Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale/WMG: Difference between revisions

** Capitalism, ho!

Uh, all I got is the name.

* However, perhaps we're not going back far enough. Remember, the Tremere are a band of vampires that formed from a group of [[Hermetic Magic]] mages that disappeared. Much of the theme of ''Recettear'' is how people and species have to change and adapt. As Caillou points out, secular organizations like the Merchant's Guild are a blind spot to the Church; who disapprove of magic. Now note how high-level Merchants are able to engage in [[Item Crafting|Fusing]], which strongly resembles [[Alchemy]]...

Arma's equipment and {{spoiler|the Archdevil}} indicates that there was a huge war; probably involving robotic Archdevils and [[Precursors]]. This would have killed off all life on the planet; however, a process to maintain things was developed and the golems were created to facilitate it. There was one small problem. The magic involved had an [[Equivalent Exchange]] that also produced [[The Heartless|lifeforms based on dark emotions, called monsters.]] The golems used the same process that created them, so were unable to destroy them. But the golems found that if monsters acquire Life Crystals and treasure; adventurer parties form to kill them to get those things. Creating sufficient life crystals and treasure creates more monsters; but adventurers more than meet the demand.

** That would certainly explain why Recette is so worried about having hurt {{spoiler|Charme, Tielle and Griff}} after your bossfights with each of them, and yet fails to extend that same courtesy to the endless knights you fight through on the normal dungeon floors, as you would think otherwise that they would be just as worthy of Recette's concern and respect (given that they should, unless the above troper's theory is correct, be ordinary humans). This could also be why our heroes talk to {{spoiler|Nagi}} when they find her wandering around in the dungeons instead of just hacking at her like they do with the knights, as they hear her talking to herself and thus know that she isn't a mindless monster created by (or at least in) the dungeon (this may be something that the Adventurer's Guild teaches all recruits: "If it talks, it isn't a monster.").

**** The Golems reshuffle the dungeons intentionally, in order to prevent [[The Heartless]] from accumulating to the point Adventurers wouldn't be able to defeat them. They don't do this to a level if an Adventurer is in it. If the Adventurer takes too long on one level, [[The Heartless]] Byproduct starts to accumulate.

*** Also note that Nagi is lost in one of the weaker dungeons with pitiful equipment...It's likely the golems are taking pity on her, knowing she'd get mulched in a harder dungeon with her crappy equipment. She is very much a glass cannon when you first get her. They are KEEPING her lost in the forest dungeon so she doesn't hurt herself too much, knowing how poor, underequipped, and [[Cloudcuckoolander|generally goofy]] she is.

== Recette is aware of the [[Groundhog Day Loop]], and is in fact the only one aware of it. ==

If we assume the 'nice dream' Recette mentions at the start of each loop is actually referring to the previous iteration of the loop (since it follows immediately after each reset), then the existence of the same dialog in the initial day 2 suggests that the player is being dropped into the middle of the loop, rather than at the start. If she can remember previous loops, that would also explain why she's so nice to Charme; since she's already been through enough loops to know that Charme will ally up with her if she invites her over to the shop and sells her a few things. Similarly, Tear *doesn't* remember any of the loops, since she's hostile to Charme in every loop.

== The people of this world worship candy and other foods. ==