#themes of parents abandoning you for destiny is something i think ludinus. always framed as a child despite his age. fits

[ludinusdaleth]

Aeor Arc 2 is about to happen place your Ludinus bets now 🌌

yeah, okay. heres my sort of final predictions before we get into the meat of this arc that ive been awaiting for ages. obligatory "i could very well be wrong and i accept that ive just been losing my mind for 3+ years":

-obligatory ludinus is aeorian

-ludinus was part of or close to/looked up to the original cerberus assembly

-ludinus is athodan or athodan's son (far more likely he is athodan as athodan was implied to be like. college age/a prodigy. but sometimes i can see why he would have been a child when the calamity changed him for good)

-alteratively or in tandem with this, one of ludinus's parents was an archfey or at least fae

-alteratively or in tandem with this, ludinus's mother is the raven queen. all 3 of these feel likely to me from a thematic or foreshadowing standpoint.

-frida watched over ludinus and is the boy they saw in their dreams

-i think it is thematically sound if he dies at the end of this arc. however he is so ferally desperate to win & so powerful i would not rule out escaping.... at the very ultimate cost of his physical & innate humanity. expect a transformation of a man desperate to be seen as a gentleman into a cosmic/archfey beast. or at least a man who couldnt recognize himself in the mirror.

-would not rule out him escaping by manipulating the bells into fighting each other. at this point and with the way they are slowly tracking his path of power with the harness, that has to be as easy as stealing candy from a baby.