Can some explain the ending of fatehaven? Why was silvana working with kaine? Was she evil? And why did she disguise herself as maeben? And was Maebenās father actually silvanaās father?
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You should put a spoiler warning in there.
Ok sorry Iām new to the forum
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Well, quick answer: You mean the ending? Or simply another beginning? 
She was working with him to start/end a warā¦ Either accept her as she is, or donāt. No idea. Probably not.
ā¦Most likely this will leave you more confusedā¦ If so, your learning!
Itās been a really long time since iāve played the game so my answer may not be entirely correct (dont even remember the name āmaebenā 
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But from what i remember Silvana/us created a time loop to stop the armageddon. They dont have enough power themselves, but you (the player) do. So they tried to train you and shape your life so you get powerful enough to stop the meteor. If you didnt get powerful enough they just reset the loop. To do that they thought they need to put you through harsh experiences, like murdering your village and family and overal making your life hell. In our playthrough we finaly get powerful enough to actualy remember past life when the loop restarts.
So was Sylvana/us evil is something you must decide yourself, if their plan to stop meteor justifies putting you through hell and breaking your psyche.
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Yeah, I didnāt understand the whole Silvanus/Maeben thing either. Are they the same person? It seems that is. But why Silvanus create a new ābodyā then, if the real one is the one we rescue? Just for us to not know he is a elf? Would it make a difference?
Fatehaven? Now thereās a name Iāve not heard in a long time.
I remember the ending being confusing. It smacked of a half-finished work. Like the author went in expecting to write out a grand story, but got bored halfway through and just ended up wanting to wrap things up as quickly as possible.
Disappointing really, I really liked it until the ārushā started.
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I feel the same, I really liked the beginning.
I agree, it started off really good and the ending was just awful. Undoing everything your character had just been through with time travel was like a punch in the gut.
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Fatehaven was the first Choice of Games title I ever bought, so itās got a special place in my heart, but compared to the depth and complexity of recent titles it doesnāt hold up too well. I actually loved the concept of Silvanusā/Silvanaās time loop dilemma, but there were a lot of unanswered questions.
For example, the ālichbloodā experiments - were they real, or just part of the story around Maeben? And if they did happen, then why? Presumably it was with Silvanusā permission, so does he really have weird toxic blood that he was letting the Cossack Order torture prisoners with, for some reason? Conia did seem to have a vial of something that didnāt agree with herā¦
I got the impression that although Silvanus puts forward a calm, sophisticated persona most of the time, thereās a whole vat of crazy bubbling away underneath, and Maeben was a manifestation of that. I mean, his situation is that heās the only person in the world capable of stopping an apocalypse, because all the other mages have been hunted to extinction by zealots who donāt even realise thereās a problem now. But heās got the wrong type of magic, so all he can do is train up another mage from scratch, and point them at the meteor. And he does this with a bunch of people, but it keeps failing. So heās rewinding time over and over again, trying different things. Then he meets MC, falls in love, and in some iterations is in a relationship with themā¦but theyāre not going to reach their full potential living a happy, peaceful life. So he has to start lying, and manipulating, and setting up scenarios to torment them. Twisting them into all sorts of roles, going so far as to kill them himself, being forgotten each time, and knowing itās damaging their soul (presumably his soul too, since heās the one working the spell, and he wasnāt off to a great start anyway with the whole lich thing). In some iterations they donāt love him back, because hey thereās two other ROs in the game, and even if they do love him, he feels guilty since they canāt understand how heās been hurting them. And thatās been his life for years, probably decades. Enough to send anyone a bit deranged (but itās a fascinating thing to build a character around, and I wish there had been more in-depth discussion of it after the big reveal).
Bearing all that in mind, I donāt know if the Maeben persona was purely āohoho I am such a clever actor, letās stage this event to test MCās resolve and see how their abilities are shaping upā or if there was also an element of cracking under pressure and saying/doing ridiculous things because āto hell with it, who even am I anymore, if this is going to be failure #127 then Iāll at least have some fun scaring churchgoers and being the worldās most horrible overbearing flirtā.
TL;DR Maybe Maeben happened because Silvanus hasnāt got it together as much as he wants everyone to think.
But thatās just my interpretation, since I have the brain of a fanfiction writer and like to overthink stuff in a way that creates maximum drama, haha.
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Great analysis.