THESIS UPON THE WHEEL

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⊰━━━━━━• ✦ •━━━━━━⊱   A DECLARATION OF TRUTH Ruination breeds Havoc   As proclaimed by the first trial, I have secluded myself to the study of the scrolls. In this study, the domain of Ixris has drawn me in– enwreathed in Havoc and Ruination. Making up the final malice, it serves as a calamity of each point of the pentacles, the lines drawing them inward, for without them, the pentacle would no longer be complete.   Each portion of the pentacle bears its own ruination– may that be from consumption, poison, dread, calamity, or pestilence. Havoc serves as a catalyst– bringing forth the destruction needed to ruin. The union of each respective form births havoc, yet is intertwined between The Hand and The Eye.

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The first half of this thesis will serve as an introduction, a basis for my thesis. On the contrary, the latter half will be for the thesis itself: that while The Hand and The Eye appear as two separate entities, they are in unity.

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⊰━━━━━━• ✦ •━━━━━━⊱   THE EYE AND THE HAND There is no one without the other.   The Eye, both in a literal and figurative sense, is dominion over Truth. Through the Eye, the vestige which lingers behind the Oppressive God is revealed. The Eye is endowed with the ability to see beyond– to walk the steps of Strigapoth, to grant sight to the unseen. But The Eye is only a single fragment of the two, The Hand making up the other fragment.   The Hand, forming the ‘physical’ aspect of the two, serves as dominion over might. While it is the Eye that sees beyond, it is the Hand that acts. In relation to the Tyrannical God, the Hand is meant to strangle him.

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It is through devotion, the acknowledgment of both the Hand and the Eye, that dominion over Havoc can be reached. To see without acting is to falter; to act without sight is blindness. True dominion over the two lies in their union, to understand them as one.

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⊰━━━━━━• ✦ •━━━━━━⊱   HAVOC INCARNATE Chaos ensues.   It is through these readings that I have identified the final malice– the coalescence of Havoc, and how it cannot be wrought without the respective pieces; How it cannot be snatched, without dominion; How it cannot be seen, without devotion.   The Hand and The Eye merely serve as a single layer in the pursuit of Havoc. Extending past that layer, the fragments of the parables appear– each a vessel of another truth. The Hydra speaks of the eternal rise, the higher callings as opposed to the bickerings of the world. The Crèche speaks of starting from nothing and lacking care, so long as they never reach that plateau again.  And finally, the Legionary speaks of purpose– the higher calling that once again unites both The Hand and The Eye.

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THE THRONE OF HAVOC

A test of sanity.

 

One of the biggest tests of this scroll is to mistake connection for union. To see the Eye and the Hand as separate entities is to have a flawed understanding, for therein implies a duality that cannot hold a singular ‘throne of Havoc’. This thesis will argue the parables of the Hydra and the Crèche to establish the principle of ‘eat or be eaten’, while the parable of the Legionary provides the missing fragment. The goal of this thesis is to prove that the Eye and the Hand are not two, but a singular will, forged from a mutual goal. The true unity– going farther than the fragments– is ‘to see is to act’, the final coalescence of Havoc.

⊰━━━━━━• ✦ •━━━━━━⊱   FALSIFIED DUALITY To dream a false dream is to not dream at all.   Both The Hand and The Eye are explained as concepts that are connected, but connection is not the same as union. In that same vein, I can see how they can be described as separate concepts– The Eye, unable to do as the Hand does, and the Hand not being able to act without the Eye. They began to sound as if they were simply dependent on each other, but that, too, is still far from the truth.

 

⊰━━━━━━• ✦ •━━━━━━⊱   THE PRINCIPLE OF ASCENSION The Infernal Climb.   The first two parables speak of the Hydra and the Crèche. In both of those, they talk about the concept of ascension. Of the choice of the eternal rise, or be eaten.    Not included within these Scrolls, but instead the Black Books, is the mission of the climb: “The Weak are Meat and the Strong do Eat.”   The parables follow the same guide– to either grow tall or be vanquished with the rest. Within those, the concept of the Hand and the Eye being separate does not make sense. The throne of Havoc can only have one king– one ruler. For them to be separate would bring forth that problem.

 

⊰━━━━━━• ✦ •━━━━━━⊱   UNITED NOT CONNECTED Neither separate nor detached.   In finality, the parable of the Legionary is the basis for my argument. In the parable, the legions are never described as separate entities, but rather as a gathering. A unity of differences, all united under a mutual goal. Within the parable, they serve under a singular banner— beneath Hand and Eye. The legion would not stand if the banner were torn or split in a removable way. Within the legion, it is not described as the Hand that acts, or the Eye that sees, but it is only the Legion that marches. They see their purpose, and equally, they choose to act upon it. There is no disconnect between the 2 fragments, because they are no longer fragments, but they are the whole.

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TO SEE IS TO ACT

Dominion is devotion.

 

To mistake connection for union is to mistake faltering for acting, to mistake naivety for idiocracy. The separation of the concepts within the scrolls serves to provide a simplistic understanding, but to accept this simplicity is to prove one’s ignorance of the true, singular will. The principle of ascension from the Hydra and Crèche provided a foundation for the true purpose, also stated within the Black Books. Combined with the Legionary, whose ‘mutual goal’ demonstrated the unity of Hand and Eye. The Legion that is not able to see or act– is not the legion. Therefore, true dominion is devotion. To see the Tyrant God is to act against him. To act against him is the ability to transcend through the divine lies. Therefore, to see is to act, and to act is to see. The Hand and The Eye are one– the throne of Havoc incarnate.

Edited November 2, 2025 by scoobi
minor formatting fix; <3

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"You did well, daughter of mine."

Uttered a veiled oracle, clad in golden robes, enwreathed by dread itself.

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-1, nice try in lore writing! do think it's a bit early!

 

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A young Prince read the scroll, having been shown the older drafts.   His sister had done well, he thought. Very well.