Soooo, The Arbiters are emanators .

The glorious emanator name drop has happened in this main story ,but to dissolve the denial I'll put every argument there is alongside all the necessary images .

Btw guys please ignore [image x] because i made this collection but during posting,app literally messed up the order.

First argument

"Yaoguang is compared to pearl she's clearly on fraudwatch" incorrect

Asat clearly takes a pause [image 1] to call her a "warlord" while he openly calls pearl "tenth of a pebble" , this is an old mention from 2.3 MSQ where the stonehearts are stated to be tenth of diamond. [Image 3] Merely listing them isn't a basis of comparison.

1. "jingyuan's mention in the dreamscape doesn't count since its not real"

The blackswan in the dreamscape is very real, its disingenuous to not consider it ; removing the line that blackswan said about emanators and replacing it with a standard "when 2 formidable forces collide" or something like that changes nothing for the story,it exists for the sake of confirmation, being a dream doesn't have anything in correlation because you can look from 2 perspectives ,either its a dream specific to trailblazer or its conjured purely by sunday, either way this means one of them thought jy and sunday are emanators .

1. "but in cn its stated "powers of emanators" for blackswan statement.

that just put the debate between spiritus and the general.

I'll make a comparison ,silver wolf 999 is not an emanator lvl without the cartridge but she's the one explicitly stated to be emanator. [Img 4]

Does this have people saying "the cartridge is an emanator"? No , alongside the fact that the generals ceremony exists,directly overseen by lan should already put the emphasis on generals and not the spiritus .

1. The chinese translation of emanator special article specifically highlights the generals in green the same way it highlights the ravagers in blue . Infact it highlights all emanator sections. [Images 6-7]

2. "Arbiter generals are like the stonehearts"

Incorrect, stonehearts have a portion of diamond's power,generals receive power from lan. Its like comparing a tenth of a pond vs a portion of the pacific ocean.

1. [Majority context in Image 5 ] The ingame lore sections + emanator special contain xianzhou as a faction meaning there's atleast emanators present in it .

Now why it isn't just hua is because in every arbiter general statement, it always

has generals and hua in the same sentence ,and in the context of broader cosmos or lan ,martial is always included within generals with no exclusive mentions . (You can see it in any images where arbiter generals will be mentioned)

Meaning arguing her as the only emanator is headcanon bogus, either all of them are or none of them are .

1. "Arbiter generals are weak ,because:

A) compared to pearl .

B) jingyuan didn't do well against phantylia"

Incorrect,

A) not only it was just a listing and not a comparison ,if you really want to get into comparisons ,welt directly compares them to lord ravagers and calls them "in no way inferior" [Image 8]

This statement also directly called them emanators in the beta [Image 9] but was omitted to be dropped later into the story such as this MSQ .

B) [ https://youtu.be/uszcHC0qLlo?si=4bkLLNDo7d6Yi3y0 ] Jingyuan did 95 percent of the work against phantylia in this fight ,she was amped first of all.

As per jingyuan ,the crew handled the flowers. (Can verify in the video)

The crew besides dan heng

were a non factor because of the fact all their damage dealt was rendered meaningless in the fight ,phantylia regened those flowers in third phase ,so jingyuan had to get a 1 time exclusive special ultimate (only very storywise important times is this ever given) to destroy all the flowers . (8:06 in the vid)

The crew was so incompetent they were basically unable to beat the ebon deer when it had its roots up,something with a narratively far weaker regen than the ambrosial arbor and far less durability than phantylia's body.

Speaking of phantylia's body

This statement of her using a mere disposable body is used to demean jy when thats nonsense because .

PHANTYLIA IS A HELIOBI ,you know? The creatures who take over bodies , a non corporeal form and a stolen body are meaningless

because this body in recent msq is stated to be "indestructible and immortal" [image 10]

Jingyuan is also the one weakening the arbor behind phantylia (see 10:30 in the vid)

Her appendages break thanks to jy and without dan heng doing anything .

Getting caught was part of the plan .

Dan just broke the link and he hit both jy and phantylia equally (the mental link's working we know thanks to simulated universe where the damage distribution blessing has always been under destruction category and simulated universe has always been consistent on it) [Image 11]

Jingyuan also actively mocks phantylia back "So much effort to crush us yet met with so little success,are we still ants to you phantylia"

As soon as the link is broken,very evidently she gets destroyed by LL immediately.

C) [Ik there's no point C but i am petty]

Jingyuan's predecessor another general ,Teng xiao has been stated to have killed shuhu multiple times but he always came back cuz immortality [IMAGE 12 ] ,clearly not combatively beating teng xiao whos already holding a narrative to be weaker and less competent than jy (seriously dude ,check huaiyan's dialogues he glazes jy to no end,credits destruction of living planet ketu mirage to him,proves his credibility in front of hua inspite of the quintet breaking ,destroying the borisin) . [Image 13]

Jy is also the longest serving as per feixiao, defeated the borisin in the war (arbiter trailer has him leading the forces, his ll making an attacking motion) ,he's also never lost a major ship in a war iirc but teng xiao has.

Not killing also doesn't mean he didn't beat shuhu , jingyuan's ll didn't kill jingliu ,she still lost the fight, acheron's slash didn't kill aventurine who IS tenth of a pebble too and was further weakened by his broken cornerstone and his entire plan was to die & he didn't.

D) Welt's statement again.

Alongside the fact the ideal scenario sunday(or the express crew) who have seen acheron's slash and its capability, think jingyuan as the most ideal aid to defeat sunday anyway in the dream.

E) feixiao vows to kill a ravager [Image 13]

For the people who were doing mental gymnastics to compare to pearl ,where are they to compare all the lord ravager comparisons and parallels like this?

1. Jingyuan says that only an emanator of ANOTHER aeon would be able to sneak on luofu without him knowing, he didn't say "an emanator" , he specified for another aeon. [Image 14]

9)" Emanators need to draw power from the path ,powers from aeon aren't enough."

Incorrect ,the worm aha gave power to doesn't independently draw power from elation now does it?.

This is baseless ,the internal lore claims emanators draw upon it with aeon permit.[image15]

The cartridge sw uses isn't her drawing the path's power either. Screwlumm states it to be "The aeon of elation's power" and not the power of elation. And even then its an external booster and not her drawing on it on her own.

10 )"what about fu xuan's eye from nous?"

The levels of power have to be considered.

Nous gave fu xuan the third eye but she isn't still beating yaoguang in anything.

Levels have to be accounted for.

The blessings of lan made the generals in the same ballpark as the ravagers who ARE emanators.

It would make no sense for the hunt to have multiple emanator level people who just aren't emanators .

The ceremony is also overseen by lan directly and Lan's entire narrative is that he's the most generous with blessings cuz his path is narrower while nous has an entire society of geniuses .

"It's fair to say that it ranks highly among the known forces in the universe.

Welt: The Path of The Hunt is narrow and doesn't stand out among the other Paths, but the Alliance enjoys the direct blessing of the Aeon. The six great ships of the Xianzhou are like brothers in arms.

Welt: Its power is much greater than those factions that simply draw their strength from the Paths themselves."

The blessings wary in power

1. ambiguous arguments

"Jingyuan isn't known for his martial prowess"

Disproved by jingliu [image 16]

"Jy is erudition in game"

No correlation to lore paths

Og sparkle is harmony cuz elation didn't exist for example.

"Phantylia is a weak ravager"

All ravagers (except zephyro whos mentioned with glaze sometimes) are always collectively referred together and the term is used as a tier of power

Just because her approach of destruction is different, one can't headcanon she's weak.

Plus she's amped and immortal here so thats out of the window.

Now after all this if someone still denies it then its an issue with their media literacy i am so sorry.

The generals could be written in a line with a tag "emanator" and people would still deny due to confirmation bias.

This post from someone is also solid. https://www.reddit.com/r/StarRailLore/s/7XqCtTvBqi

Do you think its because of his Coreflames rather then Nanook's golden blood? I ask this because with Asat equating Pearl as a 10th of an Emanator with her Cornerstone, it brings to mind the Coreflames of Amphoreus. The Coreflames are part of Irontomb's authority and as we've been told literally pieces of Destruction. Thus people have often equated Demigods with Stonehearts given the similar scenario being gifted power by an Emanator.

For Phainon, he is always in a weird space. Being rated Invalid puts him in the category of Emanator following the Rating Pistol theory, yet people have always argued on the reasoning behind it. One that it could be Nanook's Golden Blood that merged with him, yet he gave it away so he is no longer an Emanator. Other that they plan to make him into a Lord Ravager in the future and this hints to that. Could be but why be rated now?

Im now thinking, couldn't it just be because of all the Coreflames he accumulated, which as told in the Eternal Page he still possesses? Like if Stonehearts are considered Emanators, yet aren't rated Invalid because only wielding a tenth of their power. Is the reason why Phainon is different just because of the sheer quantity of Coreflames he has acquired on his long journey, which when ignited allowed him to scratch Nanook before even getting the drop of golden blood? Does all that make sense? What is your opinion of it all?

I’ve been looking into the "Approaching Science: The Mysterious Dark Zone" readable, and it explains some fundamental physics of the Aether Network that link directly to Mythus the Enigmata.

The Aether as a Non Causal Substrate

The document states that the Aether is a higher-dimensional structure where the Second Law of Thermodynamics is reversed.

• Entropy decreases instead of increasing.

• Effect can precede cause.

• The constancy of the speed of light simply vanishes.

By making the cosmos dependent on this network, Mythus has integrated a layer of reality where "Truth" (which relies on cause and effect) cannot exist. If causality is broken at the network level, any information transmitted through it is fundamentally subject to the Enigmata.

Dark Zones: The Mechanism for Universe Rebirth

The text describes Dark Zones as unstable "black holes" within the Aether that harbor every possibility. It mentions a school of thought where a Dark Zone once reached the surface, causing the destruction and rebirth of the entire universe.

This suggests that Dark Zones aren't just anomalies; they are "possibility engines." When the universe moves toward a fixed state likely the Finality Mythus can theoretically use these zones to reset the cycle.

Mythus vs. Terminus

The document concludes with the idea that even after the Finality reaches its finale, Mythus could "reboot" the universe.

If Terminus the Finality represents a linear path toward an end, Mythus represents a circular one. By "sculpting" the universe into a form where they can intervene through the Aether, Mythus ensures that the end of time is never actually final. The Aether Network wasn't built by humans; it's a natural existence that Mythus uses to keep the universe in a state of perpetual, unresolved mystery.

Mythus uses the Aether’s reverse entropy and the Dark Zones' "possibilities" to act as a cosmic reset button, preventing the universe from ever reaching a definitive conclusion (The Finality).

During Herta's society meeting, eight portal appeared. Does that mean, counting Herta and Screwllum, there are 10 active genius in the game right now? (11 if you count Zandar clones)

#81 Ruan Mei, #64 Dr. Primitive, #23 Acha, and #4 Polka accepted the call.

#84 Stephen Lloyd is busy so he declined.
#55 Yu qingtu declined but Herta mentioned her to still be active somewhere.

how about the other two that declined? any mentions or lore that refers to them?

Cool reference to the emenators seen in the anni artwork during the TB's conversation with Evanescia (?):

Jing yuan being the general who doesn't disappoint;

Herta is the genuis who leads the stars;

Cyrene as the crystal flower that embraces the world;

Acheron is the watcher of the river of forgetting;

And Phainon is of course the sun destined to rise. Interestingly he's mentioned at the end, implying some sort of extra significance.

I know this is extremely early for any discussion as it just released, but the climax for Plan Arcadia is nearing and we're about to head off to Astropolis in maybe 4.4 or 4.5... So this post is mostly about the main lore drops as well as some interpretations of mine.

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Aha steals a baby:

So Evanescia tells the story of how a "meddler" aka Aha the Elation broke into Yaoshi the Abundance version of Garden of Eden and steals at least a branch of the most vibrant and luscious flora in there... To plant it in Planarcadia and teach it what Elation is.

Which became the Panarch Elwood and Evanescia as a person after witnessing countless Phantasmoon Games, all different kinds of "Elation".

Truly an Aha moment.

(At least, from what I could interpret)

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Graphia and Evanescia:

So Graphia is still somehow alive and slumbering deep in Planarcadia. Himeko and Ryusuke about to meet their ancestor. Speaking of which, Ryusuke's tone sound so off and suspicious like he sounded guilty of something...

Evanescia past Ego fighting the "Phoenix of the Xianzhou" (Marshal Hua?) is a big feat for her resume. Though she lost, it still didn't deny the fact besides that lost, she had won every single duel in her life. As potentially an Emanation (not Emanator) of Abundance that's enlightened by Elation and understanding mortal feelings, it's nice to see a change of perspective for the Abundance.

Though all this talk about arbitrations and adjudications makes her sound more like a Pathstrider of Equilibrium, but it's nothing much but grasping at straws.

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Stellaron and convergence of wishes:

As reveal in 3.8 "Memories are the Prelude to Dreams", the Stellarons are in fact the Harmonic Cancer of Xipe the Harmony. It really helped us out this time due to the compatible nature of the Stellaron design to gather desires and grant wishes with Planarcadia's wishpower.

But Alter-ego Evanescia did warned us had we not been able to control it, we would have essentially trigger a Stellaron eruption on Planarcadia and multiple the problem of Abundance by like a hundred-folds.

Which did made me wonder... None in the community have ever pointed out on the possibility of a Stellaron hidden in Planarcadia. It could very well be the Phantasmoon itself!

I mean, even Amphoreus had a Stellaron in its plot.

Just what is the Harmony planning... To cause a universal merge on a scale even the Abundance haven't attempted? Causing Finality?

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Shuhu's finale and Blade's rebirth(?):

With Blade's "funeral" coming up in 4.3, I do wonder... Will Hoyo actually do it? Will we finally see a playable character's death?

Even the Chrysos Heirs and Cyrene were basically "AFK" for now.

Will Blade finally get his rest? Or will this be his rebirth? Yingxing purged of his immortal flesh and overbearing memories? The key to curing Mara-Struck?

Either way, I hope the Weekly Boss will be Shuhu inside Blade's psyche like with Feixiao.

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Asat Pramad sinister plot:

The Lord Ravager has finally tear off his mask and reveal himself. The "Demon Lord that Ravaged Planarcadia" in the past...

What other aces he is planning to reveal? Even in the face Silver Wolf Lv.999, this guy didn't even flinched.

Perhaps mess with Blade/Shuhu a little more?

Or stir the slumbering horror deep in Planarcadia?

Or let the Aeon THEMSELVES cause the Destruction?

Goes to show that he doesn't care at all how this will ultimately end for anyone or him... So long as the Elation is doomed for Destruction, that's all will we ever get to know of him for now...

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Fragment of Oroboros divine corpus:

To no one's suprise, the IPC actually has a secret agenda than to make profit and protect the world. I mean... It's kinda obvious.

Like why would the IPC invest so much on a planet governed by the most chaotic ideology even though they already have Astropolis and other worlds. Added to the fact sending an executive member, a Stoneheart, Pearl of Appraisal, on this singular planet to become its CEO? As if the IPC was ever that generous but I digress. It's also a personal matter for Pearl.

Anyhow... The or at least a fragment of Oroboros the Voracity divine corpus lies deep in Ahatopia? Why would THEY be there? Of all Aeons, Aha decided to mess with an Aeon who literally could not care less about life.

What could the IPC be planning? What is this "Blueprint of Preservation" that they mentioned? Is this the IPC's first move in the War Among Aeons or is it of Qlipoth's will?

If you ask me, they should probably concern themselves with Archforger, you know... The Lord Ravager that's meant to bring ruin to the Preservation? Unless the IPC doesn't actually care for Preservation?

In hindsight... Is the Ego actually just a "bait" of the Voracity to lure in prey?

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Sidenotes:

Torn Scrolls: Perhaps due to the action of Alter-ego Evanescia, she accidentally left open gaps in the World on Canvas and exposed the fragments of Oroboros the Voracity?

Hunt Foresight Philosophy: No temperance, no different from the Destruction. With discipline, understanding and coexistence with Abundance Denizens.

Phoenix of the Xianzhou: Marshal Hua?

Mini-theory: Kuchiba is Himeko?

Although it has been debated whether or not all members of the Genius Society are Emanators, I personally believe...yes, ALL of them are indeed Emanators

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It has been stated that Aeons grant Emanators varying degrees of powers as most understand it.

So it doesn't have to necessarily mean for one to become an Emanator, you have to be on the same levels of destructive firepower as say the Lord Ravagers.

Being an Emanator means to be an extension of the will of the Aeons and have direct power source connected to the Aeons via Imaginary Energy.

Lord Ravagers are clearly very powerful because they embody Destruction, which are easily noticeable.

Same goes for Abundance Emanators like Shuhu or Wingperor, they are capable of cellular growth on planetary scale, it's easy to demonstrate such powers.

Whereas Emanators from paths like Harmony, Equilibrium, Nihility, Hunt, and Erudition are more nuanced.

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Harmony:

The Harmonic Strings of Harmony are only powerful comparable to how many Family members pray for them. Each Harmonic Strings have different degrees of powers.

Eternal Centurion is meant for punishment.

Harmonious Choir is meant for festivities and wishes.

Blissful Ball is I assume to be for diplomatic purposes.

And Panacoustic Theater I think is meant for submission and conversion.

They are only as influential as the number of people praying for them.

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Equilibrium:

The Arbitrators are likened to god-like beings on some worlds they influenced. It can be assumed they are all Emanators or at least some of them are.

According to an Intellitron on the Feldspar, Arbitrators have multiple paths connection inside them which I assume means that they achieve equilibrium state for balancing themselves paths.

Arbitrators are ranked based on Tiers, with the closest to mortals being Knot-Tier. Which I assume that the highest Tiers are those of Emanator status that can influence the state of planets or even galaxies.

They aren't inherently powerful in destructive sense but can definitely influence all things to be equal in some way. Which means influencing causality itself.

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Nihility:

I think some misunderstand the capabilities of Nihility Emanators. It's not about destructive firepower but more about Negation.

They can effectively negate the powers of other paths because of their core philosophy which is nothingness and void of meaning. There's nothing anchoring them so it's more than Acheron's Naught slash are negating the values of Imaginary Energy in other Paths.

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Hunt:

I'll be straightforward and say I do not understand the powers of the Hunt. And I personally think it's just Hoyo favouritism on Chinese culture.

I mean I guess you could interpret it as a literal metaphor for a Hunter.

The Lightning Lord represent the steadfast of a Hunter.

The Flying Aureus represent the swiftness of a Hunter.

The Kalacakra Skyplume represent the accuracy of a Hunter.

But this is so nuanced and bias way to include powers meant for other paths. Basically saying "Hunt can do anything" even though it's explicit stated to be a narrow path.

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Erudition:

The Genius Society members are said to act as neurons for Nous the Erudition to expand into the wider cosmos.

They are also stated to be personally invited by Nous to join this Genius Society. Though I think this is more of Nous just acknowledging their capability and not an invitation towards a private club.

Confirmed Emanators of Erudition are Zandar, Dr. Primitive, and Herta.

But I think it's very possible that every member is an Emanator. Their powers could possibly be linked to their intelligence heightened rather than straight firepower. This is the path focus on knowledge after all.

I mean, look at other members:

Polka can seemingly erase all info on her and the one to create Device IX which Acheron is searching.

Rubert I created the anti-organic equation which can easily influence all things towards perfection.

Rubert II literally tried to replace Nous via creating thousands of planet-sized supercomputers.

Ruan Mei has been experimenting to create an Emanator which she partially did.

And Screwllum is the Emperor of Intellitron who in the past led a rebellion against Rubert, the owner of Planet Screwllum which he probably created, whose fleets included planet-sized mechs... Need I say more for this guy?

Suffice to say I believe all Genius Society members are Emanators, it's just that some pursue more grander ambitions while some hides in darkness. Or be like Stephen Lloyd who doesn't care.

We haven't seen a lot of them because some are already dead or some enter Nous Temple which means they already understood the Aeon's intentions.

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Aeons are not affected at all whether THEIR Emanators are gone or not. Aeons have limitless access to Imaginary Energy so there's really no reason to suspect that THEY can just make more than hundreds of Emanators if THEY want to. It's just that most rarely paid attention or even able to recognise the wills of mortals.

Besides... The cosmos is so big, there's trillions upon trillions of living and non-living things in the universe.

84 people being Emanators is infinitesimally minute compare to the larger universe.

With 4.2 confirming that the Voracity will be a central plot in Planarcadia and maybe Astropolis, I'm here mostly to speculate on the timeline of events in Planarcadia before the Cinderath age (aka the arrival of the Destruction). Well... Not the most detailed one, just to point out parallels on a story I read in Divergent Universe.

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This theory comes from the "Moonlit Tales: Do Aeons Weep for Time?" in Divergent Universe: Arcadian Chronicles.

"Here, a pink-haired lady (presumably Evanescia) recounted a tale before the era of the Phantasmoon.

It was an era before the Destruction ever arrived... Even before the Elation blessed the land... It was a mostly recognised for its arts... Until the 'Serpent with a Hundred Heads' came from beyond the sky. It coiled around Planarcadia, on the verge of devouring everything in its venom..."

From my understanding... Planarcadia originally had a normal moon in its sky.

This "Serpent with a Hundred Heads" could be logically assumed to be Oroboros the Voracity, here to devour another planet under THEIR endless intemperance.

Or perhaps, merely one of THEIR mouths simply stumble upon this tiny planet.

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"The Kingdom of Stars sent their most powerful knights to defeat this evil once and for all.

The Lunar Knight severed its head while the Wax Knight melted its body. The Knights all played their part as they finally severed the last immortal head."

This kingdom may refer to a civilization before Benzaitengoku, who had "knights" to defend their home.

These knights must be immensely powerful to defeat Oroboros the Voracity. Though I think this actually just means they severed one THEIR many mouths that just so happen to reach this planet. Perhaps they had an Emanator of Beauty defending their home? This world is famous for its arts. Arts are also a fundamental aspect of Beauty, it's what express a person's inner subjective value.

But even a fragment of the Divine Corpus of an Aeon is fatal to any planet...

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"No one could have foreseen the corpse of the immortal serpent refused to die. Its fangs pierced the armour of the knight, and even the moon itself.

The Lunar Knight descent into madness, frenzy fueled by the very moonlight.

Doctors were summoned, yet none had a solution for such conundrums to heal the sick moon."

So it seems like the fragment of the Divine Corpus had a very negative impact on mortals. Perhaps, due to the Path of Voracity... The Lunar Knight was consumed by unending hunger, unable to suppress such intemperance.

I would like think that the doctors here refer to the Doctors of Chaos because there are a lot of similarity of the Voracity and the Nihility... At least, the Doctors of Chaos try their best to bring back reason and meaning onto a Self-Annihilator. Perhaps they could help?

Unfortunately, healing such sickness inflicted by the Divine Corpus is utterly futile to mere Pathstriders. It's like trying to heal Blade of Shuhu's flesh but worse.

Fortunately, the Laughter seems to take interest of this planet after managing to sever fragments from an Aeon.

(This is a monumental achievement for them, it took Phainon a lot to scratch Nanook and this world also scratch an Aeon. But I digress, maybe the mouths of Oroboros are more physical in nature and therefore much easier to sever.)

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"Suddenly one day, a ship made of ice creams, donuts and cakes flew straight into the moon.

By the show's laughter, it drew in the sprites of mountain, water, earth, and sky. One after another, they leaped into the lake, passed through the mirror of its surface, and entered the very heart of the moon.

The Lunar Knight reclined sideways upon the curtain, letting out occasional guffaw (laughter)."

I speculated that this ship is the same crashed ship seen on the Phantasmoon, just stuck there. It carried a massive amount of Imaginary Energy from the Path of Elation and the most enchanting branch from the ethereal garden of Yaoshi the Abundance.

Through this ridiculous method, Aha the Elation blessed the land and merge the Lunar Knight with the moon itself. And transplant the branch into the moon to become the Panarch Elwood and eventually Evanescia. Such a dubious way to cure it with laughter, to satisfy that endless hunger with abundant joy. Whilst also entrapping the fragments of the Divine Corpus within the moon. Which I think the Phantasmoon Courtyard is on the dark side of the Phantasmoon.

But I also wanted to add... That the ship may also carried a Stellaron within it. The Stellaron responded with the Path of Elation, harmonising with it to create what we now know as Wishpower. Which is why Imagenesis looked a lot like Dreamweaving. The Harmonic Cancer is the catalyst and anchor for desires.

Thus born the first Imagenae, the Phantasmoon. A sentient Moon that revels in all manners of Elation.

Along with it the ancient era of Benzaitengoku. Including Great Strangelings like Thundercoil and Kraken the Tavern Owner.

(P.S. During the 4.2 boss fight, Fulwich mentioned how the Trailblazer use the Stellaron to siphon Wishpowers into themself.)

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But before I end this theory, I would like to direct your attention to another dubious tale told by Evanescia in 4.2...

"Eons ago, in the Master of Immortality (Yaoshi) mysterious ethereal garden, of which the flora were so abundant in such intensity that they suffocated all other life. A meddler (Aha) quietly sneaked into the garden, proceeding to plucked out the most enchanting and luxurious branch.

After that, Alter-ego Evanescia wandered the cosmos, guiding Elixir Seekers to a way they can get the elixir of life (immortality). Basically, Alter-ego Evanescia was practically an Emanator of Abundance who went undefeated safe for getting beat up by Marshal Hua.

The severed branch screamed in protest. For before being gifted with eternal life, she was a divine envoy leading her kin in search of the elixir of life. A beast of blind love and hatred, a sword dancer who devoured the Crimson Moon... So proud this girl was, never knowing defeat, safe for the Phoenix of the Xianzhou (Marshal Hua).

That meddler transplanted her to another world. Through such a method, THEY imprisoned the most horrifying horrors of this world within the annals of history..."

TLDR, Aha the Elation broke into Yaoshi the Abundance version of the Garden of Eden and pluck out Alter-ego Evanescia from the garden. Truly an Aha moment.

Back then, Alter-ego Evanescia was also an Elixir Seeker and actually was then gifted with eternal life. She, unlike the Xianzhou, never regretted her actions. Probably because she is compatible with the Abundance.

She got forced kidnapped by Aha to then be forcefully planted into another world which is Ahatopia. Out of sheer audacity, THEY promised her to teach what Elation is in exchange of staying her here... Which she agreed.

Through endless years of Phantasmoon Games, Alter-ego Evanescia was enlightened by the Elation into mortal desires and emotions, having her "Aha" moment. My best guess is that she will eventually relinquished most of her authority over the Abundance to be kept in the Panarch Elwood to keep at bay the fragments of the Voracity.

And then build herself a new identity, one that is "Evanescia". A girl who enjoys life for years to come. Infinite life, infinite joy.

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Sidenote:

I do wonder if the Wax Knight could have transformed into Thundercoil which then can include him into the plot. Or maybe the knight is the ancestor of Graphia. Who knows.

This is the third iteration of my theory that i had in 4.1

With the recent DU expansion, there came a very interesting part of the Moonlit Tales which, in my opinion, describes the creation of the Phantasmoon Games, and I decided to dig deeper into its implications. I was not surprised that it was a massive fate reference at all.

I also refined it using the readables in Planarcadia, especially the “Cake of God Hypothesis”.

And most importantly, the recent 4.2 has soft-confirmed this theory:

>>!Kuchiba: "The remains of the Aeon Oroboros are on Ahatopia, right?"!<

This was the excerpt of it:

>"The pink-haired girl lay by the tree, letting out a lazy yawn."

 -Is probably referring to Evanescia. See below for the explanation.

>"What a coincidence. I saw that troupe master not too long ago. She was standing backstage, conducting a chorus of singers cut from cardboard."

The "cardboard" singers represent how the history of the Swarm Disaster and Voracity has been flattened into a flimsy, harmless play for the public to consume — advertising it from a 2D view, without actually telling the real (3D)

>"Sing of that ancient era, of the Imperator Insectorum's birth. Did the first Mourning Actors lend their Gondola to the Fools, or was it stolen by them?"

This confirms the timeline is the Swarm Disaster. It suggests that the two sides of Elation, the Mourning Actors and Masked Fools clashed or combined to build the "Gondola". Though Gondolas are attributed to Mourning Actors in general.

This is actually directly backed up by the Swarm Disaster readables. The text states that:

"a blurred ripple appeared in a goblet, which the Masked Fools interpreted as a message from Aha, calling them to assist other Aeons. In response, the Masked Fools stole a gondola from the Mourning Actors and embarked on a journey through the stars — a journey that would last many Amber Eras, with passengers from all worlds and factions joining along the way."

That's both sides of Elation — the Mourning Actors and the Masked Fools — operating the same vessel during the Swarm Disaster period. The Gondola as coalition transport is confirmed.

>"In an era before the moon had risen, a serpent with a hundred heads coiled upon the earth. Its venom corroded the land, seeping along the horizon to permeate the starry sky."

The events of this myth predate the formation of the Phantasmoon by Aha themselves. The serpent is most likely Oroboros, the Aeon of Voracity.

>"The Kingdom of Stars sent its most gallant knights, vowing to slay this wicked monster once and for all."

A coalition of Aeons basically ganged up to fight Oroboros.

>"The Lunar Knight severed its head with the crescent, the Wax Knight melted its body... The knights all played their part, finally severing the last immortal head."

The Lunar Knight is most likely Aha themselves. The Wax Knight is likely Qlipoth "melting the body" suggests Qlipoth attempting to physically entomb Oroboros, while Aha handled the conceptual "heads." (or the concept of hunger)

>"But none could have foreseen that the giant serpent's corpse refused to die."

Even with all of that, they still couldn't finish off Oroboros. You can't kill "Hunger." The Path of Voracity exists even if the Aeon's physical form is shattered.

>"Its fangs pierced not only the knight's armor but also the moon itself.

Oroboros didn't just wound Aha — it bit through the Phantasmoon itself. Which actually raises some questions on this matter. The “The Cake of God Hypothesis” suggests that Aha is infected with the Voracity. But then again, i’m not so sure on this one.

The ”Cake of God Theory”:

>The prototype of imagenae originated from a cake baked by Aha when THEY were starving while being hunted by other Aeons during the Swarm Disaster.

>THEY used debris from a divine battle (presumably biomatter left behind when the Propagation and another Aeon pulled each other's hair) as eggs, sugar stolen from the "World's End" as seasoning, and finally plucked a leaf from Yaoshi to replace flour, creating the perfect Cake of God. (Note: Some scholars see this as proof of Yaoshi's existence during the Swarm Disaster, but the Baking School generally maintains this is a textual error and is dedicated to restoring the true "flour.")

>For many years after, Aha missed that flavor dearly. THEY sought various ingredients to recreate the universe's best cake. These materials piled up like construction materials beside Qlipoth, eventually forming Planarcadia. THEY built a giant oven to heat the cake, a tool later known as the Phantasmoon. It is said that Aha's tears of joy fell when THEY successfully remade the Cake of God using a cup of gasoline, two races, and three limericks.

>In time, countless chefs gathered here to learn from Aha. Millennia later, a master baker finally recreated the Cake of God using soil, ink, and stories based on the Miracle. Thus did she name them "imagenae." And her name was Graphia.”

In this sense, in order to satiate the Voracity mixed with Aha or whatever interpretation of this excerpt was, Aha created the Phantasmoon as the “perfect cake of god” which is the process itself of creating imaginae. The “perfect Cake of God” is a mythic metaphor for the first successful creation of the Phantasmoon‑type system — a self‑sustaining engine built from the essential ingredients that make imagenae and Wishpower possible. In this symbolic recipe, the components represent fundamental forces: divine debris (raw matter or substrates that can be shaped), sugar (the raw emotional energy or desire that Wishpower is conceptually tied to), and the leaf of Yaoshi (representing life‑sustaining Abundance). Combined in the right conditions, these forces produced not a literal dessert but a lasting structure of Wishpower generation and life creation, which in the actual lore became the Phantasmoon — the first imagenae born of collective attention and imagination and the celestial body that anchors the Phantasmoon Games.

From that “cake event,” the Phantasmoon continued to emit Wishpower, drawing attention and imagination that spawned other imagenae and led to the establishment of the Phantasmoon Games as a cycle of spectacle and desire generation. The result — as mythologized by the Cake of God story — is not simply one perfect creation but a self‑perpetuating feedback loop in which desire fuels creation and creation fuels further desire, embodied in the moon itself and in the diverse species of imagenae it sustains.

Actually, I am sure now, because Aha's Fables says it plainly:

"Aha wandered the desert for nine days and nights, hollow with hunger and parched with thirst. Suddenly, THEY encountered a great serpent. Aha said to the beast, 'O Great Snake, if you give me but a single drop of water, I will grant you anything your heart desires.' The serpent demanded THEIR promise be honored and swallowed Aha's head in a single gulp. Having no mouth, Aha could never eat again, left only to savor that final 'aftertaste' for all eternity." That's the infection. The serpent swallowing Aha's head is Oroboros biting into them and grafting the Voracity hunger permanently onto Aha's conceptual framework. "Having no mouth, Aha could never eat again" doesn't mean they starved — it means the hunger they now carry can never be satisfied, because it isn't their own. The "aftertaste" is the permanent residue. Aha is starving on a hunger they can't feed and can't remove.

>"The wounded Lunar Knight was seized by madness from that day forth, his descent into frenzy fueled by the very moonlight."

The Phantasmoon is meant to reflect Elation — but it's been "bitten" by Voracity, so it now reflects predatory joy instead. Aha's "Elation" became fused with the "Hunger" of Voracity. The moonlight now radiates that madness.

So the “moon” in that passage is not a fully formed Phantasmoon yet. It is the idea of the moon — the seed of what it will become, being struck by the hunger force. It’s still in a proto state.

This matches the Cake of God foundation: Aha is “starving” not because they are literally eaten, but because the need to respond to that hunger was grafted into THEM.

>"Doctors were summoned, but nobody knew what to do for the sick moon. That is, until a ship crafted from ice cream, donuts, and cake sailed straight into the moon."

This is most likely the Mourning Actors/Masked Fools attempting to save Aha. They couldn't remove the fangs — so they coated them in sugar instead. 

Aha did not create a pure Phantasmoon — they created a Phantasmoon fused with hunger because the creative act happened under the influence of Voracity.

Therefore in this case,  the “sick moon” represents the Voracity‑corrupted creative force of Aha, the Phantasmoon in its proto-form. 

When the first Mourning Actors (Doctors) —the initial Supplicants—arrive, they are faced with a crisis they cannot directly heal. 

To manage the corruption, they transform it into spectacle, crafting the “Dessert Ship” that becomes the first Phantasmoon Games. 

They twisted the wound into a "Dessert Ship," essentially trying to lure in desire.

 This ship is the birth of the Phantasmoon Games. 

They turned a big danger into something people wanted, so nobody noticed the threat.

>"The show's laughter, drifting on the moonlight, drew in the sprites of mountain, water, earth, and sky. One after another, they leaped into the lake, passed through the mirror of its surface, and entered the very heart of the moon."

This is most likely connected to the Phantasmoon Games. The games are an event designed so that Voracity will be fooled. The "sprites" (participants) think they're going to the heart of the moon for a wish. In reality, they're batteries. Their Wishpower (Desire) is fed directly into the seal to keep the Serpent's fangs busy chewing on fantasies instead of reality.

This line illustrates how the Phantasmoon Games function as a mechanism: the “laughter” represents the collective engagement and desire of the participants, which acts as the fuel for the system. 

The sprites of mountain, water, earth, and sky symbolize all life and imagination in Planarcadia being drawn in—essentially, every source of Wishpower. 

By “leaping into the lake” and “passing through the mirror,” they are entering a controlled sub-reality or conduit that channels their desires directly into the heart of the Phantasmoon

Similar to Fate's Holy Grail War, participants are drawn in by the promise of wishes, and by passing through the "mirror," they enter a sub-reality where their collective Wishpower acts as conceptual "food" to keep the serpent occupied. 

The Phantasmoon readable confirms its dual function explicitly: "The Moon of Elation hanging high in the sky of Planarcadia. The Wishpower of the entire arcadia converges and flows here. Laughter indicates that the world is safe and sound, while sadness indicates that the world is in imminent danger." The moon is both the collection point and the status monitor. Laughter means the seal is holding. Silence means it isn't.

>"The Lunar Knight reclines sideways upon the velvet curtain, letting out the occasional guffaw."

Aha watches and monitors. That's why they grant their authority over the Games. 

By advertising the Phantasmoon Games, they continuously generate more Wishpower to keep Voracity at bay in Planarcadia, because Wishpower/Imaginae are born out of Desire and Voracity is Hunger itself. 

The "guffaw" is a status signal, as long as the Knight is laughing, the seal is holding. If the Knight goes silent, the frenzy takes over.

That first cake is essentially the seed of the system: the mechanism by which desire, or Wishpower, can be harvested and channeled to keep Voracity in check.

 Over time, as the system needed refinement and scaling, Aha collected the “construction materials” beside Qlipoth—these aren’t literal ingredients but symbolic: raw energies, fragments of Aeons, leftover life from the Swarm Disaster, or even the nascent thoughts and desires of the first Imaginae. 

They form the building blocks of Planarcadia/Beizaitengoku itself, the stage on which the Phantasmoon Games will run indefinitely.

The final line about “Aha’s tears of joy” signals that the system works. 

The cup of gasoline, the two races, and the three limericks aren’t literal recipes—they represent the carefully balanced inputs needed to keep the cycle going: fuel (gasoline) for energy, sentient life (two races) to generate desire, and cultural/memetic structures (three limericks) to structure the Games and attract participation. 

In other words, Aha observes the Phantasmoon Games, sees the seal holding against Voracity, and finally feels that the prototype Cake of God has succeeded as a functioning, self-sustaining system.

>"The troupe's performance lasted an entire day and night. Packed in among the sprites in the audience, I had succumbed to exhaustion well before the halfway mark."

The "performance" is the Phantasmoon Games — which on paper sounds like a wish-granting opportunity but is actually just a mechanism to keep Voracity in check. Ironic that it mirrors Fate's Holy Grail system in structure. 

This line reflects the immense strain and scale of the Phantasmoon Games system. 

The troupe's performance” is the Phantasmoon Games themselves—the spectacle designed to draw in desire from countless sprites, Imaginae, and participants. 

That the observer(Evanescia) “succumbed to exhaustion well before the halfway mark” emphasizes how overwhelming the cycle of Wishpower generation is: even a single participant experiences the magnitude and intensity of the system’s operation. 

In the Cake of God interpretation, this exhaustion also mirrors the ongoing labor of the seal: the “ingredients” (sprites, desires, and Imaginae) must continuously feed the Phantasmoon. The Games are relentless, like a cosmic oven running constantly, and this line dramatizes how the system’s scale and energy demand are far beyond ordinary limits. 

In short, it emphasizes the importance of maintaining the “perfect cake” which is the ongoing, exhausting task of keeping Voracity occupied.

>"By the time I opened my eyes, the flowers on the ground had grown into towering giants, and the troupe had vanished without a trace."

If the flowers (Imaginae/Wishpower) are "towering giants," the system is being forced to overproduce. 

The Serpent is getting hungrier, requiring more "sugar" and more "sprites" to keep the seal from breaking. 

The Fools—the first Supplicants and Mourning Actors—set this ritual in motion and then stepped back, leaving it to run on the desires and ambitions of mortals. 

The system ensures that Voracity receives a constant “balanced diet” of dreams and wishes, adjusting the quantity and intensity of the Games to maintain the seal. 

The towering flowers visually capture both the abundance of energy being generated and the immense pressure required to keep the Serpent restrained indefinitely.

>"I stepped from the moon and found myself right beside you."

Which is the events as of the late.

Warning: some fate lore to better understand it without overcomplicating it.

The Holy Grail War of Fuyuki Holy Grail War is a ritual constructed by the Einzbern family, Tohsaka family, and Makiri family to reach the Root. It requires immense magical energy, generated by summoning seven Servants, killing them, and funneling their essence into the Grail.

The wish is bait. What the system needs is desire intense enough to drive participants to kill.

The Phantasmoon Games operate on the same principle. Sprites (Supplicants) participate, generating Wishpower that sustains the seal on Oroboros. The Fools construct the system, advertise the reward, and withdraw, while Aha observes as it accumulates output—mirroring the Grail’s passive collection between wars.

Unlike the Grail, however, Aha grants authority briefly—one minute of true fulfillment.

After the Angra Mainyu corrupted the Grail, it continued to function but produced malice instead of wishes.

Phantasmoon follows the same trajectory. After Oroboros’ attack, the system persists, but its output is distorted—the moon spreads twisted joy, its source corrupted beyond repair.

This also coincidentally collides with the missing blanks on Myriad Celestia Trailer: "Anti-Destruction Alliance"  https://youtu.be/ZwnE5o7_gzA?si=JC-LCiTGpUY918Gz

>Opal: The entry tickets (masks) are ready.

>As for luring in the ██... I'll leave that in your hands.

>Pearl: I shall complete the final stroke of the blueprint of Preservation.

>All for the Amber Lord.

>

>Ruan Mei: Per Genius Society tradition, we don't get involved.

>Don't worry. I'll inform the Intelligentsia Guild

>about the Leviathan research.

>

>Ashveil: To hunt down a vanished Aeon... (██)... I'm afraid...

>You can't afford my price.

BUT WHAT ABOUT ABUNDANCE THEN?

After the Swarm Disaster, Aha was starving (bitten by Voracity) and created the first Cake of God using the debris, sugar, and the leaf of Yaoshi. This act produced the first Phantasmoon, a corrupted moon of Elation that also functioned as a stage for desire—the prototype of the Games. 

That moon was incomplete and unstable, which is why the system needed reinforcement. Over time, Aha longed to recreate the perfect flavor—the perfect cake—and through repeated efforts, they essentially built Planarcadia as a massive “oven”, gathering materials, stabilizing the system, and eventually forging the Phantasmoon as a fully functioning desire-harvesting construct.

This is where the Ambrosial Arbor comes in. Once the Phantasmoon system matured, Aha needed a continuous, regulated supply of Wishpower to maintain the seal on Oroboros and stabilize the system. 

The Arbor acts as the life-support network of the Games: it produces and sustains the participants (humans, sprites, Imagenae) whose desires fuel the Phantasmoon. 

Think of it like Aha saying: “I baked the cake, now I need a bakery that constantly churns out the ingredients, or the oven will go cold and the seal will fail.” 

The Arbor guarantees that no matter how long the Games run, there is always someone alive and wanting, creating a self-sustaining feedback loop of Wishpower.

Though I did find something interesting and it's related to Evanescia's Riddle (as well as the three questions that Yao Guang asked her.

The first hint is the title from Evanescia's Teaser:

>"It Takes Ten Years to Grow a Tree, But a Hundred to Nurture People" 1st Place

But this is the excerpt from 4.2 from Evanescia’s Dialogue that is intriguing:

>Evanescia: "Eons ago, in the Master of Immortality's mysterious garden, flora flourished with such intensity that they suffocated all other life. A meddler quietly infiltrated this place, plucking the most enchanting and luxuriant branch."

>"The severed branch screamed in protest. For before she was gifted with eternal life, she was a divine envoy leading her kin in search of the elixir of life. She was a beast of blind love and hatred, a sword dancer who devoured the Crimson Moon... so proud was she, never having known how to yield."

>"Save for the blazing Phoenix of the Xianzhou, she has never been defeated by another. How, then, could she tolerate... a meddler defiling her fragrance?"

>Yao Guang: "Are you speaking of myths... or true history?"

>Evanescia: "When the past is as distant as the afterglow of the stars, does it really matter whether it is myth or history?"

>"That meddler transplanted her to another world. And through this method, THEY imprisoned the most terrifying of horrors within the most ridiculous of games."

>Yao Guang: "You mean... you yourself are that 'most terrifying thing'?"

>Evanescia: "You've misunderstood... or perhaps not."

>"The meddlesome god promised to enlighten her, to teach her to know true joy, and in the repeated cycles of the Phantasmoon Games, the meddler did not break THEIR promise."

>"She once witnessed raging flames boil the seas dry, saw civilizations rise from dust and wither back into it. She gazed upon the purest souls burning away their brilliance, and stood silent as supreme evil reveled in blood upon the earth."

>"Finally, amidst the love and hate of the insignificant, she gradually glimpsed the essence of fleeting life: The meaning of Elation."

>"Over the past thousand years, I have called upon her power three times to avert catastrophe. Each time, it left an irreparable scar upon the land."

Riddle: Why are flowers so beautiful?

Flowers are beautiful because they are fleeting, existing only for a moment before fading. This mirrors the nature of Wishpower: each wish has energy only while it remains ungranted.

Evanescia embodies both the instant of desire and the eternity of its endless cycle.

She is not producing Wishpower herself but maintains the conditions that make desire possible.

By watching the Games and regulating their difficulty and accessibility, she ensures that participants remain wanting, that the cycle of fleeting wishes continues unbroken.

In essence, Evanescia is the living manifestation of desire itself, where the ephemeral and the eternal coexist.

Question 1: Why did Aha let the Ambrosial Arbor take root in Planarcadia?

Aha constructed the cage that contains Oroboros, but the seal required a constant, unending supply of Wishpower to remain effective. The Ambrosial Arbor, planted by Yaoshi at the heart of the Phantasmoon Courtyard, serves this exact function.

It produces and maintains the living population that generates desire, ensuring that there is always something for Oroboros to consume, keeping the system in balance.

Without the Arbor, mortal desire would eventually exhaust, Wishpower would dwindle, and the seal would risk breaking.

Aha allowed the Arbor to take root because it acts as the foundation for the cage: it is embedded in the system itself, sustaining the participants and ensuring that the games' supply of desire never stops.

Question 2: Is Evanescia a fae native to Planarcadia or one of the long-lived species of Abundance?

Evanescia is not native to Planarcadia; she is an avatar of Elwood Panarch, the Ambrosial Arbor of Planarcadia. She exists as a long-lived, possibly immortal being connected to the framework of Abundance, rather than being a native creature of the world.

Her role is behavior: she arbitrates the Games, monitors the participants, and regulates the conditions under which desire is generated.

By keeping the Games challenging enough to sustain longing, yet achievable enough to avoid despair, she ensures that the system’s supply of Wishpower remains stable.

That's why Evanescia is like a gardener because she doesn’t create the flowers (the living beings who generate Wishpower) herself. Instead, she takes care of them, making sure the conditions are just right for them to keep growing, blooming, and dying at the right rate.

She manages the "conditions" of the system, the difficulty of the Games, the wants and desires of the participants so the cycle of desire never stops. Without her, some flowers might wither too early, others might stop wanting, and the whole Wishpower supply could falter.

The Aberration Committee checks up on the Arbor because it’s like the system’s pressure gauge.

When the tree produces too much life or sustains too many participants at once, the system strains, creating aberrations—glitches or side effects that signal the seal is under stress.

By monitoring these aberrations, the Committee can see whether the Arbor is doing its job correctly and whether the seal on Oroboros is holding.

Question 3: Explain the fate of Planarcadia’s residents

The residents of Planarcadia, especially the Imagenae, exist in a continuous cycle sustained by the Ambrosial Arbor. The Arbor has the power to shape life and subdue death, preventing living beings from degrading into Wispae.

It does this not by granting true immortality, but by continuously sustaining the population of desire-generating life, ensuring that each participant remains capable of wanting for as long as the system requires.

Humans and sprites contribute to Wishpower through their desires, and the Arbor guarantees that there are always enough of these “Wishpower generators” alive to keep the seal functioning.

Imagenae are effectively crystallized desires; their prolonged survival and regulated lifecycle allow Wishpower to cycle endlessly.

The Arbor, in essence, is both gardener and life-support system as it maintains life, prevents premature death, and perpetuates the cycle of wanting.

Residents live indefinitely as long as the system is maintained, their lives serving the dual purpose of sustaining desire and feeding the seal on Oroboros, making them immortal in function if not in natural permanence. Overproduction occasionally creates aberrations, which are monitored as stress indicators for the seal.

TIMELINE:

Phase 1 — The Swarm Disaster & Birth of the Corrupted Phantasmoon (~13XX AE)
During the Swarm Disaster, Aha—bitten by Voracity and left starving (“before the moon had risen”)—improvises a solution: using divine debris as eggs, sugar from the World’s End, and a leaf from Yaoshi as flour, THEY create the first Cake of God. This becomes the first Phantasmoon—the corrupted, unstable Moon of Elation.

The first Mourning Actors (later Supplicants) detect the corruption but cannot heal it. Instead, they convert it into spectacle, creating the Dessert Ship—a system that feeds on desire, laughter, and mortal ambition, aided by elemental sprites—to prevent collapse and sustain the Voracity-tainted moon.

Phase 2 — Planarcadia Formation & System Stabilization (~13XX–2147 AE)
Aha, seeking to recreate the perfect Cake of God, accumulates materials that form Planarcadia near Qlipoth. The Phantasmoon system evolves from improvisation into a structured cycle of desire-generation.

With the successful recreation of the Cake (“a cup of gasoline, two races, and three limericks”), the seal stabilizes: Voracity is indirectly contained through the Phantasmoon Games and sustained mortal spectacle.

Phase 3 — The Cindearth Age (2147–2149 AE)
During the Anti-Matter Legion’s invasion of Ahatopia and Benzaitengoku, Graphia emerges—not to create the seal, but to refine it. She develops scalable imagenae technology, originally for war, which stabilizes and expands the desire-generation system.

Her work ensures the Phantasmoon Games can continuously sustain Voracity’s containment through structured, amplified mortal participation.

Phase 4 — The Canvas Age (2149 AE onward)
Graphia seals Benzaitengoku within a painting, initiating a closed, self-contained system. Inside this canvas, the Phantasmoon Games continue, accelerating the production of Wishpower and desire.

Containment becomes both spatial and temporal: the internal system sustains itself while Voracity consumes time outside. The Games operate autonomously, maintaining the stabilized but corrupted Phantasmoon.

Phase 5 — Post-Canvas / IPC Era (Present Day)
Survivors are restored under the IPC as Planarcadia exits the canvas, reintroducing external variables into a once closed system. The Phantasmoon Games partially decouple from their original purpose, leaving the seal reliant on ongoing mortal participation and the residual Phantasmoon structure born from Aha’s Cake of God.

The Imagenae overgrow into towering giants, driving excess production and destabilizing balance. The system now demands ever-increasing desire to sustain the seal, as Voracity’s pressure intensifies beneath it.

SOME THINGS NOT DISCUSSED BUT IS IMPORTANT:

GRAPHIA:

This is the layer that renders the seal effectively permanent—though Graphia likely never realized it.

Natural imagenae and strangelings collapse back into elementary patterns. These byproducts of the Phantasmoon lack persistent identity and narrative continuity, making them incapable of sustaining long-term desire. Desire requires identity; sustained desire requires continuity; scalable desire requires structure.

Thus, the early Games—reliant on strangelings as primary generators—were inherently unstable, producing inconsistent Wishpower.

Graphia resolved all three limits simultaneously.

Through imagenetic technology and narrative pulse, she imposed designed identity, lore, and form onto imagenae. As outlined in the Cake of God hypothesis, she did not create from nothing—she observed Aha’s system, where Wishpower and imagenae emerged naturally. “Chefs learning from Aha” refers to studying these patterns: desire becoming form, then life.

Her role was replication through understanding. By analyzing the phenomenon, she identified its structure and reproduced it deliberately. The phrase “recreated using soil, ink, and stories” describes method, not ingredients: soil (medium), ink (structure), stories (desire encoding).

She transformed chaotic emergence into stable entities capable of persistent, complex desire—turning Wishpower from abstraction into embodied systems and making desire-production industrially scalable.

Her second act sealed it completely.

By enclosing Benzaitengoku within a painted scroll via the Phantasmoon Games, she created a closed system containing both imagenae and humans. The canvas became the boundary of containment; nothing exits, and the cycle of desire continues indefinitely within.

MASKS

The Mask is the harvesting mechanism.

Ambient Wishpower alone cannot sustain an Aeon-level seal—it remains noise. To function as fuel, it must be compressed, owned, and narrativized. The mask performs all three.

It compresses diffuse Wishpower into dense packets, encodes ownership by binding desire to a specific will, and converts raw emotion into structured wishes—coherent, usable outputs.

As indicated in the Myriad Celestia trailer, the masks serve as entry points designed to lure participants. They are not neutral tools but harnesses. A wearer generates and amplifies desire, drawing not only from themselves but from the surrounding field, feeding the output into the system.

Participants thus become mobile harvesting nodes. Their movement and interactions matter. The Games themselves act as an amplification reactor—turning spectacle into increased emotional density, and higher density into greater harvest yield.

>All in all, it's basically a loop

Abundance (Arbor sustains life) → Graphia's imagenetics (stabilizes complex desire) → Elation (Phantasmoon generates ambient Wishpower) → Masks (harvest, compress, narrativize) → Games (concentrate and decoy) → Phantasmoon eats the wishpower → Voracity (Oroboros consumes) → pressure feeds back → Abundance must produce more → loop tightens

WHICH MEANS IT'S BASICALLY JUST AMPHOREUS AGAIN SHAOJI!!!

There is a lot of symbolism that connects the Stellarons and Shooting Stars in confusing ways (idk if they are the same thing though, that's the point of the post lol, my confusion).

>"Countless shooting stars streak across the night sky... If you can pick the right one, it will carry your wish to thousands of distant worlds." - Fables About the Stars by Adrian Spencer Smith

• Also when it says pick the right one it's talking about the star to wish upon right? It can't be referring to the Stellaron that we carry because that Stellaron was chosen for us (also what difference does it make on the star wished upon?? o.o)

Both Stellarons and Shooting Stars grant wishes. The Stellarons are a type of lifeform with a special property (Harmony) that tethers them to a certain Path or Aeon's power. They respond to the desires of the world to which it is tethered. However, the cost of fulfilling those desires often brings great disaster to the world.

The Shooting Stars also do this, in the Wish Upon a Star 2-star curio (the one that increases Adventure Domain's time limit and rewards),

>Meteorites fell across all corners of the cosmos. People once claimed they could hear these rocks communicating with humans, luring people to wish upon them. Can they truly grant any and all wishes without a cost? It's said that there's an organization that strides between stars solely to uncover the mystery behind the meteorites. No one knows whether these rocks are an Aeon's blessings, or whether everyone has been drawn into an artificial conspiracy.

• Are these Stellarons? Is the organization the Stellaron Hunters? I feel like it's a different organization though because they most likely already know the mystery behind the Stellarons and are collecting + repurposing them for a different goal of transcending Finality. This organization is trying to uncover the mystery behind the meteorites (it is interesting how these rocks also talk like a Stellaron, luring people to wish upon them (Siren/Voracity reference?)).

Stellarons = Harmonic Cancer

Shooting Stars = Fragments of Akivili's body

In The Pathless Equation (I quote this equation so many times lol),

>This is yet another tragic calamity. The vessel is torn apart, probably after encountering detestable pirates or bumping into a Swarm looking for food. Dead bodies are floating in the vacuum, like goldfish in the water. For some reason, you think of the eccentric Bretadens, who believe that souls belong to the land, and those who die in a vacuum will be forever lost.
You clean their bodies and stitch up their wounds, salvaging their last shred of dignity. The death of the unnamed is sprinkled into the sky. While their bodies begin their descent towards land, they burn in the atmosphere, transforming into shooting stars that carry wishes. For those with names, their departure starts from silence, yet the mourning is unceasing.
You are uncertain as to which category these bodies belong, but you wish you could hear the weeping.

• The distinction between those with names and the unnamed (Nameless)
• "Yet that light began to burn, piercing through the clouds as a golden death" from Myriad Celestia Fables About the Stars part 1

Also for granting wishes there is this theme of the wish being granted as well as a corresponding calamity but that seems contrary to Ena's plan involving Equilibrium. In the 2-star curio Wishing Scales,

>There is a well-known saying in Amphoreus: "Observe patterns, summarize patterns, utilize patterns." A certain missionary of Talanton was undoubtedly the finest practitioner of this philosophy. She took advantage of how Talanton's sacred scales would automatically rebalance to get people to make wishes on one side of the scales, and if the wish was fulfilled, an equivalent reward would manifest on the other side. In other words, if the wish failed, no harm was done. If it succeeded, the reward was doubled. Through this miraculous display, many came to recognize Talanton's power and willingly became devoted followers.

which also matches the "Two" Masks in the Divergent Universe

>A mask designed to bear the image of "the Equilibrium." The wearer will encounter both good fortune and misfortune in equal measures, and occasionally experience a split personality.
Double the miracles, double the fun!

• Good fortune and misfortune come in equal measures but the miracles (rewards by wishes granted) are doubled

There is a lot of other symbolism too, like the Stellaron being placed in the Trailblazer's heart (representing Akivili's heart = the will of Trailblaze, also notice how Nanook's heart is missing (symbolic not actually Akivili missing THEIR heart) and golden blood is flowing from the gash). In the Destruction Trailblazer's Eidolons it goes E1 A Falling Star E2 An Unwilling Host...

Also the first line of the Hymn of the Stellaron is

>Let the star be sundered, its heart laid bare, let every nation heed the summons,

And according to The MC naming theme, in Chinese and Japanese the Stellaron is called "star core/nucleus". It is also very suspicious that Xipe is called the Mother of all Stars (even simulated Aha calls THEM that). Also suspicious that both the Stellarons and the Shooting Stars started appearing around the same time (after Akivili's fall and Nanook's ascension) but the way the Stellaron's Data Bank entry is written it sounds as if the Family was relying on the third face of Xipe to create them (or manipulate their creation) and on Celenova to spread them.

>There are many speculations regarding the Cancer of All Worlds, most of which involve Nanook the Destruction and the Antimatter Legion. However, some propose a different theory: that the Stellaron originated from Xipe and is actually the "Harmonic Cancer." The Legion's commander, Lord Ravager Celenova, is believed to be the one who spread the Stellaron. Rumors suggest a lingering tie between her and The Family, though the truth remains unknown.

The Astral Express is literally following the trails of the shooting stars in the Myraid Celestia Fables About the Stars Part 1 (it's also symbolically a shooting star itself). In the book The Gods of Pegāna (Pegana is the world where Akivili is from),

>"When Māna-Yood-Sushāī had made the gods there were only the gods, and They sat in the middle of Time, for there was as much Time before them as behind them, while having no end had neither a beginning. And Pegāna was without heat or light or sound, save for the drumming of Skarl; moreover Pegāna was The Middle of All, for there was below Pegāna what there was above it, and there lay before it that which lay beyond. Then said the gods, making the signs of the gods and speaking with Their hands lest the silence of Pegāna should blush; then said the gods to one another, speaking with Their hands: 'Let Us make worlds to amuse Ourselves while Māna rests. Let Us make worlds and Life and Death, and colours in the sky; only let us not break the silence upon Pegāna. Then raising Their hands each god according to his sign, They made the worlds and the suns, and put a light in the houses of the sky. Then said the gods: "Let Us make one to seek, to seek and never to find out concerning the wherefore of the making of the gods." And They made by the lifting of Their hands, each god according to his sign, the Bright One with the flaring tail to seek from the end of the Worlds to the end of them again, to return again after a hundred years. Man, when thou seest the comet, know that another seeketh besides thee nor ever findeth out. Then said the gods, still speaking with Their hands: "Let there be now a Watcher to regard." And They made the Moon, with his face wrinkled with many mountains and worn with a thousand valleys, to regard with pale eyes the games of the small gods, and to watch throughout the resting time of Māna-Yood-Sushāī; to watch, to regard all things, and be silent. Then said the gods: "Let Us make one to rest. One not to move among the moving. One not to seek like the comet, nor to go round like the worlds; to rest while Māna rests." And They made the Star of the Abiding and set it in the North. Man, when thou seest the Star of the Abiding to the North, know that one resteth as doth Māna-Yood-Sushāī, and know that somewhere among the Worlds is rest. Lastly the gods said: "We have made worlds and suns, and one to seek and another to regard, let Us now make one to wonder." And They made Earth to wonder, each god by the uplifting of his hand according to his sign. And Earth Was."

The Seeker to seek (the Bright One with the flaring tail) = Trailblaze (shooting star = train?)

The Watcher to regard (the Moon) = Remembrance

The Earth to wonder = Permanence

I'm not sure of the Star of the Abiding symbolism but that one is like Māna-Yood-Sushāī (they both rest). Also, "One not to move among the moving" is different from the concept of Paths and Aeons that all have Primum Mobile so maybe it symbolizes something else or they didn't use the symbolism? Anyways, I haven't finished reading the book yet and there is soooo much symbolism :D and there is even a sequel apparently?

Regarding the Stellarons and Shooting Stars I don't know why they have such similar symbolism. Perhaps the Family sundered the Shooting Stars (devouring/assimilating them via Voracity), and the assimilated star cores became the Stellarons? "Let the star be sundered, its heart laid bare" sounds like regular pathstriders (the Family) had agency in the creation of the Stellarons (at the very least they commented on the creation process).

Anways, I wonder what you guys think about the symbolism :o