The Seals of Yekub

It’s worth saying that the whole story is hinged on 2 things: human obsessions and 3 Seals of Yekub (the Halidom or the Holy Box or the Cryptic Orbs) that can fulfill all human desires. The Seals serve as keys to the Colossal Grave, also they are needed for the Old God to collect the energy of the Obsession. They also can disperse sendrils to some extent. When gathered together in the Grave, they wake the God up and start a new reincarnation.

At the point where we start a game one Seal is being kept in Adamina by Dharam the Holy Father (originally the Katib Seal), one is in the Blessedland guarded by Higgins and the last one is broken. While its main part is located in Ichthyosauria, the fragments (known as the Scarlet meteor) somehow ended up being in Exilium.

We still don’t exactly know what happens if someone uses only one Seal (though there’s kind of evidence that Teresa somehow activated the Seal in Katib and it caused a huge power surge, total fusion of everyone with everything and attracted the Colossus). Eckhart in the Blessedland refers to it as a curse: “For the thirst of power, for the longing of eternal life, the Seal of Yekub can fulfill all human desires, but there is a dreadful curse that comes with it”.

So far the Grave has been opened 3 times: hundreds of years ago by Ancestors, 15 years ago by Proxy Higgins and Vaillant and at the end of the game (present time) by Eckhart.