Here's a couple tarot explanations I could find for those who don't know the in's and out's of tarot divination (Labriynthos and Tarot).

Even if I am starting to appreciate Bluepoch's move towards fleshing out the Foundation's and Manus' lore as potentially understanding the inner machinations of the Depths as well (since it's certainly becoming clearer by the day that the Foundation was utilizing its power without realizing and/or comprehending it); it also depends on how that experience is expressed through the characters, visually and emotionally, over the audience being an outside observer. It has more or less been a breath of fresh air for me to enjoy a gacha game like Reverse (and Limbus Company) since they add their own spin to historical/literary figures and references without being too tongue-and-cheek on whether the audience understands said-references if it's not spelled out to them.

Of course, in Reverse's case it wants to tell and overarching story about time being erased and folding into itself; of loss and bittersweet reunions, and of the sacrifices some people are willing to make to bring back the memory of someone that can never be replicated to its fullest extent. And while I haven't entirely completed TSC yet (or yet dare to peer into 3.7), I got a pretty good run-down from my sister since it heavily focuses on the Depths and how pretty cutthroat its deals are to whoever wishes to harness its power...Also Aleph and co. and the (human) Perez family being the catalyst to lead and/or mercury poisoning in Mexico City (Example 1, 2, and 3), more-or-less kickstarting the craze of the "magic pigment" to Manus and the Foundation was a plot point I was not expecting at all but appreciate immensely. Still though, it's a major step-up from Triste Tropiques trying to find that fine line between expanding on the overarching narrative and respecting the culture/country it takes place in.

Nowadays, the playable characters have certainly shifted to letting the audience learn more about the inner workings of the Foundation and Manus. Of course, that means a massive chunk of them try to fit the status quo design-wise since both corporation/cult have a semi-lenient dress code, but they still squeeze in a few notable accessories and clothing designs that connect them to their given era/nationality/culture/etc (Hummingbird/Muriel being a prime example in Flowing Feast and TSC so far). So when the little preview poster for 3.8 came across my feed, I went to work coming up with my own theories on who will be significant to the story the day before the trailer dropped.

Everecho: Not exactly a name but a concept of sound that lasts indefinitely, but mainly used in musical riffs (I swear we get another instrument Awakened).

Cornerstone: Can't say for sure who that might be but it could be a prominent Foundation/Laplace member or something like the Razor Squad...Or if it's based on masonry, they could be a architect for the Foundation since the Storm should be wearing their foundations down for sure.

Grundriss: Apparently a German word that more or less translates to "A comprehensive and systematic outline, especially of a science"…I'm sure them and Cornerstone are best work buddies :)

Keena: A Irish/Celtic name that means brave, but it's certainly going to be a step up having a authentic Irish character that isn't riddled with stereotypes for once in gaming history 🙃

Irinei: The bastard that was managing the Foundation's (War) Hawks all the way back in A Long Long Walk and Campaign's Tale. Can't say for sure why he would be around, but given everything with 3.7 he could be working more as a supervisor alongside Constantine making sure there isn't any funny business going down.

Bkornblume: Possibly will be similar to TSC with Centurion and Latham/Loggerhead as a Team Timekeeper advocate since Vertin is definitely on the fence about whether or not she can trust the Foundation anymore. Or you know, especially after the headquarters blew up...

Then Temporal Scale dropped... While yes, it does connect to the real scientific study of the varying forms of degradation to living/inanimate objects throughout time, observed or not, the references in this patch seem oddly disjointed and confusing at best. Nowa Miedz seems to be a combination of two different things: Nowa being Polish for "new or fresh", while Miedz is the Polish word for copper but there are some other words that mean boundary or foundation (między and miedza respectively); although Polish is definitely a pretty diverse language, even, but I figured it could line up with the Depths becoming more and more relevant to the Foundation itself. After all, this lost and clearly-abandoned Foundation site (likely as a prominent copper mining company) that used to be around until the First Storm and was abandoned since then, but the forces that be still linger after all this time, waiting to find some closure in the way they desired... However, the things also I learned about Everecho particularly had some great potential if she learned more into the ghostly aspects of her character/story for now. Since the concept of an everecho (if I wasn't fighting against ceramic/art companies, oceanographer, and AI brands using the same name) it is meant to be a form of sound that continues indefinitely, although it could be used in music to signify the passing of time (mainly with guitar riffs). So I'm going to lean on the theory that she's meant to be a Felicienne 2.0 and is a ghost of the Depths that is more-than lost to time/reality, although it would've made more sense for the story to crank up the incorporeal/ghostly vibe up to 11, maybe looking more like a shifting veil or haze in the shape of a human or the one ghost to out-ghost them all. And yes, while her outfit and doll could connect to her country/era of origin in Czechia/Bohemia, I have yet to travel down that rabbit-hole on why she looks more like a combination Lorelei-Night Echo...Unless they're going to have some kind of found-family relationship or if she is Lorelei's bio mom since it's been pretty vague since A Series of Dusks on top of me finally having a big brain moment that she ticks off almost every mark of her possibly being a seer to the Depths), but I'm sure that will be shown later down the line.

Hell, I was having a blast theorizing about Truth a Posteriori and how it connects to the horrors of colonization, baseless rumors fueled by greed, and how the Foundation/Laplace don't exactly understand the concept of "dead men tell no tales" if the expedition team in El Dorado are going insane from a paradoxically abundant sponsorship budget...Or advocating for rainforest preservation efforts by a kickass ghost tree that may or may not being a Myth Manifest, that too.

Gods and Deities As stated in the pre-3.5 content, the Aztec mythos (both in-game and in real life) explains the creation of the world(s) through different cycles of creation and destruction; Four Suns that destroyed the world with drought, fire, winds, and floods while the current Fifth Sun was meant to end with devastating earthquakes and "all people will be eaten by sky monsters" (Thoughtco). Even if it's shown with a tiny portion of gods (especially with the god Tlaloc in Day 3), all of them have their own roles and wholeheartedly believe that they only exist to manage the balance of the world no matter if any unexpected events get in their way. They see humans as both their loyal followers and insignificant specks on the earth, only wishing that they hold some worth once they're reborn as anything other than humans. In that case, you can basically think of any god in a certain country's mythos and they could count as a Myth Manifest, plus anyone on the artistic side of things can do a glow-up on their core concepts as well :)

2. Embodiments of Arcanum While it's a smaller section since the only MMs that could fit the bill are the Ley Purifier Convergence in Farewell, Rayashki and the Tongue of Deception in Revival! The Uluru Games; it could be extra funny if any and all forms of ghosts could be considered smaller iterations of the MMs (Charon, Poltergeist, Click, etc.). After all, it takes a lot of effort for a person to exist beyond death (a strong belief per se), even if some of the drawbacks seem to be insignificant and/or an annoyance at best. Although another example of these embodiments could be manifestations from other arcanists (or human), especially if they are overwhelmed with emotions; Beasts of Niyuang in Notes on Shuori, Shumar's breakdown in Journey to Mor Pankh, Reunion of Three Swallows in Showdown in Chinatown, Santos, Reborn in Suffering in Triste Tropiques, and especially Singing Phantom in E Lucevan le Stelle and Ghost of Transcendentality in Folie et Deraison.

3. Wardens of Belief Even if this was a earlier fact I found out through 3.4's Pre-Storm Protocol and Flowing Feast, but it seems really telling that the concept of an unconscious collective doesn't want to be directly acknowledged or interacted with; and they make that fact very clear through psychological torment or brute force. And in the SCP universe it would definitely count as an anti-memetic; something that fights tooth-and-nail to be as insignificant as possible no matter how dangerous it is to the human mind. Case in point with the Depths of Myth driving a person insane if they even attempt to enter its sea unprepared (everything with the Manus in 3.4 and Dr. Roseau's experiments with an ominous well) or anyone trying to "mine its seabed" have a very likely chance to unleash unspeakable horrors unto the world (ie. Humanoid Projections in Showdown in Chinatown and Beasts of Gévaudan in A Flowing Feast). The only way someone, be it human or arcanist, could interact with the Depths safely is to use one of its many many titles or follow a certain belief that's a smaller part of the bigger picture (truth, fortune, immortality, etc.); and there are already a handful of seers and prophets that have plenty of opinions about this universal memory bank.

4. Harbingers of the new era While the first thing you could think of is Manus' influence in kickstarting the Storm, it all centers around the belief of such a monumental change; hence the Depths/Myth Manifests stepping in as that symbol of the changing eras. The Arcana/Guiding One's lineup are pretty emblematic of something that is formidable but unknowable (Guiding One's Creation in Tender is the Night and Guiding One's Harbinger in Vereinsamt (Breakout)), the more Depths-related monsters connect to their associated era more seamlessly, even if the circumstances to their manifestations (and subsequent Storms) vary. From The Brain: Security Robot marking the Technology Age in Theft of the Rimet Cup (and aptly named Harbinger of the New Era in the Depths itself), Annalith in 1987 Cosmic Overture, Aggregated Filth in London Dawning, the true might of Anjo Nala in Floor It! To the Golden City!, and the earlier MMs mentioned above that serve as a massive turning point to the new age whether the main cast was aware of it or not. The one massive-ish outlier to this is Félicienne (The Skyward Depths) in Flowing Feast since she's more or less the anti-Myth Manifest until her façade as a mysterious and extremely sassy noblewomen started to fall apart. A major headcanon I have is that she was initially Félicienne Baron the normal arcanist up until 1610 with the assassination of King Henry IV and the end of the French Renaissance (since a certain streamer that does character analysis in the perspective of a fashion designer noticed her outfit seemed to be in the Victorian era compared to the rest of the cast being in 1930's Art Nouveau). She likely was only brought back up from the Depths for the 1936 Year of the Worker (likely with a lot of nagging and/or going crazy from the information overload) either before or during Manus working on the Beasts of Gévaudan rumor mill. While she had stronger ties to Paris, she needed some kind of anchor to keep her physical form together (even if no one but a extremely tiny margin of people could see her) and something that serves as a symbol to the end of the era: The French Blue/Hope Diamond, a extremely infamous symbol of wealth and great misfortune during a time of extreme poverty and wage discrepancy. However, the diamond also has some pretty deep ties to the Tavernier family, so Brume inadvertently being the one to let the Storm reach its conclusion also lets her "family curse" to finally bite her in the butt among other wild mishaps. And to wrap the little rant up on a sadder note, a likely headcanon to Félicienne's otherworldly sweet tooth is that it's both a coping mechanism for a time she's long lost and that her tastebuds are constantly plagued with the salt of the sea. Cause no matter how hard she tries to hide under delicate lace and fake jewelry, all must return to the cycle eventually no matter how hard she tries to fight it...

Bonus: Truth a Posteriori While I know it's going to be a long time coming for 3.7 to be available on global (especially if the story is going to emotionally rip me apart), the fact that another survival management minigame managed to sprinkle in a bunch of Depths lore is so Bluepoch that it's hilarious. While I don't want to spoil too much from what I can scrounge up from Huijiwiki, it could also tie in with Turquiose Serpent Club and its South American mythology with the ancient city of El Dorado, plus the Foundation's Artifact Preservation/Restoration Department trying to find something important to take back to HQ. However, being a long-forgotten civilization with little-to-no information on its culture and sudden collapse, the Depths seemed to have taken a keen interest in making sure it stays hidden and undiscoverable no matter what.

And apparently that means unleashing a abomination of a skeleton-ghost tree (if it isn't named after or references the goddess Chie/Chia, I'm going to riot), and what I could find out about it design-wise is really intriguing; either being the central tree between Heaven, Earth, and the Underworld (Yaxche), or the first tree to bear fruit after the sacrifice of a great hero to the wardens of the Underworld (Cabalash/"The skull of One Hunahpu").

While I could add a few more tidbits on how the location adds to the mystery and certain psychological doom, nothing beats a story of history repeating itself and a plucky group of adventurers accidentally unlocking the Pandora's Box of cosmic/eldritch horrors. :)

It is utterly hilarious and foul that Tuesday's new garment (and the 3.5 story) is going to be released on Easter of all days...

You know, the day of Christian rejuvenation and is somehow neck-to-neck with a story patch about The Day of the Dead and its theme of remembrance (of the dead) and celebrating the future alongside the past.

While I absolutely adore the combination Mother Mary and La Llorona reference, the only nitpick I have with the garments in general is Kiperina's lack of uniqueness in her ult and the YBs in general keeping their default lines despite their stories absolutely having a separate identity in of themselves.

(Located at Edge of the World)

A concept proposed by a psychologist, one of your dear colleagues’ favorite research topics, frequently invoked by so-called “deep thinkers” both inside and outside the toybox, and now thoroughly overused. It is an ocean, a can of orange juice, your dream — or the shared dream of the entire universe. Do you believe it? A pure, empty, monistic utopia, no different from the illusory tower of the toybox.

Thanks a bunch, and I'd say the same for your AlephSys art as well since it's kinda hard for me to come by nowadays. Other than that, it's either making a funny/funnily-angsty analysis, fixing up a rant analysis from my sis (another avid Re99 fan but been pretty busy with work these days) on Root, or both...But it's still great to know that there's people that share similar ideas and bounce off each other with different interpretations and skills.

- (Timekeeper) Vertin finding a strange little Timekeeper (Cookie) snooping around in her office, more-or-less just appearing out of nowhere and only sensing the flux of arcanum in a mousehole-sized tear that vanished in a instant.

- TC, bored as they are, slipped into a "timeline" where sentient objects and food intermingle with not-really Witches and humans...And they just so happened to find themselves in the office/living quarters of the world's "time director". Whether they know about Vertin working under the Foundation or the "Witch-centric cult" Manus Vindictae striving to destroy eras no matter how detrimental it is to the timeline is up to debate...But they're just excited about the matching hat for now :)

- Obvious headcanon that humans/aracanists can't understand Cookies since they're just a bunch of squeaking piles of dough (Ovenbreak-like), until TC activates Vertin's arcane Rosetta Stone/Book to understand them (Jiu Niangzi mentions it in her Introduction line).

- Introductions aside, especially with the obvious difference in their professions, Vertin eventually asks the titular question of if TC knows about anything about 1999 and beyond...Unfortunately for either of them, the Cookie world doesn't follow calendar years.

- Shenanigans naturally ensue once TC is unleashed upon the Suitcase and most of the crew are obviously trying to wrap their heads around what kind of Awakened they're supposed to be (give-or-take who will be caught in the crossfire). Bonus points on Regulus only trying to find if they're an APPLe tall or not.

- Finally and eventually, Croissant shows up to chew out TC for going MIA in the Time Balance Department while everything is clearly going to shit (cause it would definitely take place during Kingdom's Timeline of Fate, but ignore the potential discrepancy since I didn't watch the story yet). Before finally submitting to the fate of actually doing their job, TC makes their final remarks to Vertin by lore-dropping the fact that Croissant is their past alternate self (mainly wondering if she even had the chance to experience/document it)...And it finally breaks Vertin.

Even if it took a bit of digging to find the actual The Idealist since it connects to either a poem/literature website, a 2014 book by Nina Munk, and finally landing on a 1950 page in the New York Times, the whiplash I got was pretty real (even if the conversation ends just as quickly as an Assistant recruit)...And then the (toy) pieces began to pile up on Aleph and co. interacting with the Toybox in less-than-subtle ways now outside a mysterious red phone booth, the linguistic breakdown, and a couple thought experiments on the side.

So that got me thinking about the potential timeline for the simulations and when Aleph was officially put in Foundation custody. Given X's direct confirmation that this P-SP likely happened a couple days after 2.8 Paradise Regained, well after Vereinsamt, and is a couple months before Long Long Way and Campaign's Tale (definitely trying to give Vertin a breather/cope with losing her mom to the 10th Storm)...Then I look at Gnomon's timeline, albeit still in-progress with Spring Unending mentioning 1996 and Heron’s time likely being 1596, and immediately remember that Time Travel is a perfectly balanced trope and will definitely not melt a person's brain with a chronological gaming experience :)

Other than that, it also brings out a another side conflict with Ludwig and the Aleph(s) on top of ticking off another box on my theory of The Depths + Zahir hijacking Laplace’s less-understood tech to figure out how their collective minds work under a microscope (among other funny hijinks in the earlier Storm Protocols if you read between the lines). Cause how else is the LSCC supposed to know about this strange human's connection to a mini Storm simulation box? Besides Lorentz aka. "Enigmatically Enigmatic Girl" of course, and I'm sure it's going to be a ride once Serpent Club gets released on Global since she wanted to avoid Argentina with a thousand-yard pole after her little conversation with Aleph.

Oh wow, thanks for that and good luck on your paper!!

While that post was initially made as a secret teaser to Reveries and before Wailing Whirls released on global, it also adds another layer to the AlephSys since it could connect to how his alters affect him passive/actively with their given Afflatus and/or "arcane skills"...Plus finally figuring out that Knotted Thought's phases also line up to when each of Aleph's alters were first created (which was majorly hinted at in The Answering Machine and the couple lines in Folie), so that could be something to look into system dynamics and how they might effect someone in the long-term.

Other than that, extra good luck with your studies and hopefully a great summer break too!

Atticus, feeding the Depths a semi-regular diet of irrational numbers and taboo breakers, staring wistfully towards the horizon for his newest shipment of honey and Laplace ice cream: ...I have no need to discuss personal matters. As long as it helps me keep a straight head managing the Apeirons, that's fine by me :)

Well...Musae III got ahold of a certain camera and in his infinite wisdom decided to partner with Ludwig on a online interactive community where you play fun little mini-games to build the tallest tower known to man and arcanist kind...

Also love that the battery has a subtle hint for An-An Lee and using spirits as a power source…But who wants to bet that the Photoscope was teased all the way back in 0.x with Click’s camera, even if the superstition of cameras stealing a person’s soul is canon now in this universe :)

And then there’s the Arcade:

Musae just going "If a physical Tower of Babel is too much of a hassle, then store-bought or digital will work just as well" as if he didn't indirectly cause a linguistic collapse in Laplace w. Pre-Storm Protocol 2.0...That's what makes him fun

Lorentz Butterfly made the grave mistake of not only discovering Aleph exists, joked about him being a LSCC advisor, and offhandedly threatens Ludwig on hiding this little passion project of his (whether or not he's even alive or dead)…the Answering Machine just got the ball rolling on getting himself hired into Laplace. Whether he was even aware of their hiring process, Aleph already checks off every mark since he (and multiple alter egos) study multiple disciplines and are more than eager to share their thought processes if someone's lucky enough to find his number or a magic phone appearing out of nowhere. And then by a strange coincidence, the L.A.S. infects Laplace sometime after Vereinsamt, mimicking a small-scale Storm of linguistic chaos without the threat of turning into sand/mud monsters if they get the inflection wrong. And what do you know? A certain someone spent months workshopping a universal language on the side, and also possess an arcane artifact that can manifest one's desires/ideals if they put their mind to it. Even if Aleph shows up as a phone booth in Pre-Storm Protocol (and toybox Ludwig riding the high of being the first to test said-language), the simulation inevitably gives Enigma that push to prove himself as the soon-to-be head of the LSCC and process Greta's death in a gut punch of a conversation. Aleph did say that he's certain about answering any question that comes his way, no matter how difficult or obtuse, but doesn't gives himself credit because he lets the inquirer put the final touches of their solutions. That would be too pretentious of the "Universe's consultant" to do so, even if his alters have a thousand words and more to say otherwise (especially after Folie)... Not that Lorentz had any idea about him tapping into a thalassophobic Library of Babel on a daily basis, or that these coincidences seem extremely unconventional at first, here's hoping that they get the showdown they absolutely deserve if/when she finally puts the pieces together :)