New Bioshock: Infinite - Page 32

In some worlds, Booker is baptised into Comstock. He becomes wealthy and comes into contact with Rosalind Lutece, whose work with quantum mechanics puts Columbia in the sky. Her works also involve crossing over timelines and alternate worlds, allowing him to become 'the prophet' and giving him the prophecy stating that Columbia will last as long as his bloodline stays on the throne. However, Comstock becomes infertile due to the exposure to this machinery, so he asks Rosalind Lutele to stepover into an alternate universe where Booker was never baptised into Comstock to ask for Booker's daughter in return for clearing Booker's gambling debts. In this universe she also comes across her twin 'with one chromosome difference', the male Lutece, who acts as the messenger between Comstock and Booker. Booker accepts the deal. During the handover into Comstock's world, Booker changes his mind and grabs at Anna, resulting in the missing fingertip, but she passes into Comstock's world anyway, along with Comstock and the male Lutece. She is then locked into the tower where Comstock keeps a watchful eye on her. All her special talents regarding crossing over worlds is theorised by the Lutele siblings to be due to part of her body (her fingertip) being stuck in her original world.

To destroy any evidence that Elizabeth is not Comstock's true daughter, he has his wife and the Lutele siblings killed. The Lutele siblings do not completely die, but are instead scattered across time and space due to their exposure during their work.

Years later, the Lutele siblings feel regret and offer Booker the chance to cross worlds to meet Anna/Elizabeth again. When crossing over into Comstock's world, his mind gets addled in the process. He forgets about his past (the daughter) and mixes his new objective with his earlier bargain of getting the girl to clear his debts.

At the end of the game, the tower is destroyed and all the restrictions on Elizabeth's power are lifted. She is finally able to peer into ALL the alternate worlds, crossing them at will. She then realises that Booker = Comstock, and although Comstock is dead in this world, the events are still proceeding as normal in many other alternate universes. She tells Booker that Comstock is still alive, asking if Booker is completely committed to ending the chain by killing Comstock at his 'birth'. Booker still has not realised that Comstock is just himself reborn, and commits to it. He walks into the scene of Wounded Knee, where he had just previously refused baptism (and forgiveness for his past sins). He finally realises the truth, at which point several other Elizabeths appear, showing just how many of them have suffered due to his transition into Comstock. They smother him in the water and he dies without resisting; the chain is broken and the other Elizabeths disappear.

BTW does that mean that the twins were the ones who left the note saying "bring back the girl" pinned to the wall of the lighthouse in the beginning? Did they also trash the lighthouse and kill that guy there?

Apparently yes, because Comstock send a guy to guard the lighthouse to kill booker right off the bat.

Can anyone remind me of the back-story for vigors? How exactly are they supposed to work again? I felt like they were a lot less fleshed-out in the story than plasmids were in Bioshock 1, but maybe I just missed an audio recording or something.


edit - also does the game ever flesh out the motivation for Roselin? Why does she help out Comstock and allow apparently only him to look out into the future?

I would say Vigor is something that Fink comes up with after peering into many many world when the tears occur due to Lutece's experimentation. He might stole it when the tears open to Rupture and see how he could modify it from other tears. It could also be another "constant" in Bioshock's universe but I am not so sure about that.