[HSR 3.X Theory] What DOES The Remembrance want from Amphoreus?
A Cyrene and March Theory
*** Spoiler Warning: This theory contains light mentions of leaks but nothing too crazy ***
I want to take a crack at what exactly is the nature of the Remembrance’s involvement on Amphoreus and what roles Cyrene and March will play in the V.3.X story.
In V.3.2 Black Swan states that since Amphoreus can only be seen through the Garden of Recollection’s mirror, Memokeepers have the right to collect the entire world for their collection. Moreover, she explains that there exists an extremist group of Emanators, who are closely aligned with Fuli, and will take a special interest in Amphoreus. Black Swan believes that if these Emanators can understand how Amphoreus became hidden from the entire galaxy, they can hide other planets behind the Garden’s mirror, destroy the planet, rebuild the world with memoria, and pocket it in their own collection. Basically an infinite memory collection glitch.
Leaks have stated that Cyrene is a level higher than an emanator, a throne emanator, part of a group of memokeepers that work directly with Fuli. It is safe to assume that the group mentioned in the leaks is the extremists that Black Swan was talking about.
My theory is that Black Swan understands part of the truth, but not the whole story. I do not believe that the remembrance Emanators are trying to figure out how to conceal Amphoreus. Considering that all signs are pointing to Cyrene being the creator of Amphoreus, and already successfully concealing Amphoreus from the galaxy, I believe that the emanators and Cyrene have already developed a method to obscure planets. Instead, Cyrene took an interest in Lygus and the Scepter because of its ability to simulate how to destroy a planet. The Remembrance may be able to convert destroyed worlds into memoria and seemingly have the power to conceal planets from the galaxy, but what they DO lack is the ability to destroy planets on a whim. That certainly falls outside of the scope of Remembrance.
Thus, enters the plan to nurture and cultivate the Remembrance’s very own Lord Ravager, Phainon. With the help of Lygus and the scepter, Phainon serves as a handcrafted destroyer of worlds who believes that he has a deep emotional bond with Cyrene due to his fabricated memories and is likely to follow her command.
The Remembrance can then convert the planets destroyed by Phainon into memoria, veil them from the galaxy behind the Garden’s mirror, and add the memoria planets to the Garden’s collection.
For the Hi3 connection, Elysia was a Herscher whose ultimate goal was to destroy humanity. However, she falls in love with mankind and sacrifices herself, betraying her creator and intended purpose. Who else is a powerful entity personally sent down to bring mass destruction in the name of a God?
While running countless cycles, I believe that Cyrene will not only learn to love humanity through witnessing Phainon forging bonds repeatedly, but I also think that she will even fall in love with humanity through the simulated “natives” of Amphoreus as well. I believe that the Chrysos Heirs are based on real people that Cyrene has met in the galaxy and incorporated into Amphoreus. How can Cyrene meet people if she has been stuck on Amphoreus? The answer is March!
March is Cyrene’s physical body separated from Cyrene’s memetic form that travels the cosmos, meets people that embody qualities of the 12 titans, returns the memories of those people to Cyrene, who then integrates those memories into the simulated world as Flame Chasers. I believe that is how March and Dan Heng will become Chrysos Heirs in Amphoreus. The SP versions will not literally be March and Dan Heng but instead simulated versions of them spat out from the sceptors based on the memories retrieved from Popsicle March. I also think that each time March has deposited memories on Amphoreus, she has instilled some of her love of humanity back into Cyrene. At some point, Cyrene will become convinced that she needs to ensure that Phainon does not become a lord ravager and will sacrifice herself to free Phainon and destroy the scepter. Truly a romantic story indeed.
If you have made it this far thank you so much! This is my first HSR theory so I would love to hear what you think!
