Once, I already told my theory that Thanatos is a developer himself, but then one guy who disagreed with me explained why this was not logical, but I no longer remember his arguments. Frankly, I do not completely refuse this idea. I just can't get my head around how an ordinary player can be so strong and find the rarest things on Eternum so easily. + I see some motive in this, to tell everyone and convince everyone that he will easily give the whole company to the one who collects all the artifacts (to make Eternum even more popular and active all the time) , but at the same time I think that he is too greedy to give everything to an ordinary person like that, therefore he himself participates in this race, while helping himself a little with some conditional cheats. (or something like that)
I am happy to read other theories, so far I have only this one.
![Booty Time :BootyTime: :BootyTime:](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
Maybe this theory was already trashed by other players, I've returned to this thread not too long ago and apparently I could missed that.