Ragnar has teased that Book 5 doesn't necessarily follow the self established naming conventions. :)

Still, "renaissance" would point towards a more happy ending, and I'd welcome that.

I think Zoe (at the end of book three) will not be interrogated for too long in the Enclave, she has met Blind Bob before and Na’ana, they will vouch for her.

Chapters' narrative trick is to let some days or weeks pass between Books. I think it's quite likely they don't even show us how Zoë got to befriend the new rebels. They may just show her starting up the journey to the Purple Mountains.

From the look of things, I'd guess that her travel companions are Crow and Enu. :)

Zoë was not a shifter at the beginning of Dreamfall. When Zoë travels from Stark to Arcadia, her body remains behind in Stark, only her consciousness travels, however, this is not the case when coming back from Arcadia, her whole body returns. Remember when Na’ana hypnotised Zoë to send her back to Stark and her body vanished out of her clothes? However, later, in one of the episodes of Dreamfall Chapters, Zoë puts on a dream machine (un-licence version) when she is with Mira and others, in the workshop. But this time things have changed - Zoë’s whole body is now able to completely vanish from Stark (even the clothes she is wearing as well).

Does this mean she “is” now a shifter? Maybe, Zoë does have a hidden talent in shifting between worlds (just like April) and the dream machine is not really needed, she is just not aware of this yet.

When Zoë puts on the "licensed version" of the dream machine (which has built-in software to track a dreamer), I think this interferes with Zoë’s natural ability to fully shift over to the other side. Instead she ends up in this ice age area talking to Abnaxus and even he tells Zoë “you are not all here”!

Zoë was never a Shifter, and will never be. She's a Dreamer. What exactly that means is not entirely clear, but there are likely theories.

The central one of them is, of course, that Zoë was never really in Propast to begin with. Back in Dreamfall, Zoë was dreaming herself into Arcadia while her body remained in Venice. In Chapters, it seems Zoë is dreaming herself into Stark/Europolis from her coma hospital bed in Casablanca. That was a strong theory by the end of Book 2 (ending cutscene glimpse!!), so there was a good bit of discussion as to what would happen if she put on a Dreamachine. I personally thought it couldn't work, but I was wrong.

The Dreamachine is still a pathway for Zoë's dream entity to reach Arcadia, only this time her dream entity was travelling already by the time she puts on the device. It vanishes from Stark as it travels to Arcadia. The body always remains in Stark/Casablanca.

Zoë never 'really' reaches Arcadia and never 'really' reached Europolis in Stark, as a Shifter like April would.

Exactly in line with this theory is of course the issue with the clothes. Dreamer Zoë's consciousness always arrives in Arcadia clothed appropriately. The dream self can be molded to that degree, obviously. Shifter April Ryan however... she arrives in modern attire and most of the time in her underwear. :)

I wonder what Queenie meant when she said to Zoë, "You are like a page from a book, that's been left out in the Sun too long and you are fading". Could this mean that Zoë has never really woken out of her comatose state and she is only a conscious being, wondering around without a real physical body? Has Zoë taken the place of the little girl, Faith and is wreaking havoc on the Wire, just as Faith did before? If Zoë is dreaming, then maybe, she will wake up at some point, when she has completed her task - hence the name: Dreamfall

If a bioneer really wants to off you and has a proper injection ready, I don't think waking up is an option. :(

To reiterate:

Book Four will be out Thursday this week, i.e. December 3rd, 2015

It's ready to download people. Enjoy :D

Well, there goes the end of another chapter (book 4) and the puzzles were far too easy to solve, but then, the story and graphics make up for it. Is each progressive chapter getting shorter than the last or is it just me enjoying it too much? Hence: "Time goes quick when you're having fun". Hopefully book five will not be too long, now they have the engine sorted out.

Spoiler Warning

Some new info came out in book 4 when Enu asked Zoe if she has any siblings and her reply was "I did. Sort of. Long story..." That’s news to me, when did that happen?


In the Enclave when Zoe spoke to Jakai (Benrime's nephew), she noticed him acting suspiciously in Kean's room (looking through some papers). I decided that Zoe should "ignore" this, but now I'm not so sure if this was the right decision; and as a result, the Azadi were tipped off as to the rebel’s hideout. If Zoe at the beginning had told Shepherd of her suspicions, could the slaughter of the rebels in the Enclave by the Azadi raid have been prevented?

It happened in the previous game, "Dreamfall: The Longest Journey"


Nothing would have changed. I tried both.

It's a shame about Likho, in my game I decided not to take him with Kean onboard the cloud ship and as a result, he died in the Enclave during the Azadi raid. He would have been alive if not for that decision!
I don't remember Zoe having siblings in Dreamfall.

Spoiler Warning

In the administrator's office, was that the shrunken head and body of Roper Clacks (the wizard) and was he experimented on as well?

Spoiler Alert

This was my first thought and dismissed it quickly, but it now seems that Saga "is" April - reborn, according to Abnaxus.

Faith was Zoë's sister (possibly only her half sister, but we never found out).
http://tlj.wikia.com/wiki/Faith


No surprises there. :)