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In the end of the game we find a clean long abandoned structure without any infectious biological material on it. However once you enter the final chamber beyond the gates, the walkways to the hypothetical ascension the entire level is still completely abandoned and signs of the infection are still there once again. Which might mean that we didn't bring the infection into heaven, but instead the upper layers are already lost or abandoned after containment failed and there is no salvation in ascension even if we had succeeded which would fit the theme of the game perfectly. We think we lost because we didn't make it till the end, but we had lost because the good lands had already been ruined. Imagine climbing till the top of the world where you thought salvation lay but all you find is more ruin and destruction. That would truly make you the scorned.

As you can see in the images the statues are long abandoned and the biological matter clings on to them getting pulled into the other side. It cannot be ascertained whether the biological matter being pulled in is the natural insides of the statues or whether they are parts of the infection. The statues are broken down haphazardly which shows there is no order to it and this is a state of natural decay over a long period of time. Nobody returned after crossing to the other side. Nobody came back till the gate. Which means either the place is completely abandoned and blocked, or the bridge is simply a portal to a higher plane where everything is also already dead, whether due to natural decay or the virus spreading to that other location with the surviving elite of the species. Which would make the most sense.

Scorn isn't just about being abandoned and left to die, it is about following survival instincts without purpose that lead us to nothing even though everything in us is telling us there is something on the other end. There is no salvation. There is only the choice of whether you think there is no salvation because you were destroyed long before you reach the top of the tower, or because you found no salvation after reaching the top of the tower. That is what it means to be truly scorned.