[ChicletPrime]

• okay, into the homestretch of the last half hour. no explanation yet about why Zayne suddenly wants to go to the Vastraen but maybe he saw something with his special eyes.
  
• okay, so while Limbo is white sands and golden power and time literally falls like rain, the Vastraen is golden sand, dust and black mist everywhere. apparently now is the time to remove this from the world, where the power needed to destroy it.. well, i guess i am thinking that of course Zayne has a plan, but me, i am thinking Zayne's plan is "now is the time that Niava must fall, sorry girlfriend". so we enter, we start fighting, and then he hands me strangely shaped crystal. Creatio!? no, hang on, i am Creatio. what's this?
  
• so the monsters are now dying when slain, instead of coming back. their energy ('hearts') are now exhausted. the protocore he's given me is.. different? "Even though it looks as brilliant as a gemstone, it brings disaster." and i know this just by looking at it somehow?
  
• Zayne: "It isn't merely a harbinger of catastrophe. Its true potential lies beyond that. But for now, Niava in its current state cannot utilize its true purpose." I ask if I must wait for another 'time' (literally in quotes). And Zayne.. doesn't answer.
  
• so we kill all the monsters, the black mist and thorns disappear into a vortex. And now there's a fissure - a wound left after removing a malignant growth. What, like the kid with a tumor that we saved with honey and herbs? And we leave and we're back where we first met apparently, a place that was long lost and swallowed by the golden sands of the Vastraen.
  
• Zayne: "I remember you saying you wanted to claim me as your own when you first saw me." perfection. I have been irresponsibly greedy in every lifetime it seems. What's mine stays mine, forever. now of course i realize that was i thought was our first meeting was only the first for me, and a reunion for him. as we walk under the trees, i don't want to reach the end of this world because then he might leave me.
  
• his pendant/chain thing has what looks like stylized wings on it (a representation of the Aenzu birds?) and a twined pair of curves which could be flames or just invoking the caduceus staff. the little medallions have stars on them.
  
• lovely, we've crafted (he's crafted?) a world out of time. day and night arrive at our whim, we stay together, never parting.
  
• Niava is a "plump seed full of nutrients" but now is not the time to plant it. Zayne: "In a place that infinitesimally far from this world, there are errors I must erase. The proper 'soil' shall only appear when those errors are gone."
  
• uh... Destiny Stone?!
  
• oh crap, if he erases his name from the Stone (entwined with mine) he'll disappear forever and never return. oh MAN. which, of course, he does.
  
• back at the tower, the Aengru Spire is gone. and... yup. snowing outside, for the first time ever in Niava.
  
• holy shit, i birdnapped the Aenzu that carried Niava's golden thread and carried me through Everlost. well, this seems kind of clever - the bird is tied to the Spire and will always return to it. and where the Spire is, so is Zayne.
  
• okay, we plunge back into Limbo and hear fragments of Zayne's voice which we, of course, know are from other timelines. and there are a few in there that i do not recognize? so... teasers for later? or just cards i haven't read yet?
  
• "I will always go to him." awwwwwwwwww
  
• HOLY WHAT THE FUCK
  
• "Aengru" is a... computer?!? The 'tablets flickering with images' are computer screens?! IT'S DOING CALCULATIONS?!?
  
• holy hell and a half, what the blazing...
  
• its calculating pathways without fatal flaws - which it hasn't found yet.
  
• so Zayne is trying to find a route to sever Niava from... something. I am intrigued and confused. so.. like Xavier is trying to erase the flaw in the past that leads to Philos, Zayne is doing the same thing?
  
• this world is so modern, its wild to see Zayne standing in it in his God/High Priest robes. so we have to go to the top floor to disrupt the 'magical array' that will complete the separation of the two worlds, which will let the Aengru Spire reconnect with Niava.
  
• So this world brought about its own destruction, chasing again after eternal life, the logical extension of the rise of civilization and its benefits and its now fated to die in a never ending blizzard as its strayed too far down the path of an erroneous natural order. Zayne: "However, within this incorrect order exists a single variable."
  
• the massive array now takes the opportunity to become visible, a massive Aenzu struggles out from it, black crystals covering its body. We attack.
  
• Zayne: "Imperfect order doesn't need to be corrected. True redemption lies in utter obliteration."
  
• And he's all wounded again. The destruction of the Aenzu/monster damaged him? and he's trying to send me away (again). "The severance is complete. This world will no longer corrupt Niava, and it won't drag it down into the abyss."
  
• I ask if I am the variable and he says "To be more precise... it is my selfish desire."
  
• trailer cutscene!
  
• this is the same lighting scheme as the end of Fallen Crown. maaaaan.
  
• well, crap. we died (so sad!) and Niava (without us?) falls to snow and ice as well.
  
• oh shit. back at the Fractal Library!?
  
• a fallen book on the floor, returned to its shelf by the Administrator. a snowflake melts on its binding.
  

just. wow. THAT WAS A LOT.