Templum Endings

Templum Inundatio has 2 endings. The Normal and Sponge ending. Each ending requires you to do different things, with the Sponge Ending being a "secret" ending that is hard to discover.

Normal
This ending is the easiest to get as you just have to play normally, once you reach DEEPEST POINT and get to the end of the final chase sequence, you will find yourself at a small empty room with a staircase. Walking up the stairs will slowly light up torches as you reach the top.

Once the player reaches the top they will enter a large empty room with a small platform that the player walks out on, from this point the player can't move.

Eventually two large tentacles slam down on the platform followed by more raising in the background as a loud roar is heard, revealed to be coming from Yggdrasil as it raises from the dark abyss. It then looks down at the player, analyzing them, before looking around and then roaring and charging at the player, absorbing them.

Once Yggdrasil touches the player the screen changes to the ending screen and they are awarded the main ending badge, with the game crashing a few seconds later.

The screen shows the outside of the temple with text on the side, saying

"In your last moments you saw God.

After being absorbed it called for more.

The oceans outside trembled and quaked

For the next clueless victim to be awakened."

which explains that Yggdrasil is now calling for another Water Buddy to form and enter the temple, so it can be absorbed and grow Yggdrasil's power so it can finally break out of the temple and absorb the ocean.

This ending is most likely to be the canon one.

Sponge
This ending requires the player to go off the normal path by touching the blue block that is left behind when the Solaritrum statue disappears and going outside and behind the temple instead of going deeper inside. Touching the blue part that the statue leaves behind unlocks a gate behind the temple where Nautical is located.

After getting Nautical the player must go to the top left corner of the map and they will find a boarded pathway which Nautical can burn down. Once you burn down the boards you can enter the Hidden Town. The town itself is barren and there is nothing to find except for inside the big house at the end of the town, which holds the God Artifact. Collecting the artifact will trigger the final sequence for the ending, which spawns in the Sponge Creatures. The player must avoid all of them and touch the blue part again inside the temple after collecting the god artifact, which reveals another ending screen. This screen says

"You broke the rules and disobeyed the God.

You took the artifact.

You awoken the unholy.

Absorbing all water,

Yargslog begins a new age."

explaining that you summoned a different god named Yargslog which then absorbs the entire ocean, effectively making Water Buddies extinct and starting a new age where the world has no oceans.

It is unknown if this ending is canon or not, but less likely compared to the normal one.

Trivia
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