#also I just have Cady worrying about the Traveler going 'what is the faith of 200 people worth'

[arabella-strange]

holy shit I just had a CRAZY Ludinus endgame theory

(spoilers thru c3e89)

we learned in e89 that Ludinus is building something on Ruidus

we know that the Ruby Vanguard have promised the loyal Reilorans that they will be relocated to Exandria when the mission is fulfilled

we also know that Ludinus's prior inventions include a siphon for sucking the powers and indeed liveforces out of other creatures, and that this is how he's survived so long

What if the huge device/machine/THING that's he's building is a MASSIVE siphon to draw the lives/power from everyone on the moon??? What if the value of 10s of thousands of Ruidian lives (Reiloran and otherwise) is, to him, enough lifeforce to propel him to godhood? Or, conversely, what if it's enough lifeforce to break open a local divine (prison) gate and feed that power into Predathos (wither-and-bloom style)?

Also a tickle at the back of my mind says the Somnovem plot in Aeor and Ludinus's plot here are... if not actually parallel, then at least rhyming in the basics. (Dunamancy got us into this mess, let's pray to the Luxon that Dunamancy gets us out.)