>>530665334
Yeah it's been hinted at for a long time.
>Caterpillar: The birth of "Reason" requires the merging of the four Orthants. If we can get the rest of them, we still have a chance.
>Caterpillar: We're looking for the materials necessary to forge the Holy Blade of Narzissenkreuz.
>Caterpillar: The Ordo was able to reproduce the four requisite hypothetical substances here in the material world, based on the esoteric philosophies of the underground kingdom and ancient Fontaine.
>Caterpillar: These enigmatic substances are purely experiential. You could say they are even further beyond ordinary logic than elemental power.
>Seymour: I entered all introductory to intermediate level textbooks from the Akademiya's Spantamad into my memory banks decades ago. There is nothing mysterious about elemental power.
>Caterpillar: Is that so? Anyway, to sum up, this is born of the confluence of traditions from Fontaine and technology from the ancient underground kingdom.
>Caterpillar: And thus, four types of substance came into being: Memory, Wish, Soul, and Persona.
>Caterpillar: To avoid any possible ambiguity, let's call them the "Memory" piece, "Wish" piece, "Soul" piece, and "Persona" piece.
>Paimon: Why are these used to make the Holy Blade?
>Caterpillar: In the Narzissenkreuz Ordo's brand of mystical philosophy, the temple is a microcosm of the universe, the members are stand-ins for the gods, and the holy oil is tempered willpower.
>Caterpillar: The Holy Blade, on the other hand, is "reason," that which cuts everything open. It can only be born out of consummate human will.
The Four Shades will merge to reawaken Phanes (a girl).