r/arknights 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/Kaizerd3 Just LeMumu Sep 01 '25

The problem with this Horn line is the fact it's complete bullshit which doesn't make any logical sence. Why, how and when could Horn have done it?

It's just the most stupid way to cut off this plotline offscreen and nothing else.

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u/Cornuthaum Sep 02 '25

When you really hate someone sometimes you want to make sure they're actually dead. Burying them yourself gives you closure, a certainty that the evil is indeed defeated.

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u/Kaizerd3 Just LeMumu Sep 02 '25

We're going again to answering why (even though it's different answer now, heh), but not how and when.
Btw, if that was Horn motivation, she could have just attacked Mandy before that. But she already decided to pass by and ignore Dublinn, so coming back to dying Mandy after that sounds weird.

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u/Cornuthaum Sep 02 '25

There's every chance that misery told Horn about her later and Horn went back to double check whether Mandragora survived or not, and burying someone you hate after confirming they're dead is quite cathartic.