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Frollo could have a dialogue in which he talks about how, once, while walking through the forests, he saw a man coming out of a cave declaring that he would show humanity how to become a ‘superman,’ and that he said he already knows how—and that it has to do with serving God. This line would be a reference to the beginning of the book, when Zarathustra awakens.

The reference to Zarathustra works extremely well because it does not exist merely as a literary citation, but as a point of ideological rupture within the game’s world. It introduces the idea of overcoming humanity and the creation of new values, and immediately sets this vision in conflict with Frollo’s absolute religious morality. By reinterpreting the “Übermensch” as someone who serves God, Frollo does not deny the existence of the idea but absorbs and distorts it, revealing his authoritarian posture, his erudition, and his need to subordinate any divergent thought to his own faith. This makes his morality more complex and unsettling, because he is neither ignorant nor naïve: he recognizes the danger of ideas and chooses to dominate them. At the same time, the world gains philosophical density without relying on the player’s prior knowledge, since the reference functions to expose conflicts of values rather than to explain them.