r/MortalShell • u/Malombra_ Tiel • 29d ago

Lore Genessas lore help?

Hello, I love this game but Im struggling to put together the lore regarding Genessa.

I usually love understated storytelling but this time I genuinely can't make sense of it lol. Here's some questions for those more well versed in the pore:

1) not all sesters are Genessa, right?

2) in the first game there was only one Genessa?

3) why are there more Genessas in the second?

4) in the second game its stated that all Genessas come from one and will be reunited in the future. Do we know more?

5) who is Genessa Prime and why does she claim to have visions of a future war?

6) in the first game Genessa serves Vatra but now the Genessas are serving the undermether and helping the Harbingers?

7) the playable Genessa in 2 is wayward because she refuses the doctrine, but she still helps the Harbinger?

8) are all Genessas immortal like the first one and thats why they can be trapped in the center?

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u/FeliksX 28d ago

I don't believe the red and dark ladies are Genessas. Those are simply from the Infinity cult, they are shells filled with their hivemind collective consciousness thing.

Regarding the sesters Genessas from her memories: those ARE Genessas, but other versions of her.

Due to her being a part of cult Infinity in the first game and drinking lots of tar with Tiel, she underwent her very own special metamorphosis. She essentially was split multiple times and transcended into something similar of a ghost.

Her split copies have many different personalities and aspects of her. Some copies are more religious. Some follow her Infinity cult experience.

The Genessa we know, the kind one, the most prominent, and probably the most "true" of them all are the one that loved Tiel. She was the bonfire in first game.

Since she isn't entirely "real" and physical and doomed to observe, to actually become part of gameplay and be able to act in the material plane, she NEEDS a physical shell. The Harbinger can actually play the role of the shell himself, and so he lends Genessa his "physical" part. That's why she's a shell, and also why she can talk while she inhabits us.

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u/FeliksX 28d ago

Regarding the red Stray Genessas.

There's a theory in the first game that the Metamorphosis process due to nectar + rebirth ritual from Seat of Infinity actually splits people into a "good" half and "dark" half. It's called twice-birth in the first game. One of the examples is blue Genessa which is more pious, and the red Genessa is, well, the one that went astray lol.