#revserse 1999 lore

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More for the lore bible. We already knew they were sensitive to emotions but now we have some symptoms to work with!

Can these people stop hurting my beloved?? Mold-like bruises, as in blacks and blues?? Put her in a coma and mess up her legs wth. It went over my head the first time I read it for some reason. Definition of Paramecia from Wiki:

Paramecium/"paramecia is genus of eukaryotic, unicellular ciliates, commonly studied as a model organism of the ciliate group. Paramecium are widespread in freshwater, brackish, and marine environments and are often abundant in stagnant basins and ponds. Because some species are readily cultivated and easily induced to conjugate and divide, they have been widely used in classrooms and laboratories to study biological processes. The usefulness of Paramecium as a model organism has caused one ciliate researcher to characterize it as the "white rat" of the phylum Ciliophora.

Going to be honest, I think I know what they were going for here but its not as easy to understands as I like. Anyone want to dumb this down for me? The Paramecia here are the people in lab coats who hurt Vertin.

Mr. Man, please tell me the story of how these two made up after the break-away event. The second half is about Mesmer Jr. As an arcanist she is very vulnerable to the crazy emotions around her. Mesmer's story is actually pretty tragic. She didn't get like "that" out of nowhere.

They are the backbone of Laplace Rehabilitation Center. They're cursed with talent.

#reverse 1999 #revserse 1999 lore #sonetto #mesmer jr #reverse 1999 spoiler

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The Poussiere: A town reclaimed by by Critters

There is a story in the stage descriptions. I summarized it and added the original text under "Keep reading." Note: the Dust mentioned in the story is this:

Once upon this time, there was a town that specialized in broom-making. The brooms were used to sweep away high concentrations of Dust and chase away Critters attracted to the Dust. However, everything changed when the youngest son of one of the workshops built a flying taxi out of scraps. He sold it and made a fortune. The town shifted its priorities. Over 253,000 vehicles were sold globally every year. However, because the town switched to manufacturing flying vehicles instead of brooms, Dust accumulated and the Critters returned. The town ignored them and focused their resources on making more profit. Eventually, the Critters grew strong enough to conquer the town. Now They live as royalty among the rubble. They took no interest in the finer things left behind and like to wear rubbish.

You can actually see the abandoned vehicles and a TRAIN trying to escape the wilds that reclaimed them.

I interpret this story as being led astray by greed and losing sight of the important things. Ignoring problems doesn't make them go away and money can't solve everything. Original text below.

LP 1 (stages are labeled LP for some reason)

This was a paradise for humans. I remember its glory was as dazzling as a sun that drops to the ground.

LP 2

A broom-making town. Brooms are made to sweep the high concentrations of Dust as well as the constant skirmishes from the critters attracted by the Dust.

LP 3

Changes always arrive out of the blue. The youngest son of the broom workshop's made a flying taxi with a pile of scraps and sold it for a whole bucket of gold coins.

LP 4

Over 253,000 vehicles leave this place every year for various destinations around the world without coming back.

LP 5

No one cares how those little monsters stuff their bellies with stolen Dust. You can see how common they are.

LP 6 (Final Stage)

Now it belongs to them. These filthy, crazy little things dropped the fancy dresses and jewelry and put on abandoned cans and tires. They are squeaking aloud, like a king and a queen.

#reverse 1999 #revserse 1999 lore #im on a critter binge

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Reverse 1999: Sylvanus Shape

"Silvanus meaning "of the woods" in Latin) was a Roman tutelary deity of woods and uncultivated lands. As protector of the forest (sylvestris deus), he especially presided over plantations and delighted in trees growing wild. He is also described as a god watching over the fields and husbandmen, protecting in particular the boundaries of fields." (source)

Resources and Descriptions

Page of Plantal Vimen: A tattered page. Used for the ritual of Plant Insight I. To reach the skies, its roots grow deep into the earth to extract nourishments from decomposed life.

Scroll of Plantal Vimen: Incomplete scrolls. Used for the ritual of Plant Insight II. It shall keep growing till it smothers the entire sky, till it chokes every single space, till the deep green tide blankets everything in sight.

Tome of Plantal Vimen: A heavy tome. Used for the ritual of Plant Insight III. It is the source of every twig in the deep woods, every strand of moss and floating weed and the mother of every tree. All of them know you.

Themes (speculation based on stage context): life, growth, purification, rebirth, nurture, cultivation of efforts

SS 1

People treat saplings as a symbol of life. Saplings also treat people the same way.

SS 2

When the druids wore their floral crowns, every bird and tree in the forest sang with them.

SS 3

They arrived at the lake on the 5th day of Spring and washed themselves with the lake water.

SS 4

Everything was meant for the Forest Festival and it shall arrive with the night.

SS 5

The hidden one of the oak forest wore a robe of woven thorns and vines. Ravens and eagles hovered beside it, while its crescent-like sickle felled trees like wheat.

SS 6

The hall of deep woods stood above the crescent and beneath the shade of the tree. Within it lies fire, life, death, and rebirth.

Enemies

#reverse 1999 #revserse 1999 lore #insight

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I think Manus was at *some* point was far more peaceful I we see, as in chapter 3 when vertin and ring were reading the news, Manus was talking shit about foundation, but considering current Manus. They much rather to kill those news workers,

Because of this I think Manus was far more peach oriented at some point, it make sense when you think Manus is thinking foundation is the one causing the storm.

At first they tried to resolve the issue by peaceful means, even putting their dirty secrets on display, but after that didn't work Manus decided to take a far more active approach, like forget me not said "people from this era already going to die" does it matter that much if they are doing it the evil way? Since everyone is dying anyway. And they also lost their trust in humans completely after storm

What do you think? I know

Love me a world-building question! Thanks for the food for thought.

Manus Vindictae and the Foundation are parts of a much larger world.

Throughout history we’ve seen people handle discrimination in different ways because of their no consensus on what “equality” should look like. Some say we should start with a blank slate. Others believe that equality cannot exist without reparations for past crimes. There is a lot of debate on what equality looks like. While we don’t see arcanists in the main story fighting for their rights, I think it's safe to assume that it's going on behind the scenes in more peaceful movements.

Then there are those who don’t want equality, they want to reclaim their power. They want supremacy. This is the core of Manus Vindicate. I believe their extremist ideologies do not represent the whole of arcanists. Their existence revolves around the idea of vengeance for humanity’s past crimes.

Manus: hand

Vindictae: ceremonial act claiming as free one contending wrongly enslaved; vengeance

Chapter 3 is a beautiful example of propaganda. Their acts of "kindness" are part of a bigger scheme to recruit people to their cause by playing the part of the hero. “You don’t bite the hand that feeds you," encapsulates this mindset. They must bring people to their side to raise an army and grow support for their war against humanity. I don’t want to bring in too many real world politics to make this heavy, but by playing the act of savior they can manipulate people in very desperate situations. 

As for the Storm, its the best thing that could have happened for their agenda. They have means to erase humanity and thrive with pure-blooded arcanists. They also use the Storm to instill fear and doubt in people to bring them to their cause. They would go so far as to accelerate its arrival to push terrified people without shelter into a corner so they can use them. They also take away agency with the Masks they provide, blinding followers from the ugly reality around them.

While I believe there are peaceful protests elsewhere in the world, Manus has always existed in the name of revenge and violence.

#reverse 1999 #revserse 1999 lore #manus vindictae #world building