Truly, the "Infinity Wars" of JRPG's. Awesome in all respects but also totally confusing. If anyone here considers themselves a Trails expert and wants to address some of my questions, please do.
If the answer is "it's meant to be confusing now, wait for CS4" then let me know.
Seriously don't look at these if you haven't finished the game
Basically I had a hard time following from the time the dark dragon appeared to the end, 1) Were Ouroborous and the Gnomes working together the whole time? 2) CS1 and 2 seem to be about Vita trying to avoid the Phantasmal Blaze Plan. Why was the rest of Ouroborous helping her then but not now? 3) For that matter, why are people so eager to commit the Phantasmal Blaze Plan/the Great Twilight and end the world in the first place? I understand that Osborne's motive is yet to be revealed, but why is everyone else going along with it? This only makes sense to me if Osborne is the Grandmaster, but I feel like he isn't. 4) So Musse is actually working behind the scenes and somehow has Aurelia and Vita working for her? I didn't get this at all. 5) Do the gnomes have some way of bringing people back to life, or do certain people (Awakeners) come back to life when they die? If it's the latter, why is Franz/Black still alive if he's not an Awakener? 6) I guess that Awakeners are somehow "mentally immortal" or something and when their current life dies they are replaced by their original personality or something? 7) The Great One just randomly infects people to do evil things?