Footenotes: Apostate's Secret and the Destruction of the Multiverse

Took a moment to look up aspects of Morrigan

 

Sovereignty is a common one, which the Matriarch as "Her Avian Majesty" ect. fits perfectly.

 

The other two seems to be Death or some versions of precognition, information, turning the tide of battle, ect.

 

Parse could fit well then, which gives all three of them a connection to a cosmic force as well, since Parse was touched by the cosmic force that brought back omnitron.

 

Death is a harder one to fit though. Possible Expat, but that is iffy

Dark Visionary = precognition, info, turning the tide of battle. Fits to a T!

Matty/Visionary/Fanatic as the aspects of the Morigan is too juicy to not eat up!

That's a pretty big turkey for the holidays, Foote.

With Apostate and Fanatic, I would guess that some big force is out there that Apostate turned against, and he believes Fanatic is following them still, whether she is or not.

Perhaps human religion has been built around interaction with these forces.

If not specifically religion, maybe human interaction is a broader sense?

I'm kinda waiting for the 4th wall to break down and the "Cosmic Being" will be a "writing writer" sort of character. (if I may borrow a phrase from the Coheed and Cambria narrative. Common, you all see my forum avatar). If there are strong religious overtones to this Cosmic Being being "God" in a sense, the writer of a story is very much a creator (god) of his own story. 

For those not in the know, Coheed albums are one big epic space opera. Their 3rd album introduced the writer of the narrative as a character, who had to break the bad news to the protagonist that the only ending he could write that would bring him any peace was if he forced his character to destroy the universe from inside the story (by blowing up Star Transformer IV).  

https://greaterthangames.com/comment/50371#comment-50371

Maybe he wasn't kidding.

Maybe I just love reading too much into things  :sunglasses:

Vorlons and Shadows.

My suggestion would be Kismet, as I said elsewhere.

 

Edit : As a side note, Apostate's cards always remind me of this, an important symbol in the anime "Noir".

I just have one question. Is Christopher a reliable narrator?

In the Mini-Nemesis thread, Empyreon was brought up and I think there is a bunch of relevant stuff bring to the table in support of my theory.

Empyreon is very close to the word Empyrean. From the wiki:

"The Empyrean was thus used as a name for the firmament, and in Christian literature, notably the Divine Comedy, for the dwelling-place of God, the blessed, celestial beings so divine they are made of pure light, and the source of light and creation"

Empyreon looks like he is made of Energy. Its bursting from him. He even damages himself in his AoE, representing the energy disapating from him into offensive output. 

More Christian symbolism is being used here, and if we are going to connect some dots here, that means he could very well be connected to the Cosmic Entity. He could possibly be a part of The Host in some capacity, especially if we are to stick with the Cosmic Entity as God/Creator metaphor.

Speaking of that metaphor, something else occured to me. When talking about all the Odin and Norse mythology symbolism in my Matriarch deck, I compared Odin to the Cosmic Entity there as well. Funny thing, and this is a little simplified, but Odin is a form of the word "Father". Sorta like God for Christianity. Thats not really important itself, but its more evidence for Matriarch could be a part of this as well. 

If the Cosmic Entitiy turns out to be God I'll cry.

Trick Question. Christopher is God…at least as far as SOTM and GSF are concerned.

I highly doubt it will be that literal in execution. Its really more of a vehicle for me to base predictions off of (like Empyreon and Apostate having a very strong connection in the narrative). I'll admit that its a pretty big leap by itself without the metaphors and symbolism tieing that idea together. Its not too much of a stretch to think he's drawn from a bunch of classical texts for inspiration in his stories, whether conciously or otherwise.

Its less that the Cosmic Entity will be God as much as it is that the Cosmic Entity might have similar properties and themes to God

If Christopher turns out to be God, that's not so bad.

Or it's extremely bad. I can't decide. 

Cryptic allusions to what is going on in the future, slightly odd sense of humor, fosters a group of loyal fans who get access to special priviledges. . .

not too bad of an analogy.

So I am not sure who or what the morrigan is but a hero representing death… fixer? he did die, i think. Well he isn't wearing the hat in his promo.

The Morrigan is an Irish goddess of death on the battlefield, associated with crows.

On the back of the Vengeance box, is the guy on the left blasting Medico supposed to be Empyreon?  If not I have no idea who it is; he's got the blast coming out of his chest, so that's my best guess.

yes, its empyreon

I love all of this.

Footenotes are basically my favourite part of this forum. Now that I can stand by a computer at work, I finally get to read through this magic!