Katherine Marlowe is also a descendant of Sir Francis Drake.
Marlowe takes the ring because she thinks
she is the proper heir of Francis Drake. She doesn't like Nate because he's "unworthy" of the legacy and the name of Drake.
Katherine Marlowe is Sully's ex.
It's Sully. I was surprised that Elena and Chloe weren't exes when
they first showed up. —
Bronzethumb- Confirmed. Drake's Deception establishes that Sully and Marlowe were romantically involved.
Taken from
this IGN article
.
16th century English playwright Christopher Marlowe's mother was named Catherine, with some sources spelling it as "Katherine". He was also rumored to be a spy for Queen Elizabeth I, who had, among others, Sir Francis Drake as a part of her entourage. During his journeys, Drake, along with Marlowe, discovered the Atlantis of the Sands, the lost city in the Arabian desert, and found within it the Fountain of Youth. Katherine acquired the waters of the Fountain and used them to prolong her life indefinitely. The city was lost when Drake died, and now Katherine is trying to find it again, possibly to get more water (the effects of the Fountain may be finite) or to find her son Christopher (who may still be in the Atlantis of the Sands).
The series gets quite a lot of accusations of questionable subtext and morality on Drake's part. Naughty Dog would probably take the moment to have the villains and other characters call Drake out on his
One-Man Army tendencies (and unlike Lazarevic make it look more than just the villain trying to psyche him out).
- Confirmed. Sully, Chloe, and Elena all pull Nate aside for a moment (at separate points in the story) in order to question what he's really doing this adventure for.
The previous two installments have been somewhat
Lovecraftian. What with lost cities and unexplained evils. It would make sense that the third game continues with this tradition.
- Not a particularly wild WMG, since there's a precedent and all, but it came true nonetheless. Possibly the most eldritch of the three, since we never find out what the hell the 'genie in the bottle' really is or how it was sealed away — we only see its catastrophic effects.
Talbot is really a
Djinn.
Carried over from the Headscratchers page. It's one explanation for his interest in finding Ubar, his use of
hallucinogens and his apparent ability to
vanish into thin air in Syria. Further implications:
his homicidal rage at the end of the game wasn't because of some weird loyalty to Marlowe but because Nate had just royally fucked over his fellow Djinn. Talbot is (or claims to be) a descendant of Edward Talbot, AKA
Edward Kelley, the medium who helped John Dee in his work.
This would complete the Dark!Drake parallel and give some depth to the character.
The ending was a hallucination.
Nate and Sully did drink some of the water. They hallucinated the ending while Marlowe and Talbot calmly dragged that orb thing out of the water and left.
- Jossed, unless the entirety of Uncharted 4 was a hallucination too, which seems unlikely.
Nate's mom didn't commit suicide
.Why would
Cassandra Morgan, a wildly successful Adventurer Archaeologist in her own right, with two children suddenly commit suicide? There's no explanation in either Drake's Deception or A Thief's End for it, but we do know that Cassandra got up to some pretty dangerous adventures in her glory days. Drake's Deception also introduces a powerful secret society interested in historical artifacts that had T.E. Lawrence assassinated and covered it up to look like an accident. All of this suggests Cassandra could have easily have been snuffed out by them and it was made to look like a suicide.
- In Uncharted 4, you meet her former boss, Evelyn, who says Cassandra had an illness. Maybe her illness was a mental one, like depression or bipolar disorder, which lead to her suicide?
Nate's resilience isn't completely natural
He can go toe to toe with an army of pirates right after being knocked into unconsciousness for what was at the very least several hours (indicating severe head damage), survives an entire night of drifting on a stormy sea with nothing more than a wooden plank to drift on
note When he exits the place he was kept in, the sun is setting, and the ship sequence takes place at night; when he wakes up on the beach, the sun's rising, and to top that off, wanders Rub' al Khali for three days and then is immediately ready to fight bad guys again with no more problems than he usually has.
The thing is, there is a possible reason for his toughness - the sap of the Tree of Life from Among Thieves. While he never drank it, he was running all around a burning pool of it when fighting Lazarević, so it's very likely he breathed some of it in. While this form clearly wasn't as potent as the liquid Lazarević drank, it could be how Drake manages to pull off all those impossible feats.
Alternatively, given how he has a habit of surviving what no other man could throughout the entire series, it could be something he found earlier, before the events of the games. The series gives at least two examples of substances that make you superhumanly toughnote The El Dorado powder in 1, and the sap in 2, so it's not too far-fetched that Nate might've - knowingly or not - come into contact with another during his career.
