Future War and Dage’s Victory
Choosing a Dage
The standoff aboard the Dreadnaught becomes a war between the Legion of the present and the Legion of the future. The Shogun insists that an earlier, weaker Dage cannot defeat his master. He recognizes the Hero as one of Dage's greatest allies and offers a place on the side he expects to win. Present-day Dage and Laken prepare to resist him. The war hub makes that choice explicit: fight for the Dage of the future or the Dage of the present.
The recorded scene gives the Hero two responses. One abandons Dage and Laken, reasoning that a Dage with only half a soul cannot beat the future conqueror who defeated Nulgath. Laken calls the Hero a traitor, but Dage says to let them go. The other response refuses to let the destruction continue. The Shogun answers that the Future Legion will slaughter both the Hero and Dage. These alternatives establish the offered loyalties; they do not show this account choosing both sides or identify which choice the player made.
Each side seeks power through the souls of the other's soldiers. Dage asks for ordinary and unusually strong souls taken from Future Legion troops, saying that they strengthen him while weakening his enemy. The Shogun's two corresponding assignments collect souls from the present Legion for Future Dage instead. The archived opposing battlefield contains Legion fighters and infantry, while Dage's battlefield contains Future Legion special forces. The objectives support rival war efforts, rather than two consecutive stages in which the Hero serves both masters.
The Future in the Engine Room
On Dage's side, Laken advises thinning the special-forces ranks while Dage absorbs souls and grows stronger. The map preserves the war's collective progression: the later battle areas opened at 75 and 100 percent. Dage's assignments then turn from gathering souls to confronting the Shogun and Future Dage. These war-meter gates are distinct from an individual adventurer's quest completion; the official March 10, 2017 announcement also describes rewards unlocked when the meter reaches 100 percent.
The Shogun encounter forces a retreat. Its brief scene account shows him mounted as his horse rears, while the quest's completion text explicitly describes the withdrawal. It does not establish his death or reveal his identity. With him driven back, the challenge moves to Future Dage in the Dreadnaught's engine room.
Future Dage meets his younger self with contempt. He claims centuries of experience and support from the Dreadnaught's core, comparing present-day Dage to a larva pretending it will never become a wasp. Dage refuses that destiny. His future self answers that he is right, because his future will end here. Present-day Dage releases a burst of energy, and the confrontation proceeds toward the victory recorded in the next scene.
Lore for the Living
The finale, listed as replayable from both sides' locations, opens with present-day Dage victorious over his future self. He condemns the conqueror for becoming no better than Nulgath. Future Dage calls him a hypocrite: why destroy Nulgath if not to take his place? Dage answers that freedom from the tyrant who enslaved him and stole his soul is purpose enough. He then strikes, acknowledging the irony of what he is about to do. Future Dage cannot be killed, he says, but his soul can be bound to his own sword. Dage performs that binding and places the sword in Laken's keeping.
Laken promises to keep the sword from the wrong hands. With Future Dage no longer controlling the Legion's souls, he says its members can choose for themselves. He offers to lead them if they accept him and promises they will not continue their former ruler's terror. The scene ends this threat through confinement and a change in the Legion's freedom to act. It does not make Future Dage permanently dead or settle the Shogun's fate.
Back at the SoulForge, the Hero marvels that they defeated an enemy who had both halves of his soul and had already overcome Nulgath. Perhaps present-day Dage is strong enough to defeat Nulgath now. Dage admits considering it, but hesitates: his future self won that battle and became consumed by power. He no longer accepts strength as his only purpose. There must be balance between the living and the dead. The Underworld is his domain, but Lore must belong to the living. His victory has changed what he intends to do with power, rather than proving that every possible future has been fixed.