Re: 聖剣のセシリア~The Soul of Knights~
The black knight is actually the black dragon, Cecilia being the chosen one can see him around but because she hasn't awoken to the truth yet she cannot directly interact with him.
Everytime this happens people start turning into stone to lower the population and a chosen woman, aka a valkirye, has to become the maiden of sacrifice and either make a choice that will result in the death of enough people to stop the disease, or ignore it and let the it run rampant and possibly destroying society before it disappears.
This time's valkirye is Cecilia, Iris tried to steal her destiny by switching bodies placing herself on the teleporter's destination and suiciding a few moments before Cecilia teleports in, so SCIENCE happens and their souls switch bodies.
At that point Iris leaves with Cecilia's body and Cecilia is left in Iris' old body, then her heart starts beating again and the game starts.
I've also got a feeling that Iris' body isn't fact her body but the killer Tequila's body she must's snatched before when she was kidnapped and went to Galdo, wich makes the survivor inside the hut actually Tequila inside Iris' body, and considering she still knows the password for Iris' guards, she might be involved with her kidnapping as well together with Elen.
Cecilia doesn't notice the switch because the same magic that covers her identity is affecting her perception as well, this is why in the fake celebration ending you have to watch yourself in the mirror and when asked who the blonde chick is, you must input Cecilia "セシリア" to break the spell.
In the end she recovers from the disease as when the player's avatar defeats the dragon, the petrification disease disappears as well and people recover from it.
The reason why Iris stole the body is unclear, maybe she wanted the power of the valkirye for herself after finding out about it in Galdo, Mary was just emo and wanted everyone to die, Rose was trying to stage a coup because things were too fucked up at home and Elen was jealous of Cecilia and organized the kidnapping to ruin her reputation and take over her position.
You meet Cecilia again in the end restored to her true form, she's now become something akin to the players and is off to save another world, in fact she had always been there but you couldn't notice her because your eyes weren't open to the truth or some crap.
I've only played the law route and I'm sure there's more to be uncovered playing chaos, but from what I could understand the black dragon is a force of nature and the pietrification disease is a system he put on place to avoid humanity growing past a certain point.So after beating the game, and seeing as there's no other English forum that's better to discuss about the game, I kinda don't get the ending.
The black knight is actually the black dragon, Cecilia being the chosen one can see him around but because she hasn't awoken to the truth yet she cannot directly interact with him.
Everytime this happens people start turning into stone to lower the population and a chosen woman, aka a valkirye, has to become the maiden of sacrifice and either make a choice that will result in the death of enough people to stop the disease, or ignore it and let the it run rampant and possibly destroying society before it disappears.
This time's valkirye is Cecilia, Iris tried to steal her destiny by switching bodies placing herself on the teleporter's destination and suiciding a few moments before Cecilia teleports in, so SCIENCE happens and their souls switch bodies.
At that point Iris leaves with Cecilia's body and Cecilia is left in Iris' old body, then her heart starts beating again and the game starts.
I've also got a feeling that Iris' body isn't fact her body but the killer Tequila's body she must's snatched before when she was kidnapped and went to Galdo, wich makes the survivor inside the hut actually Tequila inside Iris' body, and considering she still knows the password for Iris' guards, she might be involved with her kidnapping as well together with Elen.
Cecilia doesn't notice the switch because the same magic that covers her identity is affecting her perception as well, this is why in the fake celebration ending you have to watch yourself in the mirror and when asked who the blonde chick is, you must input Cecilia "セシリア" to break the spell.
In the end she recovers from the disease as when the player's avatar defeats the dragon, the petrification disease disappears as well and people recover from it.
The reason why Iris stole the body is unclear, maybe she wanted the power of the valkirye for herself after finding out about it in Galdo, Mary was just emo and wanted everyone to die, Rose was trying to stage a coup because things were too fucked up at home and Elen was jealous of Cecilia and organized the kidnapping to ruin her reputation and take over her position.
You meet Cecilia again in the end restored to her true form, she's now become something akin to the players and is off to save another world, in fact she had always been there but you couldn't notice her because your eyes weren't open to the truth or some crap.