[Coldsaturn]

"maybe i should slow down and give time to absorb?"
Never.

- Yes, Sylus story is locked behind his myth, so you're forced to watch that to understand where he's coming from. It's one of the movie nights. The sad thing is that Long-Awaited Revelry literally ends Sylus' presence in the main storyline. From now on you'll only see him in cards/events/affinity rewards. Which sucks, I know, cn players have been complaining for months but infold was busy preparing caleb's drop in the main story, so now that that has been sorted out we hope we'll go back on schedule.

- I love you theory on MC's aether core. You accidentally got very close to it while speculating somewhere between here and the start of this chaos.

- "or maybe we need to learn to really commit"
The thing is: she doesn't know what the aether core does to her beyond giving her protocore syndrome and now visions.
We (players and MC) know that based on the experiments they were doing on her as a child, there was something they were doing that at every iteration was making her gain more fusion and power with the core. What that involved we don't know. It might not be something we can immediately experience like a surge in power.
We did just learn that she can absorb power from at least one aether core (because it was already the other half of what she had? Because that's just something she can do to aether cores?)

- "pawns on a chessboard and sacrifice over and over, trying to reset the entire game"
Not a bad deduction at all!
The question is: how many players are there?

- "IS THAT 'THING' SYLUS?!?"
That would actually be so funny for so many reasons. Accidental genius joke.