#the next they're quietly turning away or outright SCOFFING when he directly asks them for help

[pttucker]

"Jang Hayoung, send a message to Secretive Plotter." [Some constellations are surprised by your choice!] The constellation Secretive Plotter. Of the four main constellations in my channel, he was the only one whose identity I didn't know. I didn't know why he hadn't showed up in my channel when the Great Sage, Heaven's Equal and the black dragon had appeared. [A small number of constellations are afraid of your choice.] [Some constellations are trying to dissuade you from your choice!] The reactions of the constellations were understandable. I wasn't sure about the identity of the Secretive Plotter but it was highly likely he was an outer god. He also had enough influence to knock away the great old ones. Perhaps the other constellations were deeply conscious of this fact. Jang Hayoung typed something in the air before calling out to me, "Kim Dokja. Did you say it properly?" "Why?" "Look at this." Jang Hayoung showed me the screen he had entered. The following message was on the screen: [This modifier doesn't exist in the Star Stream.]

What?

When I first started reading the novel I thought maybe Secretive Plotter was the author, and then later I thought maybe he was some future/alternate dimension version of someone we already know like 41st Shin Yoosung. (Specifically leaning towards an alternate of Dokja himself.)

I'm kind of coming back around to one of those now. Like, is he the author? Is he off writing revisions of the novel and that's why he seems to have disappeared from the story when he used to be one of Dokja's most ardent watchers? Has he disappeared completely now because Dokja did SOMETHING when he messed around with his attributes window?

Is he...inside Dokja and that's why he can't be found? Dokja specifically said

My voice didn't sound like me. It was only a moment but it felt like I had become a different existence and came back. A terrible sensation remained in my entire body.

and also

「 What if I use Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint on myself? 」 I never thought of it before. There was clearly something lurking inside me that I didn't know. I didn't know if it was something the author left behind or if it naturally permeated me during the process of the world changing. The obvious thing was I needed to figure out what it was.

I thought originally that one of the options was that Dokja was feeling the author's will inside of him and his voice sounded different because it was the author speaking through him and if Secretive Plotter is maybe the author...

Though now Dokja himself has gone from thinking Secretive Plotter was a nobody to thinking he was a Fable grade constellation to now thinking he's an outer god. But even outer gods seem to have modifiers??? At least the one he killed did.

And the fact that even the constellations, including old and powerful constellations with more experience, don't know what's going on and set out to find Secretive Plotter because how can a modifier just disappear...

I just don't know.