2013-04-06, 09:11 AM
FYI: My gut interpretation of KF2 is Aleph is acting, unwittingly, as an agent of Seath. I don't think Seath has enough roles to play, and it only makes sense that if Aleph just kind of wanders onto the scene with no real motivation, and ends up slaying Guyra with the Dark Slayer, made by Leon Shore (who may even be Seath in my book) the only explanation is he is being driven by Seath.
I don't know the dialog, but I just don't buy it that Guyra wants someone to come to him and kill him and take the Moonlight sword that he just worked so hard to obtain, after just having given it to Jean in KF1. The only thing that makes any sense at all in fact, is Seath possesses Jean, we know this as fact due to the end of KF3, and its even explained first thing in the KF2 manual that Jean is possessed by an unseen force from the East if I am not mistaken, which is a land that is not well known. That even lends to the idea of Seath residing in the east and being a Japanese like Shinto nature dragon since we know stuff from the east is Japanese (I'd have to check the manual to be sure its the east, but a direction is given, Jean looks out the window in that direction feeling an ominous spirit enter his being... if it isn't the east I'd rewrite it that way)
So Guyra must get the Moonlight away from possessed Jean, so he sends Dias to do that. And then Aleph foils Guyra's designs, and in doing so curses the kingdom. Its so weird, but its like the bloody games are puzzle waiting to be deciphered. At first they look impossible to make sense of. It's like From's man designed them, but wanted to keep everything secret, which is admirable in a very real way, but not really a luxury we have in the days of the internet and people doing it for themselves (to be honest: it's spooky, but sometimes it almost feels to me like it was supposed to be unraveled this way)
PS: On the subject of gut interpretations. I will freely admit, that my gut feeling is that Guyra is really the good guy in this cycle, even though every step of the way he looks like the bad guy. I think in theory in an alternate universe Seath could've been the good guy, and Guyra the bad guy. But I am of the mind, that it isn't really a situation where both dragon demi-gods are bad guys. I think Guyra is genuinely good, or at least trying to be, and the only hope if there is to be a hope, but the optics are just bad. I think that's why he's so ugly design wise. The moral of the story is the truth isn't always pretty, heck maybe it never is if it's not supposed to be... and it isn't always obvious either. I think truly its a modern morality play. Seath is the old ways, Guyra is the new ways. He represents transparency, justice, and uncompromising honesty. In other words Guyra is the dragon of reality, and Seath is the dragon of irreality...
Guyra offers the Moonlight Sword, a part of Seath, as his ultimate gift, art, etc, all the things we toil to enjoy in the modern world. And Seath offers the Dark Slayer, a part of Guyra, or the promise of enlightenment in an age of darkness, the apple in the garden of Eden, the old world. That's just my interpretation. I hope it doesn't ring too sacrilegious to KF. I don't even know you can call it an interpretation given the dearth of my understanding. But its my inspiration. Its how I hear the music.
Ultimately to me the Earth Dragons represent the entire spectrum of earthly delight. I think its unique among the elements in that way. Its the last of the four too. So that gives it a certain kind of specialness. Like the cherry on top (and Light, well that's when you get to scarf the whole thing down without a care in the world
)
I don't know the dialog, but I just don't buy it that Guyra wants someone to come to him and kill him and take the Moonlight sword that he just worked so hard to obtain, after just having given it to Jean in KF1. The only thing that makes any sense at all in fact, is Seath possesses Jean, we know this as fact due to the end of KF3, and its even explained first thing in the KF2 manual that Jean is possessed by an unseen force from the East if I am not mistaken, which is a land that is not well known. That even lends to the idea of Seath residing in the east and being a Japanese like Shinto nature dragon since we know stuff from the east is Japanese (I'd have to check the manual to be sure its the east, but a direction is given, Jean looks out the window in that direction feeling an ominous spirit enter his being... if it isn't the east I'd rewrite it that way)
So Guyra must get the Moonlight away from possessed Jean, so he sends Dias to do that. And then Aleph foils Guyra's designs, and in doing so curses the kingdom. Its so weird, but its like the bloody games are puzzle waiting to be deciphered. At first they look impossible to make sense of. It's like From's man designed them, but wanted to keep everything secret, which is admirable in a very real way, but not really a luxury we have in the days of the internet and people doing it for themselves (to be honest: it's spooky, but sometimes it almost feels to me like it was supposed to be unraveled this way)
PS: On the subject of gut interpretations. I will freely admit, that my gut feeling is that Guyra is really the good guy in this cycle, even though every step of the way he looks like the bad guy. I think in theory in an alternate universe Seath could've been the good guy, and Guyra the bad guy. But I am of the mind, that it isn't really a situation where both dragon demi-gods are bad guys. I think Guyra is genuinely good, or at least trying to be, and the only hope if there is to be a hope, but the optics are just bad. I think that's why he's so ugly design wise. The moral of the story is the truth isn't always pretty, heck maybe it never is if it's not supposed to be... and it isn't always obvious either. I think truly its a modern morality play. Seath is the old ways, Guyra is the new ways. He represents transparency, justice, and uncompromising honesty. In other words Guyra is the dragon of reality, and Seath is the dragon of irreality...
Guyra offers the Moonlight Sword, a part of Seath, as his ultimate gift, art, etc, all the things we toil to enjoy in the modern world. And Seath offers the Dark Slayer, a part of Guyra, or the promise of enlightenment in an age of darkness, the apple in the garden of Eden, the old world. That's just my interpretation. I hope it doesn't ring too sacrilegious to KF. I don't even know you can call it an interpretation given the dearth of my understanding. But its my inspiration. Its how I hear the music.
Ultimately to me the Earth Dragons represent the entire spectrum of earthly delight. I think its unique among the elements in that way. Its the last of the four too. So that gives it a certain kind of specialness. Like the cherry on top (and Light, well that's when you get to scarf the whole thing down without a care in the world
)