It reads as a system. Going from left to right. Some form of star or gas giant with a ELW? moon. Then there's a water giant with rings and 4 rocky moons. Then there's a water world with a ring or maybe an earth like and a rocky moon. In a normal system that'd actually probably be right to left from the star not left to right from the star making the body on the left maybe a water based life gas giant.
I’ve learned not to look too deeply into these things, and ask the primary question - what is it trying to tell us?
If
reliable it might be saying, in circle 1: the is an order to the cosmology, understand that and interpret it and the ‘system’ can be found in a
particular ‘zone’
The design in circle 2: is saying it’s system and it potentially has a finite number of bodies (this is open to debate) but lets just say it’s a 4 body system?
The 3rd circle corresponds to the 2nd to confirm Raxxla is or around or on one if these bodies, if those in circle 2 are shown in order then it tells us which one.
In my assessment its simply giving us a generalist concept, eg it’s somewhere close to a particular zone and it’s a particular type of system. It’s intentionally vague enough to warrant easy discovery.
Personally given its age I suspect it was intended to work in tandem with other assets, such as the removed DW missions, which based upon their mapped locations would indicate they may have been intended to fill in the gaps…
@Phil W any comments from FD?
The removed missions mapped;
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/the-quest-to-find-raxxla.168253/post-10551512
eg upon the outer rim of the zone of Milton’s Chaos. As Milton described the womb of creation (the mother of all things). As in the quote and toast:
“
Far off the empyreal heaven, extended wide In circuit, undetermined square or round, With opal towers and battlements adorned Of living sapphire, once his native seat; And fast by hanging in a golden chain This pendent world, in bigness as a star Of smallest magnitude close by the moon. Thither full fraught with mischievous revenge” John Milton.
"To the
jewel that burns on the
brow of the
mother of galaxies! To the whisperer in witch-space, the siren of the deepest void! The parent's grief, the lover's woe, and the yearning of our vagabond hearts. To Raxxla!"DW toast.
Ergo: the jewel is the pendant, it sits below the Empyrean, or more accurately upon the outer rim, of Chaos the womb of creation.
In game there are systems named after deities that align to an in game compass, above the Empyrean, just below it Chaos and below that the Underworld.
The removed missions would seem to align with this indicating a fulcrum around Erebus (the deepest part of chaos) if you follow this zone in game it forms a bubble around Sol of storm gods, you will find
Tiamat the mother goddess of chaos (a god Brooke’s wrote about), and directly above her is
Fortuna - namesake of the
Trinkets of hidden fortune (which FD confirmed were linked to the DW ‘stiory’) and close by in alignment with Erebus is
Thetis which I believe sits at the
zenith of the North Pole of the
sphere of chaos.
In game the path of
Jacques does align upon this axis, my hypothesis is that the original missions may have been intended to draw out this model for us!
The Codex - since the missions were
removed, essentially is doing a couple of things; one it’s an example of narrative
resolution, filling in the blanks to the mystery now omitted and establishing the myth in game (where before it was never directly named), secondly it’s telling us directly like the garden design where Raxxla is via the toast; then it’s telling us through allegory to journey to the underworld, and find the lost realms - which sit in the underworld eg it’s mimicking Milton’s prose and thus potentially
orientating us towards this concept!
Thread 'The Robert Holdstock Conundrum'
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/the-robert-holdstock-conundrum.607684/
