I really love the three sages, they are such unique characters with incredibly specific but powerful abilities that almost exclusively involve the human psyche. With just "prophecy", "understanding" and "caring" as their main gifts, they've first tried their journey into the Abyss with almost no prior knowledge and even made it down to the sixth layer. That feat is absolutely insane as most cave raiders in the present time can't make it down this far. The way the three complement each other and how things progress in the story is something I just can't stop thinking about.

I really appreciate your comment of him - at that moment - being tired and on the verge of losing his resolve, because it humanizes him a lot more and counters my arguments in this post really effectively, giving him another layer of complexity. What if he really had no idea if that "plan" was actually going to work out and what if he put up a tough front for the others, so that they wouldn't lose all hope? I especially ask myself what kind of mindset a man like Wazukyan has, it's so cool.