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I started a new playthrough to test a bug and noticed something that slipped my attention before:

"[Clément] had his eyes on a guest, a woman who held his mind in the palm of her hand. I can only believe it went badly. And so he… well, you saw what he did to me."

At first I wondered if this might be Athena, but that seems impossible based on what Hermes says. ("…I kept quiet about [the hotel] and never told any of the others. Only I could come here, you see?") I seem to recall Argos intimating something similar.

Still, I can't help but wonder if there's more to it and if she'll end up being a Chekhov's femme fatal. Who is this mystery woman? She isn't a god, but could she be an agent or descendent of one? Will we see her again? And what was her role in Clément's downfall? (P blamed the former Argos, but I'm not sure how much weight to give that.)

TrinexxSlayer3 years ago

can't she be a god? what exactly is preventing that? clearly the overseer can get in just fine, could the hotel even make that distinction? what if they found a way in?

RockJock3 years ago (1 edit) (+1)

The Constitution prevents any (uninvited) god that's not the Overseer from entering:

With the exception of the Overseer, the gods of Olympus, their associates, Lady Hestia and Lord Hades are hereby forbidden from entering the Labyrinth without express invitation from the Master of the Realm.

Only if Clement (or a previous master) invited Athena in would it work, and I thought the woman Clement met was already in the Hotel... Heck, I think Athena would've been pretty unhappy with Asterion being locked up and not 'actually tortured' again, too, she would've rather wound Clement around her finger to return to the old ways.

Though I will say, in the Ruthless route we do learn about the 3 other 'minor' gods who are involved in our story and contributed their blood to the creation of the Realm, because one of them outright shows up. How did the realm allow them in if the Constitution should've kept them out? Even if they aren't the main 12 gods/Hades/Hestia, they're still a god of Olympus, no? Maybe they never left the realm in the first place? I don't think Nemesis or her sisters would be banished to the Realm for any reason, but that's another way in maybe.

TrinexxSlayer3 years ago

there are some loopholes then. can they come in if the master invites them in even if the master doesn't know they are gods? and can they manipulate the master to do so from outside?

maybe it's nothing, but we can't assume it's not possible

Jay3 years ago

Ooooh, good point, that's a pretty big loophole! (Though it means Clément would need to have met her outside the Realm of the hotel and invited her in.)

Bubu3 years ago

I think they are able to come in because they are not part of the 12 of Olympus + Hades/Hestia.

If it was any god prevented from entering then Kota would not have been able to enter, right?

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