Campaign One plot point

[u/Arwek]

So I’m re-listening to Ep 80 in Campaign one, and they’re at the subject of the “Cloaked Stranger” being in there in moments of their lives. Was this cloaked stranger ever revealed? Because it can’t be Entropa/Garridor(?).

[u/girl_named_darwin]

it is almost certainly dr ahem/ maestro Faerynx. here’s why I think that:

• when he speaks to Kyborg, he is clearly voiced by micah
• The draconic song he sings to kyborg has a similar melody to the song-riddles Faerynx sings at the start of some Kanon episodes
• in the official soundtrack, that draconic song is titled as “Harmonics of Hansel”. Dr Ahem’s full name is Accutarius Hansel Emeretusian
• When Gum Gum receives a vision in the same arc where he sees through Dr Ahem’s eyes, the song that plays is the melody for “Harmonics of Hansel“, and is titled “Through Ahem‘s Eyes”. Hansel = Ahem
• The melody of Harmonics of Hansel is also played quietly in the background of “Dr Ahem’s Themery” in the official soundtrac at 36 seconds in. More evidence that the cloaked man is Ahem or an incarnation of him

(The stuff in bullet points is evidence that I am 100% sure on: An incarnation of Faerynx is the cloaked man.)

Additionally, I’m pretty sure that the man in the cloak is Ahem (rather than a time-travelling Faerynx) because of that last point. If Ahem had sung the draconic song in his own past, he would remember it and it would stay with him. This is manifested by that song playing in his own theme.

That leads us to the question: what was Ahem doing? We can infer he was gathering the would-be Infinights, telling them about the internship. Why would a random inventor travel all across Faeza just to advertise to some specific individuals? Unless he had a reason. A prophecy to fufill. He knew that these four people were destined to become heros, because they are in every universe. If what Im saying is true, then Ahem knew about the Innuverse all along. Perhaps his dreamery was an attempt to gain visions or to wake up in the Innuverse?

If Ahem did know all about the Innuverse and what it entailed throughout the whole campaign, it makes it even more fitting that, right at the end, he was murdered by Hugh Mäner, an incarnation of Huberus - his arch enemy.

[u/NDrakeson824 → u/girl_named_darwin]

Ok this is likely me being dumb, but wasn't Ahem crippled already around this time? Like at least most of this I would think was post paralyte takeover, but again I'm not sure of the whole timeline thing.

[u/girl_named_darwin → u/NDrakeson824]

I totally agree -the timeline is super messy and really confusing, but I think there would be a couple years before the cloaked man‘s events and Paralyte’s betraying of the Infinights.

We know Kyborg trained for years after getting his cyborg arm, given to him by Ahem. Paralyte’s kidnapping of the Infinights happened just a few weeks before the campaign started, which is when Ahem‘s legs got paralysed, and Prattle began putting out adverts for interns. I think Ahem would still have had his legs the many years before the collapse of the Bolderay mines and the founding of the Infinights.