[traps him in a shoebox]

generally unsurprising on account of gamers tend to have the approximate reading level of a wet leaf

the ancients are absolute textbook examples of upadana (attachment). zenos is textbook tanha (want). zenos's rant about flailing in muck is literally how i've seen dukkha described as a concept in scholarly texts.

oh yeah and METEION LITERALLY SPELLS IT OUT FOR YOU AT THE END BY THE WAY

i need people to to read about buddhist philosophy and the three dukkhas and the four noble truths and the meaning of impermanence before even thinking of having a take on endwalker i am no longer joking
(or like. any other asian-made game really.)

it's almost like.................... it's intended for a completely different audience and market................. who would have thought...................

hap birth !!!!

they are also not originally of amaurot, but rather of the selenites - a fairly small society of perfect androgynes who worshipped the the original moon before amaurot slowly assimilated them into their culture. serafite is one of the few who remember them and is incredibly bitter about it.

they presented to some as the bold, eccentric serafita and to others as the soft-spoken, serious serafitos; most people believed them to be two different people entirely. venat was the only one who was able to figure out that the serafite were one person, and they were obsessed with her ever since.