So, Ouroboros. I've seen speculation that the Grandmaster is just straight up Aidios, due to her merciful nature and seemingly divine powers. But I don't think it's that simple. Ouroboros's ultimate plan is called the "Orpheus Final Plan." Orpheus is a character in a greek myth (Aidios (and her Japanese name, Eidos) are both greek words, meaning Eternity and Essence, respectively). Orpheus wanted to bring his lover Eurydice back from the underworld. I think that some time before the Collapse, Aidios "left" the human plane (I believe that Aidios must have been in the human plane at some point, because the Sept-Terrions are things that adhere to the laws of the world, and thus were probably "created" there), and the Grandmaster is trying to bring Her back by gathering all of Her treasures and that this will, as Vita puts it, "save the souls of all". Ouroboros and the Septian Church was originally one organization, but the Septian Church isn't about that resurrection mojo. Everyone who is an Enforcer is someone who has seen the "darkness" of the world and needs to be "saved".

So let's talk about the Divergent Laws! Loewe's sword was able to shatter the Aureole's barrier because it did not adhere to the laws of the human plane. The Grandmaster is someone who can access, or may even exist, on a different plane altogether, and can bring items from that plane into the human plane. That plane MAY be Gehenna, though what that would mean for the nature of the Grandmaster is difficult to answer. Is she a demon, the ruler of Gehenna? Getting back to the Divergent Laws for a bit, it's likely that whatever voodoo is baked into Rean is some sort of "Divergence", as Emma speculates might be the nature of McBurn's powers before he scares her into silence. Osborne may also be Divergent, or "mixed".

Speaking of Emma, when Rean asks her in CS1 at Lohengrin if her powers are some sort of church thing, Emma replies that it's the opposite. Those who use Thaumaturgy call on their powers from a higher plane, so the Hexen clan would then presumably call on their power from some sort of lower plane (not necessarily Gehenna). But if the witches are the "opposite" of the church, why are they tasked with guiding the Awakeners and the Divine Knights?

And that brings us to the question of what the Sept-Terrions in Erebonia are, as well as the nature of the Great Power. The Black Records state that there were two great gods, celestial titans, who fought because of their opposing natures. I'm going to make a wild, baseless assumption that these are the Sept-Terrions of Fire and Water. It's said that seven civilizations gathered around each of the seven treasures. These "celestial titans" may not just be the titans in Nord and Bryonis Island, but entire civilizations, and this conflict took place between the two of them and finally came to a head during the time of the Collapse, around the same time the Liber Ark was sealed away (one civilization faced mental annihilation, two others physical, as Weissman puts it). After this, all that was left were the two titans' "terrible kin", and the Great Power. The Divine Knights are fragments of the Great Power. If we follow the argument that the celestial titans also include the civilizations, the "terrible kin" may refer to all that remained of those - the ancestors of the people of Erebonia (and Nord).

So what - or more specifically, WHERE - are the Sept-Terrions? Here's where I'm missing out on quite a bit of stuff considering half of the Phantasmal Blaze Plan takes place in CROSSBELL WHEN, but I'm actually going to go ahead and guess that they don't necessarily exist anymore, and were "shattered" during the conflict between the titans, and to "reforge" them, the Divine Knights must come into conflict. That's why they exist in a loop - the Sept-Terrions are trying to bring themselves back into existence, but can only do so when all the Divine Knights do battle - and that's what will happen in CS3.

Terper fucked around with this message at 22:47 on May 8, 2017

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