SPOILER I'm Preettyy Sure Antikythera Supercomputer Is Death (i Promise This Is Better Than The Yahya Theory

(A quick disclaimer, I haven't done part 2 of The Envoy because the catapult was broken for me, and thus I couldn't get into Avos territory, so what I'm saying could all be completely wrong.)


WELL WELL WELL WELL WELL WELLY WELL WELL, I just read every line of Fallen Factory dialogue on the Wiki, and... I'm pretty sure Antikythera is Death.

So let's look at the similarities. They both type in all caps, they both tend to be quite picky about what happens in their homes, and both are incredibly funny.

But that's just some similarities, there was one thing I read that proves to me that Antikythera must at least have some relation to Death:
"YOU KNOW, YOU COULD SPARE ME A LOT OF TROUBLE IF YOU JUST JUMPED OFF THIS BRIDGE RIGHT NOW. IT WOULD MOST LIKELY SPARE A LOT OF PEOPLE A LOT OF TROUBLE, ACTUALLY."

This, to me at least, suggests that Antikythera knows you will do bad things to other people in the future. Which is why he says it would help other people if you jumped off the bridge, even though the only one you are currently a foreseeable threat to is Antikythera.

There are only two known characters -maybe 3 because whoever's running Fruma seems to have some weird abilities,- who might reasonably be able to see into the future based on what we know about them. The Dern Portal (because he seems to be hinting at stuff you'll do in the future in A Hunters Calling), and Death.

Death has a bunch of hourglasses in his mansion that each show when different people will die. Along with that, he has an hourglass that shows when the world will end, which already means he knows at least a bit about the future. We can probably reasonable guess he could also see how people will die, and who will kill them. Or how the world will end, and who might cause it. Perhaps he has seen that you will, in the future, kill many many innocent people, and eventually corrupt the world, which may be the apocalyptic event that the big hourglass is counting down to. And that's why Antikythera says you would help other people if you just jumped off a bridge.



But that leaves another question. What is Death doing in Corkus, and why does he want the Corkians dead?

Well, -I mean sorry, WELL WELL WELL WELL WELL WELLY WELL WELL, reading about Death's depiction in Discworld on Wikipedia was actually not a waste of time after all!
(If you don't know, the Death character in Discworld is what the Death character in Wynncraft was based on.)

According to Wikipedia (because I'm too lazy to actually read Discworld), there's a thing called The Rite of Ash'Kente, which summons Death, or whoever is acting as him, (sometimes Death has someone else do his job for him, I mean collecting souls isn't exactly easy), and supposedly traps them/him in whatever place he were summoned.

I think the Corkians, perhaps the same "Electro Mage" who's boots you receive at the end of The Envoy Part II (because it has to be some sort of a wizard who summons Death) conducted the Rite of Ash'Kente and placed Death's consciousness inside of Antikythera Supercomputer. However, Death, upon seeing how the Corkians treated the Avos, chose to turn the Corkians' machines against them.

Now, if Death is trapped in the Fallen Factory, you may be asking, then how does he talk to you in Beyond the Grave?

Well, I said the Rite of Ash'Kente "supposedly" traps him, because it actually doesn't. He can leave whenever he wants, he just stays there as a curtesy, or in the Corkian's case, to rain all hell upon the people who were not only greedy enough to try to take over the Avos' territory, but also overconfident enough to think Death would be okay with it.

Anyways feel free to poke holes in my theory

 

Actually, in one of the books, deaths current stand-in gets summoned with the Rite and is unable to leave the circle, although this could be attributed to inexperience.

 

Cool theory but i really think antikythera supercomputer was just meant to be like GLaDOS and the statement to jump off the bridge was meant to parallel the dark/murderous humor found in the Portal games.

 

Nope

Antikytheta is just sarcastic, as Talking Mushroom is.
And for the capital letters? Her caps lock has broken. Ok, seriously, it was almost surely just a way to imitate the "system" voice

 

i mean if no one's done any repairs, whos not to say that caps lock is stuck. i mean wouldn't you hate it if your caps lock was permenantly on?

 

I would. But this is not ingame lore, this is CT's design choice. And imo it was a good one.

 

I think his stand ins don't have the power to leave, Only Death himself, which is a bit ironic since the spell is specifically meant to be used on Death himself.

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But it still doesn't explain how she knows that jumping off the bridge "WOULD MOST LIKELY SPARE A LOT OF PEOPLE A LOT OF TROUBLE".

At least I don't think it does, then again, I haven't played Portal.

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Wow me am really a good grammerser isn't I's-self?

 

The caps lock thing is unrelated, Death talks in all caps as a reference to the Discworld series by Terry Pratchett (i know you mentioned this, if i had read any further into the series than the first book and the first tenth of the second i'd probably know more) and Antikythera talks in all caps as a reference to GladOS from Portal. What's next? Death is the talking mushroom?

Antikythera is assuming that you'll do bad things because all you've shown them so far is trouble (clogging up the vents with robot parts, blowing things up etc). Plus, if Antikythera could see into the future, they would've known that the Corkians would not destroy the Avos and would never have made the factory

Death seems to enjoy having you around while Antikythera hates you. Big difference.

The rite of Ash'Kente is not canon in Wynncraft, just cause Death is a reference to discworld doesn't mean he's the same guy. Otherwise we'd probably have met Rincewind and Twoflower and have found out the entire world is on the back of a giant tortoise at some point

Also, Death doesn't care about saving the world. He just watches over it and governs life and death

The ''Electro Mage'' is Maxie. Everyone in Corkus who practices electromagic is an electromage. Maxie literally tells you he made the boots himself

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He was correcting himself, not using grammar as an argument

 

I don't think Death is trying to prevent an Avos genocide, just upset that the corkians would have the audacity to trap him inside a machine, and they're mistreating of the Avos would just be another added reason to hate them.

Remember, we know little to nothing about Death's character, so the argument that he treats you differently in Beyond the Grave isn't really valid. When you consider that he is alright with you basically being immortal, especially when you don't really hear from NPCs about other people appearing to die, and then respawning like nothing even happened, which suggests there are very few people who were able to survive Death as many times as you have, you'd expect Death would want to know more about you, and perhaps even experiment with how you react to different situations, which would explain the room with Wynnston, as well as just generally why the factory attacks you.