These visions are to me like Daenerys's fever dream visions in so much that I have no idea that anything will be connected back to them again by the players but I will be obnoxiously tying everything back to them as much as possible.
"Occtis, you remember more. Flashing before your eyes, you see nightsong, words, celestials, black wings"
This feels like all in reference to what the Tachonis were trying to do to Occtis. Especially given Tannesar being the "Place of Wings" and Murray's vision later of the Occtis with wings destroying the Orchard. The nightsong from the Calcidion, the words of power from the Ritual, the Room with the veil he was supposed to become celestial in, then the vision of himself with black wings destroying the Orchard
"white wings, carriages of gleaming white liquid as blood moving out from the city."
This seems to be a jump to the nearest living celestial and also maybe shows that despite not knowing it, there was a 'create a bound celestial' arms race between Halovar and Tachonis, but Halovar has a celestial it has been tapping for ages. In the past 6 months-12 years they've been ramping that up, so I wonder if Primus is seeing the fish move around the shark, as I like to put it, and was like 'i don't know how they've done it but they've unlocked some sort of celestial power' and that's why he started looking for Tannesar for the excavations to start 4 years ago and for there to be a rushed timeline not just because of the Cloak
"You see endless night storm. You see the Dvalmar Pass, carriages of the Royce family."
This is all pre Schongarten seeker stuff to me, but I feel like we're not entirely done. Like, they could see the stormwrack before they got there, that's what the 'not rain, tears.' moment was about, and then we found the carriages. The people who care about them because they're Royce and Occtis knew already that they were stopped on the eastern side of the pass, so why is it getting a whole line in a prophecy like this? Maybe extra bait for the last part but I feel like maybe this is gonna be more of a big deal when we learn more about the Einfasen schemes and how they can threaten the Tachonis seat of power if their true power comes after death like Occtis thinks it does
"You see the Tachonis moving. The face of, not your father, but could it be his father? Something else, spirits of the dead, armies of the Tachonis, but the armies aren't marching in life, they march in death. There is a war being fought in the underworld. Your family is waging it. You saw it all unfolding."
I want to say this is about the Scar and I originally thought that maybe that Thjazi was leading the fight against the Tachonis in the underworld but we know he's not now, so who is? Is it the Tachonis in the dishonoured crypt or the older pre shapers Tachonis? Is that why it's Tachonis *Armies* and the *family* is waging it but nothing about who the other army is or who they're waging it against? Is that why they're looking for the bodies of the Tachonis that are from before the Shapers War all over the place? To force them into compliance in death? And is this threat of the dead pre shapers Tachonis why Primus seems so scared to die despite being a Tachonis and Nullus being his ally? Because if he doesn't get his shit in place before he dies he's fucking toast?
"You see an orcish warrior standing against the dead somewhere past the Dvalmar Pass, you see the symbol of the Barrowguard."
Very obvious why they went after this thread first but also want to point out that it's the one that held the least 'reward' potential to focus on first given the timeline of their arrival, like they could find him dead or he escaped, and he escaped. But we got the stuff there and killed Tertia so I'm glad they did, I just point that out because I think it was the one most likely to be designed to be a red herring but even so it was incredibly rewarding just with the connection with Dr Talter and learning what they did at Tannesar about what would actually qualify as completing the ritual. Like without that, the Halls of Mercy thing has no gravity to it, so I think it was designed as another instance to be like 'look even when she seems emotional and like she has potentially irrational priorities, Thaisha's core instincts and intuitive insights are actually incredibly important to respect'. Like what brennan called anathema yet again, and it's always borne out of love. And for fucks sake this is one of the visions amongst the others, something important was always gonna be going on with it but any reason to write it off *must* be also writing off the importance of Thaisha's love, especially as a mother who loves her son despite being separated from him for so long, because it needing to be more rewarding for them to prioritize finding her son is actually bullshit.
