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OKAY SO THIS IS KIND OF THE LAST THING I EXPECTED TO META ABOUT but here we are?
Okay so the Meta here isn't about Golden Sun exactly, but falls more into the purview of Dark Dawn, the duology's sequel. There's a 30 year gap between the games, and while we have some details about what went on in the meantime, a bulk of said details remain fairly scarce. People just flat up don't share information, and we get the sense that "Alchemy is a hell of a drug," but most of what went on was fairly mundane.
The exception that is mentioned several times in the early game is something called a "Psynergy Vortex," a phenomenon which appeared sometime after the rising of the Golden Sun. The vortexes (is that actually the word?) would suck the elemental power out of the nearby area, as well as drain Adepts of their magic. There was a large one in particular called the Mourning Moon, named so because of it's phenomenal size and the abject misery it produced, and it was theorized that vortexes of such size would appear every ten years or so.
WELL. Cut to the embarking of everyone's children on an errand of questionable validity and, most importantly alone. At this time in the world, Isaac and his epic beard lives on the Goma mountain range with Garet and their sons, Matthew and Tyrell(yes they got married.) Now into their fourties, Isaac and Garet are both immensely powerful individuals (Isaac especially, if one remembers that The Wise One gave Isaac ~1/4 of the power of the Golden Sun WITHOUT ANYONE KNOWING [it is the best brick joke ever]), and still in excellent fighting form since everyone involved in the Golden Sun incident ages absurdly slowly for some reason.
Isaac is also probably the single most knowledgeable person about Alchemy next to Kraden, and spends his time studying what's left of Mt. Aleph. The cottage they live in is not too far from a small outpost-ey type town, and Isaac is well known and more or less well liked by the people in the area.
The aforementioned errand he sends the kids on is to collect a Roc's feather to repair a contraption that Tyrell had earlier broken. Fitting punishment yes?
The Roc's roost halfway across the world.
Isaac you are a dick.
"But is he?" you wonder. "Maybe he just has that much faith in the kids?"
BULLSHIT, say I. HE KNOWS WHERE THE GODDAMNED ROCS ARE. IF THE ERRAND WERE HALFWAY AS URGENT AS HE MAKES IT SEEM, HE WOULD HAVE EITHER SENT GARET TO GO WITH THEM, OR GONE HIMSELF. WHOEVER STAYED BEHIND CLEARLY HAD THE SUPPORT AND RESOURCES TO SURVIVE ALONE FOR AWHILE. BUT MAYBE IF I GOT AROUND TO THE POINT, ALL WOULD BE MADE CLEAR HUH?
Okay so the Meta here isn't about Golden Sun exactly, but falls more into the purview of Dark Dawn, the duology's sequel. There's a 30 year gap between the games, and while we have some details about what went on in the meantime, a bulk of said details remain fairly scarce. People just flat up don't share information, and we get the sense that "Alchemy is a hell of a drug," but most of what went on was fairly mundane.
The exception that is mentioned several times in the early game is something called a "Psynergy Vortex," a phenomenon which appeared sometime after the rising of the Golden Sun. The vortexes (is that actually the word?) would suck the elemental power out of the nearby area, as well as drain Adepts of their magic. There was a large one in particular called the Mourning Moon, named so because of it's phenomenal size and the abject misery it produced, and it was theorized that vortexes of such size would appear every ten years or so.
WELL. Cut to the embarking of everyone's children on an errand of questionable validity and, most importantly alone. At this time in the world, Isaac and his epic beard lives on the Goma mountain range with Garet and their sons, Matthew and Tyrell
Isaac is also probably the single most knowledgeable person about Alchemy next to Kraden, and spends his time studying what's left of Mt. Aleph. The cottage they live in is not too far from a small outpost-ey type town, and Isaac is well known and more or less well liked by the people in the area.
The aforementioned errand he sends the kids on is to collect a Roc's feather to repair a contraption that Tyrell had earlier broken. Fitting punishment yes?
The Roc's roost halfway across the world.
Isaac you are a dick.
"But is he?" you wonder. "Maybe he just has that much faith in the kids?"
BULLSHIT, say I. HE KNOWS WHERE THE GODDAMNED ROCS ARE. IF THE ERRAND WERE HALFWAY AS URGENT AS HE MAKES IT SEEM, HE WOULD HAVE EITHER SENT GARET TO GO WITH THEM, OR GONE HIMSELF. WHOEVER STAYED BEHIND CLEARLY HAD THE SUPPORT AND RESOURCES TO SURVIVE ALONE FOR AWHILE. BUT MAYBE IF I GOT AROUND TO THE POINT, ALL WOULD BE MADE CLEAR HUH?
Well Okay. A ways into the journey, The kids will eventually hear that Isaac just up and fucking vanished one day and hasn't been seen since.
When they return to the Cottage?
GIANT. PSYNERGY. VORTEX.
And no sign of Isaac or Garet.
So was Isaac actually being a colossal shithead sending his kids off on an extremely dangerous errand alone and unattended? Or, knowing the signs of a Vortex outbreak, was he trying to save their lives?
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