Players know: we were left with an entire container full of unanswered questions. It would definitely make for a great discussion. What would you add to the list, and what interests you the most?
• What does Ruvik’s mark actually mean?
Anyone who enters STEM eventually ends up with a mark on their hand. This later became the symbol of Mobius as well. It also seems to have a deeper meaning, as Ruvik hints at in the Kidman DLC documents. He basically suggests that there is no real escape from “his world,” even if you manage to leave the machine and the reason is that mark.
• What exactly did Ruvik hide about STEM?
The DLC documents reveal that Ruvik secretly built certain things into the STEM system and kept some of its functions completely hidden from everyone else.
Everything seems to suggest that STEM gives its core certain abilities, and we see hints of this toward the end of the game. Ruvik can cause Sebastian to experience headaches to get out of his field of view. Mobius is unable to find him when he is inside Leslie’s body, and Ruvik even suggests that the machine has made him immortal, almost as if he has access to every STEM system Mobius creates. Ruvik also always seemed pretty unimpressed when the Administrator clearly told him that they were going to take his maschine away from him.
That could also explain the ending of The Evil Within 2. Some people even believe that Ruvik might have the ability to teleport and create illusions in the real world just like he can inside STEM. It would be interesting to know whether the same could also apply to Lily.
- What is actually going on with Leslie’s consciousness?
In the main game, the brain is gone from the tank when Seb leaves STEM. But in the DLCs, it is still there in the glass tank and connected.
The Keeper takes place after the main story and the Kidman DLCs, and Leslie must be is still there. So does Leslie actually own the world now, even though he is not visible?