Echoes of a Forgotten Future: The Machinery Beneath the Myths
Introduction:
Sometimes, the pieces don’t quite fit—until they do.
In the vast, haunting worlds of *Drakengard* and *NieR*, we've witnessed characters do things far beyond the limits of humanity. Caim and Zero, for instance, move with impossible speed and strength, not unlike the androids of *NieR: Automata*. For a long time, this seemed like fantasy. Magic. Metaphor. But what if it wasn’t?
What if the reason these warriors act like machines… is because they are?
Not human. Not anymore.
They are echoes of something built. Created. Sentient beings crafted by a forgotten hand—a lineage of androids from a future so distant, it circled back to the past.
This idea, strange as it sounds, begins to explain more than it confuses. It clarifies why “magic” exists in this world—it’s not magic at all. It’s ancient technology, misunderstood by those who inherited it. It’s the remains of a future collapsed inward, scattered across timelines like whispers of a lost civilization.
Legna’s words in *Drakengard 2* haunt me still:
> “We created you from the essence of what you call gods.”
Dragons—once revered—speak like engineers. As if they were part of a project. Androids themselves. What if the “gods” they speak of are not divine beings, but simply the humans of old? And what if those humans, in their hubris, built something terrible—like the Flower?
A virus disguised in beauty. A weapon masked as wonder.
The Red Eye disease. The mind-control. The false memories.
What if the Flower was a product of human desperation? A failed cure? A twisted tool of control?
And now, across countless timelines—from *Drakengard 3* to *NieR: Automata*, from novels to puppet plays—this virus spreads. The Flower persists. And the cycle of ruin continues.
But maybe, just maybe, scattered androids like Accord still search for a point in time where that cycle can finally break.
And in that search, we too begin to ask—**was humanity ever truly gone? Or did it live on… in the machines it left behind?**
Beneath the Steel Skin: The Forgotten Truth of Caim, Zero, and the Gods We Became
Some things in *Drakengard* always felt off, didn’t they? Unreal. Illogical. Characters like Caim or Zero moving at inhuman speeds, surviving impossible battles, performing feats no ordinary person ever could. At first glance, it felt like fantasy. But what if there was a reason behind all that? What if the answer was always right in front of us, buried under myth and metaphor?
They weren’t human.
Not really.
They were something else—**androids**, or better said: advanced, next-generation models that existed long before *NieR: Automata*, scattered across timelines.
Let that settle for a moment.
Magic? You thought it was magic? No—it's technology
Technology so advanced, so ancient by the time we see it, that it's mistaken for sorcery. But it's science, aged and forgotten, rewinding its way through fractured timelines. The “miracles” of that world were relics from the far future—implanted into the past by temporal collapse.
Need more proof? Let’s revisit *Drakengard 2*. The moment where Legna speaks to Nowe still echoes in my mind:
> “We made you from the essence of what you call gods.”
He’s not speaking metaphorically. He’s speaking literally. Dragons—revered beings—weren’t divine. They were designed
synthetic. They were androids themselves. And if they created “humans” from divine essence, then those “gods” were likely humans of old Real humans—those responsible for the creation of the Flower
And that brings us to the core of it all.
The Flower wasn’t divine. It was a virus. A product of human engineering. Perhaps, in one forgotten timeline, it was created to manipulate minds—implant fake memories, enforce control. It manifested as the Red Eye disease, wiping out humanity once, then spreading like a curse across worlds and timelines—*Drakengard*, *NieR*, *Automata*. Always reaching, always corrupting.
So maybe the world wasn’t destroyed by gods or demons.
Maybe it was destroyed by us.
And now, scattered across timelines, the androids—remnants of humanity’s ambition—search for a future where the Flower can finally die.
Maybe that’s what *Accord* is still looking for.
Maybe that’s all we ever were—**ghosts in machines**, chasing redemption.
The Flower of Ruin: How Humanity Became Its Own God and Curse
So let’s talk about the **Flower**—the symbol of destruction, of mind control, of humanity’s ultimate downfall.
At first, it seems like a force beyond understanding. A divine punishment. A god’s cruel design. But what if I told you it wasn’t made by gods at all? What if the Flower—the source of suffering in *Drakengard* and *NieR*—wasn’t supernatural… but man-made?
Yes. The gods that created it were us. Humans
Somewhere, in a distant timeline, humanity may have crafted a virus. A mind-controlling organism designed to manipulate memory, erase identity, and turn people into perfect vessels. That virus took form as a flower**—beautiful, deceptive, and quietly catastrophic. Its effects may have birthed the **Red Eye Disease,
a plague that devoured one version of the world and then, like a ghost in time, spread its roots in
*Drakengard.*
*Nier.*
*Automata.*
The infection bloomed across timelines, across dimensions, across lives.
And so, the cycle began. Again and again, a world ends. Again and again, androids awaken, unaware they're part of a plan that was set in motion long before them. And always, somewhere in the distance, the Flower waits to bloom once more.
But here’s the tragic beauty of it: the rot didn’t come from the outside—it came from within.
Humanity created the very thing that destroyed it. Out of fear. Out of control. Out of the desire to play god.
Now, fragments of that lost world—androids, data, echoes of old hopes—are scattered across time. *Accord* and others travel between broken realities, searching for the one moment, the one path, where this virus might finally be defeated. Where the Flower won’t bloom.
Maybe the world can only be saved when we accept the truth:
We were the gods.
We were the virus.
And maybe—just maybe—we can be the cure too.
Further Records Available — Ready to Discover?
Even after all that’s been revealed, echoes of forgotten truths still linger.
If you're ready… the next fragments are waiting to be found.
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