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I actually think the Founder himself placed all of the gems, based on how an exit portal appeared when the zombie mom hugged with her kid and the mystery was solved when we acquired the 1st gem. The portals are his creation.
Maybe he's just looking for the strongest individual for reasons unrevealed, possibly then to control them via the neutral implant, and William is mistaken thinking he's trying to get the gems for himself. I mean, William never even met the guy based on how he was bitching about him never showing his face anywhere.
Sounds like something Thanatos would conjure up rather than the Founder, searching for someone strong (tho in his case it's likely to test his mettle and all).Didn't anyone react to the fact that the Founder held the 9th Gem? Wasn't it supposed to be undiscovered?
The one Gem that mc found was in the Red Herring server, hidden behind a puzzle, was handed to him by an NPC.
NPCs are controlled by Ulysses/Founder.
I think the founder at one point had all 10 gems, but don't know how to use them. So he's seeding them into Eternum to have the players engaged and hunting/fighting for them.
Also, the portals are his creation and the NPCs are "reprogrammed" by him, but I don't buy that he planted the gems. Would make the entire VRMMO deception feel unnecessary when he could, say, create a Battle Royale style VR game instead if the objective is to find who is strong enough to utilize the gems.
Plus while the Founder could control the NPC's memories and personalities, the Ekabar incident in 0.7 showed that NPCs can break away from their programming and do things on their own free will. So it's possible that the gem provided by the NPC in the Red Herring server was something that they had in their possession* and they gave it to Orion because they wanted to, not because they're preprogrammed to do so.
*or they could manifest it, which tracks with an old theory of mine that the reason why the dead are trapped in Eternum is because they alone could manifest and give the gems to someone worthy enough, and the person responsible for closing Acheron (the Founder or possibly one of the Immortals of old) knows this, which is what led to Eternum's current state