- TV TROPES LOST SOUL ASIDE FULL
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It has to limp through the rest of the level to reach a circle of steles where the guardian heals it by granting the fox her powers.
Injured Player Character Stage: In chapter 1, the fox takes a nasty fall, breaking its foot. The fox has to follow her through the keep and eventually heal her in the spirit world. "I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight: In chapter 6, the guardian becomes corrupted by a trap in the Spirit Keep, turning her red and bouncing erratically. Idle Animation: If left alone, the fox will sit down and eventually curl up to sleep. Human Cannonball: Vulpine cannonball to be precise there are rings that when powered by auroral energy, launch the fox through the air. This can also be seen in the murals, with the ones depicting favorable moments in the setting's history being blue, while those depicting catastrophes are red. Red is the color of the plague, therefore bad. Good Colors, Evil Colors: Blue is the color of the guardian of the Northern Lights and her powers, therefore good. Some puzzles require the use of it to get through timed doors and the like. Flash Step: Another one of the fox's powers is Spirit Dash, allowing it to teleport forward in the direction of the camera. 
When the fox dies in chapter 6, fungus and orchids rapidly grow out of its body. Festering Fungus: The plague manifests as white and red bulbs and black muck spotted with orchids, spewing red spores everywhere.Scandinavian folklore associates the aurora with the fox, who creates it by brushing its tail against the sky. Fantastic Foxes: The fox can commune with the souls of the deceased and the guardian of the Northern Lights (itself a fox), whose powers the fox becomes imbued with.Upon doing so, the soul of the deceased manifests to express gratitude to the fox. Due to the Dead: The fox can return misplaced staves to their long-dead owners.It's implied the original one may have once been mortal as well. Deity of Human Origin: At the end of the game, the fox ascends to become a second Guardian of the Northern Lights.On PC, this is fulfilled by the left mouse button. Context-Sensitive Button: In the PlayStation 4, the O button is alternately used to pick up things (the staves) or to bark at blue flower beds to charge the fox with power that can then be used to manipulate the environment to solve puzzles, or can be held down to Spirit Bark.Even the landscape lacks any plants taller than the fox itself. Beautiful Void: Aside from the fox and its companion, the game is completely devoid of all other animal life, and all the humans are long dead.
TV TROPES LOST SOUL ASIDE FULL
After the fox purifies her of the plague, she returns to her full form, signifying the fox no longer needs her because it's become another Guardian. Ball of Light Transformation: The guardian of the Northern Lights is reduced to a little ball of light after lending the fox her powers.Her physical body rests at the top of the mountain as one of the seals containing the plague, while her spirit wanders the land in search of another fox to be the other seal and rid the world of the plague.
The end of the game reveals that the guardian of the Northern Lights used to be a normal fox like the player character. One of the powers acquired by the fox is Spirit Form, allowing the fox to leave its physical body to reach places blocked by plague vines or where it has to hold down buttons. Astral Projection: The guardian of the Northern Lights is reduced to a little ball of light after lending the fox her powers. They both run across the night sky, with their trails forming the aurora. Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence: The fox becomes one of the seals containing the plague, thereby becoming another guardian of the Northern Lights, alongside the original one. Word of God states that they didn't have the budget to record an actual fox. TV TROPES LOST SOUL ASIDE LICENSE
Artistic License Biology: The fox barks and pants like a dog. The guardian is only revealed to be female in store descriptions. 
All There in the Manual: The game really insists on telling its story solely through images, so you will not learn what the name of anything is (for instance, the fox's abilities, but that's just one example) unless you do something like look at the trophy list. While the corruption sickens ordinary wildlife and snakes across the sky, the landscape is still able to support plant life and many areas are still breathable for the fox. After the End: Without the guardian of the Northern Lights, a plague killed off the civilization whose remains you travel through.
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