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Mydei was also the only shade who pointed out Phainon looked off...
He also remembered Gorgo's training.... This guy is really sus. 

Anyway, March is back as Cyrene pro max. Time will flow again, and the "dream" of the sth 36th cycle will end. The next version of the journey after this patch should be the final cycle.

This guy has a massive, massive, massive creator complex. His gameplan is to craft the perfect black tide that can destroy all paths for the Destruction. The heirs are all extrapolations of the Aeons precisely because he wants to make a perfect black tide that can eat all aeons. 

But esp the Erudition.😂
So why did he need to yap and tell Phainon and us about the gameplan? It looks like he does that for every cycle....
Hmmm, maybe by telling Phainon, Lygus was hoping for Phainon get mad enough to try and eat the black tides.

That way, the black tide can finally digest the half of the Destruction program that has been escaping its grasp all along and finish the extrapolation. But they have been stalling instead with the Stigma-lite. So Lygus has been using MC all along to make Phainon and Cyrene show

themselves, making time flow once more when March returns.
Yeah that was totally Lygus' plan. The lying bastard. He lied to us. 

Ok, another issue with Mydei.
Neikois, Phainon's program, is Strife, but in the dream, Mydei is Strife. This guy is really sus, getting sussier by the minute. 

Jesus Christ Hoyo pls put a trigger warning. Some of us have fucking PTSD. Oh my god, that animation needs to be optional. I DID NOT need to see that.

OK, recollecting my thoughts.
This is a ref to Seeds of Sumeru, when Kevin wanted to massacre a village, children included, and Su stood against him, believing that he had lost his original pure heart. Anaxa acted the same way here, just with a third party (Cipher) as witness now 

The true nature of the Eternal Recurrence is Phainon reversing the extrapolation process, hence, turning back time. Each loop of the Eternal Recurrence lasts approximately 1000 years, aligning with the mismatched data in the Okhema death record last patch. 

Cerydra is an old timer from a previous samsara (not eternal return loop). She is already old by the time of 1000 years ago and should be from a previous civ in the past samsara in the Scepter record. That's what to bury time means. Very much Fu Hua + Senti. 

This ass actually remembers the past loops, even if it's entirely clear to him. That was why he told Phainon his weak point again in 3.1, it's for Phainon to kill him. The fight is a repeat of Eurypon vs Gorgo, with Gorgo being killed by Eurypon at the end. 

The only person other than MC to believe in Phainon until the bitter end. 

The Mydeimos loop is the 33441694. Seems to be the one that pushed Phainon forward to burn himself and everyone else to a crips instead of asking people for their coreflames first. 

MC is the real Deliverer, as expected. Phainon is off the role now. 

Scapegoat of golden blood, until the real hero (TB) arrives. 

Zephyro vs Phainon when he tries to break free from the cage. The eyeless lion is Zephyro, dismembering the Golden Scapegoat every loop on the altar. Zephyro is the OG Mydei, and he was here to stop Phainon from ascension.
So thats why Zephyro is connected to that myth of 

mourning for Phaethon when he falls into the river. This scene is also a reverse of Mydei trailer, which detailed Nikador being turned into golden blood god by Kephale in the river. So at one point in time, in his ascension attempt, Phainon managed to drag

Zephyro in during their fight, prompting Zephyro to become Nikador and occupy the Strife slot, which originally belonged to Phainon's programming instead.

Irontomb is the black tide's true identity, the "you" here that Lygus is speaking to. Phainon (neikos) is the present being given to "you" (the black tide Irontomb). Lygus intention is for the black tide to eat Phainon and ascension from the cocoon of Amphoreus in Phainon's place 

Mem and MC have merged, like Mei and Elysia met again in Moon arc and became the Hercherr of Origin.
The Strife and Love cycle involved 4 people, as predicted. MC (Strife) and Cyrene (Love), Phainon (Love) and Mydei (Strife). They take turn swapping between Strife and Love.

When Cyrene died and went missing from the database, Phainon took on both Love and Strife. At 1 point, Zephyro got in and joined the cycle, becoming Strife. Then in the end of 30 million sth 36th, MC dropped in and activated Love (Mem) again.

MC is Destruction pathstrider, so the next cycle is between Love (Cyrene/March) and Strife (MC, Deliverer). Phainon kicked himself out of the cycle. Presumably, if the animation is true, this means Zephyro is getting out of the cycle as well and remembering his identity.

Still has to do world quests, but that's the gist of the main quest.