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Sky COTL: Ancient Memories

By: Eliz Elai

The memory fragments that we see at the end of every shard event may not be so different to the memories of spirits we relive. When we relive spirits we see glimpses of their past lives, we can see different events happening in different time periods. In the Ancient Memories we are also seeing the same thing, except that it’s from the creatures of light and the memories are about the same event through different perspectives. That event could be the eruption of Eden, the time where everything started going down. 

The third memory shows the mantas from Eden, trying to survive against the engulfing darkness and crushing stones. It seems that they were also trapped, after all they are used as a power source, people wouldn't want their resources to fly away (that would be bad for the economy 🙃). The only thing that they could desperately fly to was the beacons of light they could see (just like us trying to find fire when we get extinguished). This memory reminds me of a flock of birds flying away from danger, trying desperately to survive while the world around them gets covered in darkness. The other memories are also worth mentioning (like the jellyfishes and pre-corrupted crabs), however the manta memory is the one that actually struck me, hence its the representative I chose.

This is the poem thingy about the mantas TGC posted ⬇️

Soft wings flowing to bright beacons; Drawn from the path, trusting until too late; Bound in a merciless harness; Soft wings despairing against stone

Even though we see memories of our ancestors suffering of starvation, fear, dread, and loss; the memories of the creatures hits harder because you know they have done nothing wrong. These creatures were used and probably exploited by the Skytizens, and now have to experience the consequences of their actions (just like marine animals affected from pollution in real life). Even though the game suggests that darkness is the “bad guy” here (like how we blame global warming for endangering many species 😒), that may not be the full story, our spirit ancestors have done some pretty screwed up things that led to their demise (like what we humans commonly do), it’s worst that they even dragged the poor creatures with them (like *ahem* *ahem*, us destroying mother nature... 👀)

Season of Shattering has been both a blessing and a curse to us sky kids. It’s a HUGE pain in the arse for many players (including me who lost five winged lights just to see the manta memory again 😤); but for us theorists who seek more information, it’s a good addition to the game. I mean, we are only at memory #3 and sky kids are already losing their minds 🤣. I’m looking forward to seeing the other memories, perhaps we could have more info about the intriguing krills 🦐👀, or a story of what the frig really happened 🤷. Honestly, I came to this season feeling a bit salty, but now I’m starting to appreciate the beauty of it 😅.

All the past seasons have always been about our spirit ancestors, meanwhile this season is mostly about the creatures and focuses mostly on the events that occurred in Eden (which is great coz they give us so little lore, we literally have to scrape the bottom of the bowl for information 😐). I have a much deeper theory about this but it’s hard to elaborate and this is getting a bit long. 😅