Amnesia: A Machine For Pigs Discussion Topic Part 2

[Pablodius]

Cheers all! Glad you liked my ideas, although I bet you anything when the game actually comes out it will be completely different. There are a couple of things that don't really fit with my theory at all, and I can't figure them out. If you have any thoughts it would be interesting to hear them.

The first is Mexico. The guys developing A:AMFP could have chosen anywhere in the world for Mandus' expedition, but they chose Mexico - why? Historically it has been the site of a lot of bloodshed, both before, during and after the Spanish conquest. Think about the countless human sacrifices to ancient Aztec gods - perhaps a link to the human sacrifices that Mandus is making for his family? Perhaps there is some kind of ancient evil in Mexico that is driving Mandus to do these things.

The second is the Mors Preamatura song that has been released, and which I know some of you have done some awesome work translating. As with my point above, the guys behind Amnesia don't do anything by accident, so from that we can infer that this song means something, and isn't just a series of haunting, rad-sounding latin phrases (although they are haunting, and definitely rad-sounding).

Does anyone know exactly what Mors Praematura actually means? Mors is death, but I can't find anything on Praematura. The stem 'Prae' seems to mean ultimate, main, foremost, top - think of the Praetorian Guard in ancient rome, or even the modern term 'Prime' Minister. Matura is more confusing - although it seems to mean something along the line of Maternal, or Mother. What this leaves us with I have no idea - some kind of ultimate death? I'm stuck on this one. Any linguists out there might be able to get further on this one...