Yesterday I finally managed to reach the ending 4. I had no trouble finding the plaques, but I wanted to experience the other 2 first. I can't believe it was just a matter of killing Sentius to have the ending 1 lol! And I'm sad that getting Galerious to win the election didn't trigger an ending.

I wonder what happens if I get him elected then just stay there letting the time pass. If Malleolus doesn't give up, when we let time pass we end up with the election happening and him attempting to kill Sentius which triggers The Golden Rule. But when Galerious is elected, would somebody eventually commit some sin, or the game will just stall forever?

Anyway, there are 2 things I still don't understand after experiencing ending 4.

First, I never understood what exactly is the city and what happens on the other endings if we manage to be revived. I see that we died and Charon took us to the city. But is that physical, another dimension or what? Are our bodies recreated? In present time we find the city, so it's physical and it indeed is underground, so I guess our body is somehow revived physically and we're teleported to the hole where the city is built, and almost nobody leaves just because there's no way out using bare hands.

Knowing that the city is physical, for some time I was considering that maybe instead of dying the god would have abducted us and erased our memory. Most ppl don't even consider we're dead, so the assumption of we being dead was a mistake. Or maybe the city was physical but we were ghosts. It's interesting that the greeks indeed believed that the land of Hades was physical and they even had a vulcanic hole where CO2 gas would kill anybody who entered it, which they considered to be Hades land entrance.

Now that I know that Hades is just from an advanced tech alien civilization, IDK what happened. Were we dead and his tech is able to revive dead humans, or were we kidnapped and had memory erased? On endings 2 and 3, are we revived and freed by Charon? What happens after she frees us?

And on ending 1, what happens? Does the time paradox send us even before we die? Or we just remain locked on the city?

And the 2nd question, on ending 4. Is that the classic we're-all-dead ending, or are everybody indeed revived and sent to present with the fortune?

It was very touching and I almost cried by meeting friends again. But I was troubled with this happy ending where, after all the moral debate, Hades just manages to do the right thing for everybody and get bad ppl pusnished while freeing/reviving good ppl. It's nice to have a "perfect happy ending", but it didn't fit well after all we had. If he's able to judge and punish everybody that way, then why didn't he do it to begin with?

Instead of killing everybody for the sin of 1, he could just keep killing anybody when they'd sin and leave innocent ppl in peace, then he'd keep this filtering until somebody survived 1 year. It's very counter-productive to keep killing innocent ppl when just 1 sins, it takes away the opportunity of anybody reaching the 1 year mark of not sinning. In example, most ppl on many civilizations live over a decade without committing any crime, so it's odd to have none of 1 thousand ppl not sin for only 1 year.

I also don't see why the wager requires the selected ppl to be random. If Zeus had bet that no human is able to stay 1 year without sinning, all Hades or Proserpina had to do was to look for a handful of honorable good ppl and put them together working cooperatively for the well being of their society. As they're able to take ppl from different times to be on the same time on the city, that becomes even easier to do.

Oh, there is a lot to answer here.

1. When Galerius gets elected, he frees Duli, who immidiately starts seeking treasure in the market and takes something from a stall, breaking the golden rule.

2. The city is built inside a "biosphere" inside an alien spaceship - the clue to this is that you can see Earth behind you-know-who when you speak to him. Basically, their technology is so advanced as to seem like magic to us - they can teleport people between Earth and the ship and revive humans among other things. This means that those people (and us by extension) really DID die back on earth, but because we died with an Obol in our posession, we get teleported to the "Underworld" by Charon and revived to live another life. This explains why people can die again in the Underworld.
Nobody leaves, because the only way to do so would be through Charon, and nobody has found a way to get back up to her or persuade her to "ferry" them across back to Earth. Except those that did like Orpheus.

3. In endings 2, 3 and 4, we're not really "revived", since we're alive already, the revival takes place when you get teleported TO the underworld. Charon merely teleports us back to Earth.

4. In ending 1, you get transported back to your time to meet Al, but you haven't found the way back up to Charon, so you're doomed to live out your lives there with no way back to Earth. That being said, it's kinda funny how easily Al finds the way out on his own in the other endings, so I guess it wouldn't actually have been a problem in the end and you would eventually reach Charon one way or the other (unless you starved first though).

5. Hades didn't make everything right again. The only thing he did after your conversation with him was leave and stop enforcing the golden rule. It was Proserpina that brought justice upon Sentius and turned all the golden statues back to normal people. Besides Sentius, nobody is "punished", they all get transported to modern Earth through Proserpina's power over time - the bad things that happen afterward to the "bad" characters is their own doing.

6. The reason why people had to be selected at random is that it would be seen like Hades was cheating otherwise - by hand-picking "good and lawful" people that would not prove that humans as a race could live sin-free lives - which was the objective of the bargain. This is also why everyone is punished when just one person sins - because his peers were unable to prevent this to create this sin-free society.

These are just my takes on things though, so don't take them for official canon, but I think most of it has a basis ingame.