I have to say though that I really would've loved to have explored the alien world for a couple of minutes before the game ended. The game ends with you losing your humanity, and gaining a body whose senses can comprehend and experience the incredible sight before it. His consciousness abandons his mortal human body and is placed into one that can survive in the strange, alien world he had entered. The main character, Frank, enters the Conarium and travels to another world, perhaps even another dimension. Now for the second ending, and the one I consider to be the true ending. Faust had discovered the location of other Conariums, and ultimately the locations of other worlds throughout the Universe. Faust who first found the temple beneath the desert, and your experience through it was simply you sharing memories together as explained before. Faust, linking consciousness' together due to their experiments with the Conarium and attempting to transcending the human experience. The first ending shows the two Carnionauts, Frank and Dr. Just finished the game, so I'll provide my take on the ending. We humans are not "meant" to understand or experience these things, and if we try to, we are just facilitating our own doom. But that's probably in line with Lovecraft's work. Either you're slowly dying in an alien dimension, or you're losing your humanity. ![]() I don't really have enough knowledge about the Cthulhu myth to speculate what that creature would be and how your future life would look like, so I'll leave that to the experts. "Shed your deteriorating skin", as Faust puts it, and transform into a different creature, which can apparently survive in the dimension where humans can't. From the final scene, it is not clear whether you just keep shifting around through time and space, or whether you jumped backwards in time and will live through the following events again - both options seem possible.ΔΆ. The plant mixture will ease the pain of your inevitable physical deterioration, but you will die eventually. You have transcended human limitations, but as a result, your body and mind are now deteriorating. ![]() Basically, you have dabbled with things that the human mind and body are not designed to deal with. Faust explains the two endings in his final monologue. In theory, getting 100% completion could unlock another ending, but I doubt it. It would surprise me if there were more - I can't see anything else to do on the final map, and information does not seem to be transferred between the maps (inventories get reset, etc.), so I wouldn't even know where to look for a third ending. If anyone has any inputs, please speculate away! Did you shift your consciousness to the far past in a Lizard's body? Does that thing turn humans into lizards? (the statues hint that there were different kinds of lizards) Do you become a pawn to the Elder Ones? Again, I'm not entirely sure what happened here. But you do seem to turn into a lizard of some sort, prolly the same lizard people you've been meeting along the way. The other ending you ignore the hallucionogenic, move forward into the ruins until you reach this weird structure which teleport you somewhere else. ![]() But what happens exactly? My understanding is that the main character keeps shifting his consciousness through time. The ending's name is also "conarionaut", which hints at what it probably mean. In one you take the mixture of that hallucinogenic plant beside Dr Faust's corpse, collapse then find yourself in his house where he utters that he has found the answers he was looking for beneath a desert - presumably the catacombs with the constellation puzzle which collapses you were in just a few scenes ago. Okay, so I've found two endings (out of possibly just two, I guess, would love if someone could confirm if there are more).
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