A character from the main story might return in a future update… (spoilers)
I’m just gonna jump to the point, I think Null is coming back soon. Not only do I think they’ll come back, but I think they’ll be an antagonist.
The past few updates have really been pointing towards the Void Mother/Abyss/Korvax Prime as the main villain. That’s what I’ve believed for a while. A while back I saw a Reddit comment saying that Null will probably be the main villain, and I laughed at the time. Now I realize they might be partially correct.
When the player reset the universe at the end of the main story, everyone in the universe outside of the ones in the Anomaly were presumably sent to the World of Glass, including Null. Everyone who was archived was replaced by new characters just like them who populate the new universe. The Void Mother resides in the World of Glass, so her and Null likely crossed paths. If the player did not reset the universe, then maybe Null purposely died so he could assist the Void Mother with her plan after being told of it.
Null and the Void Mother have a few things in common. Their lives were ended early, they resent the Atlas, and, most importantly, they don’t want to die again.
The Void Mother wants to recreate the Creator to presumably make it to the 19th minute. Null has already consumed many Traveller souls, making him the most “complete” of all the Travelers. This makes Null the perfect candidate to recreate the Creator. The Void Mother is likely feeding Traveler souls to Null, which is supported by Laylaps saying that the Telamons are bringing the Travelers to the Void Mother in the Sentinel Pillar logs.
The World of Glass is bleeding into the main universe, causing things from that realm to enter ours. This is how the Autophage ended up in the main universe. As the universes slowly merge together as the Atlas further degrades, which means that all of the Travelers will be in one place. This would allow Null to come back and consume all of their souls, recreating the Creator, and thus, achieving incredible power. Null would become the third most powerful entity in the universe, third to the Atlas and the Void Mother. Also, the Atlas has said that the Creator shows up at the very end of its life, and it does not know what will happen next. This might not be referring to the literal Creator, but a combination of all of the Traveler souls using Null as a base. When Null is the Creator, they’ll finally be able to get back at the Atlas for not caring about them, by outliving them along with everyone on the Void Mother’s side.
This is a really crazy theory, but I think that Null would make for an amazing villain. I also think that having a personified villain is much better than the background force behind the scenes that is the Void Mother being the main villain. Maybe this will all be hinted at in the next update, but I think a plot line like this would be saved for a massive new story the size of the main one. Possibly for a summer update.
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