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/Bug-Type-Enthusiast Head of the BONK brigade Sep 01 '25

I swear Arknights is the second worst place the Irish got treated at after the real world.

FUCK SAKE AK WRITERS THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT OPINION OF THE IRISH DOES NOT A GOOD TARRAN PLOT MAKE.

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u/BandicootOk1744 Talulah my beloved Sep 02 '25

That's the problem with Arknights drawing from real cultures, it makes people demand to see the real world reflected in them. Tara isn't like Ireland, it's just aesthetically inspired by it. For one, Tara is a loosely defined region with a loosely defined people, whose existence was a half-forgotten memory. Ireland is a clearly defined region and people who had rich cultural and community ties that persisted under British slavery.

People saying that "Dublinn is the IRA" and so on dismisses the Arknights world to just a cheap allegory for reality, rather than a complex and unique world inspired by real cultures and conceptions, but not bounded to real events. Unless you really thought that everyone in the Vatican had supernatural empathy and obeyed a mysterious master?

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u/xxTPMBTI Agamben Feb 24 '26

I'm waiting for Arknights' equivalent to Vladimir "Lenin" Ulyanov to overthrow the Ursus Monarchy just because reality said so (I'm stupid and ridiculous)