Who is the old lady?

[ZEUS]

At the end of Prince of Persia 2, appears an old lady..she sees the prince and the princess in a crystal ball..who is she?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mF-WbOYEUF4 (6:38-6:48)

Thanks in advance.

[Norbert]

Well, you're not the only person who's wondering that...
According to someone on YouTube, she's the mother of a villain (not Jaffar) who was about to marry the princess, and that villain appears in Prince of Persia 3D.
You could check the walkthrough on YouTube to see if it's true or not.

[Edit: it seems it may be true. See here. The son of the brother of the sultan was supposed to marry the princess on her 21st birthday.]

[Norbert]

Well, you're not the only person who's wondering that...
According to someone on YouTube, she's the mother of a villain (not Jaffar) who was about to marry the princess, and that villain appears in Prince of Persia 3D.
You could check the walkthrough on YouTube to see if it's true or not.

[Edit: it seems it may be true. See here. The son of the brother of the sultan was supposed to marry the princess on her 21st birthday.]

She's also mentioned in the Prince of Persia 3D manual.


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[mk1995]

PoP2 has a cliffhanger ending, PoP3D has a definite sequel hook... It's obvious there was some sort of plan for a direct sequel to PoP3D, had Ubisoft not intervened with their games. Guess the only way to find out would be to somehow contact Mechner. Sure, his website has a contact formula, but good freakin' luck getting a reply.

[Norbert]

[...] an old lady..she sees the prince and the princess in a crystal ball..who is she?

Jordan Mechner recently answered this question.
(David mentioned Mechner's blog post in which Mechner gave the answer.)
Mechner's answer:

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"Ah, the Old Witch. In the final shot, after the prince and princess have defeated Jaffar and are flying off on a magic horse to live happily ever after, we pull back to reveal they’re being watched in a crystal ball by a sinister old hag. Tattooed on her forehead is a serpent-S symbol. Observant players may recognize that symbol from earlier in the game, as graffiti scrawled on the walls of the ruined city, presumably by the marauding army that sacked it.

That’s the peril of cliffhanger endings: I wrote PoP2 thinking there was going to be a PoP3… but then there wasn’t. (PoP3D doesn’t count.) In that never-written third game, the Old Witch would have been the primary antagonist. She’s the arch-villainess who gave Jaffar his powers, the one behind the slaughter of the prince’s parents and sacking of his home city, and whom he is destined to vanquish one day. The serpent-S is the symbol of the evil god she serves. (Apologies to Tolkien, Wagner, Lucas, etc. It was the nineties.)"
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