#the wol is the bug. the insulindian phasmid.

[myrfing]

ive said this before but i dont believe they were going for a “closed time loop” in ew exactly, nor was venat gunning for it. of course a part of her especially after sundering the world expects and hopes for the wol (as hope itself) but i dont believe it was all her grand design. and i hate to use side stories as evidence of anything but it is useful that it came after player reception to the story for her to explicitly state well that’s not the way it HAS to turn out. i think more than anything they wanted old etheirys to be a sort of time before time. yeah it takes a lot of uh suspended disbelief on the part of the player but that’s partially what I mean by amaurot is written as a place without history, even if it obviously should have one; a lot of things about it are weird and disjointed from chronology and cause and effect as if they’d appeared out of thin air onto the planet one day. i dont think this is fully literal a lot of things about it arent imo and everyone is pretty good at taking that in stride with nobody questioning how amaurot came about in the first place or what lead to their current society until they explicitly mention a bracket of time, and then everyone suddenly needs for it to make sense WHICHHH is understandable because obviously events told of amaurot are chronological but that doesn’t remove this aspect of it where it is lol no-place and a metaphorical cradle or uh egg. i think the sundering would have happened with or without the wol and the wol being in elpis functions as a glimmer of hope like an illusion or a trick or some unreal anomaly moreso than an actual timeline intrusion and that “time” as we know it begins ticking again only after the sundering. ok none of this makes sense and maybe more spiders will drop from my ceiling for this post but you all get me

#the wol is the bug. the insulindian phasmid.