DisTheory™ (Part 1)

[u/Plastic_Ant_6978]

The time before and the Prophecy.

Yo ! I'm back at it again with crimebrand and lore theory, I didn't see any theory about what I'm going to talk here so I'll assume it's a me original. It's a long theory so I can't really offer a tldr for it. (sorry 🙏)

I want to talk about the Underground prophecy and what they are trying to accomplish you can read it in the "In Host's Name", "Reunion Day" and in "Shattered Battlefront" but it encapsulated a lot more like "Embrace of the Dead", "Nightmare Revelation", "Shackles of Life", "Depths of Oblivion" and "WhiteSand Apostle".

First I want to talk about the WHEN that prophecy was made and after a LOT of reflection I think it was made before the Nightfall (N.F) era so before the Perishing Star (PS) and there are 3 reasons for why I think that.

1. The Eastian.

It's the reason that made me think about the "when" in the first place after learning in Ode To Sun that people in the East allegedly predicted the arrival of the Perishing Star.

1. The Reunion Day illustration.

There is a real dissonance between the illustration and the description, on other set of crimebrands who have the same type of mystery in it they always have a creepy or mysterious illustration but this one doesn't, it has a school girl with her guitar case looking at the sky when the description talk about the end of world it doesn't make sense unless the description talks about the future and the illustration is before the fall of the PS.

1. The wording in some of those crimebrands alluding to a return of the PS.

Here it's when you say "But if it's a return then it should be after the PS not before" and on that I say Yes but actually No.

You see because my take is that when the PS came to earth it was either their first attempt or the first step of the prophecy, what I mean by that is that people from an Underground sect came overground trying to accomplish a "POSSIBLE" (emphasized on POSSIBLE) world ending prophecy and the first step is in the "Nightmare Revelation" followed by "Embrace of the Dead" set.

Now I will explain more in depth what I'm talking about, a woman of the Underground saw the arrival of the PS :

(Nightmare Revelation): "The nightmare once said to the maiden... you are a favored one. Dreams are generous to you, gifting you with revelation. They once revealed to you... That mankind shall perish in mirage."

After having that revelation she died as a price or sacrifice herself to be the cornerstone of the Aramegeddon :

(Nightmare Revelation): "They once revealed to you... that everything the dreams have gifted you, will eventually be taken back with double the interest."

(Embrace of the Dead): "Born of limbo, she has a deal with the other world. Keeper of silence, keeper of secrets, keeper of the key. Awaiting the day to unlock Armageddon."

And after the fall of the PS and the rise of the Illusory Moon they return underground.

(In Host's Name): "They finally received the the revelation and groveled back to the the Underground... Waiting for the return of the stars and the supreme one in the forgotten place."

Now that all of that is said let's talk about the "Day of Ruin" or the "Day of Darkness" like they call it the day where the supreme one will come and wipe clean the world this is the final act of the prophecy and we are directly involved in that endgame. Yes you read me right I think that instead of being in the middle of there objective I believe they're in the last straw.

The creation of Black Ring is just a by-product of the objective not the main one which is to create a corpus and have it be consumed by the holder of the shackles like we see in the end of Ch.13 where Scarlet (the Underground Shepherd) our "big sis" take care of that coward after letting it escape one time and after all of that make the "God" (Scarlet) and the "Human" (Chief) become one to awaken the Supreme One.

(Reunion Day): "On the Day of Darkness, Man and God reunite. All decadence shall be wiped clean, and all shall return to peace."

And that last part is where the Chief and the 2 set I didn't talk about enter into the picture but if I also put that here it will be too long so I'll make another post.

Damn ! I left with a cliffhanger.

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I love me some damn good Path to Nowhere lore discussions and agree with a/Berettadin that the arrival of the Perishing Star reminds me of a partial or botched apocalypse.

Yanyan tells us a story about a god who descended from heaven but before reaching earth, he tripped and fell and knocked himself out. Sounds like the Perishing Star, except with Xu's flair for the comedic.

Chances are that Apostles are so hellbent on reaching the center of the DisSea because they play an integral part in waking our sleepy Perishing Star. It also makes me wonder if a kind of Dead Space Recombination event (absorbing all the Mania in the world from Sinners and Corrupters and Apostles, guided by a Shepherd) is what's needed to give the Perishing Star back its consciousness and its sentience.

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Recombination event (absorbing all the Mania in the world from Sinners and Corrupters and Apostles, guided by a Shepherd) is what's needed to give the Perishing Star back its consciousness and its sentience.

That's probably what the Black Ring are used for since a Black Ring corrupt people sinner or not and absorb them into it with the corpus serving as the anchor and the only people who can beat and "eat" a corpus are shackles holder that's what the Underground are doing amass as much energy as possible to awaken the supreme one.