgotten his existence completely...except that she gives him the whole "the man I knew" speech at the end. Was it some kind of magical amnesia that wore off, or did she just not want to admit to the relationship in front of people?
