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I really hope they don't pull a FF X here though (marking spoilers for that game to be absolutely safe) - I hated in FF X the whole trying to make us feel bad for the Fayth being SO TIRED so let's kill all the simulated Zanarkand people. Hoping they don't do that here where they try to make us feel bad for the Paintress being too tired to go on and needing release, wanting us to embrace the death of her creations.
Also wondering if there could be some outcome where the few who struggle successfully and survive break out of the simulated world, rendered real somehow.
I think the same thing. And I have a tip that she is NOT main baddie, at least in the lore (she could be in the first game, but I hope there will be sequel).
I have two theories why she is erasing the living.
1. She is not individual god but she is bound to other being or beings. It could be some council of "gods" or some lord who is her master. These other being(s) have ordered her to do what she does. She has to obey them. It could be some kind of sacrifice that they demand annually - souls of the living. They put this evil duty on her to choose who will die.
It makes even bigger sense if she really started to paint from 100 or something. Because it would mean that she choose first the oldest living to be sacrificed. She doesnt want to kill the young who has whole life ahead. So she is not evil. But each passing year she has no choice but to lower the number more and more.
So in the end when heroes will find the truth the goal could be to help her to break free from her bond. Or change the will of the council of gods. Or topple the gods. To save both life on Earth and the Paintress. That could be the goal of the sequel.
2. Initially her creation bring her joy. Living ppl bring her joy with their work, art, ideas, society. But later she become angry how the society evolved on Earth. So her painting of death is like god's punishment.
I hope this second idea is not the right one. I find it quite cliché and too shallow, "ideological" or lets say too "absolute". I dont believe that you can put every life into one pot and say "its evil what you do and I will punish you all". That is shallow thinking that sees only the surface and completely omits the diversity and all facets of life. Its something that the evil king or dictator whould say "you generally dont do what I want so I will... kill you all... haha".
It also makes possible sequel harder to do in terms of logic.
Idea 1 is imho much better.
Alina will suffer
Alina will cry
Alina has
Sombre color
Shadow dream
Sombre color
Our tears mingle
Deep wounds
Lives to cry for
Lives cut short
Faded star
Keep loving you
Keep painting
Extend my hand and implore you
Come back
(X2)
Together in the twilight
Her memory whispers
Immortal in the twilight
In the void the links persist
[The whole Meuridji thing isn't in French, no idea what it means]
Get out and run away
I beg of you
Dreamed portrait
Imperfect
Cursed painting
Canvas of a false life
Dreamed portrait
Canvas of liberty
Liberty
On the reverse side (x2)
With each (brush) stroke
A part
A part of me
A drawing
A draft
A life to paint
With you
With each stroke
His death
Ink without him
A drawing
A draft
A life to paint
Without him
In every painting
History is written
Art mingles with life
Basked in light
Our hearts exposed
And someone thinks the Paintress' name is Alina. She sad ):
Bit much to spoil your own story so early on, but who knows...
You let us decide for ourselves, right? We are ok with our imagination... nobody expect that it will be 1:1 in the game. And BTW it still can inspire devs a little bit - if they read it.
Where does this song come from?
If she is painting just because she is suffering that may be poetic but... its too simple plot imho. I hope there is more to it.
Maelle to Paintress: We hear you! Dont hide behind your pompous words, a lady of death. As we will not yield nor turn back. We will get to you, sooner or later! And then we will paint YOU on the monolith! This will be YOUR moment of understanding what you have been doing the whole time...