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[user1464576869]

12 hours ago, sinisterrkid said:

I never really understood why people put forth a theory that basically meant thulecite would be the opposite of special from the Ancient's own perspective. If it's just their own corpses or mutated flesh, the fact they had always used it for various purposes would go against both their society being peaceful and prosperous before the corruption, and thulecite being a precious material.

I mean, it's cool to imagine a material made of dead living matter until you remember that's basically what oil and plastic is.

Because it's cooler.

[Hornete]

I was looking at the Celestial Sanctum earlier and it really intrigued me personally. When fully built it looks like there's an angelic figure of some kind resting on it, and that reminded me about a certain figure from the Abrahamic religions Judaism and Christianity.

Uriel. Uriel was an angel who guarded the gate to the Garden of Eden. A Sanctum is a holy/sacred place which the Garden of Eden would be. The 2nd piece of the Celestial Sanctum (the one that looks like an angelic figure) is a ward, ward meaning a guard like how Uriel was.

Does this actually mean anything/help us figure out parts of the lore? I don't know, it's probably just a simple little reference to religious figures/events like how the salt stacks are a reference to the salt people.

I can't help but think if the "Alter" fellow that Maxwell mentions in his examinations of the lunar murals in the archives is supposed to be the angelic figure depicted on the Sanctum. It does sound like an Angels name to me personally. You could tell me it was the name of an abrahamic angel and I would believe you.

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Another piece of information I found is this, which really intrigues me because remember we find the two pieces of the celestial sanctum buried. Though this is probably just a stretch/coincidence

 

[Brubs]

LOVED reading your theories. I must confess i felt goosebumps when i saw the pictures you posted of the metheus puzzle, they make so much sense now!

Thank you for sharing!

[TheDoughboy1917]

Fantastic read! I'm glad I'm not the only one who likes to think this deeply into the lore!

[TemporaryMan]

On 10/18/2020 at 9:33 PM, sinisterrkid said:

I never really understood why people put forth a theory that basically meant thulecite would be the opposite of special from the Ancient's own perspective. If it's just their own corpses or mutated flesh, the fact they had always used it for various purposes would go against both their society being peaceful and prosperous before the corruption, and thulecite being a precious material.

I mean, it's cool to imagine a material made of dead living matter until you remember that's basically what oil and plastic is.

This is like telling goth girls that their black lipstick is just wood ash, while Natural Red 4 is made from crushed dead bugs.  You're not wrong, but shhhhhhh...

On 10/19/2020 at 10:25 AM, Cosheeta said:

Because it's cooler.

Now if you don't mind, I'll be re-evaluating the influences and life choices that led me to making this analogy because I still have enough Denial to freak out about it.

 

Anyhow, Wortox calls the moon "fickle."  Does its power wax and wane on a natural cycle, and could that be why the Ancients turned to supplementing with nightmare fuel?  Has Charlie jumpstarted the cycle by ripping a piece of the moon down so that it has greater influence just by proximity?

[user1464576869]

8 hours ago, TemporaryMan said:

Now if you don't mind, I'll be re-evaluating the influences and life choices that led me to making this analogy because I still have enough Denial to freak out about it.

It's funny how your analogy seems to think it's more appropriate to equate transmuted flesh as the wood ash and bug dung as crushed dead bugs?

[TemporaryMan]

@Cosheeta No, other way around.  We hoped they'd be made from macabre materials, but instead it's just moth dust.  Expectation versus reality.

[51m4y]

I don't know why but the deerclops skeleton has been bugging me. Like why is it there? 

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[ArubaroBeefalo]

47 minutes ago, 51m4y said:

I don't know why but the deerclops skeleton has been bugging me. Like why is it there? 

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because it dies and get fossilised

this shows that deerclops populate the constant since eons

[Monkey Cups]

8 hours ago, 51m4y said:

I don't know why but the deerclops skeleton has been bugging me. Like why is it there?

 

It's a common thing to see in cartoons. A transition to underground typically will show a dinosaur skeleton or something's bones.

[AncientKing]

they used nightmare fuel cus klei couldnt be bothered to make the mysterious white energy do anything so ye thats why they switched innit

[Mime]

On 10/17/2020 at 8:42 PM, YouKnowWho said:

One thing I find interesting is how we've actually seen Nightmare Ramparts before

 

And hey, considering the way these things spring up I'm pretty sure they might be where we get the obelisks.

Though, the thing on the left is itself called an ancient obelisk, so maybe we already knew that part.

bizzare that the new ones poop up with lettering on them i suppose?hm

[Well-met]

the old obelisks look nothing like the remparts though

[YesterdaysMindr]

On 10/15/2020 at 8:29 PM, Scypham said:

Maxwell's quotes indicate that there's a symbol that keeps repeating within the Glyphs and he implies it to be a name. His assumption seems to be that either the name itself is 'Alter' or whatever the name is translates to 'Alter' in some way.

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I wasn't expecting this crossover.