Some things I noticed from the trailer/screenshots/recaps:
- the guy who seems to be leading the vampire terrorists ("Everyone grab a limb") seems to be this guy:
- note how that also seems to be "Lilian" casually strolling away behind him.
- He's also the only one of the vamps involved in the ME who isn't represented on the clan page.
- Speculation: we'll diablerize one of them, then eventually find this guy who we'll think is the leader but in actuality "Lillian" is pulling the strings.
- I've seen some people think the dancing guy in the tower isn't Cross but I mean obviously it's Cross, he's either undergone a redesign (a lamentable one wrt facial handsomeness but good with the shoes) or he just didn't translate well from CG. Lou did fine though.
- the guy staking us:
the only male person we've seen wearing glasses is the guy behind Cross and Goodbye Lady on the Camarilla faction page. Probably the Sheriff.
- This speaks to I think Outstar's theory where the superimposed/background image on the Clan pages = leader, the foreground character is the representative and the one behind them is the enforcer, you can see the Husky Boi from The Pioneers closing a door in the trailer too.
- This suggests that either the Newcomers don't have a set enforcers and use disposable people OR (and more interestingly) that the lovely Elif has more to her than meets the eye.
- We get turned in Pioneer Square, we get staked in/near Pioneer Square (this is me assuming those distinctive lamps aren't a thing throughout Seattle) BUT not everyone grabs a limb in Pioneer Square, or it doesn't seem that way anyway. This is interesting and might suggest a bigger role for the vampire terrorists than simply plot device blood bags we use to level up later. Checkout the trailer frame by frame with <> and you'll notice they don't seem like the same setting.
- Lastly, if bright yellow eyes indicate low humanity (I think this is another of Outstar's theories) then it should be noted that I THINK only the people who represent the Baron (and Slugg) have bright yellow eyes. I also read somewhere that apparently sometimes the Sabbat infiltrate cities by posing as Anarchs.
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Also, if we're going to read too much into the song choice which I don't necessarily think we should but 1963 in Seattle was apparently the first Civil Rights March so there's that. Might have something to do with the Thinbloods wanting to be treated less like they are. But the lyrics might be more interesting if you subscribe to the general idea of "Lilian's" presence in this game (just picking and choosing relevant seeming lyrics):
Thank you for all the joy and pain
Save those lies, darling don't explain
I can see hearts carved on a tree
Letters intertwined for all time
Yours and mine, that was fine
Thank you for seeing me again
Though we go on our separate ways
Still the memory stays for always
I said thank you for, hmm, seeing me again
Danke schoen, auf wiedersehen
The war for Seattle's blood-trade may just be a distraction, the movement of pawns, in a war of old lovers.
- the guy who seems to be leading the vampire terrorists ("Everyone grab a limb") seems to be this guy:
- note how that also seems to be "Lilian" casually strolling away behind him.
- He's also the only one of the vamps involved in the ME who isn't represented on the clan page.
- Speculation: we'll diablerize one of them, then eventually find this guy who we'll think is the leader but in actuality "Lillian" is pulling the strings.
- I've seen some people think the dancing guy in the tower isn't Cross but I mean obviously it's Cross, he's either undergone a redesign (a lamentable one wrt facial handsomeness but good with the shoes) or he just didn't translate well from CG. Lou did fine though.
- the guy staking us:
the only male person we've seen wearing glasses is the guy behind Cross and Goodbye Lady on the Camarilla faction page. Probably the Sheriff.
- This speaks to I think Outstar's theory where the superimposed/background image on the Clan pages = leader, the foreground character is the representative and the one behind them is the enforcer, you can see the Husky Boi from The Pioneers closing a door in the trailer too.
- This suggests that either the Newcomers don't have a set enforcers and use disposable people OR (and more interestingly) that the lovely Elif has more to her than meets the eye.
- We get turned in Pioneer Square, we get staked in/near Pioneer Square (this is me assuming those distinctive lamps aren't a thing throughout Seattle) BUT not everyone grabs a limb in Pioneer Square, or it doesn't seem that way anyway. This is interesting and might suggest a bigger role for the vampire terrorists than simply plot device blood bags we use to level up later. Checkout the trailer frame by frame with <> and you'll notice they don't seem like the same setting.
- Lastly, if bright yellow eyes indicate low humanity (I think this is another of Outstar's theories) then it should be noted that I THINK only the people who represent the Baron (and Slugg) have bright yellow eyes. I also read somewhere that apparently sometimes the Sabbat infiltrate cities by posing as Anarchs.
EDIT:
Also, if we're going to read too much into the song choice which I don't necessarily think we should but 1963 in Seattle was apparently the first Civil Rights March so there's that. Might have something to do with the Thinbloods wanting to be treated less like they are. But the lyrics might be more interesting if you subscribe to the general idea of "Lilian's" presence in this game (just picking and choosing relevant seeming lyrics):
Thank you for all the joy and pain
Save those lies, darling don't explain
I can see hearts carved on a tree
Letters intertwined for all time
Yours and mine, that was fine
Thank you for seeing me again
Though we go on our separate ways
Still the memory stays for always
I said thank you for, hmm, seeing me again
Danke schoen, auf wiedersehen
The war for Seattle's blood-trade may just be a distraction, the movement of pawns, in a war of old lovers.
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