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(Gods, and here I thought I was done with Esotericism after my obsession with Xenogears and Xenosaga ended. DX)
The Ten Sefirot (Lurianic Kabballah)
Chochmah - Wisdom, Insight
Binah - Intelligence, Understanding
Daat - Knowledge, Principle
Chessed - Kindness, Giving
Gevurah - Strength, Discipline
Tiferet - Beauty, Harmony
Netzach - Triumph, Determination
Hod - Glory, Dignity
Yesod - Foundation, Connection
Malchut- Kingship, Leadership
(For the Cordoveran Kabballah you just replace Daat with Keter (Crown, Will), though the reason why I cited from the Lurianic Kabballah is it feels easier to make up scenarios/tasks that represent the emanations/attributes that way (at least, for me, it could be that Caribdis is using Cordoveran, we'll never know until the theories are proven or not))
This would explain why the Founder needs NPCs and have the players go through quests (at least, in my opinion): the quests serve as ritual, and it's up to the player to play their part in finishing said ritual and thus, summon or will the corresponding Sefirot to existence. It's also possibly why he's having us travel to many worlds to look for the gems: because you need to be in a specific place and meet specific conditions in order for the Sefirot to manifest (conditions that NPCs could readily replicate upon command, you just need Ulysses corp to furnish the "ritual site" and the necessary elements for the "ritual").
Of course, it could also explain why he needs a lot - and I mean a lot - of manpower in order to do this and why collecting them is taking so damn long: the rituals are not set in stone. It could be that there's a ton of ways to interpret the required guidelines/theme for the ritual, and so the Founder and Ulysses corp try to test all possible permutations in worlds where the Gems could likely manifest until they hit the mark.
So going back to the Mystery Server you could say (hypothetically) that the Gem in question is Chessed, because the conditions presented by the quest requires the player to show Kindness (i.e. provide the young Anne Flink with a doll to coax her to tell what she needs, and then provide her a picture of her mother since she wants to see her). Of course, it's also possible that there's more to this at play other than just performing the ritual at a specific place at a specific time and under specific conditions (i.e. locations where Gems of Doom are located are places where the Syndicate have actively shown themselves to Orion...maybe there's a connection...like the dead are attracted to places where the Gems are located or where they could possibly manifest and since the Syndicate are possibly spirits that's where they show up. It's also possibly why Thanatos has an advantage when it comes to finding the Gems, because it's possible that being dead allows him to track where the Gems are, and thus allows him to simply steal the Gems from players)
Again, this is just my personal theory. Yours is just as likely to be true, given the existence of literature out there that tells of Dreamers being able to shape/influence the dream world. The only thing stopping me from subscribing to this theory is the existence of this mysterious bastard who's implying that you can't shape the world the way server shapers could:
I was under the impression that if the Gems are the Sefirot, then summoning or creating them would simply require finishing a task that is representative of each emanation/attribute (at least, I'm assuming Caribdis would try to simplify it that way instead of having us go through the Ultima IV treatment of going on a spiritual journey to master and become the personification of all the emanations of the Sefirot...otherwise I'm not sure how even the Founder or Ulysses corp could make that exciting in any way to the typical MMO player who is unaware that or she is participating in what could possibly be the ritual that would doom their universe).
The Ten Sefirot (Lurianic Kabballah)
Chochmah - Wisdom, Insight
Binah - Intelligence, Understanding
Daat - Knowledge, Principle
Chessed - Kindness, Giving
Gevurah - Strength, Discipline
Tiferet - Beauty, Harmony
Netzach - Triumph, Determination
Hod - Glory, Dignity
Yesod - Foundation, Connection
Malchut- Kingship, Leadership
(For the Cordoveran Kabballah you just replace Daat with Keter (Crown, Will), though the reason why I cited from the Lurianic Kabballah is it feels easier to make up scenarios/tasks that represent the emanations/attributes that way (at least, for me, it could be that Caribdis is using Cordoveran, we'll never know until the theories are proven or not))
This would explain why the Founder needs NPCs and have the players go through quests (at least, in my opinion): the quests serve as ritual, and it's up to the player to play their part in finishing said ritual and thus, summon or will the corresponding Sefirot to existence. It's also possibly why he's having us travel to many worlds to look for the gems: because you need to be in a specific place and meet specific conditions in order for the Sefirot to manifest (conditions that NPCs could readily replicate upon command, you just need Ulysses corp to furnish the "ritual site" and the necessary elements for the "ritual").
Of course, it could also explain why he needs a lot - and I mean a lot - of manpower in order to do this and why collecting them is taking so damn long: the rituals are not set in stone. It could be that there's a ton of ways to interpret the required guidelines/theme for the ritual, and so the Founder and Ulysses corp try to test all possible permutations in worlds where the Gems could likely manifest until they hit the mark.
So going back to the Mystery Server you could say (hypothetically) that the Gem in question is Chessed, because the conditions presented by the quest requires the player to show Kindness (i.e. provide the young Anne Flink with a doll to coax her to tell what she needs, and then provide her a picture of her mother since she wants to see her). Of course, it's also possible that there's more to this at play other than just performing the ritual at a specific place at a specific time and under specific conditions (i.e. locations where Gems of Doom are located are places where the Syndicate have actively shown themselves to Orion...maybe there's a connection...like the dead are attracted to places where the Gems are located or where they could possibly manifest and since the Syndicate are possibly spirits that's where they show up. It's also possibly why Thanatos has an advantage when it comes to finding the Gems, because it's possible that being dead allows him to track where the Gems are, and thus allows him to simply steal the Gems from players)
Again, this is just my personal theory. Yours is just as likely to be true, given the existence of literature out there that tells of Dreamers being able to shape/influence the dream world. The only thing stopping me from subscribing to this theory is the existence of this mysterious bastard who's implying that you can't shape the world the way server shapers could:
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That remains to be seen though. Only way to test this theory is to have MC be hit by an excommunication ray from the Praetorians...which is something that could possibly happen in the future...or so my gut tells me anyway (it's one of two hypothetical scenarios I'm theorycrafting that could result in Calypso crossing over to the "real" world, mainly because it's the biggest story bombshell I could think of that would reveal to Orion and co that Eternum is absolutely NOT a VRMMO...and mainly because I personally think Calypso needs some much-needed bonding time with everyone. Girl needs to get out more instead of wasting away in some shitty Inn IMO).
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