#🖇️ [ wiz theories. ]

[m00nveil]

i really should just draw the rest of my wizards character sheets instead of doing the most insane novus brainrottings but here i am. doing the novus brainrots and it all started because i saw someone wearing the 'ender of an aeon' badge.

so i started thinking back to what the eff that could possibly mean and i remembered the aeon of atavus. we literally ended the "aeon", yeah, but i was wondering why the aeon of atavus was called the aeon of atavus.

it's given that since the some of the original meanings of the word aeon was 'life' and 'a period of time', aeon is a nod to the first world and the manticore's vision of restoring it. but where the hell did 'atavus' come from?

i discovered this thing called atavism. the word itself is of latin origin and it means "ancestor", in biology it's where an ancestral genetic trait reappears again after being lost through evolutionary change. i was brainstorming ideas as to how that could possibly make sense and then i saw this one little paragraph.

i might just be reaching or just talking outta my ass here but it's starting to make a lotta sense to me.

manticore wanted to revert the "spiral of oblivion", as he called it, right back to being the first world. wanted to bring back the ways of thinking and acting of a former time. however, like dasein said, that period of time is shrouded in hearsay and mythology.

and it's precisely because we don't know much about the first world why his plan lacked foundation.

EDIT: so how did we "end" the "aeon"? i'd like to think that the manticore intended the aeon of atavus to be something like a bridge between the first world and the spiral (very similar to how the paradox is the mortar between shadow and light, and order and chaos), and that the aeon of atavus will be the one to bring back the age of the first world. so we quite literally kill the manifestation of that "age of regression". i'm legitimately just brainrotting here though

EDIT 2.0: manticore was also hella obsessed with recreating "pure life" and called the aeon of atavus "life itself", but it was neither pure, nor was it actually life itself. it merely fit the definition of life on his own terms, so i'm chalking that up to him just being completely mad, unhinged and power hungry. the final dungeon ain't called "manticore's madness" for no reason!