Also, magic and demons are canonical in this game, look back at 'Once in a Life Time's they outright mention that eternum is a game using a neural device and that game was coming out after the events of 'Once in a Life Time' I can't explain properly. If you want to know more I recommend playing OiLT it's on equal standing as eternum in my book.
Makes you wonder if eternum (the in world game) is run by someone or something that is either related to the grimoir of Magnus or atleast has powers similar. I noticed alot of what felt to me like hints about the game being more than just a game, take Calypso for example. A supposed AI that can travel between servers. I think eternum acts as a gateway to other worlds, along with worlds created by people to keep up the facade of "it's just a game" that's why the protagonist of eternum has so many nightmares and memories of things that he doesn't know about yet it is connected to eternum a game he never played until the events of this story. And in once in a lifetime we get hints of other demons existing. Such as the demon in the MCs dream with the doors. It wouldn't surprise me if infact somehow the two MCs are connected. Soon I'm gonna play through both games and get all endings possible to put together a proper theory. Also I think the MC of eternum has his "powers" in the real world aswell seeing as how he has almost super human reflexes. (Note the scene when the bully kicks a soccer ball at his head) I think that he is like the OiaLT protag and has some connection to a demon.
I agree.
Ever since I started the game too much syncs up with stuff from the first game. And the MC of OIAL was heavily implied to have just given up on the book. I don't think he has it. His life was going so well, he likely was distracted by his god-tier harem to make sure that the book was never stolen. Some scenes even implied it was just left out in the open. So yeah, someone has it. Or hell, maybe the MC of OIAL is the person who made Eternum and the company is made super successful by using the book.
Idk if they're the same person but stuff I'd implied to be the same with them. Harems. Cults in newspaper running amok. Awkward obsessions with things most people would shy away from. Like a game with corruption on the level of Las Vegas or a cult of psychos killing people. So for all we know the main char made the game, played it to test it, got bored with it being to EZ and made the game wipe his memory so he had to go in blind to win at the game the hard way as a rookie. Only to find he lost control of the game and now doesn't know that he has it wipe his memory in the first place. Meanwhile people are now playing the game and it's out of control.
Who knows what the hell is going on?
But i know I want the heroes of the game to focus on the real problems and not just dick around. Those gems of doom and this power struggle with the people in the game seems like a distraction to the real problems. Why did the company make a game like this at all that is a cesspool for evil and a quick way to get sued?
I don't think OiaLT mc made the game due to the fact that it was referenced to be in development during the events of the game, I also don't thing the MC of eternum made it either due to the fact that he has childhood friend who would most likely know of it or there would atleast be some proof. Personally with the way the creator looks, I suspect the creator might be a decendent of Magnus he has eternal life so maybe before he became the walking corpse we all know and love he bore a child with a concubine (you know how rich people are, especially for his time) I think the kid grew up and went on his own little adventure to find out more about his father, although I'm also half suspecting the developer to be a follower of our beloved protagonist or atleast one of the 5 princes. You know how obsessed he was with eternal life so what if he was also interested in alternate worlds and thus ordered the development of eternum. Astoroth probably has quite a few connections see as how he supposedly has lived for a long time. It kinda reminds a bit of comic called eternal club. To keep it short the MC is bestowed the power to control time. He can manipulate it aswell as store and give years of life time to himself or others. In the comic his organisation eternal club is working on creating miniature worlds with ecosystems and life of its own by using his control of time to speed up the process of development on said "small world". It makes me think about what astoroth may have done to learn of eternal life and what kind of experiments he did to create or simulate eternal life. So yea personally I think the creation of eternum is connected to astoroth. Plus with MC in OiaLT leaving the book in a random edge it makes on think of the power in the universe. Makes me excited for 0.5 after that ending in eternum. I hope I'm right about this to be honest.
the MC of OIAL could have joined the company after it was made and used the book to make himself the new boss and/or the top CEO. And if all of the Orion's friends are NPCs in Eternum or just brainwashed players, they would only know what the company allows them to know. Not that I'm saying I'm right and you're wrong. I'm just saying we're getting unreliable narrator stories here.
In the end I just hope the new MCs don't let people suffer in Eternum for too long before they put an end to it. Right now they played for months. But if it turns out it's been years and years of people raped, killed, bribed, and lives scarred and ruined. I won't be happy about how that ends. Even if Orion becomes king of Eternum. If he doesn't do better than the corruption CEOs and cults and shameless psycho trolls like Thanatos then he is just oartnof the problem and not an MC I wanna play as.
Nope since you know something from Oial i don't want to spoil
But the women who could see future clearly told that mc will never be rich no matter what,and that came true in the end,not going to end up as hobo but just middle class not some rich billionaire and since that simple line was followed till the end i don't think that dev will change it,for other story plot.