WMG / Choo-Choo Charles

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Choo-Choo Charles Was Once a Man.

• Jossed. Charles hatched from one of the eggs found underground.

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Charles is a Daemon Engine.

• Jossed. Whatever hatched out of Charles's egg merged with a mining company's train.

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Charles was named after Warren Charles I or II, or after the family in general.

The implication is that the mining company runs by Warren Charles' family. It also wasn't unusual for railroads to name engines after leaders of the company.

• Apparently confirmed indirectly: Charles got his name by scurrying in to a company train (with the family and company name "Charles" printed on the side) and "wearing" it. Since the Company is named after the Charles Dynasty, Charles was indirectly named after Warren's family.

There's going to be a multiplayer mode where a group of players gang up to take down another player playing as Charles

As shown in the ending, there are more eggs than just the three we collect, and one was about to hatch, so maybe when the player brought Charles' corpse to his museum, he brought in a wave of tourists to Aranearum. When a new Charles appeared, more people were willing to take down Charles.

There's more to Warren's actions than just being a generic bad guy.

Check this out. TLDR: he really was in the island for gold because his family was on the verge of bankruptcy. When he was talking about killing anyone who shouldn't be near the eggs, he wasn't talking about thieves, but the spiders that would hatch. The reason he doesn't destroy them as eggs was because that would provoke Charles, and he can't afford that. In fact, after Charles first manifested and broke loose, he's even started evacuating people, at least according to some of the notes. And the reason the island is a Closed Circle is because he didn't want to add more victims or escalate the situation... which the Player Character ends up doing. Thank goodness we had what it took to actually destroy Charles, am I right?

The sequel will be about Gus the Bus

We'll play as the Archivist (either that or their colleague) and we'll have to bring Charles' body for taxidermy back to the City. While riding the bus, the Archivist suddenly meets Gus the Bus trailing behind; Thankfully, he didn't come back to the City unprepared. taking out a handheld, old fashioned gatling gun, it is up to the Archivist to slay Gus the Bus and take his body for taxidermy too.