[SPOILER] Plot Discussion Thread *Spoiler Alert*

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All right. So my findings may check out if Kein's timeline hypothesis checks out. My further attempts on research yielded results somewhat familiar with the game's story.

Spoiler below!

Coatlicue – "The patron of women who die in childbirth". According to the legend, she was once impregnanted by a ball of feathers which fell upon her. Her children saw it as a disgraceful way of impregnation, thus they killed their mother.

However, the instant she died, she also gave birth to Huitzilopochtlib. He was "a deity of war, sun, human sacrifice and the patron of the city of Tenochtitlan". "His messenger or impersonator was Paynal". Paynal served as a representative of Huitzlopochtlib.

Let's stop for a while. The goddess would be a patron of Lilibeth. She'd give birth to the new Mandus (horrific perception of people). New Mandus "was born" alongside Paynal (a new part of his personality; messenger, as he's been giving messages to Mandus, and an impersonator, as he's been steering Mandus, taking over his mind, thus the Mandus' disbelief of the committed deeds.


"Huitzilopochtli was said to be in a constant struggle with the darkness and required nourishment in the form of sacrifices to ensure the sun would survive the cycle of 52 years."

No comment. But that connects him with Tlaloc's Fire Ceremony.


"The Great Temple of Tenochtitlan was dedicated to Huitzilopochtli and Tlaloc, the rain god."

Another connection between the two deities. It was the temple where Huitzlipochtli was born out of his dead mother. Mandus' new self's birth. If that checks out, it was the temple Mandus visited. "Twins" who wouldn't bring an end to the world, if only a sufficient sacrifice would be made.


"These two gods were always meant to be together, since they were considered companions of equal power."

But that would mean, it wasn't Paynal who played Mandus. It would be Tlaloc. Or it was Paynal, who wanted to nourish Tlaloc, and doing his job - impersonating Mandus/taking control over him (a long shot) and sending him messages after Mandus' true self (Huitzilopochtli) woke up after sabotaging the machine that was built for... Tlaloc, who wouldn't then bring the end of the world - kind of the fire ceremony. Mandus killed himself. (Huitzilopochtli killed himself, also killing Paynal, who couldn't exist without him). Tlaloc wouldn't be satisfied, and so all the horrors of XX century began to happen.

So yeah. A lot of allusions. In a nutshell: Mandus true self - Huitzlopochtlib; Mandus ill self/engineer - Paynal; Machine or only its purpose - Tlaloc.

EDIT: Oh, and Huitzilopochtli killed the children, who killed his mother. Mandus' twins killed their mother, whose patron was mother of Huitz... Sorry for any unnecessary complications.