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War on the White: Truth Ending Spoilers
Ulysses
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12/3/2019
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On the Piranesi Truth ending, when you choose to go separate ways with your friend, you receive this passage:
Perhaps one will become a notary, and the other a soldier in the War on the White.
What or who is the White it's talking about? I believe, this is the White from Traveler's Returning? The White from SMEN? The White-Judgement-mastermind, the White-Great-Game's-chessplayer? Is there any other place in game where the White is mentioned? Or, perhaps, it's about something completely different, and if so, what it is? I cannot recall any other reference in SSkies to something called the White.
At the same time, one of the Exaltation Endings from Sunless Sea has this line:
One came below, long ago, seeking what the Sun had hid. One will rise, one day, to face the White in its hall of poisoned crystal.
Both this and all endgame SMEN revelations heavily implied that the player character and Salt (at some point the same entity) are going back to High Wilderness to defeat the White. Since with Alexis leaving FBG these concepts were mainly abandoned, I thought we'll never encounter the White and Salt again. But that passage seems just too in line with all other information about the White we know.
Could it be something in the future? Did I miss something in SSkies? Do we even have any comprehensive lore on White?
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Azothi
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12/3/2019
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The White is a figure surrounded by a great deal of speculation, and it's generally accepted that the White in the Truth ending is the same Judgement we've known. In one of the other paths in "The Truth", when you're in your Gallery of Aeons, you receive news about wintery ambassadors from a distant white star, which is another reference to the White.
On the point of Salt, the Traveller is always returning.
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Azoth I, the Emissary of Cardinals - A Paramount Presence (not currently accepting new Proteges)
Away to where the Chain cannot bind us.
 Hesperidean.
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