#crk lore

Firstly, let's do some important stuff and establish the timeline and place.

If you notice, Doughael is praying in what's possibly the ruins of the Vanilla Kingdom with candles lit.

The place is atleast near the kingdom/around the raisin hills where he meets Pure Vanilla too

Since Pure Vanilla Cookie's hair is completely fine and clean unlike how disheveled and unclean it later became, this encounter must be in his earlier days as Healer.

So their ties def go a long way back.

Now interestingly.. Pure Vanilla Cookie used to be offered candles as well if you look at the Timeless Kingdom Sprites as well.

If you notice the candles in particular... Do you see something similar amongst these pictures?

This leads me to believe Doughael here was praying for or perhaps to Pure Vanilla himself which is why he instantly knew who Healer was and specifically came to the Raisin hills:

What's more interesting is, he seems to also take up the role of a Prophet.

Does this imagery seem familiar?

And ONE VERY INTERESTING FRAME

Look at these:

Right after the middle frame, his eyes lit up as he opened them almost like...he found his purpose.

This leads me to the theory, after the horror of Dark Flour War and the fall of the kingdom.. not all denizens of the Vanilla kingdom left for Creme Republic and some stayed behind for multiple or personal reasons just like Custard's grandfather holding onto hope of PV's return

This hope was carried on by many cookies as even in present day, you can find pilgrims searching for Pure Vanilla as he was truly a beloved figure.

But what the older pilgrims say…may come off as what they witnessed after-war.

That they didn't see a lively place for ages.

And after Pure Vanilla Cookie's death, the remaining population of the Vanilla kingdom who stayed despite the war...didn't have anything to hold on to for even their last hope, their beacon and hope, Pure Vanilla Cookie died himself.

This leads me to the belief, in those trying and painful times of hopelessness and helplessness, Doughael cookie emerged. To rally the masses closer to their faith and the teachings of Pure Vanilla Cookie

However...with a twist to them.

It is a common fact that War often drives people to be superstitious or even very religious for it is easier to believe in a Higher Existence's fate design than accept the man-made disasters and horrors of reality Perhaps Doughael simply took advantage of that fact.

Doughael might have come with good intentions BUT the path to hell is often paved by good intentions.He also refers to his followers as "Flock" and guess who is known for his love for sheep and was a shepherd?

I believe Doughael's ultimate interest was in seeking the divine truth and who could provide him that other than the Beacon of Truth himself? Perhaps that is why...he modelled it after Pure Vanilla cookie himself... In efforts to revive him...

This is why you keep seeing parallels between Pure Vanilla Cookie and AOD: "the Avatar of Destiny", the deity whom the Order reveres too deeply to the point of sacrificing their very soul even when in doubt

The Members need quite a lot of mental gymnastics inorder to justify this madness even as you can see here: They aren't ready to end it all mentally but will do so because they have been brainwashed into thinking it's the higher cause.

This is where the "All dough shall be one" ideology comes in.

For after the war, seeing the different suffering for different people.. Doughael might have come to the conclusion if everyone was one...then the pain would be one and none as well.

To share the burden of pain.

The highest form of kindness.

A twist to Pure Vanilla Cookie's teaching which is:

After the death of Pure Vanilla Cookie, his words, his teachings, even his image itself might have been twisted to fit the narratives or mentality of the masses of the time. Not too unlike our real world itself where religions were twisted to fit with the people's agendas.

Perhaps this is why Avatar of Destiny shares so much parallels with Pure Vanilla in terms of appearance:

Perhaps that is why there are so many similarities down to the very eyelashes he has:

Perhaps this is the reason why even the waffle cone architecture and the Chapel itself is that similar to the Pure Vanillian one.

Because it was modelled after it.

Down to the light symbols that hung above the original.

Perhaps a lot of Vanillian descendants joined the Order... In order to preserve what little they had of their cultural roots now that their very religious head is gone with no heirs.

This was their ultimate way to carry on his teachings and even Witch worshipping ideology

Perhaps this is why Doughael's ultimate goal to complete AOD for that is their twisted ideological view of Pure Vanilla Cookie whom they have deemed as their God, their symbol, their inspiration, their Avatar.

All of this is to carry on what they believe PV would be happy with

This is why I think Pure Vanilla Cookie may not just have past ties with the Order or the founding members of it like Doughbael but this whole cult may be centred around him and his words to the point of worshipping him and reviving him.

Could Healer Cookie or well...Pure Vanilla Cookie have come back to life because Doughbael and his order's sacrifices? That is why they kept visiting him even during such time and look at knowingly? Could AOD be a dark secret of Pure Vanilla Cookie that he has hid purposely?

Was his revivation from the dead, the reason he lost his memories? Or could it be he CHOSE to? Is that why the light of truth asked him if he understood "HIS consequences of HIS actions"?

Could it be that Pure Vanilla Cookie eventually learnt how he became alive again and that despair of how lives costed that transgression of nature itself....is what led him to erase his memories himself? Just so he doesn't have to face the truth anymore?

Perhaps that is the reason why...the moment he was awakened by the light of truth itself...he calls him worthless and a failure to save lives of everyone including his friends?

Could Pure Vanilla Cookie be aware of the Order but has kept his mouth shut just to not relive the pain?

Could it be that Doughael is aware of his feelings? But he doesn't care and will carry on his "holy mission" regardless? Either way, all of this is a theory.

A CRK THEORY!!

(DISCLAIMER: English is not my first language and I'm going this sleep deprived..)

yeah, with my handmade pictures.

so, first of all, Shadow Milk is not actually his father or parent at all (it doesn't make sense), he is his creator, some sort of. now, the explanation begins.

PART 1: flight of fancy

as we all know, fount of knowledge got tired of stupid cookies asking nonsense to him and blaming him for literally anything they don't like.

the story of creating a W.. no, not a "Wizard cookie", but a little , so called "Fibster cookie" starts from the time, then fount of knowledge was on the edge.

he couldn't believe how could cookies be so foolish, so selfish, so wrong? he was in denial - was this the great cookies he supposed to share knowledge with? does First Milk cookie even know what those idiots are? no, she probably wouldn't put him in this position if she knew.

day by day he questioned cookiekind more and more.

and then.. an idea came into his brilliant mind.

he CAN understand them and what in the life of a cookie goes wrong for them to be so stupid.

but for this, he needs to create a cookie from scratch - as an immortal being, he wanted to examine how cookie mind developes, from scratch to an adult. and see, if cookies are doomed by themselves or he can grow up a decent cookie and it's not really their fault.

my explanation of course is not as good as I want to be, but I hope you understand what he wanted to achieve and why!

PART 2: Schrödinger's dough

fount of knowledge started to create the cookie. he mixed together some basic components, but while doing this, he couldn't focus.

it was his breaking point.

he thought to himself - "why am I even trying to fool myself? why trying to understand? I see it clearly. I'm just making a mess. creating another little liar into this cursed world. a fibster... right, a Fibster. a little liar created with my bare hands."

(technically, Wizard's real name is Fibster cookie, since "Wizard" is something he decided to name himself.)

fount of knowledge had a breakdown, he left the dough in the milk lake and left. forgot about that silly idea after, thought, that this small, pathetic dough will forever rot in this witches forsaken lake without a chance to ever be alive, but..

PART 3: pâte fermentée's abiogenesis

he made it! yaay!

actually, it's not a miracle but a consequence of leaving a dough in a some sort of magical fountain of milk.

Shadow Milk got sealed for a loot of ages, and every second of that time little dough absorbed a little bit amount of magic from the milk.

it took a while for our little Wizard to be "born", but he managed to absorb enough magical essence to replace the lack of other components with it, making him able to open his little adorable eyes for the first time.

the life of a Fibster begins!

PART 4: little peculiar waif

( NOTE: despite being official, crk comics are NOT cannon, I just used an image from it because for some reason he had a black eye outline here, and I thought it fits and is kind of funny)

Wizard cookie was found by some adventurers who took him away, and his early childhood was.. complicated.

he was smaller and weaker than others, had sharper teeth, strange eyes, and the most horrible thing for an other child - he preferred magic and learning instead of being a lil' goofball full of innocence.

since the age of 5-6 he started to cover his other eye, wear scarfs and be invested into magic.

after some time, he meets kids who are out of the group too (a shy strawberry and extra energetic and loud Gingerbrave), they become best friends forever, all that things.

PART 5: Baader–Meinhof phenomenon

yeah, it's after the spire of knowledge, etc.

y'all probably know everything that happened anyways!

but after meeting Wizard cookie, Shadow Milk couldn't shake some strange feeling off.

at first, he thought that he just got amused by some smartass brat, but no. something about this kid, his aura or something bothered him.

so he started to stalk the poor kid, noticing his strange eye, his sharp teeth, his little strange behaviours and small lies.... lightbulb in his head couldn't shine, but then he remembered who is the cookie, that lies small. it's called a fibster! yeah..

so then he checked the fountain and couldn't see the dough, something in his wet head finally clicked - it might be HIS fibster!

PART 6: apocryphal.. or not?

family reunion, yaay?

so, Shadow Milk dashed to claim that is his own, and he bombed poor Wizard with all that info.

of course he didn't believe him, but it all came together.. logical enough?

of course it wasn't a wholesome moment, because Shadow Milk did this purely for his advantage - he lied about the purpose of creation, telling him that "oh my darling, I was soo stupid back then! just like Pure Vanilla - sentimental fool. I was so looonely and saaad, so I decided to create a kid to well.. take care of it or something? and guess what? blueegh.. I became attached to a child whom I didn’t even have time to create!"

there was a deal between them - Shadow Milk spends some time with his creation, teach him some advanced cool magic, brings smart as hell books, and as an exchange Wizard cookie should just keep that a little secret and listen to his teachings, read whatever he brings, sounds nice, right?

actually, Shadow Milk cookie just wanted to manipulate Wizard into his side, because if he does, Wizard would be an excellent spy, that could possibly help him take revenge on Pure vanilla greatly. and he might've missed teaching someone.. a bit.

THE END.

Remember those Tarot cards from Shadow Milks beast yeast episode before they got changed?

Well, one of them has come true.

hes so silly man, cant wait to see him crash out and break even more <3 (sketch undercut)

BE HAPPY GINGERBRAVE STILL HAS NO PROPHECY THAT HE WILL SAVE THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE DEVSIS ARE STILL GOING ON WITHOUT A DESTINED PROPHECY HERO THEY STILL HAVE IDEAS !

FOUNT OF KNOWLEDGE is what Shadow Milk Cookie was called BEFORE he got corrupted in the main CRK timeline

SAGE OF TRUTH is a version of Shadow Milk from an AU that is SEPARATE from the main timeline, where his and Pure Vanilla's roles are switched completely

(i.e. Sage of Truth being the truthful one and Truthless Recluse being deceitful, also in this AU SMC/Sage of Truth had nothing to do with PV becoming Truthless Recluse, unlike in the main timeline where SMC was the one who corrupted him, this time he was deceitful from the start)

I still could be wrong so let me know if I made a mistake in explaining the lore!

(Edit: Also added images to show the difference in appearance. Fount of Knowledge is on the left, Sage of Truth on the right. FOK image is from Pinterest (couldn't find credits) because SMC's pre-corruption form is never explicitly revealed in-game.)

Part One: What The Fudge?!

You know, our first post was going to be fixing cookie biology because canon can’t seem to decide whether cookies have organs or not. It’s… actually incredibly funny to see sources go cookies work because magic and then Silent Salt say, “The Cookie heart.” Picking a lane would be great, my guys. 

So we opened the Cookie Run Kingdom wiki page on Cookies, the species. This was a mistake. Honestly we wanted to cry. We love the wiki, don’t get us wrong. Fantastic source of information. The reason we wanted to cry is because it’s a conglomerate of all of the information over the years, and Cookie Run is infamous for being inconsistent. All right, cool. Where to start? 

We end up scrolling, and there’s a section called Divergences. Interesting, what’s in here? Well, the list goes as follows: 

Fig and Nutmeg Tiger - sure, centaurs definitely are divergences

Candlelight - not sure how a being made of wax counts as a cookie, but sure

Goblin - has extra pronounced fangs, good for them I guess

Merfolk and Tearcrown residents - yep, merfolk definitely count on this list 

Candy Diver - … that’s just a ghost with an attitude 

Aurora Candy - we would argue this is not a cookie, but you do you, Devsisters, we’ll handle that later 

Mercurial Knight - “though appearing to be of a standard Cookie body made of mercury-infused dough, can melt into liquid mercury at will (Cookies, Cookie Run: Kingdom Wiki)”

Choco Flounder - we’re just going to file this under Merfolk and call it a day because why? 

Did you catch it? No, not the centaurs. Not the wax. Not the ghost. The mercury. Apparently Mercurial Knight has the ability to melt into liquid mercury at will. What?! 

This dragged us down a bumpy ride that started in excuse me, why do you have that ability, sir??? and ended in why are the Witches even in this story right now??? Click below to keep reading as we show you through Alice’s rabbit hole to the truth of the invasive predators of Earthbread.