Here's my personal theory about Sandrone's fate and how I think it's the completion of Rene de Petrichor's plan
So as Sandrone herself has mentioned many times, Rene was a friend of Alain's, her creator, and had once foretold the fate of the world based on his research, one of his findings was Fontaine's prophecy, after learning this he had made it his goal to save Fontaine. His plan was based around another one of his discoveries, that Fontainian people were made out of water and could dissolve when in contact with the primodial sea water, so he made a two stage plan in order to save everyone. First, he would dissolve every individual in Fontaine into a giant oceanid where their consciousness would be united in order to survive the flooding, after that he would seperate everyone and return them to their original selves when the cataclysm was over. To do this he needed Alain's help, because the people of Fontaine would need new bodies and he wanted him to make them all mechanical bodies that their consciousness could later reside in, of course Alain refused so that never came to pass. Rene did try to go on with his plan anyway though and people WERE dissolved, Rene's original self included, one of the victims though was Alain's sister Mary-Ann, but her conciouness didn't fade away or join the main body of Narzissenkreuz. Instead, the oceanid Lyris who was the one used to dissolve people and former director of the Narzissenkreuz institute kept saved her consciousness which resulted in them sharing a body and that is the "Mary-Ann" we meet at the Narzissenkreuz quest. Alain consumed by grief and unaware of this fact (most likely), created the mechanical body known as Sandrone in later years, Sandrone herself is most probably an Ai he created in order to train it to be his sister, hence Sandrone's at times soft behaviour and her somewhat gentle nature that was shown in Nodkrai (this is not to say she's a good person btw she is still a criminal and has done HORRIBLE things) but as an Ai in training and spending so much time with Alain she seems to have picked up a lot of his behaviours too.
So of course Sandrone isn't really Mary-Ann, but I believe she WANTS to be her, almost like thats her purpose perhaps? I say this because although she looks up to Alain, she seems more in line with Rene's point of view, so she is most likely on board with his solution too.
She knows she was created to BE Mary-Ann but she's not so if she follows Rene's logic and has read all his research then she knows of this plan, but we don't know if she knows of "Mary-Ann" so it'd be far fetched to say completing his plan is her goal BUT there is a chance for them to meet, you see "Mary-Ann" at the end of the quest ends up travelling along with Seymour and a melusine and I don't remember exactly what was said there but the direction they had taken was the same that led torwards Nod-krai.
So if Sandrone met "Mary-Ann" she might feel the need to complete her, maybe to her this is the only way to also become her, thus she might die. How Sandrone's death will play out if it happens is unsure too so I can't say much on this, if I had to guess her death probably wasn't her choice nor was it a way to let "Mary-Ann" take over, I personally think a good way to handle this situation would be for them to kind of fuse consciousness, like Ann's consciouness along with Sandrone's code and they kind of complete eachother like that because Sandrone was active for all the years "Mary-Ann" was in the Anapausis, so they fill eachothers gaps in a way, also from a story telling stand point it makes no sense to keep "Mary-Ann" alive AND traveling around. If they wanted to put a lid on that story and let them all rest "Mary-Ann" COULD have disappeared just like Narzissenkreuz did at the end, for them to keep her alive and actively going around while there is "another her" around too could only mean that they meet eachother. In order to further the plot, also I believe it would be so ironic for this to happen, Alain and Ann were both against Rene's ideas, considering them inhumane and criminal and they fought against it actively but in the end they become the very instruments that actually push this plan to completion, Alain DID create a mechanical body, Mary-Ann dissolved and SURVIVED everything, and if she really inhabits Sandrone's body then Rene's plan would be finalized and he would've been right AGAIN.
It's not a very well constructed theory or anything but I think about it a lot and wanted to get it out there, just a silly little theory and food for thought. Thanks for reading!
So of course Sandrone isn't really Mary-Ann, but I believe she WANTS to be her, almost like thats her purpose perhaps? I say this because although she looks up to Alain, she seems more in line with Rene's point of view, so she is most likely on board with his solution too.
She knows she was created to BE Mary-Ann but she's not so if she follows Rene's logic and has read all his research then she knows of this plan, but we don't know if she knows of "Mary-Ann" so it'd be far fetched to say completing his plan is her goal BUT there is a chance for them to meet, you see "Mary-Ann" at the end of the quest ends up travelling along with Seymour and a melusine and I don't remember exactly what was said there but the direction they had taken was the same that led torwards Nod-krai.
So if Sandrone met "Mary-Ann" she might feel the need to complete her, maybe to her this is the only way to also become her, thus she might die. How Sandrone's death will play out if it happens is unsure too so I can't say much on this, if I had to guess her death probably wasn't her choice nor was it a way to let "Mary-Ann" take over, I personally think a good way to handle this situation would be for them to kind of fuse consciousness, like Ann's consciouness along with Sandrone's code and they kind of complete eachother like that because Sandrone was active for all the years "Mary-Ann" was in the Anapausis, so they fill eachothers gaps in a way, also from a story telling stand point it makes no sense to keep "Mary-Ann" alive AND traveling around. If they wanted to put a lid on that story and let them all rest "Mary-Ann" COULD have disappeared just like Narzissenkreuz did at the end, for them to keep her alive and actively going around while there is "another her" around too could only mean that they meet eachother. In order to further the plot, also I believe it would be so ironic for this to happen, Alain and Ann were both against Rene's ideas, considering them inhumane and criminal and they fought against it actively but in the end they become the very instruments that actually push this plan to completion, Alain DID create a mechanical body, Mary-Ann dissolved and SURVIVED everything, and if she really inhabits Sandrone's body then Rene's plan would be finalized and he would've been right AGAIN.
It's not a very well constructed theory or anything but I think about it a lot and wanted to get it out there, just a silly little theory and food for thought. Thanks for reading!
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There's a reason why the AQ tends to ignore anything that happens during WQs.
The fact that Mary-Ann is part of a super long WQ line means she's stuck in "WQ Jail" along with other NPCs like Jeht and the Chenyu Adeptus, unfortunately.
When players go back and play old content, they're basically catching up to where their character already is. Think of it as "remembering" something that already happened.
There are a few minor exceptions that pop up with Limited Time Events, such as Scaramouche recognizing you in the Delusion factory if you'd taken part in Unreconciled Stars, and meeting you for the first time otherwise. As a general rule of thumb, though, the Traveler has seen and done it all.
The AQ is consistently written to remain agnostic on the matter of whether the Traveler has done any of the WQs or not, which generally translates to the AQ being devoid of references to any WQ events.
Even in the bonus cutscene with Sandrone that you get in the NK AQ if you completed the Narcissenkreuz World Quest beforehand, neither the Traveler nor Sandrone actually talks about any of the events that happened in the WQ.