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the initial score was based off of mini Herta

There’s an NPC in Amphoreus named Parmenides, and an associated achievement after completing the quest Elsewhere. If you’ve encountered two scholars debating, he was one of them.

There’s also a bath soak in the renovation event (suspiciously doctor-shaped….) mentioning Parmenides.

Parmenides was a pre-Socratic philosopher and cosmologist. For a frame of reference:

1. Anaxa is a reference to the pre-Socratic cosmologist Anaxagoras.

Castorice mentions the concept of his 6th eidolon, Everything is in Everything, when you first meet him incorporeally.

Nous (see below) is related to this. It’s not a coincidence that his faction in the Grove is dedicated to the Nousporists.

2. Thales, the first of the Seven Sages in game, is a reference to the pre-Socratic philosopher Thales; often considered the Father of Philosophy.

Arche (water), as the single origin and fundamental principle of the universe; that the earth floats on water.

Anaxagoras isn’t too far behind.

Nous (mind), a cosmological principle of order—rational, yet non-divine; of pure intellect, and yet material in the same, if individual—the finest of all things. It is said to be a [primordial] force that has manipulated the virginal mess of the universe, manifesting in the motion and ordering of the chaotic matter to form the rational physical world—though that initial mess has not been removed, but dispersed, and thusly, there is a part of that ‘everything’ in everything. 

3. Panta Rhei, Veritas’ warp event title, is a reference to the pre-socratic philosopher Heraclitus.

I’ve probably missed a few since I’m fairly passive with the readables—feel free to mention others!

there’s a few quotes reminiscent of him, too

,,,,,how do I tell anyone that it’s for the yaoi. it’s always for the yaoi how do I tell them that I’m specifically cataloguing their interactions with adjacent philosophers so I’ve an impression on what they might’ve been like for the sake of characterization in fanfiction.

I’ve had my family be like waow..!!! you’re learning Chinese and you’re on Chinese sites and browsers and programs for media aggregation and circulation, that’s so kewl ^__^ how’d you get into this?! despairing, trying not to say “its for ratiorine it’s for their respective ship name 理砂 it’s for them and him and” im going to bust.

“why is this your favourite genre” Aventurine. “what’d you draw?” His eyes. “what were you gifted for your birthday” a research paper and a vanilla cake. it remains unsaid, that there was his face printed on it. he has consumed me and I have consumed him. goddess i can’t do this anymore

Anaxa’s teased description reads:

There’s a scarce sliver of NPC dialogue referring to him, too.

> His faction within the Grove of Epiphany is NOUSPORIST!!!!!!!!

this guy’s holding up a novel of sorts:

and the enemy models themselves - moreso than even the NPCs - are so very like the doctor’s. so is Sunday’s, but it’s something to consider?