This one fucking line has been taunting me for weeks, I knew something was wrong with it, but I think I finally figured it out!
Unknown: Awaken, Descendent of the Sixth, Granddaughter of the Ether, heir to Space.
It's redundant! Of course, a grandchild is a descendant. Why the repetition? It's just clumsy. One or the other is fine. Why do both--Wait. Both. That's it! Oh, I see what you did, you sneaky motherfucker. It doesn't repeat. They're two separate entities! Alice is the Granddaughter of the Ether and a Descendant of the Sixth Apostle. The Ether is not the Sixth.
First read, I wondered why "ether" so I looked it up. It's an obsolete theory of electromagnetism and gravity. That fit. It's also the name for the fifth classical element of Greek mythology that supposedly filled the heavenly plane. I didn't notice at the time, but now I think the Ether is the Fifth Apostle.
...and the "Heir to Space?" It sounds so very similar to the "potential inheritor" of Order that Aglaecwif describes. Space could be the Original Power unlocked by the traits of the Fifth and the Sixth!
Sorry, Sixspawners. Your cult might need a rename. Also, light-speed is too slow to travel the cosmos, the 8th is probably time. Eight 8 = ∞ Eternity.
Unknown: Awaken, Descendent of the Sixth, Granddaughter of the Ether, heir to Space.
It's redundant! Of course, a grandchild is a descendant. Why the repetition? It's just clumsy. One or the other is fine. Why do both--Wait. Both. That's it! Oh, I see what you did, you sneaky motherfucker. It doesn't repeat. They're two separate entities! Alice is the Granddaughter of the Ether and a Descendant of the Sixth Apostle. The Ether is not the Sixth.
First read, I wondered why "ether" so I looked it up. It's an obsolete theory of electromagnetism and gravity. That fit. It's also the name for the fifth classical element of Greek mythology that supposedly filled the heavenly plane. I didn't notice at the time, but now I think the Ether is the Fifth Apostle.
...and the "Heir to Space?" It sounds so very similar to the "potential inheritor" of Order that Aglaecwif describes. Space could be the Original Power unlocked by the traits of the Fifth and the Sixth!
Sorry, Sixspawners. Your cult might need a rename. Also, light-speed is too slow to travel the cosmos, the 8th is probably time. Eight 8 = ∞ Eternity.