Yeah, I figured the Renne thing was probably a mistranslation because it just clashed so hard with what was established in SC and 3rd but since the TL went so far as to not just get the number of years wrong but specifically mention the Liberl incident I was wondering "could it really be *that* wrong." Guess it could! Which... shouldn't be that surprising considering some of the more comical errors that are everywhere else!
As for the other matter Yeah, it's less that it was foreshadowing (if anyone would know of these things in advance it'd be Wazy) but just how early it was. Almost all the other Gnosis cases were the result of Revache getting desperate after the Schwarz Auction and opening the floodgates... so Intermission/Chapter 4 at the earliest. Lloyd accuses, and the reaction all but confirms, that they were using people as test subjects and given their meddling in Downtown a Viper would make sense that there was some experiments carried out earlier but it just felt like a significant outlier even still. As for the NPC dialogue... there's some but overall I'd still consider it quite incomplete and limited so it's tough to say. Certainly in the days leading up to the reveal you can see signs if you're paying attention, but again, we're talking Chapter 4 here. ---
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