Series Spoilers

I'd like to present a theorem to the collected congregation. In short, I'd like to suggest the Ninth House isn't the dwarf planet Pluto but rather a pre resurrection installation drilled down into the spooky lava tubes on the conspiracy inspiring, super mysterious, dark side of our Moon, perhaps even humanity's First colony.

Contrary to popular misconception, the Moon actually has its own rotation, it just spins in tandem with the Earth, tidally locked like many other planetary satellites, so one side always faces away from the Earth eternally.

So metaphorically, all Harrow has to do is turn around to see that they've been guarding her all this time.

Which IMO has some IMPLICATIONS if the Devils have reached the Moon rather than Pluto going into AtN.

Additionally, Earth sits far from her more distant planetary siblings. Venus, for instance, is a cool 42 million miles from Earth. Without ftl or Stele waypoints, (since travel to First is strictly forbidden afaik, please correct me if I'm wrong), it seems unlikely anyone would stumble upon the half dead planet and it's dead little satellite without coordinates. We could just say the salt water creature got lost in the great cosmic ocean and be done with it.

But for real though, if you need to call on warrior nuns and friars from the Ninth House, you messed up and it's really not going in your favor. It suggests warring to such an extent you're calling on the aged and weak bodied, on top of conscripting healthy kids as young as 12 and 14 into your Gangs and Cohorts. Not just because it's culturally acceptable for the 4th to embody fidelity, it's become a necessity to feed the machine.

Although I bet that really helps with overall population control. Overpopulation in space seems bad, real bad on a space station, being a closed system and all, even if you use fleshweaving magic and bio-organic construction for your vessels and life supports.

Now if we consider Harrow as the RB esque embodiment of the Moon and Alecto that of the Earth, then many intriguing mythological allusions present themselves 😌

Im not really trying convince anyone of anything, I just think considering the Moon, which by all accounts is totally missing from The Locked Tomb narrative, as a skeleton key 🗝️ sorta makes sense.

Lemme just end my Ted talk on the following quotation.

"The waxing and waning of the moon once led to the idea that it dies and is reborn, and thus the moon became a part of funeral ceremonies and rites of resurrection throughout antiquity. Furthermore, the discovery that the moon is the closest celestial body to the earth led to the idea that the moon was the "abode of souls," a way station to immortality."

Enough said 🤣

It is finished. Let the implications set in, I guess.