I said this as like a joke a ha ha funny goof like two weeks ago in the tags of a post on my side-blog and as the Autistic brain do when presented with a ha ha funny goof in a fandom I started thinking on it too much and now here I am with absolutely zero actual evidence for this but like
I think Magnificus is Leshy from the Beta version of Inscryption; Sacrifices Must Be Made.
They’re both trees which really isn’t that weird but in a game with like 4 central main characters it’s weird two of them are straight up plants
Leshy is a Leshy like that makes sense as a being that lives in the woods is the Scrybe of beasts like it makes sense we been knew
But why is a wizard a tree?? As Drawfee says wizards can be anything but Magnificus really has no wizard energy to him. I would not guess that his roll if I’d just seen him on his own
He doesn't even have the wizard hat like his pupils or his cards bro at least try to look the part
According to game files the green shit covering Magnificus is his beard which is both hysterical to learn and also maybe helps my case because Leshy also has a beard of green brush but whatever it’s not the biggest deal just hold on
His entire thing is his eye that tells him the future a future he cannot change
The future of his game and the world outside it and possibly even the world past Luke Carder to you, you the player
Which is interesting and very vaguely hinted at but like
During the ARG you the player, not Luke Carter, discover one of the secret codes by going back to Sacrifices must be made and adding a file into the game
What this file actually is is blank of course but it does something Leshy at the end of the beta
It gives him awareness
Awareness he did not have before. Awarness he is in a game, an unfinished game, a game that is literally about to end you are at the end of the Beta, his world is about to end but more importantly
“What have you done to me?”
“This new knowledge flooding into my head...”
“I cannot... I cannot unlearn....”
“WHTL!ESAHEAD”
“what lies ahead” implies more than just the beta’s end
This was obviously added after the full Inscryption came out, implying you just have him information that not only is his game incomplete but there is a full version and this is what will happen there as well
A future he cannot change
Leshy’s entire presence is just his eyes in Sacrifices Must Be Made we never see what he looks like
It’s not really like. Unheard of for Daniel Mullens characters to jump games. Like not at all.
So the idea that Leshy in Beta would make the jump to the completed game to save himself from the ending of an incomplete game isn’t super unheard of
Not that it matters as even the completed game will be deleted
And he knows that. He cannot unsee what lies ahead
Side tangent but Magnificus’ system feels super incomplete and in need of a rework
I know in game/out game world building Inscryption was a real card game first and the video game is based on that so it’s not really his fault magic decks suck
And his final battle’s incomplete feeling can be blamed on the game being more than half deleted at that point but at the same time
His little. Mind place. Where he unsubtly tells you to use the knife or get the damn film roll from the clock if you’re like me and choose to ignore it is super barren already. Like it just looks like that
A tile floor, collapsed columns, and a single easel. Not much else really to it.
Supposedly the version Luke is playing is incomplete in terms of like. The actual original game is concerned so like. Actually maybe???
And I mean Magnificus’ Uber-Bot stand in is the Unfinished boss, implying he isn’t a fully finished part of the game?? Right??
Okay so like obviously the game had to have a Scrybe of Magicks when it was being coded because Magic cards existed in the real card game so it’s not like he could just put himself in there
But also the entire ACTUAL game’s story is about over throwing one of the Scrybes and taking their place so like. Maybe.
Maybe not quiet like that maybe he just like. Put his own files in place of theirs. Like King Candy from Wreck it Ralph.
Because he speaks like he knows how many dialogue boxes he has before his boss battle has to start as if he doesn’t really have a choice in how much he can say before you MUST progress
He even gets kind of deleted mid-sentence while trying to warn you AFTER his fight which idk imagine a more eccentric wizard doing one of those poof gone kind of animations after giving you a cryptic clue
The only bit of actually in character, as in as the Scrybe of Magicks a boss in the video game Inscryption, dialogue Magnificus gives us is during his boss battle in which he explains how his battle mechanic actually works and talks about how your cards need more color
But in his end end fight the painting he makes for Luke to try and make him feel guilt for letting the world get deleted is black and white
And he whited out Goobert’s painting??? Like at least when he bleached are cards it was to add more color to them this he just whited out which feels like these are two different character motives
It’s a lot of maybe’s and taking leaps but this is a game with Hitler’s Satan card game as it’s central plot point so I feel like I’m allowed a little leeway here.
The irony of Leshy tearing out Magnificus’ eye with his knife and keeping it so the player can progress onward and eventually return to Beta to give Leshy that same eye all over again is not lost on me
A loop is a loop and I’m kind of obsessed with it
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