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Undertale library books1/9/2024 ![]() A note in the shop reads "Please don't hurt my family," while the innkeeper's child is replaced with a decoy. When the protagonist kills everybody in Snowdin Forest, the town of Snowdin and its buildings become completely deserted except for Monster Kid, who believes that Undyne will protect them. After Papyrus is defeated, the protagonist can leave Snowdin for Waterfall, the next main area in the game. If the protagonist is defeated, Papyrus places them in his shed. Departure from the town takes the protagonist to Waterfall by foot or, by hitching a ride with the River Person, to either Waterfall or Hotland.ĭespite being Underground, Snowdin is covered in a perpetual layer of ice and snow and, because of how cold it is, it mainly homes monsters with thick fur or monsters that do not get cold.Īfter completing the puzzles made by Papyrus and Sans in Snowdin Forest, the protagonist passes through Snowdin Town and confronts Papyrus in battle. The town is home to numerous members of the Royal Guard, presumably because the town neighbors the entrance to the Underground, where humans can fall in. Snowdin is a town the protagonistencounters after they leave the Ruins and travel through Snowdin Forest. And since those commands involve the red soul shining its power on Susie and Ralsei to enhance their spells, maybe this is the “will” Ralsei mentioned during the tutorial."For the track with a similar name, see Snowdin Town." But the narrator also uses the word when you get the three special ACT commands. King mentions “the Knight’s will”, which could just be the way he talks and not a reference to “will” as a special magic thing. And the concept of “will” does come back later in the game, during the King fight! It’s not that the concept doesn’t exist here, it just has a different name (or two names). This could also explain why the word “determination” is never used in Deltarune even though Kris has a human soul and a save file. So what if the physical substance that Alphys calls “determination” actually has two components: “will” and “fate”? The amalgamates (and maybe Undyne the Undying?) could have the power of “will” to keep themselves alive, but not the power of “fate” that Frisk and Flowey use when they use save files. Both of these ideas are called “determination” depending on the context. The thing about determination in Undertale is that it’s a really complex concept that has a lot of different meanings depending on context (really it deserves its own post), but you can distill it into two big ideas: the “will to keep living” (aka the desire to complete the game, the power to come back after dying) and the “resolve to change fate” (aka the desire to get a specific ending, the power to reload/reset at will). But he does mention “WILL” and “FATE”, which sound a lot like Alphys’s description of determination. In fact, the word “determination” isn’t anywhere in Deltarune. The other interesting thing is that Ralsei doesn’t mention determination. If we assume the red soul is human, maybe this means that human SOULs are made of “will, fate and compassion”. Monster SOULs are made of “love, hope and compassion”, but monsters don’t know if human SOULs are the same. The interesting thing about what Ralsei says here is it reminds me of one of the library books in Snowdin: Ok I do want to elaborate on this actually.
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