Yeah, the knowledge that Albrecht TAUGHT Thrax and presumably Drifter about the Void (hence the Void Mirrors, Thrax mayy have learned that from him) is really, really interesting
And kind of puts Wally’s yoinking/devouring of the Isle of Academe in another light, if anything Albrecht taught was located there
Speaking of Isleweaver, Oraxia’s fascinating in that
A: she was specifically left to help Drifter (maybe he didn’t forget them after all)
B: Who the fuck did Albrecht use, if anyone, as a base for her?
For inspiration on her abilities, my best guess is probably Gerivane, considering his marriage to her was an arranged one specifically designed to ‘restrain’ him and propagate his Genes re: Roathe or Kerremos.
Considering this, it’d make sense for that to be an inspiration for the spider-warframe that strikes from afar, ensnares her foes… and forces them to give birth to her Spiderling Children.
Holy Shit get therapy man
Whilst I like the ‘Albrecht if not hated then STRONGLY resented the arranged marriage’ take and consider that a understandable response, seeing that Gerivane’s character so far is described in particularly passive ways, with her being emotionally distant/dying from emotional neglect and fading away.. I feel like she deserved better.
Hopefully Albrecht pulled a Necraloid and CLONED bodies to be Warframe’d, rather than outright using someone else’s, or even his Wife’s.
^ Edit: drifting stardust rightly pointed out that doing this both narrows the timeline too much and is highly unlikely for at least one reason: his family wouldve mentioned it if Albrecht walked off with his wife’s body. She’s more likely to be a Skull somewhere alongside the rest of the deceased family. Who knows who the basis for Oraxia was.
Additional Edit: CardinalGoldenbrow fascinatingly connects Oraxia to The Murmur as a multi-armed hunter that Tethers down Timelines.. especially with Wally being given Spider-imagery in Isleweaver.
Though imo this is just as likely a result of Wally ‘absorbing’ Oraxia in some way and thus gaining a part of her as a part of them.
^ which is headcanon. But I like the idea, and I like to think something similar happened with Rusalka- hence why Wally became a fair bit more erudite regarding his wishes and manipulative post 1999.
(As in Isleweaver and imo the end of the Hex Quest, Wally is attempting to illicit sympathy from Drifter and reason with them. Clumsily, in Isleweaver’s case, but it’s a HUGE difference to pre-Isleweaver Wally, who usually acted more as a Cognitohazard)
