#GOMENASORRY FOR THE DELAY..........

[zeravmeta]

hi! i know very little about arknights but the gacha game i DO play is gonna be doing a collab with them this year (limbus) and i feel like, knowing limbus like i do, i very much need to ask: who is priestess and what kind of narrative haunting insanity is she up to

-digging through inbox- im so sorry I starved you my child

OK SO, important point: This is a spoiler as fuck answer

Priestess is a character that's been hinted at from as far back as the concept trailers of Arknights, and hinted at throughout the entire game up to chapter 15 of the main story, which is currently newly released and properly introduces us to her in the present day. The only time we saw Priestess previously was in one backstory event Babel, and even then she is incredibly mysterious, all we knew at the time was this:

She was the one who created Originum

Now, in Arknights, Originum is the magic rocks that give you rock cancer and are at the center of pretty much the entire plot: Rhodes Island exists specifically to try and cure Oripathy, the disease Originum caused, and the Infected are at the backdrop and root of most if not all connected plot threads in the wider AK world.

The Babel event has another crazy lore reveal in conjunction with the existence of Priestess: Our player character Doctor, or Oracle as they were known, did not know that Originum would hurt Terra like this.

Now, there's a lot of backstory here as well, but the TL;DR is that there was once this hyper advanced space faring civilization that traveled the cosmos before being attacked and brought to the brink of extinction by 'something'. We don't really know what that 'something' is concretely just yet, but it led to many of their greatest trying to find a way to preserve their existence and immortality in a multitude of ways, and a lot of the main threats we fight across the various modes of Arknights ARE those methods that have been corrupted by either time, human error, or Originum.

Originum was one of these methods as well. It was the silver bullet, in fact. Originum was left on an ancient Terra and allowed to grow, and when Oracle, the last living individual of this species returned, they found that Terra had developed into the modern world of Arknights, and that Originum was hurting them.

It always came back to Originum, Oripathy, and Priestess. And we learn what Originum truly is before we even meet her, in Chapter 14: Originum is an assimilation device, a way to preserve souls, information, and consciousnesses even through death within an alternate universe called The Assimilated Universe.

Priestess' final endgoal was the assimilation of all life and the universe, leaving it an empty void filled with nothing but black rocks, all living things locked in what amounted to an empty dream.

We have multiple instances of characters basically doomsaying as much throughout, but Originum, and specifically Priestess, has a hand in pretty much most of the tragic events in the main story that follow Rhodes Island and Doctor. And she wasn't there physically until recently, but she was always watching.

PRTS is the AI of the Rhodes Island landship, the main base for the characters, and specifically was something we as a player would always see and were passively aware of at any point, given that it runs our auto farm comps and we see both the logo and name pretty much everywhere.

PRTS. Priestess.

She was always there. Always watching. Waiting. Waiting for the right moment to finish what she started.

[xamaxenta]

Omggg merch pv

[mayohigan-orange]

Well damn I really chose the wrong time to try to kickstart activity here, huh? What a massive mood drop I had, hoo boy.

I'm gonna catch up on what happened in the last couple of days and hopefully I'll get to replies tomorrow, gomenasorry for the delay!

[xenodile]

I uh

Slept in til noon today so stream is delayed, if not cancelled for today. Gomenasorry.

[threadpull]

hey how are y’all i’ve been feeling terrible so i bought a ton of makeup?

[xamaxenta]

Good fucking godnight

I will start packing all the orders tomorrow because Finally. FINALLY all my merch has come thru APOLOGIES FOR THE DELAY

i am

So gomenasorry