Aaron doesn’t take over the world alone. He merges with seven other wildly different minds, including the villainous Dylan Alvarez. “In William Blake’s prophecies, Albion was the entity formed at the end of time, when all of the different aspects of the human soul finally came together to remake the world”, as one of them says.
And I don’t think the ending is about recreating the world as some kind of rationalist utopia (how would you do that with Dylan an Erica on the team?) - I interpret it more as a “cycle continues” ending where they carry forward God’s already perfect plan into a new world.
See for example this point in the Tosefta, where Scott explains all the Easter eggs:
“As for THARMAS, seven of the ten towers were smoking ruins; the other three were heavily scarred. In the epilogue, THARMAS is going to be used to make the new universe. Seven of ten towers destroyed plus the rest damaged = seven of ten sephirot cracked plus the rest damaged, indicating the new universe will work the same as our own.”
I don’t think Unsong fits the pattern.
Aaron doesn’t take over the world alone. He merges with seven other wildly different minds, including the villainous Dylan Alvarez. “In William Blake’s prophecies, Albion was the entity formed at the end of time, when all of the different aspects of the human soul finally came together to remake the world”, as one of them says.
And I don’t think the ending is about recreating the world as some kind of rationalist utopia (how would you do that with Dylan an Erica on the team?) - I interpret it more as a “cycle continues” ending where they carry forward God’s already perfect plan into a new world.
See for example this point in the Tosefta, where Scott explains all the Easter eggs:
“As for THARMAS, seven of the ten towers were smoking ruins; the other three were heavily scarred. In the epilogue, THARMAS is going to be used to make the new universe. Seven of ten towers destroyed plus the rest damaged = seven of ten sephirot cracked plus the rest damaged, indicating the new universe will work the same as our own.”