The Prince is finally led away from the Shadow by another character, Farah. It is a subtle hark back to the original game’s embracement of the Shadow. The Dark Prince orders the Prince: “Do not fight me. The whole sequence is psychedelic in its visuals, with a constant barrage of sarcastic remarks from the Dark Prince. In the end, Prince and the Dark Prince struggle over control of the body in the former’s mind. The Dark Prince can sometimes take over the Prince’s body and turn into a wraith-like sand monster. It manages to procure the blue flame required to kill Jaffar and returns to the Prince’s body. This time, the Shadow can now leave the Prince’s body at will. Prince of Persia 2: The Shadow and the Flame brings back the concept of this doppelganger shadow. Realizing the Shadow is none but himself, the Prince sheathes his sword and merges back with the Shadow. In their final meeting, the Prince chooses to fight him, but the Prince himself is hurt upon cutting him. The Prince and the Shadow merging (Image via Prince of Persia 1989) Throughout, the Shadow acts primarily as a nuisance by stealing a life potion or closing a gate. The latter ran in the opposite direction of the Prince. In the 1989 Prince of Persia, the Prince met with his Shadow after passing through a magical mirror. The mask only comes off when the user’s “other” self dies, and the wearer can take that place in the timeline.

The Mask of the Wraith lets its wearer go back to the past as a wraith by creating two timelines.

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