| The Nameless One's state of existence is ambiguous throughout the game. Maybe he's already dead in a sense. In the Mortuary, Morte says, "We're [both] dead," before he corrects himself. Pharod calls the Nameless One a "corpse". Annah says he smells like a "stinking zombie". His body is soaked with embalming fluid and formaldehyde. He's not really alive some of the time, such as when he's temporarily killed or, for example, when Marta removes his vital organs or cracks open his skull. Without his mortality, he can't ever be *truly* dead, but is he still *truly* alive? Perhaps when he's reunited with his mortality, he's in some kind of special undead state--officially "dead" (since he's mortal again) but still intact in his new, *Transcendental* form.
I'm not sure about that at all. I'm just speculating. |