Another great video! From what we can understand, it's likely that Brennenburg was built on the top of/close-by the Mithraeum near Altstadt. Around 1525, Agrippa visited Altstadt, found the Mithraeum and its orb, but the Shadow caught him, put the orb back, and carried him to Genoa. He didn't speak of this for a decade till he told Weyer about it in a letter, just as the young man began his studies into the Other World. It appears that Weyer/Agrippa (after Agrippa somehow escaped death at Grenoble and faked his death) became knowledgable enough in the arts around 1558, when Weyer managed to summon and halt the Shadow for the first time (and not the last). It's likely that this is around the time they met Alexander, who was probably posing as a Rhinelander nobleman and met them in this capacity. It's possible that Agrippa was the one who told Alexander about the intact Mithraeum in Altstadt that prompted the move.The fire that was started was possibly an act of arson to prompt Alexander's acquisition of the area, although the name "Brennenburg" was likely put in place as a reference to what was likely Alexander's homeland in the Other World, the Enkindled Fortress.The re/construction down there was likely what Alexander, Weyer, and Agrippa spent most of the next centuries preoccupied with, making sure the carving of the runes and the crude traveller locket of a machine was set up to mimic the processes the Otherworlders once used. It's unknown what the Otherworlders would have done in Eastern Prussia, but we can probably speculate that whatever it was, the outpost there was not half as developed as the ones in Algeria and France. The one in Algeria seems to be the Harvester training ground while the one in France seems to be a Harvester gladiatorial arena (perhaps where the Roman elite went to meet and entertain their blue-blooded allies). From all the information gathered, as well as Alexander's odd reaction to Orpheus, it's likely that the Otherworlders presented themselves as gods to humans and worked with the elites of wildly different cultures to get "good stock" and willing Harvesters. So while the outposts in the densely populated Mexico, France, and the very remote Algerian desert make sense given what they were used for, it's unknown how they used the Königsberg outpost.
The Enkindled Fortress! Bloody Hell I completely forgot! Yes, the Burning Fort would be a fitting homage to his previous home thank you for your analysis, I enjoy reading them a lot
I think Amnesia The Dark Descent has one of the best depictions of someone's slow descent into insanity that I've ever seen in a story. It never feels overly gratituous or done for shock value, even Daniel's murder of the little girl Elise Zimmermann, in the cellar comes across as tactful and meaningful. Daniel's redemption is amazing too. What do you think?
@@HeeHungersForHos Mostly his attitude when Daniel kills Alexander and leaves, he gives this triumphant speech about how he no longer holds any reservations about leaving all the events of Brennenburg behind and boasts with a lot of bravado as to how he has struck down the baron - when in truth he is but a traumatized, pathetic shell of a man who was willing to sacrifice everything to preserve his own life without Question or argument and who had to mentally compromise and manipulate himself to such an extent to be even capable of pulling off his revenge act - which he did not initiate for the sake of his victims but ultimately only for himself as he felt betrayed by the Baron for - in his words - "being turned into a Murderer, a Monster", when it was him who willingly partook in the rituals and became so ruthless at one point that it made even Alexander stare in silence Now Daniel had a rough Childhood and suffered from abuse from his Drunkard Father so chances are he always carried a vile side within him the Death of the Girl may have been a wake up call but it does not excuse that he brutally stabbed her numerous times before she finally perished and beat her mother seemingly to death upon discovering her disappearance, after all she was a little kid and ultimately all that would have been needed was to apprehend her and put her back into a Cell or erase her Memories, there was very little the Girl could have done to him at this point and her chances of escape were slim him leaving victorious now kind of annoys me because through all the whining, regret and pleas for forgiveness, Daniel seemingly has not learned much from his past in that Ending, or at least does not give it too much though, projecting his own evil onto Alexander - who is not innocent mind you - but I firmly believe that one does not become a Monster over Night - yes his circumstances were dire, but ultimately he not only brought it onto himself, he also allowed it to bring out the worst of his being to the point were he believed himself so superior to these supposed criminals that he would gladly throw their lives away in exchange for his own If Alexander is a Monster, then so is Daniel of Mayfair and these endings essentially just grant us a choice as to which Monster gets to triumph over the other but Redemption for either
@umukzusgelos4834 Honestly, the revenge ending always struck me as Daniel regaining his memories but being unable to put away his feelings for revenge aside and continuing to try to justify what he did in his head. Even though he killed Alexander, it doesn't get rid of what he's done. And even though Daniel might acknowledge it, he still doesn't want to admit it to himself completely. For that reason, my favorite ending is the one where he helps Agrippa by throwing his head into the portal and stopping the ritual. While this is purely headcanon because Daniel doesn't say anything during the ending, I believe that this ending represented Daniel putting away his feelings for revenge and accepting what he did was wrong and that killing Alexander won't change that. So he decides to use his own life to help save someone else's like he should have done in the first place with the shadow. This act is also what lead Johann and Agrippa to give Daniel a potential second chance at life. Personally, I don't think that the revenge ending is Daniel's true redemption, I think the canon ending of Daniel becoming an extra dimensional alien along with Johann and Agrippa is.
I think I mentioned this before, but one series outside of Frictional you could do would be Left 4 Dead. The games have impressive animations and models for being nearly 15 years old. The special infected have amazing attention to detail. The common infected in the game have hundreds of zombie models, so I doubt you could do them individually. The game has a bunch of in depth lore and locations along with the survivors themselves, including a ton of lore for a one off band "The Midnight Riders". This is coming from the perspective of a long time fan who got back into the series recently haha. I don't know if a game like that would be your thing, but just wanted to make the suggestion regardless.
@@umukzusgelos4834 It may make more sense that Alexander with the labor of his servants built that area of the castle, since Alexander was able to create very advanced things in some parts of the castle
Another great video! From what we can understand, it's likely that Brennenburg was built on the top of/close-by the Mithraeum near Altstadt. Around 1525, Agrippa visited Altstadt, found the Mithraeum and its orb, but the Shadow caught him, put the orb back, and carried him to Genoa. He didn't speak of this for a decade till he told Weyer about it in a letter, just as the young man began his studies into the Other World. It appears that Weyer/Agrippa (after Agrippa somehow escaped death at Grenoble and faked his death) became knowledgable enough in the arts around 1558, when Weyer managed to summon and halt the Shadow for the first time (and not the last).
It's likely that this is around the time they met Alexander, who was probably posing as a Rhinelander nobleman and met them in this capacity. It's possible that Agrippa was the one who told Alexander about the intact Mithraeum in Altstadt that prompted the move.The fire that was started was possibly an act of arson to prompt Alexander's acquisition of the area, although the name "Brennenburg" was likely put in place as a reference to what was likely Alexander's homeland in the Other World, the Enkindled Fortress.The re/construction down there was likely what Alexander, Weyer, and Agrippa spent most of the next centuries preoccupied with, making sure the carving of the runes and the crude traveller locket of a machine was set up to mimic the processes the Otherworlders once used.
It's unknown what the Otherworlders would have done in Eastern Prussia, but we can probably speculate that whatever it was, the outpost there was not half as developed as the ones in Algeria and France. The one in Algeria seems to be the Harvester training ground while the one in France seems to be a Harvester gladiatorial arena (perhaps where the Roman elite went to meet and entertain their blue-blooded allies). From all the information gathered, as well as Alexander's odd reaction to Orpheus, it's likely that the Otherworlders presented themselves as gods to humans and worked with the elites of wildly different cultures to get "good stock" and willing Harvesters. So while the outposts in the densely populated Mexico, France, and the very remote Algerian desert make sense given what they were used for, it's unknown how they used the Königsberg outpost.
The Enkindled Fortress! Bloody Hell I completely forgot!
Yes, the Burning Fort would be a fitting homage to his previous home
thank you for your analysis, I enjoy reading them a lot
This was the first thought I had when i got to the roman tunnels in the bunker
Great stuff! To this day nothing tops Amnesia: The Dark Descent. (Including their official follow-ups)
Sounds like a theme park to me.
This is really incredible!
amnesia the dark decent was my childhood see how it has changed it's really great
I think Amnesia The Dark Descent has one of the best depictions of someone's slow descent into insanity that I've ever seen in a story. It never feels overly gratituous or done for shock value, even Daniel's murder of the little girl Elise Zimmermann, in the cellar comes across as tactful and meaningful. Daniel's redemption is amazing too. What do you think?
His redemption always felt a bit undeserved to me, honestly
@@umukzusgelos4834 Why if I may ask?
@@HeeHungersForHos Mostly his attitude
when Daniel kills Alexander and leaves, he gives this triumphant speech about how he no longer holds any reservations about leaving all the events of Brennenburg behind and boasts with a lot of bravado as to how he has struck down the baron - when in truth he is but a traumatized, pathetic shell of a man who was willing to sacrifice everything to preserve his own life without Question or argument and who had to mentally compromise and manipulate himself to such an extent to be even capable of pulling off his revenge act - which he did not initiate for the sake of his victims but ultimately only for himself as he felt betrayed by the Baron for - in his words - "being turned into a Murderer, a Monster", when it was him who willingly partook in the rituals and became so ruthless at one point that it made even Alexander stare in silence
Now Daniel had a rough Childhood and suffered from abuse from his Drunkard Father so chances are he always carried a vile side within him
the Death of the Girl may have been a wake up call but it does not excuse that he brutally stabbed her numerous times before she finally perished and beat her mother seemingly to death upon discovering her disappearance, after all she was a little kid and ultimately all that would have been needed was to apprehend her and put her back into a Cell or erase her Memories, there was very little the Girl could have done to him at this point and her chances of escape were slim
him leaving victorious now kind of annoys me because through all the whining, regret and pleas for forgiveness, Daniel seemingly has not learned much from his past in that Ending, or at least does not give it too much though, projecting his own evil onto Alexander - who is not innocent mind you - but I firmly believe that one does not become a Monster over Night - yes his circumstances were dire, but ultimately he not only brought it onto himself, he also allowed it to bring out the worst of his being to the point were he believed himself so superior to these supposed criminals that he would gladly throw their lives away in exchange for his own
If Alexander is a Monster, then so is Daniel of Mayfair and these endings essentially just grant us a choice as to which Monster gets to triumph over the other but Redemption for either
@umukzusgelos4834 Honestly, the revenge ending always struck me as Daniel regaining his memories but being unable to put away his feelings for revenge aside and continuing to try to justify what he did in his head. Even though he killed Alexander, it doesn't get rid of what he's done. And even though Daniel might acknowledge it, he still doesn't want to admit it to himself completely.
For that reason, my favorite ending is the one where he helps Agrippa by throwing his head into the portal and stopping the ritual. While this is purely headcanon because Daniel doesn't say anything during the ending, I believe that this ending represented Daniel putting away his feelings for revenge and accepting what he did was wrong and that killing Alexander won't change that. So he decides to use his own life to help save someone else's like he should have done in the first place with the shadow. This act is also what lead Johann and Agrippa to give Daniel a potential second chance at life.
Personally, I don't think that the revenge ending is Daniel's true redemption, I think the canon ending of Daniel becoming an extra dimensional alien along with Johann and Agrippa is.
2:34 Unless he has rubber suit and boots of course
I think I mentioned this before, but one series outside of Frictional you could do would be Left 4 Dead. The games have impressive animations and models for being nearly 15 years old. The special infected have amazing attention to detail. The common infected in the game have hundreds of zombie models, so I doubt you could do them individually. The game has a bunch of in depth lore and locations along with the survivors themselves, including a ton of lore for a one off band "The Midnight Riders". This is coming from the perspective of a long time fan who got back into the series recently haha. I don't know if a game like that would be your thing, but just wanted to make the suggestion regardless.
Thank You for the Suggestion nonetheless
I have in fact never played or heard of that Series
So the castle was built above some structures of beings from the other world?
probably not above but inspired by them
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It may make more sense that Alexander with the labor of his servants built that area of the castle, since Alexander was able to create very advanced things in some parts of the castle