What is “Chaos” and what is “Apocalypses Bringer”
Chaos
By now I think we are all aware that the Arcane-Universe is heavily based on the Greek one. Prometheus giving humans fire (magic), Pantheon, Mt.Olympus etc. And some of you might have heard about such thing as “Chaos”…
Chaos or “Space” / “Gap” in Greek mythology is the first entity that existed at any point of time, its personification of void and infinity and it was the one who gave birth to all other gods and titans. So called, “The First Primordial Goddess of Greek Mythology”.
Outside of just giving birth to divine beings, chaos doesn’t play big role in Greek Mythology, but in Arcane-Universe Chaos is not even an entity, but a force of pure evil energy which is an origin of magic.
Funny enough, if we think about it for some time, we can somewhat say that being evil makes you have more potential as a mage, as Chaos is attracted to evil thoughts and negative things. We could have seen this in lore, where after Durza’s defeat in AA, Chaos was attracted to the earth and ravaged many of the remaining seas. Some islands had also gone completely missing, while others were left in ruin. People in War Seas called in “Wrath of the Gods” (the reason why Akurisus Keep was wiped)
Ap.Bringer
Apocalypse Bringer is ancient magic that is described as “Extremely unstable and explosive.”. This magic was in the list of Primordial magics (currently known as Ancient magics) since WOM, and I personally thought of it as an ancient version of explosion. But with AO coming out, and everyone reaching Calvus, people started thinking more about Ap.Bringer, as Calvus’ grandad - Nero Caesar is said to have been welding a powerful curse with which he wiped whole Winterville.
Most people, including myself, thought that it was a Death curse, due to Calvus’ suspicious need for it. But recently Vetex himself debunked it, saying that both Death and Ap.Bringer curse just happened to share similar colors, with death being black main color and teal aura, and ap.bringer teal main color with black aura.
So what if Ap.Bringer is connected to Chaos?
So as Vetex said, “Apoc is teal with a black aura”, and how Chaos is described? Well, let’s look at Akursius Keep journal.
Teal light you say? Huh.
An argument can be made that its “Wisp-like energy” but colors somewhat match, don’t you think?
- Teal light? Check!
- Black as secondary color (aura)? Check!
On gif we can see Teal flames and dark background, presumably their aura. So…If energy’s main color is teal, and its aura is black, AND we can suggest that energy may take a form of not just flames, but a beam / force, then the idea of Apoc having some kind of connection to Chaos makes sense?
And besides. Let’s literally analyze the name.
Apocalypse Bringer, so it brings apocalypse? Synonyms for “apocalypse” are Annihilation ; Cataclysm ; Catastrophe…
Nero ANIHILATED Winterville.
Chaos ANIHILATED Akursius Keep
Chaos brought CATACLYSM, which War Sea people know as Wrath of Gods.