With Rosalind's help, Comstock was able to see that his, in his words, 'sinful self' that went on living elsewhere after his soul had been cleansed, had in fact fathered a daughter. Comstock asked the obvious question: would a version of him that chose not to build Columbia suffer the same fate? ![]() So while Comstock's vision promised that the prophet's seed would lead his people to cleanse the world of man's corruption - a possible future even glimpsed in the course of the game - his involvement in the experiments had left him sterile, unable to father a child. Unfortunately, the reborn Comstock built his floating city on the back of Rosalind Lutece's quantum experimentation. We as players are not privy to seeing firsthand the 'archangel' that told Comstock what he would create - was it truly a vision from God, or one of the future granted through Rosalind's machine? - but his efforts in founding the city of Columbia are documented in-game. In those realities, DeWitt's baptism brought with it a new perspective, a new mission, and a new name: Zachary Hale Comstock. Instead choosing to live with the wounds of his military service (both physical and mental), DeWitt left the baptism ceremony and continued on working as a private investigator and fathered a daughter, Anna, with an unspecified woman.īut as Everett's many-worlds interpretation claims, for every reality which brought DeWitt to that stream and the rejection of the sacrament, one was also created where he chose to receive it. In short: Booker DeWitt's baptism following his role in the Wounded Knee Massacre (1890) is established - through Elizabeth's knowledge of all possible realities - as the decision which set the events of the game in motion.įrom the perspective of the Booker DeWitt who acts as the game's hero, he attended the baptism, but refused to complete the sacrament. Religious themes and examples of extremism are on full display throughout Infinite's campaign - even if they were, according to Levine, "tweaked" before release - but the pivotal scene(s) of the Christian baptism is actually significant beyond spiritual concerns. The message can only be understood by Elizabeth herself, and from that point on, the actions of Elizabeth and Booker seem to depart from other realities. ![]() In a last effort to save the cycle from repeating as it has, is, and always will, the future Elizabeth creates a tear back through time, and instructs Booker to deliver a message. His task is performed so admirably, in fact, that it is an aged Elizabeth who informs Booker that if left to fate's devices, the Songbird "always stops him." It is this older version of Elizabeth who has seen firsthand Booker's inability to save her, and has lived out her life in accordance with Comstock's prophecy - she sets New York City ablaze. Only when Comstock constructed the Siphon to contain her, and the Songbird to protect her and prevent her leaving were her powers limited.Īnd even though the Songbird is relegated to a supporting role against hordes of Vox Populi and Columbia Police, he does his job without fail. As she explains to Booker, the gift was limitless in her youth, allowing her to travel to nearly anywhere and any time. Since Elizabeth is later shown to have left one of her fingers behind in another parallel reality, it's presumed that this grants her agency over the tears others can only observe. Elizabeth Comstock: Past, Present & Future Next: The Singular Elizabeth - or Anna - Whichever You Prefer. Left to navigate parallel realities at their leisure, the pair found Booker DeWitt, the only man who could stop Comstock, and brought him into Rosalind's previous reality where the game begins. ![]() The pair are removed from time and space as a result of 'perishing' in their labs: the work of Comstock's sabotage upon discovering that they would eventually disagree with his goals. Again, confirming that he has joined Rosalind's reality from another, be it the one in which he acquires Booker's child for Comstock, or any other. Robert is not Rosalind's brother, but an alternate version of her from a parallel reality when Booker attempts to construct new memories to justify his presence in Columbia, Robert says he has gone through it himself. Although it is Rosalind who is quoted as saying that "he mind of the subject will desperately struggle to create memories where none exist" in Infinite's opening scene, it is Robert who proves it.
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