There is a ghost on the empires server, and it's not Pixlriffs. Scott finds himself skipping over a spot at spawn, almost like his eyes can't quite ever rest there. Joel veers away from an area near spawn, almost instinctively, as if he can't even fly over it. Even Pix himself, curator of all things forgotten, counts the artifacts he's gathered from each empire and frowns when the number doesn't feel right. 12 is the right number, not 13, right? Why would it be... no, there was a thirteenth member, wasn't there? But she hung around with those hermits all the time, so she must have gone home with them.
It's unlucky to have thirteen, anyways. Why else would something (everything, really) be telling them that there have only been twelve?
Love how I said I’d upload more cosplay over here and never did. Lmao well I never did post my Chromia Scott over here despite that being my original intention, so here take a thing and also the link to my tiktok where I’m infinitely more active but not really ✌️
Do you guys ever think about how Scott was perfectly set up to be the one to break the cycle of champions?
The rule of three, Scott knowing about the history of the cycle beforehand, sealing Xornoth away instead of banishing or killing them. You think oh of course, the reason we're focusing on these characters in particular instead of, say, Alinar and Cohnal, is because they're gonna be the ones to put an end to this.
And then... they didn't. They weren't saviors who defied the gods and their destinies like we've come to expect from a story like this. Scott never recognized the cycle for what it was, and he never questioned the word of Aeor, because why would he?
And you're hit with the realization that Scott and Xornoth weren't important. They were just two more cogs in the machine. Just another generation of champions. They weren't special. They killed each other just as the gods intended them to.
By the end of season 1, it's not over. Scott defeated his brother, and saved the world from Xornoth, but the gods are still there, still watching. Exor, a god, who can afford to wait another five hundred or so years and then try again.
And so the cycle kept going. There were probably more champions just as unimportant as Scott and Xornoth were. Faceless, nameless champions who we don't know nor care for. The reason we know Scott and Xornoth is not because of their relevance, but to show us the meaninglessness, the inevitability of it all.
And we never know the resolution to it. It could still be going on, even a thousand years later in season 2, for all we know. Because we all thought Scott was supposed to stop it, and he didn't.