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Message: [QUOTE="GVSE, post: 3666, member: 103"] I need to post here some additional key information that could not fit into the character limit of my original article. I wrote it after i received some comments on [URL='https://www.reddit.com/r/TeamIco/comments/1g6ud8z/about_cycles_and_horns_exploring_the_hidden_lore/']my Reddit post[/URL], and i want to put this here 'cuz they are fundamental arguments about the castle not originally belonging to the Queen. I wish i could've made it a single full text, but i reached the 30000 characters limitation and i'll keep posting in this comment section if i need to elaborate any new paragraphs. Anyway, here it is: [CENTER][ATTACH type="full" alt="1729371466194.png"]1381[/ATTACH][/CENTER] [B][thanks to crooked_mantis comments][/B] [JUSTIFY]Right, but if horns are a symbol of the people who were overthrown, what about [URL='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglXaYZbmRtzwjRoq5L2UbjVvUk_p4u5Q_lP6SEbUjJDnIf_Nli2NkHAM5RTGIJgbR4uPlzzgpAQk8hYOJPibe7RFF3QiHys7oJXUB6c1yIAnY0y33SsmdVwHmDjOH4IOi4DWM_4DTaU-I/s1600/Soldiers+at+bluff+temple.jpg']those priests[/URL] who took the boy to that castle? Why would they have horn ornaments on their armor if they serve the witch? Why wouldn't they live in the castle too? The first interesting thing to me about them, is that they bothered to [B]apologize[/B] for taking Ico there. They also don't say [I]"your village"[/I], just [I]"the village"[/I]. Considering these two aspects, we can at least secure that they are from the same village as Ico. Besides those guys wearing horns on their helmets and not their head — otherwise they would've been sacrificed too —, [B]they don't wear "poncho" clothes like the ones we've seen in Ico, Wander, and the horned statue on the castle.[/B] They worship the witch and her intentions, while Ico, by his clothes, keeps a connection to the same culture Wander and Mono were into. I wouldn't consider too much of a stretch to assume there might have sectarian groups within the same village. Okay, but and what about that ritual room? If this castle belongs originally to the horned people, why would they make a central space with sacrifice capsules? To cover this, we'll need to look another unmentioned element of the castle: those idol figures which blocks so many rooms. They look like [URL='https://i.imgur.com/OWLfoMs.png']caricatural[/URL] representations of horned people, and within them it's also contained creepy statues of honed boys crying — [URL='https://i.imgur.com/toHmYj1.png']much different than the uplifting feeling of the bridge statues[/URL]. They are magical and can only be manipulated by the witch magical sword or Yorda's power, being also[URL='https://i.imgur.com/V7jH2rw.png'] full of "runes" or ideograms[/URL] of the language only spoken by Yorda and her mother. What is odd about these idols, is that they can be assumed as doors of the castle, but they [URL='https://i.imgur.com/mI0MCdj.png']never fit[/URL] in the architectural style of the spaces they are placed. In fact, [URL='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBOZCkJvh2zM5ABtKgyEdvcpL57_VIoHXXU8i0iUz2VWJb-4exbw4S7gdXuO2BDuH0UOxx3CEpT7rWcRIIRwnxK8MEDmkBA8-vCiPm0ZY_nO_OV7MSVRQRBB3B6Pv_x0eQx3HhQio1VA8/s1600/Queen%27s+chamber+locked+doors.jpg']it's usually common for them to be totally off[/URL]. And we do find a lot of [URL='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzZ6blxTNeJHwUpno0U7lLay2Ff63viNN8E3Xg0ZaQFvqjdrLlMB5wwRTQCLZRJGV1sM6mId3AhQtrOBYD1Lo3wYSo3_A-pVohL6a6-PNVNsCBZ06mLskUwoGaLfsEdLIhfBlMj7lJunc/s1600/Locked+first+floor+doors.jpg']regular doors[/URL], made of wood or rock, like [URL='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMQaZugBYVhbe8BSIlvnPUHGjPX7F-lpgfRW0iKeVuzZ8dLveHSwzEV21lSqdfw8FzbWoF76Liss5lNExtr_VNDvHq07H_c7uJVAHkWZb8d20SxSrPAOmSWCX50fZOCpee0eyO-__-KcI/s1600/Door+to+warehouse.jpg']that one[/URL] right from the beginning when we need to pull a lever for it to open. That being said, those idols are pretty much like if [B]they were added later to the castle, with the purpose of magically block some passages and exits, instead of being part of the same architecture project.[/B] From that, I can point it out that those sacrifice capsules shares the same visual aspect of being full of "runes" or ideograms, also being opened only through magic — I personally feel that the capsules and the idols are built from different materials than the rest of the castle, but I can't really analyse this game textures to check on it. So, to summarize it, those capsules themselves [B]were installed in that room only after the witch had find her way to assume the throne.[/B][/JUSTIFY] [CENTER] [B][ATTACH type="full" width="787px" alt="1729371345234.png"]1380[/ATTACH][/B][/CENTER] [/QUOTE]

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