[ChicletPrime]

• okay, right off the gun... 7 gates? what, like 7 rivers?
  
• the embodiment of annihilation and divine punishment, with unparalled wisdom. and he dresses like it too! so why is he trying entire this place where even the dead may not go? implication that if you enter, you will become a "lamentation", restless for eternity.
  
• oh, he's here for the Creatio Stone (from the primordial age - the authority of creation). so this is before the Library (and Astra?). the Seven Gates are to the netherworld, with no sun or moon, no life nor death.
  
• "your hands are capable to bring about the destruction of countless eons, your divine gaze may see the end of time." wow. okay. and Zayne is, like, the least remarkable of the boyfriends in the current age, what is going on here. "if you step foot in this realm... your authority and glory will turn to flowing sand." ... shades of Golden Sand, huh.
  
• "That price is insignificant." ...'kay? First Gate, the surging waters devour him. oh, are the Gates in series, no parallel?
  
• (did you ever read a series of novels, starting with one called "Abhorsen"? the Gates of Death are seven, each to be passed through. only the bells of the Abhorsen can circumvent them, and only for a time.)
  
• wow, this is so Lemuria coded. so we have Niava the city? Niava the deity? monsters, some sort of heavenly fight, the city "falls into a deep sleep" while we look at the golden chamber with the pool.
  
• looks like my immortalness is in trouble. whatever we fought is contaminating our body. okay, Niava is the world, and I'm upset about or resentful at Zayne, who could.. save me? save the world? we call him a couple of times, he step forth and says the "Vastraen" is not for the living. is the Vastraen another word for the netherworld? something about crossing the thorny barriers again will be a no return trip. i want to know why Zayne wants to destroy this world, even with my deep connection to it.
  
• why did you call him here, if he's just going to lecture you and blast your world out from under your feet? "only he can heal my wounds and free me from this terrible suffering." well, i GUESS. and we grab the blindfold for some reason. my guess: he sees something other than boring reality when his eyes are covered.
  
• "Even if you want to destroy Niava, you still belong to me at this moment. Obey me!" WOW. okay. that's wild. And then we... we wrap our arms around his neck and bite his lips? i am SO DOWN for whatever this healing ritual entails, no question. blood? do we need his blood? "Give me.. I want your power."
  
• well, this is a fucking far cry from the girlfriend's personality in Snow's Embrace, that's for sure.
  
• "between us there is nothing but endless taking." he said the thing! from the trailer!
  
• OH MY GOD, Lavender blocked out half the screen right after that! /immediately goes on a quest to find whatever that 1.25 seconds contained.
  
• /returns. holy crap, she cut out most of that. that entire cutscene is SO HOT. really liked that our girl grabbed his power like a chain around his neck and then he just... uh. "gave" it to us. and then when we had second thoughts, he just roped us back again. these two are bound to each other in deeply delicious ways.
  
• and now we're in .. Doomrealm. is THAT the netherworld? heavenly light about to be devoured yadda yadda, death has long since vanished, etc...
  
• Zayne: "The natural order of fate is no more. Stop clinging to what remains." ?!? "Heaven and earth sense imminent destruction." ?!?!?! "Annihilation balances the cosmic order. What shouldn't exist ought to crumble in oblivion's hands."
  
• What the hell. He traps a "golden aenzu" bird, then destroys by clenching his fist, golden dust trickling out. "... a newly born Golden Aenzu spreads its wings in another unknowable place." so... phoenix. Then it snows where Zayne is, in this hellscape.
  
• now we're back to Niava, wounds healed, sword blade repaired, another, more unfathomable, power has coalesced within the Tower. Okay, me and Zayne were once a whole lot closer (*cough*) than we are now for time uncounted, but that time is now past and we're estranged with each other.
  
• In the Divine Tower is the Aengru Spire which contains all the universe's realms within, a divine artifact that Zayne treasures the most. Golden Aenzus circle around it, beaks and feathers like knives. Zayne is their master. (Zayne and his connection to birds is one of my favorite minor details).
  

well, that was the first ten minutes of this myth. what the hell.