#sorry for fattposting today i am actively feeling unwell because of this ep

[arohawke]

two things:

it sure is something that we hear from this ghost? remnant? but ostensibly gur sevraq, who sounds disillusioned with their belief in the path charted by autonomy. i don’t even think this is about going back to who they were as a follower of perennial, but the views they profess are profoundly in line with her and i wonder if she watched him become a follower of autonomy confident that he would somehow come back, like everything does

meanwhile, the principality is puppeteering gur’s corpse as a prophet not only of progressive asterism, but specifically as a figure that leads the ending of the schism caused by logos kan’tel. once, stel nideo put their effort toward maintaining the power of asterism by assimilating the prophet of autonomy into a new branch of it instead of contending with a whole new religion; a thousand years later they have used the prophet of autonomy to strengthen asterism once more; the shape of empire is a circle