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I saw another post on here asking about what happened to the children of the village. It's making me realize that most people don't seem to have watched the story that got told in the games credits, most people likely skipped it or didn't pay attention as it passed by.

The story follows a family in the village (shown in the picture I included). The mother very suddenly gets sick, coughing up puddles of blood, and dies soon after. The daughter (who is a young kid by the time this happens, the picture I included still shows her as a baby because this was years prior), also gets sick and starts coughing up blood.

The father rushes outside holding her where he finds another man also holding his child, pointing towards the church, which has a line up of families going to it, a portion of them being just one parent with their child.

At the church a plague doctor (obviously Mother Miranda as you can see she's wearing her robes) ejects the children with a syringe, healing them. It then shows Miranda getting all of the fathers to also take an ejection of Cadou, likely saying it's to prevent them from contracting the sickness.

Once back home the daughter sees her father clutching his stomach, and then finds him, turned into a Lycan, feasting on an animal (likely the horse shown in the family picture). The book ends with him spotting her.

My take away from this story is that Miranda somehow set a sickness on the village, mainly targeting the mothers and children. This would make the fathers panic and rush to Miranda for help, where she would cure any of their wives or children that hadn't yet died, and then make the fathers take an ejection of Cadou, telling them it was a vaccine. The fathers would then go home and turn into Lycan's and since their own children were always right there as they first turned, they ended up being their first meals. Thus explaining why there are no children in the game without showing us it actually happening (since children being killed on-screen is a big no-no).

This is also why every survivor we meet in the game is either single or just never had kids. The only parent we meet in the game is Leonardo, who is clutching his stomach when we first meet him and turns shortly after. He is likely the last to turn.

Also note that we know all of this happened in just one day, as the hag (Miranda pretty much flexing her own actions) says that the village only fell into darkness after Miranda came back with Rose, and we also find a note in the red chimney house of a guy saying that Miranda summoned him to the ceremony site, where he saw Rose, meaning that the village was still all normal when Miranda first came back. This also means that during all of this, Ethan had been unconscious just up the hill.

Y'all know the cutscene you can get by just staring at the main menu for a bit, the one where El Sueno walks around his mausoleum while narrating his own thoughts? Most people just loosely watch the cutscene and don't pay much mind to the details because it just seems like a standard "villain monologs for no reason" scene, but if you actually look at it you'll notice it actually takes place right before the last cutscene of the game where the Ghosts finally confront Sueno.

As we know, when the Ghosts confront Sueno he shows them Pac Katari's severed head, and in the menu cutscene some shots actually show Sueno carrying Pac's head as he walks around.

Then the menu cutscene also ends with Sueno turning as a light starts shining onto his face and the Santa Muerte statue, which is the Ghosts opening the door. The ending cutscene then starts with Sueno being in the exact same pose that he had been in at the end of the menu cutscene.

I've never seen anybody else talk about this, or even acknowledge it, so I really don't know if this is common knowledge or not, so I wanted to just throw it out there.