Pandora's Tower is incredibly atmospheric. As the game progresses, it's not just the colour palette, score, and graphical style that pull together for this atmosphere, though, it's also the cutscenes.
Gradually, the clips of Elena taking her first bite of the flesh that Aeron brings become more and more sensual. As you watch them you can see Elena gradually not only getting used to the flesh (as she's recently suggested), but really coming to savour it.
At the end of my most recent session, she even comes to Aeron as he enters and asks if he has the flesh. Prior to that (right after bringing the master flesh from the Arcadian Tower, in fact) you're treated to a scene where Aeron manages to keep Elena from walking off of the Observatory's roof while in a flesh-induced daze.
There are still another seven towers left, though. So what will this obsession with the flesh become as Elena's given more and more of it? Is this a side-effect of the cure, or a further extension of the curse?
Taking the texts that I've been finding recently in-game, it's tempting to think that the curse is the result of the failed military experiment that caused the Scar. I'm also inclined to theorize that Mavda is attempting to use Elena to recreate that experiment in some way. Or, perhaps, to reverse it so that the scar closes and a Vestran homeland can be created.
The game's atmosphere of psychological horror and isolation suggest that either of those dark motives could be at work.
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