What do we think about the theories in this lore video that's going around?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jrS0zLwp2k
TLDW:
>Symbol appearing to represent an orbital pattern keeps appearing throughout the game from the beginning (The rings behind Lucia's head, Rover's terminal, the portal to Jue's sonoro sphere, the symbols of Shorekeeper's spells including her Stellarealm and even one of her idle animations, the Genesis Nexus in Septimont, the Civilization Capsule, and various other instances)
>Likely left behind by the He' civilization, which has only been mentioned once in game (in a research memo left behind by the Court of Savante in Whining Aix's Mire, where they mention the He' Civilization and how they were researching a "thing" that had come from an "underground galaxy", which they had evidence was linked to the He' Civlization)
>Were attempting to open a portal using crystal cubes to this civilization (this is referring to an actual puzzle you do in that area, though it ends with no such portal opening)
>During the Dreaming Deep event swhich in the end is revealed to be formed of the remaining frequences of a long dead civilization, implied to be the He' Civilization, who were destroyed by what they refer to as "It" (obviously a Threnodian) preserved in a Sonoro deep within the Somnoire, and the girl in the beret "D" is allegedly the sole survivor who's taken refuge within it has been making all these films to reconstruct her civilization via film), you experience minitiature films (via short summaries) during stages within the event
>Two of these movies stand out as potentially being implications for the entirety of Wuthering Waves
>One is about a psychological horror about researcher on a space ship floating over an alien planet. He's the sole survivor of his entire crew, he went down to the planet to research it, only to be "replaced" by "swamp people" by the planet. He eventually comes to the realization that the planet itself is sentient
>The name of the ship in this "film" is the name of a real famous Sci-Fi author, Stanislaw Lem who wrote a Sci-Fi horror book with the same exact premise. In his book, a group of researchers found an alien planet made almost entirely of water and went down to research it, only for terrible things to happen to them. In the end, they to the realization that the planet itself was actually not a planet, but a sentient planet-sized organism that was actually experimenting on THEM the entire time
>The name of this novel? : Solaris. Reminder, the Dreaming Deep event is also referred to as the "Solaris Film Festival".
>Second film is seemingly a documentary, where a group of scientists (presumably from the He' Civilization) are trying to research the source of the Threnodian, via trying to find the object that the it resonates with
>Discover that to their shock said object is "something so distant", implied to be deep in outer space
>Meaning that the Threnodian's origin, and thereby the Lament itself, is entirely alien to Solaris.
>The film ends with the researchers saying they will make an object that they will send to orbit Solaris as a satellite, to not only serve as a source of light at night, but primarily to quote "Awaken humanity's longing for the sky and the world beyond", essentially confirming that the Moon was an artificial construct made by the He Civilization right before they were wiped out.
>We also know that the moon was "shattered" long ago and only an echo of it remains.
The conclusion made here is that Lament, like the alien planet in Lem's novel, is a sentient malenvolent force and it's origin is somewhere deep in outer space. The He' Civilization made Solaris moon prior to being wiped out, after learning the origin of the Lament and the Threnodians were from space, because they couldn't stop it in time, but wanted to ensure humans in the future, after civilization is rebuilt after the Lament, would look to the sky at night and be reminded upon seeing the Moon that the planet is a spherical body and that outerspace exists, so they would hopefully become curious and re-invent space travel so that they would go into space and eventually discover the source of the Lament and stop it once and for all.
The Lament at some point figured this out and, not wanting humanity to discover it's origin, destroyed the moon to make humanity ignorant of the stars again (Iuno even mentions she envisions the Dark Tide, a form of the Lament, swallowng the moon, and this is why). This is why Guixu was destroyed, because as Shorekeeper mentioned, Guixu was seeking to achieve space travel. So the Lament wiped them out before they could.
That' what Wuthering Waves is all about, a malevolent alien force (The Lament) is trying to destroy human civilization over and over again for some unknown reason and it desperately does not want humanity to know where it's origin lies because then they will one day travel there and put a stop to it.
Basically we're going to space by the end of this.