Kuro no Kiseki 2 Crimson Sin notes

DG stuff:Ellroy did a backstory dump in Nemeth Island,the ruins of the now destroyed Paradise lodge,about how the cult that was created by the Crois Family grew too large to the point that several lodges deviated from the main purpose,some of them decided that instead of cultivating the Child of Zero(KeA),they'll instead create a vessel for Demiurgos to descend and inhabit so they decided to create a "complete" human that possesses the traits of male and female bodies as the vessel for their "god"(this is the research that Joachim said in Zero no Kiseki to deviate too much from the main research that he ignored them until later when he read the reports),the nutjobs then experimented on pregnant women in hospitals and reusing broken children from other lodges by performing genetic manipulation and the use of drugs so the creation of a "complete" human can be achieved,it continued until Quatre,who was the only successful case,was born to 2 cultists who experimented on their own unborn son.Because he was born as a "complete" human possessing both male and female traits(though his body is mostly male with only some female traits so Quatre is still a boy),he was treated better than the kidnapped children but was still subjected to drug administration and brainwashing education to weaken his attachment to the world so his sense of self will be eventually destroyed and the only thing left would be to complete him as a vessel by injecting him with negative spirit energy to turn him into an artificial angel,the Paradise lodge's personality transplant experiments were for the purpose of devising a way to have Demiurgos inhabit its intended vessel and Renne was a successful sample case who absorbed the personalities of the other children after their deaths,another purpose of the Paradise Lodge was to create a gate to summon higher dimensional beings to have them descend and create a paradise on Zemuria to welcome Demiurgos when they summon it into Quatre's body.
...The main problem of this project however,is that Demiurgos has already ceased to exist long ago so even if they succeeded in completing the vessel(regardless of whether or not Quatre's body can contain a Sept-terrion in the first place even if he's completed as a vessel) and the gate,their god,or rather the Sept-terrion of Mirage,is already gone so this irrelevant project failed from the beginning and Quatre,Renne and the Paradise children's suffering were completely pointless.The grudges,obsession and negative emotions of the cultists killed in the extermination operation and the grief of the sacrificed children created the gate they desired but the gate to the higher dimension of Zemuria was too small for any demon or angel on that side to cross over to the lower dimension,but a piece of the 8th Genesis can make it big enough for demons and angels to cross over to the lower dimension.
TLDR,the only successful product D.G cult made are still the Gnosis drugs,everything else is still a dud and they only discovered Vagrantz Zion by sheer dumb luck.
Other than the research stuff,D.G ruled over 70% of Nemeth Island in the past and there were non-cultists living in the island back then but the villages and mines in the residential areas were also built by the cult and furthermore,even the priest of the Septian Church building used by the normal islanders was actually a believer of the D∴G cult,the normal islanders left the island after being presumably being told by Ouroboros about the true reality of Nemeth Island and a grave for the victims of the cult was built in a corner of the current undeveloped area.In addition,the Paradise brothel(it turns out that high-ranking officials of the Republic's government were one of the customers of Paradise so that explains why Calvard couldn't move against the cult) has been remodeled into a villa for lodging by Valis Investment Bank and the old man who manages the island is actually a resident of the time when the island was ruled by the D∴G cult,he kept trying to turn it a resort area with Ellroy's funding but partly because of the guilt of not being able to save the children under the cult's rule,he continued to avoid the children's graves.
What's canon from the previous game:Edmond didn't get hospitalized and he goes straight to jail,all Connect Events happened,LGC is at 3/3/3 so all LGC factions helped out with the towers,Bracer route is the canon route because the game references Elaine seeing Van use Grendel against Arioch in Viola's section of chapter 5's death game which is only possible in the Bracer route so Viola,Alexandre,and Olympia all canonically survives Oracion even though only Olympia's survival is mentioned.
The Eighth Genesis:The one Genesis unit that didn't appear last game,for reasons still unexplained it was split into 4 pieces consisting of the core and 3 pieces of the outer shell,Melchior previously had the core unit in his possession until his death while the other 3 pieces were in Langport,Ellroy's possession and an unknown location where Robin Glasgow found a piece under Melchior's orders,according to Mare,the 8th unit is special among the Oct-Genesis because it bears the foundation of XXXXXX,which somehow makes it able to copy the consciousness data and convert it into an AI in only 2 seconds while Elysium can do it in 10 seconds which implies that the 5th unit doesn't have the same processing speed as the 8th despite being capable of the same thing.Its equivalent to 7th unit's <Seventh Principle Observation Engine Event Conversion Technique Genesis Tower> is the <Multidimensional Event Space Oct Radium>.
The true function of the Eighth Genesis is the <Observation of sins> with the target being set to humans,which means it won't have any effect on nonhumans such as Homunculi,AI,Holy Beasts,etc,the unit's STL(Soul Translation from SAO) capabilities that allows it to decode and copy a human's consciousness data and erode their minds implies that it can recognize whether someone's soul was originally human or not,which means that Mcburn and Van are immune to the unit's sin observation because their souls were not human from birth despite their current bodies.The purpose of the phenomenon called Erosion is intended to force humans to commit sins by instilling recognition of possibilities into their cognition of reality.The possibilities instilled by the 8th however,are not genuine Possible Worlds but actually premises that the 8th considers to be plausible and then the 8th fabricates false memories based on the premise,but the scenarios created based on the premise will never happen in reality,breaking the 8th's hold over the corroded requires either beating them into submission or reveal a contradiction between the fabricated reality and what actually happened,also because the sin observation is essentially the corrosion of the soul and not the body,muscle memory is unaffected by the corrosion and thus can be taken advantage of to weaken the corrosion's hold.
The function of transforming into Grendel Zolga is nothing more than the function of creating a pseudo-soul(simulation of the soul by using copied consciousness data to create an AI personality) to perform the observation of sin because without the pseudo-soul,the 8th Genesis cannot be used(and looking back on it,so does the 5th because it's the only other unit that needs an AI personality to perform its thing),the pseudo-soul is created by having the 8th unit copy the consciousness data of a human that has a strong sense of guilt and then convert the data into an AI Agent,it seems that originally,the agent is manifested by having the unit initialize forced Grendelization on a human instead of creating a body composed of Shard for the agent because Lapis's corruption into Altera would be redundant otherwise,but the process can fail and create a Demi-Grendel instead.While the Agent is created through the bottom-up process of creating an AI,they don't actually have free will like SAO and Accel World's Fluctlights because what is created by the 8th is an inorganic AI that acts based on the operating principle of the 8th with the memories,voice,personality,and appearance of the copied person and they must obey the 8th Genesis and the person who uses it without being able to defy them,so in that sense,it's functionally a Top-Down AI and the Oct-Genesis's STL technology level is inferior to SAO's.
The time resets that happens in Crimson Sin are byproducts of the Oct-Genesis's observation,when an observation result that it deems unwanted is observed,time rewinds of the event up to a limited number of times are allowed and the data of the unwanted observation results are not deleted but archived somewhere and can be used to overwrite the current reality with the archived data,by the way,the time rewind isn't a byproduct exclusive to Eight's sin observation,as long as an unwanted observation result is created by any of the Oct-Genesis's observation abilities,the time rewinds can happen,though it seems loading the archived data and rewriting reality using the save file is exclusive to the 8th.
As amazing the abillity of this unit is,its hardware's processing power isn't enough to cause corrosion on large amounts of people on its own because in the end it's still Orbal tech,to circumvent this,it can borrow the processing power of the other units and the Orbal Net by hijacking Marchen Garten to cause mass corrosion on people and turn them into relay points to spread the corruption,there's also an unspecified initial limit as to how far you can rewind time but you can increase it by causing enough resets to weaken space-time.
Scenario list:
Ashen and Cao's ex-subordinates from the Lu Family:gets corroded into believing Van and Aaron killed Cao and Fen in Nemeth Island and pinned a crime on Cao.
Kurogane and several Ikaruga ninjas:gets corroded into believing Ikaruga's leader ordered Van's death.
Yume and Maxim:gets corroded into believing Arthun,Maxim's kouhai in the Z1 racing league,committed domestic violence against her mother and accidentally corroded her father when she told him about this(scenario was based on the fake rumors spread by anti-immigrants about how Arthun is connected to middle eastern mafia even though he's completely innocent but the 8th considered the premise of a Z1 Racer having mafia ties(not necessarily Arthun) to be plausible so it made a fanfic about Arthun based on the premise)
Celis,Ashrad and Iscariot soldiers:gets corroded into believing Barkhorn died from being cursed by Vagrantz Zion and that he told them to kill Van as a threat to humanity in his deathbed.
(The first part about the cursing pretty much confirms that the other Van could have just not bothered with testing the party and cursed them to death instead despite being restrained by the 1st's observation,but because he and Van shares the same feelings and emotions towards the party despite the other Van never spending time with them,he'll never actually do it to them and probably threw the final boss fight on purpose)
Feri,Kasim,Risette,Hale,and MK+Kurgha Jaegers:gets corroded into believing Van and the other office members are the last remaining Armata collaborators who destroyed Creil and killed Hale's father,Feri and Risette's memories of adventuring together with the Solutions Office got blocked which turned Feri into a version of herself that is perfected into a Kurgha Jaeger(to her father's dismay because he thinks what Feri gained and learned from the main party was more valuable and meaningful to her development than if she became full-pledged Kurgha Jaeger) though Risette still has memories of Tharbad with Feri cut out from it,Kasim noticed the incongruity in his memories and could break out of the corrosion by himself but chose to keep an eye on the others instead out of concern for them,thanks to her body being mostly prosthetic that reproduced her five senses,the corrosion's hold over Risette is weaker than that of Feri and the other Jaegers and she noticed an incongruity in herself and gave out hints to help the party,but she couldn't help but be hostile to them because her reproduced five senses were nothing more than mechanical signals which has the side effect of her memories being vulnerable into being altered if someone can manipulate her brain which caused Risette to be plagued by fear and doubt because she can't distinguish which memories she has is real or not.
Esmeray and Naje:gets corroded into thinking that Sherid is planning a coup against Saruman with Gramheart's backing and that Kronkite is about to complete the Reactor Weapon formula by forcing Hamilton to help him so mass-produce of the weapon can go underway for the coup.
Cody,Kaera,Alvis,Gerant,Zin,Kilika,Hercules and Republic military members,etc(not including Rosalie and Zecht Arms because they weren't corroded by the 8th during the coup,they capitallized on it to get more data):gets corroded into believing that Gramhart is a dictator who assassinated Rocksmith and Cody and Kaera's father during the last presidential election and used Armata to terrorize the Republic.
Swin:gets corroded into defecting to Garden Master's side because of his guilt over Ace's death,because Swin subconsciously accepted the corrosion instead of it being forced on him,he can draw out more power from the 8th's power boost than the others because the corrosion is contractual but because this corrosion is based on the premise that Garden Master is Ace of Swords,the corrosion will break the moment he sees Garden Master do something that the real Ace of Swords will never do.
Van stuff:The reason why he dropped out of Aramis was because the small amount of his powers that he retained were slowly starting acting up beyond his control despite the other Van not waking up and once it goes full meltdown,any life within at least a city-level radius will instantly die so in other words,Edith and everyone living in it was initially doomed to be annihilated in 1200 by the meltdown and the only reason everyone is still alive is because Van committed social suicide to protect everyone and just as he suspected,his powers started to go berserk during his training with Barkhorn and threatened to destroy Longlai but Barkhorn barely succeeded in stopping the meltdown using his Stigma when it started but he nearly died (this is why Celis and Rion were hostile to Van because they blamed him for the incident that nearly killed their master but they didn't know about the circumstances and the fact Barkhorn got cursed) and his Stigma was corrupted by Van's power which gave it an incurable (at least by Thaumaturgy,who knows if Hexen Breed magic can cure it but then again Emma's magic can only surpress Mcburn's flames but not nullify it so...) curse that places a severe burden on his body until he transferred his Stigma to Gaius which caused the curse to move from his body to Gaius.According to Van,a side-effect of his meltdown that was shown in a CG is supposedly irreversible demonization and he'll apparently turn into a smaller version of his true form(but isn't this basically just his human visage breaking down though?) once it gets going but Barkhorn stopped this.The power meltdown never happened once when he was a child and only started to happen after his core was stolen which implies that his Diabolic Core also functions as a power regulator and that once it's gone,there's nothing stopping his power from rampaging and killing everything around him.Currently,no other meltdown happened after the one time in Longlai with Tharbad being a power output increase initiated by the other Van but there's no guarantee that another berserk fit won't happen,the remaining power that was retained isn't even close to 50% being leftovers and all,but Marchen Garten's VR Space shuts down after only several seconds of Grendel's limiters being released despite being capable of processing the power of Stigmas so even Van's leftover power is too much for Marchen Garten to handle.
On another note,it's stated in the archive that severing the connection between Van and his other self is impossible(same person and existence after all) so that rules out them being separated and the only way to resolve the situation would be to have them merge into a singular Van again.
Mare:Mare's main body is monitoring Van from somewhere called the Background,she also says that she can't help Van as she wishes because she's an XXXXX which got censored by the world.
Grendelization:Not much but it's stated that the only reason Grendel Zolga is stronger than Van's Grendel is because the concentration of Shard forming Grendel Zolga is several times higher than Van=Grendel's so it's a case of component quantity giving better specs despite the power source being inferior in quality,While Shard Release and Corrosion are different things,Mare states that Van's Grendelization is the "true" one and Zolga and the Demi Grendels that were created in Crimson Sin using Shard Corrosion are fakes(8th's principle is only imitating the 1st's to get a similar but different result?),Shizuna's Connect Event confirms that there's at least one more stage beyond True Grendel (2 if the mosaic censor of what happens if Grendel is overused results in another Grendel form unless they're the same thing) that hasn't been unlocked yet.
Marchen Garten:MK's new VR Space service that provides a variety of services from combat training,virtual sports and games,etc,with the connection to the Orbal Net you can play and keep in contact with everyone through the terminals that allow access the Garten,unfortunately it being connected to the Orbal Net and the fact that its processing power is strong enough to connect everywhere the net reaches accidentally created an achilles heel where if one were to steal control of the VR Space,it would also mean you can have access to the Orbal Net's reach which is what happened when Garden Master took control of it.The VR Space is advanced enough that it can allow the Dominions to use the power of their Stigmas in Marchen Garten,but True Grendel is too much for Marchen Garten to handle as the VR Space immediately aborted in just several seconds after its activation.
Arkride Solutions's reputation:Because of the events of Kuro 1,the Solutions Office is now famous enough that the entire Republic knows of its existence whether directly known by individuals or through rumours and that if you search for information about the office on the Orbal Net even without Renne's Kitty Engine installed,it will immediately appear in the search results but it doesn't seem like there's an increase of requests from abroad though their reputation is very positive among Calvard civillians and infamous in the underworld.Thanks to the fame boost,the amount of 4SPG requests has increased and part-time employees are needed to fulfill the stacks of requests because of the increased awareness of civillians that had difficult problems requiring the office's intervention but didn't realize they could ask for a 4SPG request before Kuro 2,in Chapter 3-D,they were assigned a threat level of SS+ in the fabricated scenario of the 8th.
Garden:After the Oracion Carnival,Melchior ordered the Garden remnants to kill each other using his authority as a Warden to make the organization self destruct as their usefulness has expired,the kidnapped children,trainers and caretakers killed each other in a deathmatch until only Double Eldarion/ExE,Ixs and Jolda remained which caused them to declare themselves as Garden masterpieces surpassing Swin and Nadia adhering to Garden's principle of creating powerful assassins using the principle of Gu poison,Auguste didn't participate and instead stole a mimic body Melchior created based on stolen data of MK's prosthesis,Ouroboros's orbal puppets,and Elysium's simulacrums meant to recreate Ace of Swords,the Garden member with the strongest potential in its history and used the information he got from Ace's soul that he trapped inside his Artifact to trick Swin into believing that he's Ace,in Chapter 3-F Lucrezia obtained Ishtanti and Rago's Fang that formerly belonged to Olympia and Arioch in order to give the dead Garden members their proper burial rites out of sentiment towards the kidnapped children that died,Arioch and the Order of Moonlight Horse.The only remaining Ex-Garden members that are alive by the end of the game are Swin,Nadia,Ixs,Jolda,and Olympia.
Armata's Legacy:By the end of the game,all 8 Oct-Genesis units that Armata obtained were successfully recovered and more evidence of the group's crimes were obtained despite Glasgow's death at the hands of Ixs.However,Ouroboros has obtained Apeiron that belongs to Ixs and Jolda and all of Armata's research data including the Aurora terminal and the incomplete formula of AI Callaghan's Reactor Weapon,but the reason Novartis created a copy of the Aurora terminal created by Verne,Epstein Foundation,and ZCF and an incomplete Reactor Weapon that Ellroy stole is simply to pass the time.Ishtanti and Rago's Fang were hidden by Lucrezia after she finished Garden's burial rites while the whereabouts of Melchior's knife and bomb Artifacts are unknown but the church probably has them.The boost drugs that are based on Gnosis are still around and Zacht Scorpions got hold of some and are using them to screen promising candidates so they can recruit them to their Jaeger corps.
Septian Church:If the 8th's scenario and Barkhorn with stuck with a non-lethal curse for years is an indication,church Thaumaturgy is worthless against magic originating from outside the continent,it can't even cure a curse converted into a virus and at best,can only delay the effects for a time even with the power of 2 stigmas+Ashrad's replica so it looks like the quality of the church's magic system sucks?,so the best they can do if they did get Van's Diabolic Core in Kuro 1 is lock it up for a bit instead of actually doing anything significant because they don't have any real countermeasures,also Barkhorn found out that in reality,the so-called new captain of the Papal Guard (supposedly) never existed because a successor to the previous captain was never chosen 3 years ago and command of the Papal Guard and Iscariot were given to the newly appointed Church Saint,the Saint of the End,Nina Fenly(though he doesn't know about her status or true identity) who possesses eyes that gives her a clairvoyance different from Yun's Divine Scion's Gaze(Yun's eyes works more like Merlin while Nina's eyes is future sight but it seems she can only see glimpses of the future rather than being able to see and comprehend what can happen in the future in its entirety so not too potent?) and space-time manipulation,also for unknown reasons Celis,Rion and Ashrad designates 5 pillars of the 77 Devils as the <Origin of Devils>,but the 5 kings never created the other devils because Barkhorn stated that the other 72 already existed before the world got retconned so that the kings were rewritten into being part of Zemuria's demons,which implies that not all Gralsritter and Papal Guard/Iscariot has the same level of core information regarding the 77?
Also,the church screwed up at one point and the Book of Ezel was stolen by the cult and they forced Van to steal information from the book without their minds being in danger of collapsing from reading it,Barkhorn recovered the apocrypha during the operation but Auguste stole the information and used it to create a bootleg copy of Vagrantz Zion as a virus to hijack Marchen Garten.
Altera:True Name Lapis Rozenberg,her AI was stolen alongside the Elysium Code,the computing language used by the technological singularity and can only be used by her as the former admin AI of Elysium,Garden Master stole her from her body using the 8th Genesis and reprogrammed her into a Hollow program while also blocking her memories to put her under his control though she's not corroded and the memory block is weak enough that it'll start to break after Nadia revealed her true identity,the purpose of extracting her AI is to provide the AI agent of the 8th with a Shard body for it to materialize as using a human body has the risk of failure and turn them into Demi-Grendel instead,this abillity was used again to create shard copies of Zin and Kilika in conjunction with the 8th's STL capabillities,she was successfully rescued after Garden Master is defeated and returned to her original colouration from being red to white with heterochromatic eyes before temporarily falling asleep and waking up just in time to help Van as a substitute for Mare as the concept of the 1st was stolen and prevents her from using the Mare Hollow Core as a terminal.While she likes her current form,as a result of being converted into a Hollow program,she can't go back to her Rozenberg doll body as the doll's hardware and software wasn't built with Hollow programs in mind as those hasn't existed in 1206 so she can't indulge in her guilty pleasure of gorging on real food so she's using virtual food data given by Mirabel as a substitute though it's not made clear just how realistic the taste reproduction is.
By the way,the current Lapis cuteness point rankings are:Lapis(100)>Jolda(91)>Nadia(90)>Rufus(85)>Tita(82)>Ixs(78)>Swin(65)>Van(57)>C(15).
Ellroy's goal:Basically a convoluted therapy session for Renne (and Quatre because he caught up in it) after finding out about her getting tormented by the Diabolic Sphere that captured her during Edith's Pandaemonium covered up as a theatrical-type crime surpassing the Carnival and Pandaemonium,the whole reason for making a contract with Garden Master is to lure Arkride Solutions,Renne and other factions into Nemeth Island so he can have them unknowingly help in Renne's therapy and to stimulate Quatre's trauma and synchronize him with 3 negative spiritual energy singularities(the idol of a demon worshipped by the cult,a symbol of Aidios damaged by the cult,and the desecrated graves of the Paradise victims) to complete him into a vessel to bait higher dimensional beings into using the gate,the therapy session concluded with Renne pushing back a demon together with the Solutions Office before it can cross over to the lower dimension so that's mission accomplished for Ellroy and he goes back to Ouroboros after apologizing to the Grandmaster.
Heiyue:Lai Family got kicked out from Heiyue as a result of collaborating with Armata and the Lee Family is reinstated back to its position with Fen as the head while Cao is in charge of the background work,it turns out that there were originally 9 houses that led Heiyue long ago but the Lee Family was destroyed by the Lai family through assassinations and conspiracy until only Cao and Fen are the only remaining survivors,the Lu family took Cao under their protection fully aware that the Lee Family were destroyed by the Lai Family while Fen(who didn't even know that Cao was his older brother) was taken in by the Lai family(who kept him in the dark of how they killed his entire family except Cao),was given the name Gouran by them to hide his true identity so they can use him as their enforcer but then Cao found out anyway and retrieved Gouran after the Lai Family's fall to reestablish their house using dissatisfied Lu family members and Lai family remnants as a foundation for his faction,but because he tunneled vision into ensuring Heiyue's prosperity,he went too far and strained his relationship with the Lu family and Ashen which earned him a unexpected punch to the face by Aaron who reminded him that the bonds between family are important and that he shouldn't tarnish them in the process.
Roy:The name of Agnes's mother is Sophie,she and Roy has the same 8-year age gap as her daughter and Van(as a human,the actual age gap between him and Agnes(and pretty much every Zemuria native) massively dwarfs her parents which is only a single digit,Demon King and all) but it's unknown which is older,they met when Lilia got permission to bring her daughter to Aramis where she works in the general store(it's never stated why,but it's probably so she can give school lunches to Sophie to feed her which means that the Claudels was either poor or short on money at that point) and Roy had just enrolled to Aramis as a freshman,at first they had a sibling-like relationship but then their feelings for each other grew and it culminates with Roy proposing to her in Trion Tower,also no,we still don't know the cause of her death.
Zecht Arms:Basically the game's gag villains,they helped Armata by supplying experimental weapons not on their catalogue such as Viola's needlegun and Alexandre's gauntlets,all of Rosalie's research data was deleted and the main server of Zecht Arms got crashed by Quatre and the branch in Messeldam got put under investigation,they pop up here and there in Nemeth and the coup to be obstacles but otherwise not important.
Terrorists:The anti-immigrant terrorist group from Ao's Trade Conference are back as throwaway villains and we got their name:True Patriots.1st leader got caught in the Orchis Tower attack and got replaced with the one in chapter 2-B,previous leader was too radical and caused a lot of damage under his leadership before he and the members in Ao got arrested,the one in 2-B wanted to make a statement in the international forum but tried to get attention in the wrong way by doing the hostage attempt but even then he's a lot more saner than Jacoban because he wasn't planning on killing anyone and would have released all of the hostages once Towa finished relaying their statement to Zemuria Opinion but Garden's orbal puppet did its thing to force a time reset which led to them getting arrested post-reset and then the leftovers got arrested with Jacoban in the Z-1 Grand Prix which puts an end to True Patriots which was apparently the only anti-immigrant terrorism group.
ExE/Double E(ldarion):True Names <Valiant Bullet> Ixs and <Shadow Eater> Jolda,Ixs is the twin brother capable of telekenetically controlling the trajectory of the bullets he fires while Jolda is the twin sister who has the abillity to manipulate shadow,they are the children of Gerard Dantes/Eldarion who conceived(and ignored their existence after the deed was done) them with an unknown cult member(apparently already deceased before the deathmatch since the twins never mentioned anything about killing her so she probably died in the cult extermination operation) on the request of the cult to preserve and continue the nearly extinguished Eldarion bloodline so they're the last known remaining descendants of Calvard's former royalty which allows them to use the Holy Demonic Sword Apeiron's abillities.Ixs is the provocative and outspoken one while Jolda is the more reserved twin who is also a sweet tooth but not on the level of being an otaku about it like Van,both has the same disregard for life as a result of being born in the cult(born 3 years before the cult's destruction) and then being raised in Garden(around 9-10 years depending on the time of its creation by Ellroy) as assassins so they will kill without hesitation but Jolda actually considers and thinks about the consenquences of what will happen if she kills someone while Ixs doesn't put much thought(if any) on what happens if he kills someone,they had zero attachments to Garden and considered the kidnapped children,caretakers and trainers to be annoyances they're glad to be rid of and their only regret in Garden's destruction while bragging to be the self-proclaimed greatest masterpieces of Garden by killing everyone else in the deathmatch is that they couldn't kill Melchior,the Warden of Thorn Garden of which they're part of.They were the ones put in charge of pursuing Swin and Nadia after they killed Emperor and only failed because of Van's intervention of smuggling them outside of Calvard and dropping them off in Crossbell's Rozenberg Factory with Jorg (while also conveniently placing the pair who will deliver Lapis to the real Rufus Albarea in the right time and right place for the beginning of the second Crossbell Independence Incident which seals Ishmelga=Rean's defeat).Ixs tried to get the shell of 8th in Messeldam by getting the Solutions Office lead him to Glasgow(who he killed) only to fail at the end,Jolda provided the poison and antidote made by Ellroy to Gien for his plan of weeding out the Lu Family dissidents and the Lai family remnants while also assisting Cao and Gouran with the creation of the 2nd generation of the Lee Family only to lose another shell to the Solutions Office,they then assisted with the Solutions Office's tour of Nemeth Island as the guides and later obstructed their path while attempting to blow up the island using a Reactor Weapon Novartis created only to fail again and retreated while wondering the evaluation of their "exam" now that Garden Master's contract with Ellroy is nearly completed.
It turns out that the exam they mentioned is in fact,a test to become Enforcers of Ouroboros and the twins obeyed him for the sole purpose of obtaining the absolute autonomy right of being an Enforcer which will let them do anything they want without being scolded by the society(unless it's against what the Grandmaster wants),they got frustrated when they lost again in Oct-Radium against the party but Ellroy told them they "passed" the exam and "grants" both of them the seat of Enforcer XX/20 corresponding to the Judgement Arcana.
...By the way this is a digression,but the bestowal of an Enforcer seat and number is a right that only the Grandmaster has so Ixs and Jolda already passed the test before they broke into Oct-Radium with Ellroy(who reported to the Grandmaster about their performance while also apologizing to her) and that the actual test was actually helping the Solutions Office in Nemeth Island instead of defeating them in Oct-Radium which means Ellroy tricked them into helping him fight the main party for fun under the guise of completing an exam they already passed.
Also relevant to their Enforcer number which guarantees their redemption(also Quatre wants to reach out to them and isn't giving up yet so yeah) and character arc is that the essence of the Judgement Arcana is rebirth,absolution of sins,spiritual awakening and growth.The Arcana represents the time of Judgement Day where Archangel Gabriel blows his trumpet to redeem the dead who will rise from their graves and that even sinners has a chance to ascend to Heaven,the blowing of Archangel Gabriel's trumpet in the Arcana represents the death of old ideas and people basking in the advent of a new world under the trumpet's music,the reversed meaning signifies stagnation,self-doubt and fear,indulging in material pleasures to fill spiritual emptiness while the upright meaning signifies the discarding of mistakes,the start of a new page in one's life,karma of the past catching up and inner growth,what it means is that the twins are stuck in the idea of killing under the Garden's dictatorship because that is the world they have ever known since their birth and never experienced any other,so to fill the emptiness in their hearts,they indulged in killing for fun to feel something in the world of Garden and constantly being nostalgic of their killings which is shown with them bragging about killing everyone else in the deathmatch but they ended up being further trapped in Garden's world despite its destruction instead,so going by the upright meaning,their change will be triggered by the karma of their past actions catching up to them which will start the atonement of their sins by earnestly growing and learning to surpass their past selves as assassins and end in their eventual absolution by leaving behind the ideas and concepts of D.G and Garden they were taught since birth after they summarize and sort out past experiences,causing a inner spiritual rebirth as they enter a new world where they realize that they're not alone and have new friends,and that helping each other in this new world is what will make their lives more enjoyable than it was in the previous world.
Garden Master:True Name Auguste Ardan,one of Sheena Dirke's comrades along with Aramis Gainsborough and Ulger Atkinson,he went rogue and became a despot because of an unspecified disagreement that happened with the revolutionaries after the kingdom has fallen,he was defeated and executed but his soul was taken in by a soul-absorbing Artifact possessed by the D.G Cult because of his strong grudge against Sheena and the other revolutionaries preventing him from passing on after his death,he survived by parasitizing the D.G cult and later Garden's members while also absorbing Ace's soul into his Artifact,after Melchior destroyed the organization and died in Genesis Tower,he stole the core of the Eight Genesis and the mimic body made by him to model it after Ace of Swords while also taking control of Garden's remnants,which is basically just Ixs,Jolda,and the Orbal puppets made by Garden based on the data of Ouroboros's puppets and Elysium's Simulacrums but not MK's prosthetic data.He reprogrammed Lapis into Altera to create a shard body for the AI Agent of the 8th to use and made a contract with Ellroy for the final purpose of redoing the Calvard Revolution by using the 8th's corrosion phenomenon to weaken space-time enough by weaving impossible cause and effect for the time rewind to able to reach that time period.
On a related note,he had no comment about any of the party members being the speculated Sheena Dirke descendant so it seems no one in the party is the supposed descendant?
Grimcats:The transformation is activated using a device that has the form of a compact so Grimcats is basically Kiseki Sailor Moon,routine maintenance is needed for the device to work properly or it'll bug out and the transformation can't be cancelled.Each generation of Grimcats has their own transformation devices instead of 1 device being passed down like a heirloom from one generation to the next,Dominique obtained the 1st generation Grimcats transformation device in the same year Claude created the Oct-Genesis units which indicates some kind of connection even though the device wasn't created by the Genesis units(uses the same principle as Grendelization to produce a similar result?).
On another note,it's revealed Dominique helped Victor out when the Monmarte bistro started its business by advertising his bistro when she was a chanson singer and the bistro eventually grew to where it was in the present,Chloe isn't involved in helping with the advertising but she and Victor has met in the past and the relationship is friendly enough that Victor wants to invite her to Edith so she can eat his cooking to Judith's chagrin because she standing up to her mother and grandmother at the same time and place is completely impossible for her.
Ouroboros:Cedric is currently with Shirley and the Red Constellation so if either one shows up,the other will also appear,Lucrezia warning Judith about getting a challenge letter from BB soon implies that he's going to restart his activities on Calvard soon,He and Luciola cooperated with restoring Pater=Mater along with Lucrezia and Walter for Renne's 18th birthday by requesting the 13 Factories to hand over Pater-Mater's data which probably suggests that they returned to Ouroboros since it's unlikely that you can request anything from them if you're on hiatus or dropped out,Number XX/20 that corresponds the Judgment Arcana is stated by Ellroy to be the 3rd number from the last Enforcer spot so going by this logic,there's 23 Enforcer seats from 0-22 but the Tarot only goes up to The World/Universe Arcana(No. XXI) so No. XXII's Arcana is probably original to the Kiseki series,Lianne's intended successor as the next Anguis VII apparently hasn't decided to take her seat yet so Marduk doesn't know who they are.According to Lucrezia,the Grandmaster isn't interested in how the members of Ouroboros including the Enforcers behaves even if they go into conflict with the organization which is why Ellroy got away with combining Moonlight Horse and D.G to create Garden and also making a routine of his occasional leave-and-make mischief that Enforcers has to clean up and why Joshua,Renne,and Sharon got away scot-free with leaving Ouroboros without any assassination or purge attempts from Ouroboros so far unless their behavior somehow go against her wishes as seen with Ellroy getting a warning from her because he violated the non-aggression pact with Roy even though it's for Renne's sake.
Also Ellroy said in Oct-Radium that the non-aggression pact is about to expire and since the final chapter takes place in April 12th,the pact was made around mid to late April 1207 so Ouroboros only has 4 months and 15 days at best to eliminate Calvard's Sept-Terrion and foil Roy's plan before Zemuria reaches the end of its lifespan.
Kunlun Mountains:The Zeque Space Base is being constructed in the mountain range so that explains the mysterious camp remains and what Rean is about to discover in his episode before Shizuna and her platoon stopped him from seeing it,the construction is already completed and it's set to be revealed the day after the 1st day of the Aramis School Festival.
So you know,the day literally after Crimson Sin's ending.
On the other hand,the identity of XXXXXXXX that Mare sensed in the mountains and the meaning of Kunlun's "Land of Truth" is still unclear.
Creil:Military blockade is still ongoing so no one can go there to pay their respects,civillians are crowdfunding mira including companies such as Vegasfilm and Kowloon films to eventually donate to the relatives of the (supposedly dead) villagers,construction of a memorial facility,revival of the lost local specialty industry and to rebuild the village.
Xipha:It's confirmed that the whole reason Xipha was independently developed by Verne and MK while excluding the Epstein Foundation out of its development is for the purpose of eventually making it the international standard for orbments and then develop a standardized telecommunications network based on the Xipha,Verne has finished development and released a version of Xipha for commercial civillian use called the T-Phone,it's identical to Xipha in appearance,has Orbal net connection incorporated into it by default(apparently ARCUS and Enigma doesn't have Orbal Net connection built into it by default) and can be customized using app installation but in exchange,it has 0 combat capabilities.
Special Support Section=Remember Ryan,Elie's father who ditched her and ran away to Calvard after the divorce?,turns out he really was the Ryan Connely that was mentioned last game and his second attempt at a political career was a smashing success as the rising star of the Republican Party to the point he's now the speaker of the House of Representatives and Elie is currently making her debut in Crossbell as a politician,that's literally it.
Class VII:Crow is already in Calvard investigating the Zeque Space Base,Round of Seven is still active so the church forgave Olivert for losing the Sonorous Seashell to Elysium and let him keep it,Calvard and Erebonia's relationship has healed enough to the point tourism between the 2 nations has returned thanks to Olivert and Class VII's(all 3 generations) efforts though Rean who is currently travelling with Olivert is overexerting himself in trying to mend the relationship between the 2 nations.Julian the 3rd gen Class VII member who went on an exchange study to Aramis (due to end by 1209 and that he'll return to Class VII soon) is the grandson of Marshal Vandyke but Vandyke has already retired from the military by 1209 and is probably back at Thors again.
North Ambria:Soil restoration from the Salt Pale's damage is successful to a partial extent but there has been zero progress in understanding the Salt Pale and its effects on the soil.
Taikun:It's implied by Li Lai in Aaron's bonding event that Taikun reincarnates through the descendants of his bloodline and that he's the one descended from Taikun,not Yuefa though we don't know if he's the previous Taikun's son or a relative,it's implied that his decadent lifestyle was a futile attempt to stop Taikun's reincarnation cycle under the mistaken assumption that he's Taikun's reincarnation and that getting himself killed before he remembers his past life will stop the cycle except for the fact that Taikun's next reincarnation isn't him but Aaron,so the whole thing was a dud and then Van fucked up the reincarnation cycle by saving Aaron in last game anyway.
Ikaruga,Black God One Blade and Eight Leaves One Blade:Yun Ka-fai was the previous leader of Ikaruga before his retirement and eventual transition into a wanderer,Black God One Blade is a sword style with a history encompassing a millennia that started in 209 and it was one of the prototypes of Eight Leaves,One Blade that Yun created to be the Sword of Light to the Black God's Sword of Darkness,or basically creating another sword style to reach the same result as BGOB,Ikaruga's headquarters is located in Zemuria's Far East area but for reasons undisclosed,is impossible for anyone that's not a practitioner of Black God or Eight Leaves to enter but Shizuna speculates that Van could be the one exception in history that could enter the Far East without being a user of either sword styles.Also,Shizuna's Oodachi,Akegarasu(literally meaning Dawn Crow,not it's original name but one of its many that were made throughout history) is a treasure sword that's passed down in her family.
Trion Tower:It seems all 8 Oct-Genesis being recovered by the ending triggered some kind of program inside tower which causes the 8 ornaments on the top of the tower to light up(if you visit Trion Tower at night before the 8th is collected,none of the ornaments lights up),which implies that the Oct-Genesis and Trion Tower are supposed to be used in conjunction by inserting the 8 units into ornaments's slots,it's theoretically possible that the tower is supposed to act as a booster for the Oct-Genesis and could possibly extend their observation range to the entire continent,meaning that the units could extend the continent's lifespan and manipulate the fabric of spacetime using the 2nd and 7th's observation abillities and possibly open a path for the Zeque Space Base's launch to outer space by creating a rip in the continent's boundary,but how effective the former could be in buying time for the continent remains to be seen.
Liberl team:Tita,Joshua,Estelle,and the ZCF started a Pater=Mater revival project by using the data from the remains of Pater=Mater and the backup data possessed by the Thirteen Factories to turn it into a Hollow Core by using the Xipha as a basis,Jorg requested Ouroboros after being informed of the project for the data of Pater=Mater from the 13 Factories with Walter,Lucrezia,Luciola,and Bleublanc helping and eventually Novartis and the 13 Factories agreed to give the data and Pater=Mater was successfully restored into a Hollow Core with a thought process close enough to the original and all of its memories up to its destruction (so yeah,the context of Joshua's one line about the backup of the Gordias series in Azure was actually about how the 13 Factories has it and it's pretty much beyond Joshua and Renne's reach being dropouts and all,not that it doesn't exist) by Tita,Jorg and the ZCF to give to Renne for her 18th birthday but there's still room for improvements from Tita,Jorg and Renne because it's still a prototype.
The success of this project as Renne points out,is supposed to be impossible even with Joshua's connections to Ouroboros,4 active Enforcers pitching in and the technical skills of Jorg,Tita,and the ZCF,the final factor that led to the project's success was Van,the only person in Zemuria who can connect people from the underworld and normal society so technically,this is an impossible causality without Outsider intervention and if Van doesn't intervene in Pater=Mater resurrection project,the possibillity of Renne and Pater=Mater reuniting will never happen no matter what the Liberl team does,though Van downplays his intervention by telling her what he did is nothing amazing and that all credit should be given to Estelle,Joshua,Tita,Jorg,Walter,Lucrezia,Bleublanc and Luciola but not him.
So in other words,an impossible miracle that Zemurians can never turn into reality happened because of the intervention of an outsider to the continent of Zemuria called the Demon King Vagrantz Zion.

Visual Collection+Gamer interview stuff:
-Key characters of next game are Van,Shizuna,and Roy,Agnes isn't part of it despite her the details of her lineage being fully revealed next game which means while she's significant,her importance isn't big enough in the big picture.
-Crimson Sin's development time is 10 months.
-The only reason why the death count in Crimson Sin is so high including the main characters's deaths,is because of the presence of the reset mechanic,otherwise they wouldn't kill so many characters.
-Ouroboros as an organization will begin to move in Kuro 3.
-Memories of previous resets through use of the Oct-Genesis's resets aren't deleted,everyone retained their memories of previous resets but the clarity of the memories depends on whether or not they're close to the core of the event,for example,Arthun's memories of the previous 2 resets is fuzzy because he didn't have anything to do with Yume who accidentally corrupted Maxim,while Ashen and Kurogane remembered everything that happened in 3-A's reset.
-Ikaruga's leadership is handed down based on bloodline and all of them without exception are blood-related to Shizuna's grandmother who is heavily implied to be the elder of Ikaruga,so Shizuna,Yun,Anelace,"Grandma",and the current leader are all blood related.
-The main difference between Eight Leaves One Blade and Black God One Blade is whether or not it's possible to pass the halfway mark on the path of mastering the style because of your mentality,normal people are capable of mastering ELOB's eight styles while BGOB needs a special or strong mentality because you will lose your mind halfway otherwise for unknown reasons.
-Ellroy figured out that the Oct-Genesis are capable of rewinding time through guesswork using various information sources,the reason why he stole the Reactor Weapon Novartis created and gave it to the twins is to test this,he doesn't care if his guesswork was wrong and Nemeth gets wiped from the map in the process because of Quatre going berserk or the Reactor Weapon because at least he has fun in the process,he also told Auguste(who he didn't have anything to do with prior to making a contract with him) how to trigger the rewind and how the 8th works for their contract.
-Hamilton's relationship with Claude will get explained in Kuro 3.
-Nemeth Island's scenario and area was intentionally designed to be a sandbox chapter where multiple factions gathered in one place.
-Shizuna was the most used character by players and Falcom staff.
-LGC system did nothing this game because it doesn't mix well with time travel.
-The reason why Chapter Select is a thing is because they want to write more 4SPG requests.
-The function of the Oct-Genesis when all 8 units are gathered will be explained next game.
-The speed of Zemuria's technological advancement has surpassed even the creative team's expectations,they didn't expect to get this far back when they created the steampunk setting of the Liberl arc.
-Nothing new,but another reminder that Hajimari's team has already been merged back to the main team.
-Zeque Space Base is built on the Ishgal/Kunlun mountains and there's a reason why the mountain range was chosen as the construction site,Shizuna's regiment has a contract to guard the mountains while MK's contract regarding the Zeque Space Base only pertains to its development and not its defense nor military but even they don't know the full details of the plan despite being involved in its development,Ikaruga's contract with Roy ends the moment it gets launched so Shizuna and her squad are going to be freelance again soon enough.
-Van's Azure Heaven Reflection is using only a tiny output of his true power,Radiant Heaven Reflection's output is bigger but it's not at the maximum output of power he can currently achieve.
-All of Ashrad and the other Iscariot members's crafts use the power of the artificial Stigmas created using Shard.
-The motif for Auguste's S-Craft is death penalty methods,specifically hanging->beheading->burned at stake in that order.
-Again,confirmation that Ouroboros and Roy's non-aggression pact expires next game and as a result,Ouroboros,Marduk,and the Septian Church will make movements next game.
-The numbering of Ouroboros's Enforcers is based on joining the ranks of the Enforcers,not based on the date of joining the organization,this is why Sharon is IX despite joining the Ouroboros with Ellroy and Lucrezia at the same time because she wasn't strong enough to become an Enforcer back when Moonlight Horse collapsed until after Walter who is VIII got his number,on the other hand the numbering of the Anguis seats are not based on the join date because each seat from I to VII has its own qualifications which is why Lianne who joined before Ellroy,got the seat of Anguis VII because she has the qualifications to take the seat,and regarding the topic of Number XXII,Kondo avoided addressing that topic though he did comment about the fans's expectations about the numbering based on the Tarot.
-The full details of Van's secrets will revealed in Kuro no Kiseki 3.
-The experience of the resets will contribute towards figuring out the truth of the Oct-Genesis.
-Gramheart already made preparations for the Space Base plan years before he became president and there may have been private contacts with researchers in fields of science.
-Crossbell fell from grace as the most prosperous city-state after its reindependence and Valis has effectively replaced it,even getting the full rights to Mishelam Wonderland from Crossbell.
-Regarding outer space and the Space Base's purpose,please recap Normal End Rean and Ishmelga=Rean's stuff.
-Grimcats's secrets and history will be revealed next game,emphasis on the keyword "50 years ago".Also confirmation that it uses Shard tech before it got introduced to the public by Marduk,the reason why it could is related to the mystery of Orbments.
-Loewe was an important member of Ouroboros in its early days and one of the organization's most formidable fighting force in its history,his talent was so great and valuable that he,Mcburn and Lianne hardcarried the organization's fighting force early on,unfortunately Weissman just had to get greedy for the Aureole so Loewe had to be sacrificed for the Gospel plan to be completed and the Grandmaster is still disappointed by the result of SC's ending because Loewe dying wasn't mandatory to the plan and him dying so early before he could make more contributions to the Orpheus Final Plan was a massive waste of potential.
-Aaron's dad is important enough to the Taikun subplot that they can't casually have him show up.
-Ellroy was completely sincere in wanting to cure Renne's trauma but the way he did it betrayed Ouroboros because the non-agression pact with Roy had to yet to expire and the society had yet to make a move for the 3rd phase of the Orpheus Final Plan,also he used his own money to buy Nemeth Island,he had nothing to do with Valis Investment Bank who are Marduk's shareholders and owns the resort chain Nemeth's hotel is part of.
-The possibillity of Ouroboros using weapons of mass destruction is zero,Novartis only made one Reactor Weapon because it's his hobby to make things that pique his interest and he's not actually interested in completing the Reactor Weapon Formula to mass-produce WMDs.
-Foreshadowing of Pater-Mater eventually getting its body back now that its revived.
-Feri,Gaius,Thoma,Lacan,Wallace,Fatima,Kasim,and Hasan are in the same ethnic group,the Nord tribe originally lived in the middle east with the Khurgas until they decided to become nomads and migrate to West Zemuria 1000 years ago.
-They originally wanted to implement Marchen Garten's dungeon system for Ys IX(which got the bad roadblock system in the final product instead,ouch) but recycled it for Kuro 2 instead.
-There was a plan to let you go forwards and backwards in time but it got scrapped because it was too hard to implement.
-Grendelization will get explained next game.
-The Ace of Swords mimic is made for the purpose of ultimately creating a Simulacrum of Ace to replace the real one who died years ago and was designed as a what-if of Ace of Swords that didn't get killed by Swin,Garden never managed to recreate his personality before it imploded but they already preinstalled some data in the mimic including the stuff with Robo Emperor in Hajimari which is how the real Ace's soul found out what happened in Hajimari.
-Simply rewinding time using the Oct-Genesis will not change the future,you have to actually make an effort to change the future or the same thing will happen again if you don't do anything,what KeA did in Zero was modification of the established facts of the past using the power of the Sept-terrion of Zero to change things so that Renne,Joshua,and Estelle helps the SSS.
-Most of Rufus's hidden assets was confiscated so he can't make an open appearance in Crimson Sin as a result of being low on money(not necessarily being in poverty,it's just that he doesn't have enough funds to make a move),though low funds was completely irrelevant when it comes to easily hiding from the CID's surveillance network who is on high alert because he's investigating the Zeque Space Base like Crow.
-The Sen no Kiseki anime project was either planned to be about the Northern Campaign or about Jurai with Crow as the protagonist(never confirmed as to whether it's his backstory or an anime that takes place post Sen IV),iirc Sakurai's cheating scandal was after Northern War got announced so they dodged a bullet back then or else there'll be production issues.
-Sheena's mysteries will get revealed in Kuro 3 including the identity of who the person that resembled the Sheena statue in the park really is,Auguste's motivations that didn't get explained much will get more context next game,the Calvard revolution (unsurprisingly) has mysteries that didn't make it to history books that will get revealed.
-AI Dingo and Hamilton's offscreened conversation has something to do with the truth of the Oct-Genesis,why the 8th Genesis chose to copy Dingo's consciousness data to make an AI version of him will be revealed next game.
-It's all but confirmed that Shizuna is descended from the Iska Holy Empire's royal family(ditto with Yun and Anelace) which is why she's called Hime by Ikaruga's shinobi and also implies that Akegarasu is an imperial heirloom of the royal family,her grandmother has knowledge of the fallen empire and calamity that destroyed the empire and it's implied that she may have been a member of the royal family from that time period.
-They can't disclose details about Calvard's Sept clan and the Holy Beast that watches over the Sept yet,they may show up in an unexpected form.
-Eldarion twins's settings were already planned in advance before Crimson Sin unlike AI Dingo,including the fact that Ellroy is their caretaker during the game's events.
-They made concept arts of Aaron fully turning into Taikun and Grendel=Taikun in Visual Collection 2 but they decided to save it for later use instead of Kuro 2.
-It's not clear whether the non-existence of the Papal Guard's captain was a bluff or not.
-Kondo acknowledges that because of how much has to be written for Kuro 3 and how often they write more content than expected,it's not out of the question that Falcom will have to split the final chapter's contents into 2 parts,not a fandisk gaiden game like Hajimari and 3rd(nevermind that Calvard's gaiden game is Crimson Sin anyway) and that they won't try to force themselves to finish the Calvard arc in the 20th anniversary by cutting out content and rushing to squeeze the game out,and considering the fact that there's 2 Kiseki games in development currently...
UPDATE:Kai no Kiseki is advertised as the beginning of Calvard's final chapter,basicallly giving away that it's part 1.
-Roy,Nina,Hermes,and Hamilton's entire deal will be explained next game.
-Next game's returning characters will focus on Erebonia characters with special emphasis on the ones that has a connection with Calvard's organizations,whether or not more Liberl and Crossbell characters will show up is unknown.
-Fishing was originally meant to be implemented last game,mechanics done and all,but it was too late in terms of game development to implement it back then,next up is rock climbing and the Ferris Wheel?
-Pomppto could be brought back depending on demand,Kondo still has doubts about making trophy achievements for the minigame because of how luck-based the minigame is which is also why it didn't show up for the past 2 games.
-There's still other messy leftovers of the D.G Cult's factions that went off the rails that have yet to be cleaned up in future games,Paradise's faction isn't the end of D.G Cult.
-Crimson Sin's story gave out hints about the truth of the Republic,the only thing that fits the bill is Auguste raving about the correct history and the fact he's somehow aware that history can be changed which implies that the history of the Republic was created through some kind of history revision and given that the previous Visual Collection book implied that Sept may had a hand in the revolution,it's possible the revolutionists wasn't supposed to win the revolution originally and abused the power of the Sept to come out on top.
-Not everyone can go to the Eastern side of the continent,for some reason only characters like Barkhorn and Hamilton can set foot there and even they're blocked off from entering the Far Eastern area which is home to Ikaruga's headquarters and is blocked off to everyone who is not a user of Black God One Blade and Eight Leaves One Blade.
-Map stuff(source:tieba.baidu.com/p/8268113959):
A.Iska Holy Empire's former territory is Erebonia size,basically its mirror in the East but the City Alliance's borders is unknown because most of the eastern side of the map is still blacked out
B.Taslem,Emerose,Leman,and Arteria composes the Free Cities Region in the northern part of the continent,going by the map in the school festival,Taslem is in the south,Emerose is pretty much in the middle of the region,northern part is the underdeveloped parts,Arteria's territory in the smallest in Zemuria,and Leman covers the western part of the Free Cities region(source:tieba.baidu.com/p/8130257349)
C.Elsaim+White Heaven and Valis are to the southeast of Tharbad and the former is about Liberl's size in territory,Valis is Crossbell size.
D.The southern archipelago's name is the Morgia Archipelago
E.Northeast is the Shiratakadake/White Peak Mountains
F.Far East island's name is still unknown.
-Kuro no Kiseki 3 is basically confirmed for next year,Kondo said that it won't take as long as 3 years to release and given the fact that Ys X is 2023's game,that means 2024 is Kuro 3.
Update:shareholder meeting confirmed Kai no Kiseki Farewell O Zemuria,to be released in 2024,basically confirmed to be Kuro 3 by the shareholder pamphlet.