Fable II - One of the greatest endings of all time (SPOILERS)

[ZenfoldorVGI]

You know Twesterm, your article was great, I have also thought long and hard about the ending, but I must admit that I saw its brilliance instantly.

First, the prelude. The farm section of the game was vastly engrossing to me. Its scenery very much reminded me of the final Boss Battle in MGS3, which is a good thing, btw.

The twist, that the little box you spent the intro to the game trying to afford was ultimately, the ultimate weapon against Lucien, was magnificant.

Now, of course, the best character in the game is Reaver, without question. The now famous, and much lamented killing of Lucien by Reaver was a magnificant bit of character development, while at the same time very endearing and unexpected. Something you won't find in too many games endings.

I mean, these people would really have rather had a final boss fight where you kill the bad guy? That's just absurd. How predictable, redundant, and pointless is that usually? Remember Bioshock? The ending kept it from being the best game of all time.

What the ending did, was humanized Lucien, created an immortal character in Reaver, and brought a sense of realism to the closing storyline. It also managed to surprise and delight me at the same time. You always get the feeling in these games "I wish I could just shoot this guy" and Peter knew that we were gonna listen to every last word of Lucien, too.

Anyway, an even more interesting aspect of the ending is this:

The letter from your sister has three possible explanations, as to who the tall thin scary man is.

One, it could be Scythe, the hero from TLC. He was the first king and hero of Albion, and is immortal. He is also very thin because his blood was sucked out or something. This would mean Rose was alive.

Two, is the person is your hero from the first game. He certainly would be scary, seeing as how he used the sword of aeons against Jack of Blades(confirmed in the game), meaning he took the evil route in the first fable(or at least made the evil decision to keep the sword, which text in Fable 2 confirms), according to the canon. This would mean your sister is dead. This would also explain why she had trouble remembering his name, as the hero has no name in Fable 1. Rose would be dead in this scenerio.

Three, is it could be Jack of Blades, inhabiting the long dead corpse of your hero from the first game(after the final choice in TLC). Jack's mask would be on the hero, making him a thin, scary corpse. His obvious motive would be to regain worldly form by teaching your now living sister(if it's canon that you chose love, which it will be) the ways of a hero, and then using her body to revive his evil plans for world domination. Again, Rose would be alive and breathing, assuming it is actually Jack.

All three people know about the family and the bloodline. All are thin, and have questionable and/or multiple names. Scythe was the first archon.

Now check this, since it's canon that you killed your sister instead of destroying the Sword of Aeons, and since the guide in Fable 2 is the hero's sister from the first game(as confirmed by Peter himself) then she is simply a shell of a being, not inhabiting a true body, and those her motives become clear, as to why she needs to power of the spire, and why she revived the bloodline to obtain it, instead of easily stopping the spires original construction(which she obviously could have done, being immortal and psychic).

Two things become obvious. Theresa is immortal, and when she was struck down by her brother in Fable 1, she had forseen this and took precautions to preserve her essence. The power of the spire was greatly desired by her, for numerous reasons, the most likely of which is to preserve her own existence. It was very likely that she herself was working with a resurrected, but weakened jack of blades the whole time, and actually brought about Rose's original death, in an attempt to involve you and your blood in the scheme to take down Lucien.