First I want to apologize, I can only put 2 links in a post as a new user, so I will not be able to link the cards that I’m going to reference.
and still, from the same card
and from XXVII:
Never before any of them refered itself as alone as did Auryx in this moment.
It is true that card XVIII tells this:
but remeber that “you” is the same word for both singular and plural, and since this happens before each of them creates their court and their respective throne, the throne that is being referenced here is the “sword realm”, and it is created by the might of the sword logic itself, and not by each individual power. Still not one nor the other theory is in fact flawless, so I choose to believe in this one.
This is true, however I do believe that in the moment that Auryx understood the Sword Logic, killed his sisters and took the power of Akka he changed his nature, and that is reflected by the change both in name and title. While Auryx has took the King morph, and the nature of the explorer and inquirer, at that exact moment he took the nature of the Taken.
He is Taken King not because he rules over the Taken, but because he took his power, and that is the proof that he understood fully the sword logic.
So no, the sword logic is not the final form, but the tool trough wich the hive brings the final form upon the universe. From XLVII:
But the one that sets out to understand the one true law and to perform worship of that law will by that decision gain control over their future. They will gain hope of ascendance and by their ruthlessness they will assist the universe in arriving at its perfect shape.
The first sentence describes that trough the use and worship of the sword logic one can transcend causal closure. From XVI:
You are no longer bound by causal closure. Your will defeats law. Kill a hundred of your children with a long blade, Auryx, and observe the change in the blade. Observe how the universe shrinks from you in terror.
The second sentence outlines the benefits of becoming paracausal, that for the hive is reaching an ascended state, and bring the universe towards it’s final perfect shape.
From XXVIII:
That is the final shape: Darkness itself. Not the Hive, not the Taken, but the Darkness. However, as seen in XLVIII when Oryx makes his Taken he changes their shape into one closer to perfection, and perfection to him is the final shape
When I make my Taken I make them closer to perfect, I heal their wounds and enhance their strengths. This is inherently good.
Now, regarding to Oryx being dead himself there is 2 passages that support my theory that he is, in fact, capable to have escaped death inside his throne room. One is from XXXVIII:
This is a technique that Oryx daughters are experimenting trough millenia. And the fact that Oryx, in the final cutscene, does not die, but gathers power from his sword into a sphere, and rams that sphere into himself while vanishing (and laughing, wich is a strange way to portrait powers that cease to exist in the media) leads me to believe that he, at that point sent himself somewhere else, and this technique that his daughters started to experiment so long ago might be just what he used.
Otherwise he would have killed himself, but that goes against the Sword Logic he so much holds dear, and the conclusion he reaches on XLVII:
Aiat: the only right is existence, the only wrong is nonexistence.
and from L:
So for me to believe that he chose nonexistence, that he chose to be wormfood, that he went back on his word of going on forever, that he did not prepared a second path and killed himself… it just doesn’t make any sense.
For the final blow on Oryx was not ours, but his own. We bested him, but we did not killed him.
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