a yummy pile of blue!
While the throne has probably existed for eons, and something was starting to coalesce at its peak, it is pretty openly stated that it is watcher's precense in the throne what acted as catalyst for the birth of the prince's selfhood
Ahh! To move! To breathe free!
Never again... STARVING, pressing, grinding, SQUEEZING
against... us? But now... I? A... SELF And... an OTHER.
Oh the joy! The incomparable JOY!
Ahhh hah... familiar.
There was... such discomfort... and hunger. Endless hunger! And then... a presence!
A light! A scent! A tunnel! To freedom! How beautiful, FREEDOM!
A scent. Familiar. So familiar.
The watcher is probably the first living thing to be to the throne proper in an eternity
But I think there's more to this
4 karma "murals", 4 karma upgrades
4 visits, 4 warp points
Watcher's visits brought enlightenment like visiting echoes would do for a slugcat
"The highest enlightenment, achieved by the hardest path. A feat even guardians must respect" This achievement requires the player to raise their maximum karma to the highest level without visiting Five Pebbles. To do this, the player must find 4 out of the 6 Echoes, each of which raise the player's maximum karma by a small amount. All 4 Echoes must be found before visiting Five Pebbles. The achievement is earned as soon as the last Echo raises the player's karma level to the maximum of 10.
And is not as simple as just visiting 4 times either: for this awakening to properly progress you must make it to the top, eat the karma flower, then make it to a previously sealed chamber to open a warp point there
almost as if you're opening new pathways in its brain (tree)
A light! A scent! A tunnel! To freedom! How beautiful, FREEDOM!
These paths you weave. Through them I have expanded my kingdom. I have tasted and I have become. It is my true purpose I believe. Perhaps the only purpose!
Enlightenment is gaining knowledge, understanding, insight
Perhaps Echoes don't just give you more karma merely by merit of being extraplanar beings with influence over karma itself, or by the insight behind their anecdotes
Perhaps Echoes give you a glimpse into what lies beyond, a window to the fractal layers of reality
Perhaps what is happening here is something similar, the watcher showing the throne other worlds through the paths
the karma flowers though, thats harder to understand
perhaps the one at the very top represents the little death that is sleep ("like sleep like death")
Echoes always send you back to sleep after all
what I love about those timid handwringing “am I allowed to breathe air???” types is sometimes a miracle will happen and something in their brains will snap and you can watch them kill the hall monitor in their heads with a shovel
Hide and seek
I know that this is not possible, but i just want them to be happy kids... And playing children games... Am i asking too much?
two rain world region concepts
lets get carried by mama
this guy makes pretty accurate lore videos
I mean two years ago I was obsessed with this game and remember alot but now since I been getting into RW again, I have seem to forgotten a lot of the lore and I don't want Fanon to skewer my view of Canon. Does anyone else have this similar problem?