Quote Originally Posted by Remarus View Post
Considering she wants to steal our soul to make hers whole, it makes me wonder if they're doing some form of physical ailment not dissimilar to self-tempering to the beast soul's primary aether signature. While I truthfully believe this raid series will end with us taking down the Chairman of the Arcadion because this is a wrestling story, a compelling side-story or twist would be finding a way to fix the problem without tearing down the entire Arcadion from the top down.
I'm guessing we will to some degree, because... well, we aren't the type of people, and in a type of game, that would let such a toxic status quo continue, but at the same time it's also established that the Arcadion is a big part of Alexandria's culture. I suspect the entire thing is a metaphor for substance abuse and the treatment of athletes in professional sport, and from that lens it makes sense that we won't shut it down; all the problems with the NFL are horrible, but you can't just solve them by shutting down football.

My guess is that our own participation will lead to the solution: we're winning by raw personal skill (and seven other people('s souls) doing the same), and we don't just prove the superiority of that over the feral soul transformations, we also prove that people will still be interested in watching.

Quote Originally Posted by innis31 View Post
Well when you could upload yourself into a new body the physical would mean less then the mental but thats more of a transhumanism thing.
That's also not what the Endless are, and even if it was, you might remember that we shut that system down.