LogFAQs > #976319137

That was, without a doubt, the darkest ending in the entire franchise. It's like the game remembered what happened in the first few hours of the game at the very end and just hit you with a sledgehammer to the heart. Three of my favorite characters died (or, maybe two? We'll have to see, but I'm pretty sure that Clive's dead), the land will be cosigned to a slow death with the spread of the Blight, and even if the Hideaway succeeds in making blighted land farmable, many will still die from starvation getting to that point. Oh, and the Akahasic are atill wandering around, no?

Ultima was correct in the end where he essentially laughed at Clive for winning. "Yeah, you won. But what's your prize?" essentially telling him to enjoy the slow death of his species.

I know that there are two DLC planned that I hope expand the story. There's some headcanon in the subreddit that Medicine Girl is going to formulate Soft to cure branded from the curse (and maybe save Clive), and that she'll end up being the dominant of Leviathan, but that's just wishful thinking on the community's part, I think. I still see only a glimmer of hope at the end, while everything else is pretty damned bleak.

A part of me is hoping for a XVI-2 as well, but I want to see how the DLC go first.