ola vro, i had a question
so i was like reading some things on the apex hierarchy and something stood out to me
"Tiamat does rarely go by her actual name, usually going by Tempestuous or even Timo by those who know her by those two names--Kaimetsu, Armageddon, Enki, carn1fex, R3V3RIE, and Monstrum are the only individuals who particularly know her by that name and call her by that name!" <- could be old lore from a post I saw, seeing as the name is now Tannin
i did lowkenuinely had a theory that for each Paragon, there is an Apex Adherent (I think that's the term you used??? could be wrong though) & an Apex Anchor.
An example I thought of was:
Tannin ↔ ??? ↔ Enki (due to their similarity with each other).
However, Enki, Carn1fex, and R3v3r13 are all Adherents, and I don't..really know which one Carnifex and Reverie go to, but I can make an...inference, I guess.
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The term "Carnifex" is executioner, and if my theory of the order is correct, I assume Carn1fex may go to Kaimetsu, him being in charge of places with death "The Inferno: The lowest floor of the Pandemonium, used for violent testing & trials, which is why The Dead Zone is placed there. Kaimetsu has reign over with Kaput Moros, the Inferno also is the disposal for scrapped characters and worlds. So the Crossroads leads to The Inferno directly to lead scrapped creations of Monstrum to incineration & extermination"
"Kaimetsu embodies an example of Monstrum's essences of sadism, bloodthirsty, cunningness, and surprisingly reverent nature"
Now, that isn't to say an executioner HAS to be sadistic, but I feel that you would share some qualities with the paragon in order to, you know, work with the Paragon and to spread the news. Especially seeing as the Inferno is to dispose scrapped characters + worlds (could be interpreted as execution), I feel as if Carn1fex is associated with Kaimetsu as Enki is associated with Tannin.
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The term "Reverie" is a daydream, actually meaning "a state of being pleasantly lost in one's thoughts; a daydream", which I believe would go to Affright. Is that still the name? I'm a little bad with names, forgive me.
"The Liminal Space: The middle floor & threshold of the Pandemonium, this floor contains the various routes & intervals of the realms that lead access to the Pandemonium itself. The Chimerical Segments or Rooms & The Null Studios are simultaneously here as well, all controlled & run by Affright Mullistus with the assistance of Turmoil Marchosia who is the Archetype of Surveillance & Film. They coordinate the films, the segments, and anything that requires memories & tests for Monstrum. Affright has an infinite amount of rooms which he uses to play out eldritch scenarios with scrapped characters or characters he asks to use in permission from Monstrum"
I don't know how to word this properly, but the reason why I think R3v3rie may go with Affright (?) is because of daydreaming. Creativity and the willingness to see fantasies (with that being a part of R3v3rie's name, of course), I think that aspect works well with Affright's work.
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Tasoula Mavroudis / Nemesis
•Kaiyō Tokunaga / The Dishonored One
•Ailbhe Murphy / The Banshee
I don't know very much about them, besides the fact that I think the Anchors are treated worse than the Adherents, but I feel this may be the order:
Kaimetsu ↔ Kaiyō ↔ Carn1fex
Affright (?) ↔ Ailbhe ↔ R3v3rie
Obviously, the first thing were the names..if those are still the names being used for them, but also the origin, mainly with Kaimetsu + Kaiyō being of Japanese origin. Of course, Tannin and Tasoula differ in origin, one being Hebrew and the other being Greek. Affright, literally, meaning "Fright", and Ailbhe meaning "Light", I could make the assumption with Light = theatre? Performance?
I would need to know the roles of the Anchors, however.
I do wonder why Kaiyō doesn't have an M in their name, unlike Ailbhe & Tasoula.
Honestly, this all might be lowkenuinely inaccurate, as I am going off of pieces of lore from what you'd tell me in posts. Hopefully this makes sense, sorry for y'know the big rant.
I hope you're having a nice day, nonetheless.
i love your analysis over these fellas! I do warn you, a majority of this is out-dated, but don't take this the wrong way! I love it either way ^^ But, unlike just normal scrapping, characters and concepts that Monstrum had created were once there, they just now trashed somewhere. So, technically, anything happened before was pretty canon--it's just not canon anymore due to Monstrum's (my) indecisiveness and habit of scrapping things when she (I) find no interest or use for them anymore ;P
You have a beautiful day, Myla !! 🫶
