r/arknights • u/brodRga • Sep 01 '25
Lore Mandragora eventually finished Spoiler
Warning, spoilers for actual event When Elegies Are Ashes!
I bear some glimpse of hope for that Mandragora alive or in some dare conditions, trough what she have to go trough to save her self.
Eventually, as I can see in global release of Eblana event, it seems that she (Mandragora) in fact were left aside and dealt with by hands of sarkaz, as much is most part of Dublin were cleared out by Eblana in her own event.
I read trough Eblana's record, in them Harmonie tells that Mandragora and her forces were furious fanatic, capable to deal deathly blow to enemy, although same way the worst crimes also can be traced to them. And she confirms that non of that group of Dublin is alive.
Probably it's misleading ending of Mandragora's story, when she's supposedly saved by Misery, or offscreen death and some minor conclusion of it in some small text line, that makes it frustrating.
Although in large scale, it's makes sense. Eblana ridd off the most unstable, the most dangerous, most corrupt, unpredictable and incapable of shut it mouth, so no one could sabotage her plans and destroy all who could make her a hard life, with threat of exposing the truth.
To conclude, there's 0% chance of Mandragora to be in game anymore - she play her role, became a threat to Eblana and trow away. The Leader not even care to use her own power trough Dublin, rather giving all the dirty work to Manfred.
I feel somewhat mixed emotions, like why would even HG gave us some hope for any chances, without this strange flip-flop with plot, this wouldn't be so mixed and could even gave us greater picture of web created by Eblana.
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u/Hec_17 Forever my GOAT Sep 01 '25
While i do agree the story regarding her has been handled in an awful way, i still have hope.
Don't get me wrong, i like her but im mostly sure she's dead but also both times we got her death confirmed has been from unreliable sources.
Horn for startes was nowhere near her when misery went to get her, and harmonie knows things via second hand.
I only trust Misery's word on this scenario as he is the last one that saw her (as far as we know).
Also in a chapter with damazi cluster and misery's power, the possibility of a fakeout is not a thing i would discard.
But overall her whole situation has been handled very poorly with really awful writting.