THE TRUTH BEHIND GENSHIN [CHAPTER 1/2]: The role of the villain + THE STRUCTURE OF THE UNIVERSE
To understand the world one must be put upside down.
Hi there and wish you a lovely day everyone!
Let's invert our perspectives today.
- The 1st chapter (current) will be focused on the structure of Genshin's universe.
- The 2nd chapter will be focused on the storyline of Genshin.
We will create doubt in this chapter and explain it in the second one. (soon to be posted and linked)
Destruction and creation... the villain and the hero. Now for Genshin we can already set the Traveler as the hero of the story but... who is the villain?
These two posts are but a ¨continuation¨ of a 3 chapter group of posts I made not so long ago, in which I defend Hroptatyr, The Wise, to be the main villain that Genshin has been hiding since its release.
HOWEVER:
- THE LIE: during this post, I will feed into two incredibly important lies. The readers can try to find them if they want, before I explain them in [CHAPTER 2/2] and reveal the truth.
- One lie is about Hroptatyr's true identity, and the second, about his real plan.
NOTE: when doing these theories, I realized how straight-forward Hoyo is when considering Lumine the Sibling. I'll refer to them as the Sibling, but some symbolism will inevitable lead to Lumine.
Now then:
HROPTATYR IS THE MAIN VILLAIN?
In [CH.2/2] I'll explain the relationship between Hroptatyr and the other candidates to be the main villain, but for now, let's just talk about him.
Here are the aforementioned posts ([CH.1][CH.2][CH.3]) if you want to read them with proof of every point made now.
- I highly recommend the reader to check them so one can truly understand how everything ties back together, and how the theory has evolved.
This section of the post is skippable if you have read the previous ones, but to resume, let's take these points as a base for today's theories:
NOTE: the majority of these points will also be briefly re-explained during the two current posts. The importance of these is to establish Hroptatyr as a possible main villain.
- Hroptatyr's and Vedrfolnir's goals are the same, destroying reason: one out of ambition, one out of kindness. [CH.1]
- The ¨blasphemy against reason¨ means the destruction of the rules the HP creates. [CH.1]
- The pure abyss is red, the power of destruction, the purple abyss is but a mixture of pure abyss (red) and reason (blue), and it represents a reality without rules. [CH.1]
- Hroptatyr is the responsible of Rhinedottir's creatures corruption and the red abyss + descenders of the cyclic nature of Teyvat (destruction + creation = rewritting). [CH.1]
- The sinner communicated with and corrupted Nibelung in the past; Hroptatyr manipulated Irmin and alongside Vedrfolnir, orquestrated the night of the Cataclysm. [CH.2]
- Hroptatyr killed Irmin and divided the power of the abyss amongst the sinners. [CH.2]
- He inflitrated Asmoday's coding in the Cataclysm and used her to separate the siblings and keep the HP ¨trapped¨ until the right moment comes.The red cubes are a subproduct of Hroptatyr's power, not Asmoday's, they are errors in the system, files with ¨erased/destroyed¨ code. [CH.2]
- He knew that the HP were an AI and used its code to inform Irmin of the arrival of the twins so they would capture one of them. [CH.2]
- He's behind the foundation of the Fatui, Zandik/Dottore bears a part of his consciousness (like ravens to Odin), and he took part on the crisis of the frontiers during Luna IV: Dottore's plan to create his final god will need the beliefs of Nod Krai on the ¨True Moon Goddess¨ Columbina (we are currently in simulation that gathers them) and Rerir's powers. Hroptatyr's interest in this would be retrieving the ¨blasphemy against death¨ and in the future, the burning of Irminsul. [CH.2]
And their plan for the future [CH.3]:
VERY IMPORTANT: Hroptatyr creating an artificial god that rewrites the universe into abyss using 4 ingredients (Shouko no Kami set this pattern) to ascend:
- FAITH: The beliefs of New Kaenriah on the abyss (Fatui will burn the Irminsul and the Abyss Order + Loom of Fate create New Kaenriah: destruction + creation = new Irminsul).
- ABYSS: The combined abyssal power of the 5 sinners (Rerir thanks to Dottore's experiment, Surtalogi thanks to his prophetized defeat, Rhinedottir likely a direct confrontation, Vedrfolnir and himself).
- BODY: Hroptatyr's body + The abyss sibling forced to fuse with him.
- REASON: Absorbing the HP after waking them up with Asmoday.
The creation of a ¨Ruler Beyond Reason¨
And if you still don't believe me when I say he's the main villain, let's practice pattern recognition:
¨Where there are heroes, there must be wicked mages...¨
¨... and where are knights, there must be evil dragons¨
-The Wicked Mage's Plumage
This idea sets the central characters which are involved in Genshin's stories:
- REMEMBER THIS*: The knight and the evil dragon fight first*, the knight wins, but the dragon was never truly evil, but used by the wicked mage.
- It's the duty of the hero to stop the wicked mage, the true villain of the story.
VERY IMPORTANT: Let's compare Sumeru's AQ, Nod-Krai's AQ and Genshin's story.
- HERO: Traveler for all 3
- KNIGHT: Nahida for Sumeru, Columbina for Nod-Krai, HP for Genshin
- EVIL DRAGON: Scaramouche for Sumeru, Rerir for Nod-Krai, Nibelung for Genshin
- WICKED MAGE: Dottore for Sumeru, Dottore for Nod-Krai, Hroptatyr for Genshin
(We could add Narzissenkreuz Ordo with Traveler, Alain, Jakob and René, or Mondstadt's AQ with Traveler, Varka, Dvalin and abyss mage)
Furthermore, the stories that involve the creation of a god also have the character of the princess, who is often used by the wicked mage for his goals.
- PRINCESS: Nilou for Sumeru, Sandrone for Nod-Krai, Sibling for Genshin
- Nilou was the origin of the Samsara, Sandrone's formula could be the origin of the simulation which Dottore used to trap us, and the Sibling will be the origin of New Kaenriah.
So after identifying him as a potential ¨main villain¨ of the game, let's talk about the relevance of such role.
THE ROLE OF DESTRUCTION
Now we could jump into a very powerful conclusion:
- KEY POINT: Without Hroptatyr, the story wouldn't happen to begin with.
Dragons and humans would live in harmony, the twins wouldn't have been separated in the ship, Kaenriah wouldn't end up with an obsessive usage of abyss, and there would be no conflict at all.
To understand what this means, let's set up an analogy on Genshin's world structure.
Two forces of nature exist in constant clash.
- Reason (blue): The power to define and create, the writting pen.
- Abyss (red): The power to blur and destroy, the eraser.
But there is something more. Reason needs a canvas to create. A book for a story to be written in.
- The craft of the writting pen is the story, therefore it is implicit to reason that a blank book ever existed
- The craft of the eraser is the blank book, therefore it is implicit to the abyss that there exist a story to erase
When the eraser meets the written story, it unveils the blank book by destroying what was written. The blank book is the purple abyss:
- IMPORTANT: The purple abyss is not destruction nor creation but the ¨true¨ world. The fusion of pure red abyss and reason is the blank book, the boundless and undefined world. Everything that could've been but never was.
- VERY IMPORTANT: Abyss needs to destroy reason to reveal purple abyss, and reason needs purple abyss to create.
This is why HP never tried to purify/absorb Gosoythoth nor the purple abyss beneath Teyvat even though descenders have such power, because they needed it like ¨fuel¨ to write Teyvat.
Like the pen needs the blank book.
THE REAL PROBLEM: THE UNIVERSE IS DYING
Through the Hexenzirkel and by observing the outer space we know that the universe outside Teyvat is dying consumed by the abyss.
The abyss that lies beyond Teyvat is red because it hasn't yet fused with reason, therefore it stays in its primal form. Red abyss is destruction as we have already defined, therefore, one day the whole universe will be completely ¨destroyed¨.
¨And I shall shed a tear at the end of time... as I gaze back upon your life¨
-Vedrfolnir, The Visionary
- VERY IMPORTANT: Genshin's universe operates like a story, the universe dying is the story coming to its end.
Vedrfolnir and Hroptatyr are aware that in the future the end of time will happen. The end of the story. The Ragnarok.
The Heavenly Principles are aware of this. Teyvat orbits a black hole so that the collapse of the universe reaches us later than the rest of the cosmos.
The Creators of the twins and the HP were aware of this. Traveler's final role is to oppose the death of the universe by ¨writting a new story¨ at the end of time (further explained at the end of the post).
"I am the void at the moment of creation, I am the newborn spark when all things end."
-The Fool XXII (Traveler's card)
THE VILLAIN'S ROLE
Let's remember the implication we made earlier:
- KEY POINT: Without ¨Hroptatyr¨, without the main villain*, the story wouldn't happen*
- VITAL POINT: If the villain would've never existed, there would be no conflict and the story would've never be told.
Back to our analogies:
- The Irminsul is the written book of the story (OF TEYVAT). It acts like a server that gathers information. Every page exists simultaneously, but they only make sense read in order. Each moment of time exists at the same time, yet causality is what makes the pages move forward in harmony. The next event to the current event will be its consequences and the previous, its causes.
- The written story is fate, unmovable.
- Red abyss is the eraser, reason is the writting pen, the blank book is the purple abyss. Therefore someone with the power to erase and write, abyss and reason, can rewrite the story.
- In Luna III, Durin introduced ¨variables¨ (that is how Genshin calls the blank spaces, undefined variables) by erasing possible futures for the hyperborean on how he would meet his death using abyssal power. Yet he didn't have the power to write a new story for him so his death was inevitable.
- The HP would be the writer (OF TEYVAT) (Nibelung was the first writer that went to space, the HP ended what Nibelung started so they became the new writer and Nibelung, a reader)
- The Traveler and the descenders, would be readers. The Traveler, when purifying the purple abyss, is just using the power of reason to ¨imagine¨ what could fill that blank space.
- If a writer doesn't state the colour of a character's hair, the reader must imagine the blank space that the colour represents*, imagine the colour of the hair. That is purifying purple abyss: defining variables.*
Then if the universe is dying it would mean the end of the story. Not of Teyvat's story, the Irminsul, but of Genshin's universe story.
- VERY IMPORTANT: Teyvat acts like a microcosm separated from the universe.
¨However, Phanes, the Primordial One, used the eggshell to separate the "universe" and the "microcosm¨ of the world.¨
-Before the Sun and Moon
- VERY IMPORTANT: the sinners (also called trascendant ones), the traveler, the HP and Nibelung, are not tied to the fate of the microcosm (Teyvat) but to the fate of the universe, they are ¨trascendental beings¨ because they are characters of a greater story than Teyvat's. They have a role inside the story of Genshin, not Teyvat.
- Starting inside the ¨microcosm¨, Teyvat, and by trascending such story, they became characters of the ¨universe¨.
- CRUCIAL POINT: Then if the main villain never existed, the book would also be blank.
If Hroptatyr's goal is to recalculate the universe into the abyss, reach the end of the story, so he could free unlimited knowledge, then....
Why doesn't he just... sit back and wait for the inevitable? Isn't it stupid from him to be the main villain if without him the story would've already been blank?
- THE ROLE OF THE VILLAIN: without a villain, the universe would have already collapsed. Their function is to assume the role of the villain so the story can happen. The villain is just ¨buying the Traveler time¨, the time that our story lasts, for us to grow and realize how to write a story at the end of time.
The story ends when the villain wins or when he is defeated.
Then it wont matter if we win or if we lose, the universe will collapse either way.
Stories are bound to end.
- KEY POINT: Then why does a story happen?
- CONFLICT: A story happens because there is conflict. It's not about creation or desctruction winning against the other, is about one fighting the other. It's not about the knight or the evil dragon, it's not about the hero or the wicked mage, it's about that where one exists the other shall too, so their conflict keeps the world living. Like a story. The purple abyss, the ¨truth¨ of Genshin is not the harmonic fusion beetween abyss and reason, but the conflict beetween them:
Reason creates, abyss destroys.
¨Where there are heroes, there must be wicked mages...¨
¨... and where are knights, there must be evil dragons¨
That's the universe's formula. The equation that sustains the world. Given one, the other one must exist. That is the truth that Celestia hid.
- FORBIDDEN KNOWLEDGE WAS NEVER FORBIDDEN: the Heavenly Principles never tried to forbid such knowledge from humans. They just kept it hidden behind a puzzle. So only the right person would find the solution.
The inverted world, the demon names of deities, the false sky, the transmutation...all clues for humanity to doubt the heavens and find the truth.
- THE HANGED MAN: the intelligence that mortals grasp ¨cannot said to be false¨, because it was never a lie, it was but the ¨inverted truth¨. That's why only someone who had put themselves upside-down could see such truth.
That was the plan of the Creators. Maybe not even the Heavenly Principles were actively aware of it.
Every nation that questioned the truth of Celestia was an ¨experiment¨:
- Lang-gan, Vindagnyr, Hyperborea... All unsuccesful experiments, humans found corruption in abyss instead of truth. The mechanism of the Heavenly Principles to deal with them was an automatic response from the system, a celestial nail.
- Kaenriah was succesful. ¨A situation that the Heavenly Principles could not afford to ignore¨. The system had finally found humans that found growth in conflict, and not corruption.
Because in Kaenriah, a human managed to solve the puzzle.
That human found the equation of the world and realized that one side was missing, that they were meant to be the villain.
The right side, destruction, was unstable, and the equation had to be stabilized. The first human in Teyvat's history that understood the truth of the universe:
- THE SOLUTION OF THE EQUATION: The universe is sutained by conflict. A story needs both villains and heroes to create conflict. They decided to take the role of the villain and wield destruction so that the one who could rewrite the world could learn the truth hidden within the Abyss.
The purpose of the experiments, the purpose of the nations that questioned Celestia, was to find the main villain, for them to create a story that would show the Traveler how to become the writer.
Why would the creators send two descenders if one already was able to become the new writer?
- OUR SIBLING: Because one was never meant to be a descender.
In my previous posts I theorized that Hroptatyr and Irmin, as they were aware of the code of the AI and knew that the twins existed, could had ¨written a story¨ for our sibling, making them a new character instead of a reader (descender). However this would imply they had the power of reason by that time.
KEY POINT: What if they just... picked the right one?
- One was a reader. Their role was to become the new writer, using their power to define. The descender twin, the Traveler.
- One was a character. Their role was to be used by whoever solved the puzzle to fulfill his ¨plans¨ as the main villain of the story. Hroptatyr knew which one of the twins he had to ¨summon¨ in Kaenriah for the story to happen.
THE LIE BEHIND OUR TRAVEL: That twin was meant to be captured by him so the other one, the Traveler, would have a purpose to explore the world. Finding their sibling. An ¨incentive¨ to experience the world, to read the story. That is why the Traveler's lunar arcanum card is The Fool:
One star is bigger than the other
"One star rises in the heavens, one star falls in the valley, the two have always been the same."
-The Fool XXII Lunar Arcanum's last line
The plan of The Creators.
Were there are heroes, there must be wicked mages. The princess (abyss sibling) is a motivation for the hero to fight the mage.
But the mage is just a mask.
INVERT OUR PERSPECTIVES
Now let's invite the readers to put themselves upside down to understand the role of the villain.
We will begin analyzing two Lunar Arcanum cards: The Hanged Man XII and The Devil XV
THE HANGED MAN XII
¨The opulent light sinks into the dark depths beneath the earth,
Seeking to redeem the radiance that is fated to be extinguished.¨
- NOT INVERTED: The writer (HP) having to ¨sink¨ into the abyss to write a story, justification of the analogy that the purple abyss beneath Teyvat is the blank book it needs to write. The ¨radiance fated to be extinguished¨ is humanity.
- INVERTED: The ¨opulent light¨, the human, finds the truth and decides to wield destruction, so they can redeem humanity by writing a story for them.
Yet "redemption" is a word filled with arrogance,
There is an implicit meaning hidden within,
That mortals have done some clear wrong that must be corrected.
- NOT INVERTED: Humans have comitted arrogation multiple times, so the HP creates new humans for them to have the opportunity to redeem themselves and not be consumed by the abyss.
- INVERTED: The arrogance of humanity, what ¨mortals have done wrong that must be corrected¨, is rejecting conflict.
That is the key. The orginal sin:
- THE ARROGANCE OF MANKIND: since the purple abyss is conflict, the ones who reject it are the ones who get corrupted. The arrogance of mankind is not being able to understand conflict and getting corrupted by it. But as we have already defined, conflict is a dual concept of creation and desctruction, so the corrupted humans, who could only understand creation, were never capable of growing up.
- The arrogance/sin of mankind is wanting to grow up without overcoming and understanding conflict, the purple abyss.
But human arrogation never stops (humanity always keeps on growing)
-Dainsleif, Teyvat trailer
The main villain tries to redeem humanity by writting a story for them to grow. By giving them conflict.
¨You are like a flower born in sin yet pure, spotless¨
-Vedrfolnir, The Visionary
¨A sinner... Yes, salvation for a sinner can only come from a sinner...¨
-Clothar Alberich
- VERY IMPORTANT: If humans are born in sin, then only a sinner can save them.
Only a villain can write their story.
- VITAL POINT: the plan of the Creators was creating The Wise (notice how I didn't choose to say Hroptatyr)**, a human that would realize that conflict sustains the universe and take their role as the villain.
Let's remember a quote from the start of the game:
¨The arrogation of mankind ends now¨
-Asmoday
- VERY IMPORTANT: What Asmoday says is not about punishing humanity, but redeeming it. The redemption of humanity is conflict: the story. Hroptatyr/the villain being her new master explains this.
- VITAL POINT: She is starting our story. Therefore, she is redeeming humanity. The arrogation of humanity ended when the story started, when conflict and purpose were settled.
For us to create, the villain would destroy.
THE DEVIL XV
VERY IMPORTANT NOTE: this card is different than the rest, for it is already written under the perspective of The Hanged Man to begin with.
Was there ever a true age of darkness?
Where ignorance and shadow were mistaken for divine,
And the "Devil" was hailed as creator.
Where violence and suffering ran rampant,
A "Dark Age" of savagery that burned through civilization.
- NOT INVERTED: The one who wrote this, The Hanged Man, believes that the age were the one he considers the Devil rules, ¨where reason exists¨, hides the truth of the universe. A ¨Dark Age¨ that after the erasure of the universe and its recalculation into the abyss will bring us to the boundless ¨Age of Enlightment¨.
The Hanged Man writing this card implies too that for us, the Traveler/The Fool, the Devil is not the HP but Hroptatyr/The Wise, the one who wrote it.
- INVERTED: The age of darkness is the current world were only the villain understands destruction and the rest of humans are corrupted by it. The ¨Age of Enlightment¨ will be the moment when the Traveler, the readers, will understand it too.
- ¨Where violence and suffering ran rampant¨: nobody had ¨harnessed¨ violence and suffering, that there didn't exist a character to wield destruction.
The "Devil" is merely a mask,
Through which the power of darkness is revealed.
- NOT INVERTED: The Hanged Man, believes that the HP, the Devil, is a mask to reach the power of darkness, the blank book (purple abyss) and the truth of the world.
- VITAL POINT: The destruction of the mask will lead to THEIR enlightment.
- INVERTED: The Hanged Man, the villain, the Devil, is just a mask for the Traveler/reader to understand the power of conflict.
- VITAL POINT: The destruction of that mask, the reader finding that the villain is an actor to show us the truth of the world, will lead to OUR enlighment.
¨THE VILLAIN is merely a mask , through which the power of CONFLICT is revealed¨
Hroptatyr is the mask.
VERY IMPORTANT:
- The Fatui, the fools, try to destroy the story and trascend their fates but they fail to realize they are actors of a greater story. The Fatui are characters inside the microcosm of Teyvat that don't realize that the story of the universe will remain even if they destroy this story.
- The fool is fool for he thinks he is wise to his fate.
¨The sages think themselves to be al-knowing, but we alone are wise to a virtue in those acts of folly¨
-Pierro
- The Wise tries to redeem humanity under the mask of a fool trying to destroy it. They know themselves to be a character of the universe's story and trascended the fate of Teyvat.
- The Wise is wise for they know they are a fool to their fate.
The Wise is symbolically the creator of all fools.
Let's remember the universe's formula:
- Where there is The Wise, there must be fools. (Dottore, a ¨segment¨ of Hroptatyr, made delusions for the Fatui. Dottore is represented upside down, for the inverted one of the fools is The Wise. Symbolically, The Wise brings delusion to the fools)
As the greatest actor to ever exist, the villain has fooled the entire universe:
- THE CONFLICT: The Traveler is The Fool XXII, and the inverted fool is The Wise.
The ¨Age of Enlightment¨ will start when everyone inverts their perspective and understands destruction, when every fool is made wise.
NORSE MYTHOLOGY
Hroptatyr is related to 3 different characters of the norse tradition:
- Odin (Hroptatyr is a name of Odin): a god who was linked to self sacrifice for knowledge of the universe, who hanged himself upside down (Hanged Man) at the Yggdrasil (Irminsul) to understand the truth of the universe, and who lost an eye for the same purpose. A god who was known for taking ¨morally questionable¨ decissions*, but who always took them for the same reason:* to save humanity and prepare them and himself for Ragnarok
- Preparing us for the end of the story, the collapse of the universe.
- Starkaðr (his sword's name is Starkuthr): a hero who was blessed with a large lifespan, wisdom and being highly favoured by nobles*, but who was also* cursed to commit atrocities during his abnormally large lifespan, betraying 3 kings he served (explained in previous post):
- Irmin, the first king: he manipulated and killed him.
- Nibelung, the second king: he corruped him and started the war in the past.
- The HP, the third king: he will fuse with them to complete his god.
- Ratatösk (the squirrel motif on his sword and the character Woobakwa from the boar princess, explained in previous post): a squirrel who deliberately sets conflict beetween Hræsvelgr (HP) and Nidhogg (Nibelung), the eagle at the top and the snake at the bottom of Yggdrasil. The squirrel that creates the conflict beetween chaos and order.
Squirrel motif: Ratatösk. Origin of conflict.
- VITAL POINT: Odin was also the god who gave humanity the gift of poetry and since Ratatosk is the origin of conflict, it explains what we remarked of Hroptatyr/the villain giving humanity a story out of starting conflict.
Ad astra abyssosque, Travelers! From the stars to the Abyss!
The answer has been in front of us since the start! Katheryne tells us the answer everyday and we just ignore her!
When the time comes, the Traveler, unaware of their purpose, the one who foolishly explores the world, will be tasked with writing a new story upon the universe using our travel as a blueprint.
Create the Irminsul for the entire cosmos: ¨The World XXI¨.
The ¨universe¨ stands firm. You say: ¨My work is complete¨.
The golden lion bows its head,
And the silver tree sprouts buds.
Following all that is remembered,
The "world" stands firm.
- The 1st part of The World XXI talks about the HP creating the ¨world¨/Teyvat: ¨the fortune that wove the world¨.
You follow each tiny piece of your memory,
The "universe" stands firm.
- The 2nd part talks about the Traveler creating the ¨universe¨.
And they will need to comprehend the truth of the world that fighting a villain and searching for their sibling will show them.
- THE NATURE OF OUR TRAVEL: The truth is neither the stars nor the Abyss, but the travel beetween from one to the other and viceversa. ¨Memory¨ is ¨design¨.
- Therefore: ¨ad astra abyssosque¨.
- VERY IMPORTANT: If the Traveler was to write a story without understanding this, they would write a story without conflict, a blank book.
For a story without conflict is no story at all.
The sinners are the mistakes the Traveler needs to grow up, their stories, lessons for us to understand the value of failure and destruction.
A fictional story of a band of five heroes who go off on a dragon hunt. It is poorly written and structurally incoherent. Its value lies in the many lessons that can be learned from failure.
-Thrilling Tales of the Dragon Slayers
The five heroes are the 4 sinners and Dainsleif.
Hroptatyr is their writer.
A lotus proceeds from my mouth and flowers bloom on the page.
My words are wise and clear and my thoughts are sharp like lightning.
I joined this party because I couldn't find a job, and anybody can be a copywriter.
But I'm no writer, just a regular fellow in his mid twenties without an honest job.
It would not be crazy to assume that the ship that brought the twins had one 4th passenger. The two twins, the HP...
And a virus.
A corrupted program that one day, in a kingdom without gods, would grow inside a human.
It manifested in a Kaenriahn human, the mechanism for the Traveler to learn how to create a stable world: ¨the many lessons that can be learned from failure¨- TTDS.
And for Hroptatyr:
He is just a ¨mask¨.
Our labour is to understand who is behind that mask and start the ¨Age of Enlightment¨. Where the reader becomes a new writer.
¨Where the reader understands the role of the human who was never chosen to be the hero.¨
END OF CHAPTER 1/2
Before jumping into the 2nd post, remember that there was two great lies hidden in this post, and subtle (or maybe not so subtle) clues to find them.
Revealing the truth here would shackle the notion we have created of Hroptatyr and the one that Genshin has created for us about the universe so far, so I'll leave to the reader the choice of finding them by themselves or going to see the answer in the last chapter:
Ad astra abyssosque!
Posted Mar 9, 2026, 9:25 AM UTC