In this hypothetical, the Aged Man survived his cycle (perhaps by finding a magic there-and-then-not manor house?), and the cycle was thereafter altered to include him. Perhaps siphoning power from the Beacons or the cycle itself or time or who knows what. So he's in the process of doing something, trying to bring her back. But you know, Fleshless, death isn't necessarily the end. Perhaps she wasn't even an Emissary herself. His lover – perhaps his Calia, since she seems rather more accepting than a Jespar would be of all this, but perhaps some other role – did not. Probably older than the Pyrean cycle, as Badgesareus suggested, since he certainly feels like he's been doing this for a while. After all, he calls himself "an observer, a fleshless eye." Fleshless is a direct reference to the emissaries. It's where the Aged Man is in relation to her that could diverge so wildly.ġ) As Ragnarok suggests, the Aged Man was the Prophet, or some other emissary like the Archmage. In both ideas, I think the lover IS some former member of the Cycle, some emissary or Black Stone wielder or. That's just how this game rolls, I guess. And we'll never know if one of them is true, or if it's some third thing. I'll offer two ideas, and I think they're both pretty plausible but completely at odds. I never really got around to guessing about her, did I? One other sort of NPC I wonder about is the woman in the water in the Aged Man's "basement." She's being patient for him to do - what? One mystery that hasn't received much discussion.
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