r/ScarletHollow

Currently on the bus and the person across the aisle from me is eatting peanuts. Should I ask for some peanuts?

after three playthrus I finally got the Breaking Point trophy! i wrote down what i did to receive it! does anyone want to know how to get it?

This is actually a really interesting question for me.

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One of my favorite things about Scarlet Hollow is how much it lets the player decide the protagonist's personality. I love it. I want to find more games that do the same. I already played both Our Life games, I'm also not picky about genre or tone. Please. If anyone has some recs, then thank you

Edit: this is my bad for not specifying, but I am just interested in visual novels right now. Again, my bad, I forgot to specify

So, the only solid information we have on the carvings and the Entity that makes them up is from the seal diagrams in the estate, and Oscar’s research/carving communication.

As far as we know, the seal diagrams are accurate, but Oscar has been influenced by the Dominion seal and his conclusions should be treated with some skepticism. The carving’s certainty is promising him relief from the crushing guilt he feels all the time, and he compares it to psychedelic drugs. I feel awful for him, but for the purposes of this discussion, you have to keep his compromised state in mind. All of his judgements are going to be warped in favor of the carvings.

Okay, so if you have Mystical for the Madness conversation with Oscar, you can know that the general gist of what he’s saying about the seals is correct, but that they were forcefully split apart by Enoch and the carvings. All the carvings represent a concept, and they’re all fragments of a larger concept.

What is this larger concept? The smaller concepts are Dominion, Bounty, Spirit, Throne, Prosperity, and Vitality. What connects all these things? The first word that comes to mind for me is “Power”. All of these things are either sources of power or expressions of power.

The seal diagrams are full of abstract symbolism and allusions to a wide range of mythologies, mostly demonology and Greco-Roman influences. Seems typical for some occult obsessed rich guy in the 1900’s to combine a bunch of different symbols like that. What’s more amazing is that it worked, or at least it worked enough to draw the Witch’s attention. I recognize all the mythological figures in the diagrams, but the animal symbolism and all that is a bit outside my wheelhouse, would appreciate someone else’s thoughts.

What I find interesting is that the seals seem to hate and fear the others, even though their separation seems to be an unnatural state that Enoch created. You would think they’d want to be reunited, but no.

Wayne (Probably The Throne seal’s conduit, since Wayne speaks for the Entity), hates Reese, the conduit for the Vitality seal. He despises Reese, calls him a waste of flesh and a failed weapon. Maybe it’s because he failed that Wayne hates him, maybe it’s because he’s human and has his own will apart from the Entity’s.

The Dominion seal seems afraid of the Bounty seal, but I’m not sure why. Maybe that’s Oscar being an unreliable narrator, he might be afraid of the danger and is attributing it to the seal. But, he is willing to charge right in to deal with the ghost when it comes down to it, so I don’t think Oscar’s bravery is the problem here. I think there’s some metaphysical reason the representation of Dominion is afraid of the representation of Bounty. I’m not sure what that reason is.

What are your thoughts? What concept do you guys think the Entity as a whole represents?