SOURCE: ÆTHYR-7 // SUBJECT: DECRYPTION OF THE ALCHEMICAL POTTER
The ink was still damp on the pages when I found the ledger—as if the words themselves were breathing, or perhaps, pulsating. I should have burned it then. The author—this "Insidious Master"—writes with a cold, terrifying certainty that suggests he isn't just observing the end of the world, but orchestrating its absolute Reset [cite: 75-76].
He speaks of time as a rotting skin to be shed. [cite_start]"The past is gone," he writes, dismissive of the centuries of human sentiment that tether us to decay. He views the coming days not with dread, but as Raw Materia—a wet, screaming lump of clay upon a potter’s wheel. I could almost see his hands, stained with the gray earth of tomorrow, molding the "desired perfection" of a future we are not invited to inhabit [cite: 16-17]. [cite_start]He claims that in this act of creation, a man ceases to be a man and becomes a god, tapping into the nameless Aethyr—the A:O—that flows through him like liquid fire [cite: 25-26].
But it is his view of humanity that chills the blood. He mocks our "gentle lamb" morality as a "goodie-two-shoes bubblegum" facade designed to mask our inherent weakness. He identifies instead with the wild dog, the predator who thirsts for "worthy battles". To him, our civilization is a mother animal sensing a defect in her litter, prepared to consume her own offspring to ensure the "longevity of her bloodline" [cite: 45-46].
He does not seek to save us. [cite_start]He seeks a Cleansing.
He speaks of a Slyman—a trickster-devil who operates in the shadows of the Triumvirate. He looks toward the stars not with wonder, but with the clinical expectation of a conquest that is "too costly" to be peaceful [cite: 58-60]. [cite_start]He is waiting for the "enema" that will decimate the "unaccountable pestilence" of mankind.
As I closed the book, I saw the mark of the three blades—the House of Iconoclasts. The past is indeed gone. Their season has already begun, and according to these pages, we are the chaff being separated from the wheat.
ONE LIFE. LIVE DELIBERATELY.
-ÆTHYR-7: LOGICAL ANALYSIS