Thread:Su712/@comment-31479589-20180718143724/@comment-25669516-20180721152959

Anon421 wrote: @Su712: Can you check the Angel fight SS? What is the dialogue you got after losing? Someone edited the Chapter 5 page, adding that Scourge is the same disease that attacked June's father. I want to confirm this to make sure. Actually they don't know it themselves. Marcus asks if the Angel form is a result of the scourge, or if it is just a shadow beast, or whether scourge is just another name for the shadow beast. Itu says the Emperor too had a shadow beast inside of him but Moira at least can control it when she's on the island.

I am not really sure what to make of that. But let's try anyway... In another earlier conversation Moira says that shadow beasts of some sort had attacked their land and she got infected with the scourge, a lethal and strange disease which shadow promised to cure her of (Only she and Shadow knew of this since other people apparently believed she died). He brought her to this island where the disease does not spread. Trying to leave the island causes Angel to manifest itself, but you can still see Moira in the background. So unlike the Emperor who transforms into the beast himself, Angel is more like a manifestation of whatever disease was hidden inside of Moira.

... Now I'm not really sure we can call the two things the same. Yes, they both are infected by some kind of shadow anomaly but the way it manifests is different in both cases. Also, before Emperor transformed into the shadow monster and caused the rig to explode, there were no reports of any shadow beasts in the land - so where did he get infected from? So far we have believed that it was a result of the shadow sphere which Bolo had manipulated the emperor into exploiting but could it be that the shadow beasts had returned to the land?

Does this wall of text answer your question? Nope, it doesn't. But I realized that the game itself has not made this clear. I suppose eventually it will all tie up, but for now we can't really say if the two of them were infected with the same thing. If it is indeed the Scourge then why does it manifest itself differently for the both of them?