Weaver/History

Weaver's Lineage is described explicitly as a curse that should never have existed. It originates from the Forgotten God, an entity whose potential return poses a catastrophic threat. The mechanism of his awakening is tied to worship—specifically, the reverence directed toward individuals who carry his blood. This was exemplified by Hope, a benevolent daemon who lived among humans and was deeply loved and worshiped by them. As a result, the Forgotten God's power grew stronger through the adoration she received. To halt the spread of his influence, the gods destroyed Hope's kingdom and imprisoned her in the Ivory Tower.^[25]

Weaver's cursed Lineage and the Nightmare Spell are both deeply tied to the fate of humanity and the nature of the Path of Ascension. Weaver is the creator of both the Nightmare Spell and the forbidden Lineage. This Lineage is referred to as a cursed thing that should have never existed, yet Weaver deliberately scattered it across the "tapestry of fate" for others to find. Sunny believes this was not an accident, but a purposeful act with deep meaning.^[26]

The true reason behind the creation of the Nightmare Spell and the cursed Lineage remains unknown, but Sunny suspects it is not simply malevolent. He ponders whether Weaver's curse was actually a form of blessing, or if the Nightmare Spell itself is a Flaw—a designed imperfection that forces those affected to grow stronger. This interpretation aligns with how Flaws are seen in the world: painful and burdensome, yet also transformative. Sunny recalls the description of his lost [Fated] Attribute, which stated that while some are blessed and others cursed, it is rare—but rare—for someone to be both.^[26]

From this, Sunny concludes that all Awakened live in a state of balance between blessing and curse, and perhaps Weaver, the Demon of Fate, was bound by the same rule. It's possible that Weaver "wanted to bless the world, but could only do so by leaving a curse behind as well". In this light, the Nightmare Spell and the cursed Lineage are not just tools of suffering, but possibly Weaver's way of giving humanity the means to ascend, even if that path is brutal and uncertain.^[26]

As the world neared its end, an endless white plain stretched beneath a shattered sky, littered with the broken corpses of lesser gods. Rivers of molten gold ichor flowed across fractured ice into an imprisoned ocean. Above, tendrils of nothingness seeped through the fissured sky, devouring the firmament. At the heart of the devastation knelt a colossal figure—a giant deity—clutching his shattered head. His radiant golden eyes were feverish, and viscous grey matter seeped through his massive fingers. His once-beautiful ivory armor was torn, and his spear, still crackling with the echoes of annihilating lightning, lay forgotten on the ice. The deity, whose spirit was as vast as a world, whispered in dread, "I... I am..." before falling silent.^[27]

Suddenly composed, he lowered his hands, allowing his broken skull to come undone, and addressed a nebulous figure who appeared before him—Weaver, Firstborn of the Forgotten God, cloaked in a tattered mantle and wearing a fearsome mask. Weaver's voice, like a thousand hopeless prayers, questioned why his brother hid within such a hideous corpse. The giant, now speaking with a voice not his own, revealed himself as the Demon of Dread, taunting Weaver for facing him without fear and questioning his appearance. Weaver, calm and mysterious, responded that since he knew no fear, he questioned what truth he could possess and proposed a game—a game of death. The winner would be owed a truth; if Weaver lost, he would allow himself to be destroyed.^[27]

As the dying god shuddered and collapsed, the ice swallowed his body, and a final whisper accepted the challenge. The desolate battlefield faded into nothingness, replaced by a familiar dark room. There, Weaver sat before an exquisite jade board, the darkness pressing in around him. A voice from the shadows asked what truth Weaver sought. Weaver, the Demon of Fate, replied with a thousand-voiced whisper that made the darkness tremble. Raising a porcelain hand, he picked up a white jade figure and revealed the truth he desired: "Do you know how fate can be broken, brother?... That is the truth that I seek."^[27]

Sunny recalled runes left by one of the High Priests of the Nightmare Spell in an underground cell beneath the ruined cathedral of the Dark City. These runes, initially unreadable, were later deciphered after his return to the Forgotten Shore as a Saint. Attributed to Weaver, the runes foretold that "they" would open the Gates, unleashing doom. This prophecy seemed to align with the aftermath: the gods lay dead, the daemons had fallen, and the Forgotten God stirred.^[29]

Sunny wondered whether the Forgotten God had been the weapon the Nine intended to unleash, and whether their goal had been to awaken him as revenge against the Empire's tyranny. Still, he cautioned himself—"they" could have referred to the Nine, the daemons, the gods, or even Weaver. Despite all he had discovered, the end of the Doom War remained unclear. He questioned whether the Nine had succeeded, if the Void was truly open, and whether the Forgotten God was awake or still dreaming.^[29]

Signs like the spread of Corruption, Nightmare Seeds, and the expanding Dream Realm suggested the Void was open. Yet, Sunny recognized the contradiction—if the Forgotten God were truly awake, all existence would already be consumed. This paradox left him frustrated. He realized a fourth force had influenced the world's fate: Weaver. The Oracle had described Weaver as the Nine's greatest obstacle, possibly opposing their goal to destroy the gods. But knowing Weaver's enigmatic nature, Sunny couldn't be sure if Weaver resisted, manipulated, or used the Nine for their own ends.^[29]

Sunny witnessed the torment of Weaver, the Demon of Fate, whose cursed, broken body staggered through a dark valley under a starry sky. Bleeding divine golden blood and pierced by a poisoned arrow, Weaver was collapsing — not from the arrow, but from a prior wound inflicted by a far more dangerous enemy.^[30]

Then, she arrived — a veiled woman in dark armor, a mortal huntress who had pursued Weaver through fate itself. Though mortal, she loomed large in the great tapestry of destiny. Weaver recognized her, not just as a predator, but as one of the Nine — beings destined to shape fate, oppressors even to demons.^[30]

Weaver, beaten and cornered, spoke with bitter resignation, warning of the price for killing a daemon — a price the huntress seemed unaware of. Still, she made her choice. With a clean strike, she ended the daemon's life. The mask shattered into sparks, and Weaver was no more. As the huntress looked to the stars, triumphant yet weary, she was overcome with a strange confusion.^[30]

She whispered:"…What task?" — as if, in fulfilling her destiny, she had forgotten what had driven her all along.^[30]

Weaver appears amidst a burning apocalypse where a sacred white stag is slain by a shape-shifting predator. Weaver confronts Orphne of the Nine, a broken and dying woman, berating her weakness with scorn and disdain. Yet, instead of finishing her, Weaver revives her resolve through cruel provocation, commanding her to remember only his name — Weaver — and to seek him in the Shadow Realm for their inevitable reckoning. Weaver insists that their conflict is not yet done, denying her the right to die until fate completes its design.^[31]

Sunny, the observer of this vision, realizes in shock that Weaver is aware of him, even addressing him directly with chilling words: "Watch well then, epigone. Let me show you... how gods die..."^[31]

What follows is a rapid, surreal torrent of visions of cataclysm culminating in Weaver's final journey to the Void Gate in the heart of the Shadow Realm. Weakened and bleeding golden ichor, Weaver is ultimately betrayed and stabbed by the same woman, now veiled and dying, fulfilling a prophecy that seemed both inevitable and defiant.^[31]

Yet even in death, Weaver's final trick seems to unfold.^[31]

In their last moments, they triggered an unfathomable phenomenon: a spell that reconfigures reality itself. Seven brilliant stars ignite, spreading a tapestry of silver threads across the void, binding constellations, rewriting existence, and leaving a fragment of Weaver's legacy burned into Sunny's very being.^[31]

Sunny realizes that the truth had always been before him — hidden in the Bone Weave's description. It told of Weaver refusing to join the war of the Forgotten God's children against the gods, disappearing and acting in secret. The mystery of where Weaver had gone and what they had done was now clear: Weaver created the Nightmare Spell.^[33]

Sunny recalled the vision gifted to him through the Snow Tyrant's sacrifice: The vast void, the myriad of stars, and the strings of silver light connecting them. It was the birth of the Nightmare Spell or rather its evolution from infant state to the universal force it was today, Weaver's version of an absolute law.^[33]

The countless stars burning in the black void were souls of living things — humans, spirits, and deities (brighter ones belonged to spirits and deities) — slowly linked together by the Nightmare Spell, which began as an infant spell. Its spread started subtly, through mortal priests chosen by Weaver during the chaos of the Doom War.^[33]

The Spell reached critical mass over time, requiring only a catalyst to evolve — Weaver's death.^[33]

When Slayer killed Weaver — the Demon of Fate — before the Void Gate (hidden in the heart of the Shadow Realm), Weaver's seven Divine soul cores became anchors for the great spell woven out of Strings of Fate. This didn't just complete it — it triggered its proliferation. But that wasn't enough. The Spell needed immense fuel to fully mature — and so it devoured the gods and daemons.^[33]

The eleven radiant constellations Sunny had seen were six gods and five daemons being absorbed by the silver tendrils of the Spell. By the time they realized what was happening, it was too late.^[33]

Sunny had believed the Spell to be a plague of nightmares for mortals. But he was wrong. The Nightmare Spell wasn't born of mortals' fear — it was the nightmare of the Forgotten God. It was a sorcery created as a lullaby to trap the God of Corruption in endless slumber after the Void Gate was opened (related to the Nine) and the god stirred awake and freed.^[33]

Rather than destroy existence immediately, the Forgotten God was imprisoned inside a dream. Nightmare Seeds, Gates, and Creatures are mere byproducts of his slumbering mind — his nightmares leaking into reality.^[33]

Sunny begins to understand the scale of Weaver's plan. If the Spell was meant to trap the Forgotten God, then there was likely one more Nightmare beyond the Sixth — a Seventh Nightmare, where the god is imprisoned, dreaming.^[33]

This ultimate conflict is not about conquest or survival, but the fate of existence itself. The Spell simultaneously traps the god within a Nightmare and nurtures mortals to become gods powerful enough to kill him.^[33]

Sunny is stunned by the implications. Weaver didn't just want to kill gods — they wanted to create new gods. And Sunny may be part of that design. But he rejects the idea of being a puppet of a long-dead daemon. He reflects on his and his companions' true goals: not to slay the Forgotten God, but to ensure humanity's survival and build a new home in the Dream Realm.^[33]

Becoming a god may be necessary, but confronting the god of corruption wasn't their ambition.^[33]

Weaver's reflection had been left in the Great Mirror of the Palace of Imagination thousands of years prior. The reflection appeared as a colossal dark figure, towering at a hundred meters in height and cloaked in a tattered black mantle. It wore a snarling black wooden mask with nothing but darkness in its eyes, and three jagged horns rose from its head like a crown. Its presence was overwhelming, instilling terror in all who beheld it — Morgan collapsed to her knees covering her eyes, Saint shuddered, and Effie paled. Mordret, upon perceiving Weaver's reflection fully through his unique sense for reflections, was instantly destroyed, his vessel (Castellan) exploding into shards under the strain of its immensity. Sunny, in turn, became entranced by the reflection, and when his own image overlapped with Weaver's on the mirror, the surface rippled until only one reflection remained, causing him to black out. Later, Effie remarked that Sunny had "gobbled up a reflection of the Demon of Fate", leaving him unconscious but alive.^[34]

The deal between Weaver, the Demon of Fate, and Noctis was formed when Noctis asked for Weaver's help in slaughtering the Chain Lords, breaking the shackles forged by the Sun God, unleashing Hope upon the world, defying the will of the gods, and ultimately helping him die, offering his heart and any price in return. Weaver agreed to help him break the chains of Hope and defy the gods, but rejected death as payment, declaring that death would not absolve a debt owed to the Demon of Fate. Instead, Weaver demanded his life rather than his death, cursing him to live, to hope, and to serve Weaver, along with "the one in the north". To seal the bargain, Weaver seized a String of Fate from the great tapestry, altered it by force of Weaver's Will, and embedded it into Noctis, piercing his chest and binding him to a new fate as a new heart beat within him. By doing so, she made the will of the Sun God irrelevant, declared that only Weaver's will now mattered, stripped Noctis of his belonging to the gods, and claimed him as Weaver's own, commanding that he call only the name of Weaver.^[36]

Sunny had always believed that Weaver's true ambition was to break fate. This belief was reinforced by the nature of the Nightmare Spell, described as Weaver's greatest masterpiece, which rewarded its carriers for defying fate. The greater the changes made to the fated outcome within a Nightmare, the higher the Spell's evaluation became. However, the conversation recorded in [The Weave] suggested that the original idea of opposing fate, as well as the general blueprint for accomplishing it, had first come from Oblivion.^[39]

The description of [The Weave] revealed that Weaver and Oblivion had discussed the possibility of changing fate. Sunny noted that it was Oblivion who first broached the subject, challenging Weaver's assertion that fate was immutable. Beyond that exchange, Sunny admitted that he knew almost nothing about their relationship, questioning what Oblivion had been scheming and how she had died.^[39]

Sunny observed that throughout the entire description of [The Weave], the Nightmare Spell never referred to Weaver by name, identifying the daemon only as the Demon of Fate. He wondered whether this meant Weaver had not yet earned the name Weaver when the conversation took place, whether it was merely coincidence, or whether there was another reason he did not yet understand.^[39]

Despite Weaver's description of fate as immutable, Sunny recognized that Weaver and Oblivion had nevertheless set the scheme to break fate in motion, while Sunny and Cassie completed it. As a result, the tapestry of fate had been thrown into disarray, and the future, once fixed and immutable, had become unknown and unknowable, creating the paradox described in [The Weave].^[39]