Emerging from the lake, the Thing was captured by the FBC. Brought in. Contained. Studied. The Thing broke loose. Killed everyone it could. The FBC fell back and sealed the sector. The Thing was alone in the dark. Lurking. Roaming. Waiting.
Theory of Finnish Magic in the Remedyverse (maybe): Part 1
Disclaimer: Just so you know I â¨ď¸have notâ¨ď¸ seen any posts on this topic. Maybe this is very obvious or a very stupid idea to most of you. So, if I overlap with an existing post, I apologize, and if anything I say is incorrect, please slap me. I know there's a lot of you in the fandom who are Finnish, and I don't wish to misrepresent any cultural or cultural elements!
MOVING ON
Väki
Väki is an innate supernatural energy, a "power" that resides in people, objects, places, and even animals. Väki has many uses and takes many forms, but it is ultimately the elemental energy that make up the material and immaterial world. There is some debate over whether väki is more similar to mana or not:
Again, I am not Finnish.
The people that are capable of wielding and controlling väki have many different names with some variation, I'm going to just talk about these two (mostly because everything I've read just talks about these two):
Noita/velho, or witches/shaman, predict the future and have the ability to project their soul from their body. Tietäjä, or seers, are sorcerers who serve as healers and banishers of evil. It should be noted that powers are generally inherited or "gifted" at birth. Noita have since become particularly reviled due to Christian influence, being the "bad" magic practitioners and tietäjä the "good" magic practitioners, but they were both targeted in the witch trial days due to their use of spells. ANYWAY
They were, in times of ' ye old, known as runoi or runo ("rune" or "poem") due to their dependency on the ability to speak or sing incantations (loitsu), most commonly taking the form of epic poems or lyrics pre-Christian contact, then abandoning the Karelian meter for "metaphors and alliteration" in later practice. Tens of thousands of records of written incantations dating centuries back still exist.
Incantations and Invocations
The most important aspect of a successful spell is that you must know the origin of the enemy you are trying to deflect. This is called synty. If you are able to name the enemy/ ally and who/where it came from, you have the ability to cast it out, or to take it under your control. This doesn't appear to be literal, so much as a mythological birth, such as in the case of fire:
Huh!
anyway?
The other sections are typically centered around asserting dominance by T-posing through boasts, and whatever you want the väki to do. Luotteet are words that carry significant weight in magic. Powerful words. Words of power, one might say. From my understanding, you don't have to follow these rules, but most "successful" spells do.
The Hiss Incantation
Wake wrote the Hiss Chant, known formally (AKA by Remedy) as the Hiss Incantation. He claimed it was just a random thing, where he threw a bunch of words and cut-up sentences into a shoebox and then pulled them out to piece them together into the Hiss Chant. Yet, the words he chose do not seem random at all, meaning that he likely wrote what the "alien consciousness" was attempting to communicate through its incantation.
Obviously, he couldn't possibly known its origin, right?
Riiiiiiight?
Well, no. He can't. But it's not about the Hiss, is it? It's their incantation gifted by Mr. Wake to do Things that may Further the Plot. He can't control its actions. He can, say, give the Hiss the words and tools needed to control Dylan Faden:
"You are a worm through time. The thunder song distorts you. Happiness comes. White pearls, but yellow and red in the eye. Through a mirror, inverted is made right. Leave your insides by the door. Push the fingers through the surface into the wet. Youâve always been the new you."
Maybe (probably)(like 99% certain I am reading Too Much Into It) but this ^ could be the synty needed.
"We stand around you while you dream. You can almost hear our words but you forget. This happens more and more now. You gave us the permission in your regulations. We wait in the stains. The word that describes this is redacted. Repeat the word. The name of the sound. It resonates in your house. After the song, time for applause. We build you till nothing remains. The egg cracks and the truth will emerge out of you. You are home. You remind us of home. Youâve taken your boss with your boss with you. All hair must be eaten. Under the conceptual reality behind this reality you must want these waves to drag you away. After the song, time for applause."
This section seems to be what, precisely, the Hiss wants him to do: resonate. Repeat. Take your boss with you, let the waves drag you under.
If this is the case, why did Alan do that? Uncertain! Theories include:
The Hiss influenced him to write their Incantation, since all of the entities are obsessed with the Dean Koontz knockoff.
He needed Dylan to act as an amplifier and spread the Hiss around, so Polaris would finally raise the alarms and send Jesse to the Old House
He was drunk on that dank lake water
I will post more about this later as long as I'm not pelted with tomatoes, but for now, I'm sleepy
Finished The Foundation DLC for Control and just started AWE and... you walk in the first room and they immediately give you more reading to do than my entire English Lit spec lmfao
There's a moment in Control's AWE dlc that i really love and its when Jesse takes the elevator and Langston starts talking to her even though she cant respond
His line, "We're SUPPOSED to be on the same TEAM" is so powerful to me and he says it so earnestly like i really just love it, and it made me love his character even more. I hope they do more with him in the next game, and have Jesse address that sort of mentality that the Bureau has
In the same breath, i love the next moment where he just starts GOSSIPING about Darling because 1. I cant get enough of Darling and 2. Theres apparently some drama behind the scenes and i MUST know about
