How does Comstock know about the false shepherd?
Did the Luteces tell him since they seem to be buddy buddy?
Comstock works it out that it's himself in a timeline where he rejected the choice at the baptism, this can be seen in his office where he was trying to plot different timelines and which branch leads where. With regard to the specifics of the False Shepard he likely saw it within a tear.
The Luteces don't tell him things though, they show him through the tears opened by their tear machine.
What was the motivation for Luteces to do this to Booker? To rip Anna to an alternate reality?
Was it just some kind of twisted experiment simply because they were bored?
Their story is told entirely in the Voxophones. The male Luteces wishes to reset the timeline believing their interference was a mistake. The female Lutece sees their interference as irrelevant in the see of timelines. The male Lutece is unhappy that they are split within the timelines, the female Lutece doesn't care. The male Lutece gave an ultimatum to the female Lutece, either she helps him or they part. As a result, the Luteces are trying to manipulate timelines to create the timeline in which the timeline creates a paradox that prevents everything from happening by forcing the universe to remove these timelines.
Why did the Luteces help Comstock?
Female Comstock doesn't particularly care, she's extremely nihilistic. All she wanted was to be with the alternative version of herself who is exactly the same except male (only he holds opposite philosophical views).
Out of interest, how many Voxophones did you find? The key to the overall story is contained within the Voxophones.
Alright I have 2 questions after beating it.
How do Booker and Comstock exist in the same universes if they are the same person? Wouldn't this create some sort of paradox?
Are Booker and Comstock supposed to be the same age? I get 20 years have passed since he gave up Elizabeth/Anna, but Booker looks like someone in his 40s while Comstock seems to be in his 70s. Unless this is an effect that the tears and the Lutece's technology has on him, making him age quicker.
The Luteces bring rejection set of Bookers into the acception set in order to reset the timeline. The consequence of this is the conflict of memories between two versions of a person who exist in the same timeframe yet underwent different memories which leads to corruption, supression and erasion of memories for the one that crossed over, who then creates new memories based around previously important information to justify their presence to fill in any gaps left in their memory. Nosebleeds occur because of this immense conflict, the cognitive dissonance that occurs when you try to remember memories where conflicting memories exist. There is no paradox until the end.
They are both the same age. Both are thirty seven. The bolded is correct, this is explained in the final Voxophone:
The Prophet is dying. The metastasis has aged him so quickly. Why does this Comstock decay, while a Comstock in another world remains fit? If genetics are destiny, what accounts for the difference? Perhaps exposure to the contraption? Hm. It merits further study.
