r/Wraeclast

Oriana is a precursor.
- How would she know about the Seed of Corruption and what it could be used for otherwise? It's pretty clear that most people on Wraeclast don't understand the story behind the beast and how it interacts with divinity and there's zero chance Sin would tell anyone he had the means to grow a second one.
- She has too much power and influence to be some random noblewoman. Sin says that he was intentionally shepherded towards Pharyll over the course of years and it would be incredibly difficult for someone with a normal lifespan to have the time and resources to do that and you'd have to know who Sin is and what he is hiding to even want to do it.
- It would explain why there's conveniently a Twilight Order base on the same island as a precursor forge. She knew of it beforehand and took over the island to exploit the technology and prevent the reforging of The Weapon.
She's motivated by a personal grudge against divinity. The death of the first Beast unleashed the old gods and opened the door to new ones appearing and she couldn't stand that so she set out to make a new Beast.
- It's pretty obvious given that she at least dislikes the gods given that it's the entire point of the order she leads.
- At the end of Act 4 she says "Do you even know what [Sin] is?", which is obviously a spiteful reference to Sin being a god, so unless it's revealed in 1.0 that she was actually referring to him being secretly queer or something it's pretty open and shut how she feels about the gods.
She hates divinity because the First Divine was a fuckup and she took it personally.
- The Arbiter of Divinity states during his fight that "The First Divine... must never return." which is pretty telling. The arbiter clearly considers himself a proud son of the Precursors and he doesn't share the Arbiter of Ash's enthusiasm for using his assigned edict so the First Divine was probably a huge failure in some way that completely soured the Precursors' opinion on the First Edict.
- If nothing else, the First Divine clearly failed to save the Precursors from the Abyssals given that they ended up having to make and use the Fourth Edict.
  - I'm guessing that the First Divine ended up being an asshole that tried to oppress his own people, probably because almost every god goes insane due to the social pressures that Sin describes in Act 2 but maybe the Precursors just chose someone unfit for the role in their desparation.
  - This could mean that the First Divine will be a league antagonist at some point given that him returning is floated as a possibility. Tukohama still being around in some form is more proof.
She was the one who tried to sabotage the Third Edict by throwing the pieces into the ocean.
- If she hates divinity and wants the Beast around to suppress it then it makes sense that she'd try to dispose of the weapon designed to kill it, assuming she was around back then.
- Mentioning that a mysterious woman tried to get rid of the Third Edict is pretty clearly foreshadowing for something.
She might be Sin and Innocence's mother?
- I don't have any backing for this one, nor do I really want it to be true, but Sin mentioning his memories of his mom(?) caring for him feels like a pretty big loose end.
- It would make the conflict between them more dramatic, albeit in a trite way.
Her grand plan is going to fail. I believe that right at the last second, just when she's about to cause another cataclysm,>!Tecrod is going to swoop in, knock her down with a wind blast from his bat, then grab the Beast and fly away with it.!<
- >!Trust me bro.!<

Spitballing predictions about Orianna