#raxia

'the primordial sea embraces all life, devours all deserters'

all life came from the primordial sea &left it. so the devouring Is the embrace &vice-versa

'dreaming in its emptiness, a wait in chaos is a peaceful hunt'

i wanted a word play on 'a wait in chaos' implying you are the one waiting, the hunter VS 'await in chaos is a peaceful hunt', which turns you into the hunted. idk if i got it across v well tho it was the best i could do 😔

'a shapeless existence'

chaos &ananke, the cosmic serpent raxia is heavily based off, are both said to be shapeless. there's an achievement you get in-game for clearing the chapter you meet anaxa in: the shapeless god is the most visible of all things. ironically, the cosmic serpent of necessity is quite literally hiding in plain sight

'the primordial sea'

similarly, when you meet 'nous', the aeon that anaxa suspiciously has motifs of, the achievement you get is called 'the end is also the primordial chaos'

'the fate of new stars'

ananke is considered the mother of the 3 fate sisters, but that was just a neat tidbit that happened to align.

this word &the one below link to stellar jades &oneiric shards- which come from leviathans themselves (raxias distant descendants)

the description of stellar jades is the thing here: "some say that the lights are wishes of sentient beings. while insignificant &elusive, they did light up the pocket of sky around them, right?" which sounds a LOT like trailblazing/akivili's beliefs. akivimeow even says "there are many other little guys wandering through this cold, vast universe. i wanna do something for them. like teaching them to 'understand' &'build' the ability to get along with people, finding a family they can 'connect' with &ultimately living a happy life!"

now this then ties in very nicely to my idea that akivili was the one who took ataraxia in from the wilds &brought them aboard the express. another of akivimeow's lines "these little guys were born from chaos(‼️) but lucky for them, you were willing to take them in &give them a home to shelter from wind &rain." 🥺🥺🥺🥹🥹😭😭😭😭

'an ageless dream'

oneiric shard's description is: "crystallized lights floating in the sea of stars, pulsing with the residual dream of an ancient leviathan. everything of the old world turned in the end into candlelight that illuminates the darkness ahead." listen to me listen to me now what if the dreaming one was- &&still IS ataraxia?

now the colors in these sentences. the light blue (i'll use pink as substitute here) is to highlight the links to stellar jade/oneiric shards which have already been explained.

blue &white (i'll use purple as substitute here), however:

a shapeless existence from the cradle of chaos

a cosmic serpent from the primordial sea

born from necessity to the fate of new stars.

awoke from an ageless dream to find the universe born.

probably obvious by now that blue = ataraxia, all of these words are synonyms, essentially the same thing. the same thing for white/purple = the primordial chaos/sea. light blue/pink- the fate of new stars is an ageless dream + the lore implications that hsr universe is a loop 👀

now keeping that in mind, moving on:

the empty sea will one day reclaim what once departed

may the hunted &fallen drift amongst the snow

red = leviathans, the supposedly now extinct species. ataraxia eats them, inspo from kingsnakes, king cobras, other ophiophagus snakes, thus 'reclaiming what once departed'. the snow links to marine snow- the bits &pieces of stuff that includes corpses in the sea, except that sea is now cosmic

the empty sea will one day reclaim what once departed

ataraxia left the primordial chaos just like all the others. tying back to before, 'a wait in chaos is a peaceful hunt' = raxia hunting leviathans ++ 'await in chaos is a peaceful hunt' the chaos/sea waits patiently, knowing raxia will eventually return to its embrace/its maw- a 'peaceful' hunt

the scholar who named his ataraxia(hedonism) by his own hand defiantly asks, "by whose decree must I let go of a truth I found?"

obvs green = anaxagoras. he gave them the name ataraxia (they were nameless in every sense before, not thinking much of needing one). ataraxia is a state of mind/peace/stability sought after in ancient greek philosophy. also drawing lightly from epicureanism, which seeks achieving ataraxia in its goal of hedonism (tying it loosely to the fact that anaxa is a party animal) = anaxa named raxia his pleasure, his peace, &a piece of the ultimate truth of the universe that he seeks. an absolute love letter, utterly him, in one lone word; &he will Not let even the primordial chaos wrest them from him

this world is full of lies, so let us find what the truth is worth together.

"may the truths of the universe rest again in my hands."

the first line is from anaxa's drip marketing post, where he also scoffs &says he alone is the truth = he's telling raxia to find out what he's worth together