Abedo was my first five-star character in Original God (not counting travelers), and when I drew the card, I mainly took into account Abedo's mysterious identity, as well as my erudite and not-so-noisy personality.
In this issue, we will understand the life of Abedo, and by the way, speculate on the meaning represented by the four stages of alchemy in the original god, if there are any omissions and omissions, readers are welcome to point out and discuss together.
The genius of alchemy
As we all know, Abedo was a genius of alchemy, and with the strength of one person, he raised Mond's alchemy attainment from nothing to the second only to the Sumi Sect, you know, the kingdom of Meru, but known for its wisdom and knowledge.
In addition, Abedo had two disciples in Mond, Sugar and Timaus, and Timaus was the passerby-faced man who stood next to Mond's alchemy platform and often asked the player to click on the wrong option.
Timmaus actually has a certain talent in alchemy, often has fantastic ideas, and is also praised by Abedo, but according to Abedo's consideration, Timaus can learn alchemy for 20 years, and then he can replace the teaching materials with the current sugar, which shows that sugar's talent in alchemy is already extremely high.
Although Sugar and Abedo are also teachers and friends, Sugar's respect and admiration for Abedo is from the heart, so Abedo's knowledge can only be described as unfathomable.
Gold The creation and disciple of Reindot
Abedo was very knowledgeable, partly because he was not as young as he seemed, and partly because he had a brilliant teacher, the so-called Golden Rhine-Dort, and Abedo was one of the two wonders created by Reindot, that is, Abedo was an artificial man.
Gold is the highest level of alchemy, which shows that Reindot's alchemy has reached the peak.
Reindot was Cunria's chief alchemist 500 years ago, but according to Abedo, state and identity were not the whole of these pure alchemists, and perhaps Rhinedot had more little-known identities.
As for the follow-up story, Reindot disappeared after the Deep World Expedition and entrusted Abedo to Alice, a former friend of Mond City, who was Kelly's mother.
From then on, in addition to dealing with the affairs of the Knights of the West Wind and studying alchemy, Abedo also devoted more energy to the aftermath of Kerry.
The Four Stages of Alchemy (Speculative)
In the introduction of the character breakthrough of Abedo, we know that alchemy is mainly divided into four stages - black earth, chalk, akasei, and gold.
Black Earth: Is the etymology of alchemy and the original state. Living in this world, the mundane such as me must look for meaning.
Chalk: That is the beginning of change, the impurities are withdrawn, ready to accept all knowledge. Want to explore the world with me?
Chi Cheng: In alchemy, it means the refining of emotions. My chicheng seems to come from you.
Gold: The final stage of alchemy. Worthless affairs have finally found their meaning, and they have changed into gold. I also found meaning.
Looking at these paragraphs alone is still relatively obscure, so let's analyze and guess in combination with other tasks in the game, books, etc.
(1) 【Black Soil】
The Art of The Black Earth, in fact, is more described in the game at present, from the underground kingdom of Karria, which was destroyed by the combined efforts of Tenri and the Seven Gods 500 years ago. Because Karria is deep underground, there are fewer natural animals and plants, so Karria's alchemy focuses on the branch of creating life.
"Breathing in black soil is filthy, breathing chalk is dirtless."
Personal understanding of black soil is actually equivalent to a kind of material or raw material of alchemy, but the texture of black soil is not pure, so the art of black earth is the initial stage of alchemy.
In fact, the Art of Black Earth is also divided into several stages, judging from the material dropped by the Beast Realm Hound, it is at least divided into leaching layer, humus layer, and chalk layer.
Leaching layer, humus layer, chalk layer, are all geological terms, and the game should represent the position or purity of its material.
The BeastHound is the creation of the leaching layer, and the evil dragon Durin, that is, the one who fell on the snowy mountain, is the humus layer. In fact, the appearance of the Beast Realm Hound and Doolin does not mean that the Black Earth Technique is evil, and the reason why they have great destructive power is that they have fused forces from outside the Tivat world, and this part of the power has even made them lose their consciousness.
This is probably why Dühring was regarded by Rheindot as one of the two great wonders of creation.
With the purification of the black earth, alchemy came to the next stage - chalk.
(2) [Chalk and Akasari]
There is not much information in the game in these two stages, so it can only confirm and guess each other, and put them together.
The second stage of chalk is the progression of black soil, the soil without dirt, and the material of the original people.
The third stage, Akasari, according to its definition, is related to the spiritual aspects of emotions, beliefs, and feelings.
So what is the creation of the chalk in the second stage? Crafted from pure materials, but without the emotional aspect?
Personal speculation is that it should be part of the elemental creature of Tivat, or even part of the "Earthly Seven".
First of all, the bodies of these elemental creatures are pure, so they can use the body to guide the elemental forces, and secondly, at the beginning of their birth, they were irrational, and their rationality, the birth of emotions, need to accept the beliefs of human beings, if you lose people's faith, then use a little less, there is a feeling of rootless wood.
In the Biography of Gunnhilde, it is mentioned that the elves accept the power and consciousness of faith and actively shelter the human tribe.
The third stage, Chi Cheng, refines the creation with emotions, which should be human beings, guess it, the human beings created by the gods in the Tivat Continent are created with black soil as the material, so human beings themselves cannot guide elemental forces, but they will give birth to spiritual forces such as emotions, beliefs, and obsessions.
From the perspective of alchemy in "Original Gods", human beings are higher than the level of elemental creatures and even "seven gods", which is also the reason why human beings are destined to enter the stage of history, and "gods" have retreated from the general trend.
(3) 【Gold】
If there is no problem with the above speculative direction, then the golden stage is easier to understand, that is, using chalk as a material to refine human beings with emotions.
Such a life form in the game should be the player's role of the traveler, after all, the traveler does not need the eye of the god to guide the elemental force, and the physical characteristics are no different from other humans.
But this stage of gold should not be so simple, and after a comprehensive test of travelers, Abedo has to compare it to gold, petrified ancient trees, and an eight-fold sun.
To say that they have anything in common is probably related to the deepest rules of the world and even to creation, in other words, the origin of travelers is also amazing.
In reality, the source of gold is a supernova explosion, provided that there is a stellar evolution of an 8-fold sun.
Supplementary conjecture
(1) Alchemy and the world
Alchemy can create life, and even the highest stage will be related to creation, but this does not mean that life and the world are created by alchemy. There are many elemental creatures in Tivat, similar to the demon gods, and it is possible that they were born naturally and natively. And some elemental creatures and even some earthly seven rulers may be alchemical creations.
The creation of life is one branch of alchemy, such as the transformation of life, another branch of alchemy in sugar research, but its final stages should be connected. There are not many introductions to other branches of alchemy in the game, so this article is mainly based on the genesis branch to speculate that there may be more information about alchemy after the sumire kingdom.
(2) The conjecture of the "original one"?
In the 2.4 version of the book "Before the Sun and Moon", it is mentioned that the Tivat continent existed before the arrival of the "Primordial One" and was ruled by seven Dragon Kings, and the "Primordial One", Farmith, merely defeated the Seven Dragon Kings, transformed and isolated Tivat, and then created humans.
After the creation of human beings, the "original one" set the rules - "as long as the man is happy, he rejoices", for the "original one", it may be a process of absorbing beliefs and emotions.
After he isolated the continent of Tivat, humans had no way out to explore, just like the pets kept in the back garden by the "original one".
"But the passage of temptation has been blocked."
At this point, there is a speculation that the "original one" is not a god of creation, can not reach the level of the traveler, but just an ordinary god with strong divine power, and created human beings in order to accept human beliefs, make up for their own emotional defects, and evolve to a higher stage.
Without the arrival of a second throne, the humans of Tivat might have been captive forever in "eggshells."
(3) Gold Reindot and Abedo
The title of Reindot is gold, which must have surpassed the stage of Akasei, and Abedo, the human being created by the chalk soil, is actually the best evidence.
It's just that Reindot probably didn't fully grasp the level of gold, because Abedo wasn't perfect, but it was now the closest alchemist to the traveler.
Abedo currently relies primarily on the Eye of god to fight, either because of his defects his body cannot function fluidly with elemental forces, or because of his defects, or because Abedo simply doesn't feel necessary, or even just to study the principles of the Eye of God.
(4) What is it that brings calamity to Karria?
Perhaps it was the alchemical creations of Dühring and the BeastHound that came from outside the world, or perhaps Rhinedot was close to the point of creating the true gods, triggering the Sky Island taboo, and the large number of Beasthounds was born only as a helpless means to prevent the demise of Kanria.
Individuals tend to the second type.
Well, this issue of the conjecture about Abedo and alchemy is here, cliché, this issue because of the larger framework, may not be complete information, subjective speculation is also more, there are some details of creation can be discussed again, but it feels that there are already a lot of words, leave and wait for the plot to have a new promotion and then confirm it, I hope the audience will point out and discuss more.