- Nov 18, 2019
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Thank you for sharing your thoughts and clearing my misunderstanding, because your previous post sounded a bit dismissive in regards of what we were talking, and considering how many thoughtful and well crafted theories Dorfnutter shared here with us I felt a little disheartened, so I apologise to you if I sounded rude and I'm glad to know you appreciated that theory instead and shared all that infos.
My point of view about the theory of the let's call them the "big seven" + Calypso is that like in OIAL Caribdis is perfectly balancing the suspension of disbelief about them and Orion being the characters of the greek myths or simply sharing their names because they are cool names to use.
He's very good in dancing "around" the truth without giving you the last detail to confirm one theory or the other, and this is one of the thing I love the most about his style.
He knows perfectly how to play the game, and to put a lot of references to myths and legends not only from history but religions or from fantasy works ( I include in fantasy everything, so Sci-Fi, Fantasy and other works from literature, movies, comics etc etc), under this point of view he's the most similar to the japanese authors that are masters at handling these themes in their works.
Just to make another "simple" example the scene in Ion with Eva was a sign on how much he knows how to play with these aspects, how she was introduced as the "first" woman, her telling him to savour the forbidden fruit, to the detail of her looks ( the pendant, the veil, the red dress all details that played about the myth of Eva).
Even from there you can see how much thoughts, creativity and obsessive care he put in this game, rarely I've seen such a level of layering before in a western game at least.
It is always possible that something that was intended as a simple play of words and names became something more as soon as the theories started going on; and then he started to use it more heavily ( in this regards the obsession of Orion for the crossbows could be another example, another one is the fact that there's a correspondence between the name of the girls and the codenames they used in the Garrington's heist).
Some may be nothing more than a simple "it's a cool thing to show, I will use it" like it happened with Maat in the egyptian server, other may be more deep like the Pleiades theory + Calypso but there's no certainty ( for now), so we need to wait and see.
Anyway I will end my wall of text for now, I bored you enough I think, thanks again for your post and again sorry for being rude towards you, I hope we could talk more about our opinions and theories and share them here.
There's still a lot of things to discover and I think the next update will increase the number of ideas and theories on where the story is leading and I can't wait to play it.
