User blog:GreekTelepath/Master of the Hellish Yard - Notes

Okay, so I'm going to be using Seven Heavenly Virtues' blog post of the lyrics as basis for my analysis. Underneath each paragraph, I'm going to say my thoughts and other things pertinent to the topic at hand.

Take out your metaphorical microscopes, because we're going to be going through these lyrics bit by bit!

Behold the Master of Hellish Yard!

My flames of destruction - It seems that Greed isn't the only Deadly Sin that's associated with fire now. "Flames of anger" is used repeatedly all throughout the Evillious Chronicles. It's used in the Daughter of Evil, the Spirit of ELD, Judgement of Corruption, and the Muzzle of Nemesis, if I'm not mistaken. Fitting, since anger is often described as a fire, and nothing's more fiery than boiling white-hot Wrath. Shall turn everything

Into nothing.

This all sounds pretty bad, right? Your run-of-the-mill, "we're all going to die!!" apocalypse scenario. However, keep in mind that destruction isn't necessarily a bad thing. In the Bible, large-scale acts of destruction were used by God the Father to cleanse the sinfulness of the people. Take, for example, the Great Flood, the fall of the Tower of Babel. The humans were acting sinful (read: Seven Deadly Sins), and the only way to cleanse the world of sin was to destroy it first.

''Bloodstained Wolves

''Greedily feast on the skin and bones

''Of the dead

And birds dance on the red sky.

Here we have what appears to be a description of the Hellish Yard. If the Heavenly Yard is endless golden rice fields maintained by a bat-god with two sickles, this is apparently what the Hellish Yard is like. Notice how the word "greed" is used. This may be a reference to how Gallerian and Nemesis' stories overlap with each other, almost like Allen and Riliane's.

''And then, a piercing voice was heard:

"The place I am right now"

"Is, without doubt, hell."''

An unknown person seems to have just arrived in the Hellish Yard. This could be Gallerian, or just some poor soul. However, from this line we know that there ARE people going to the Hellish Yard, despite it being implied in Heavenly Yard that Sickle had let the Hellish Yard succumb to disrepair. I guess this place is under new management.

''The Sin was split into seven

By the God of the Night's hell.''

Not sure what to make of the second line. There is, however, a clear allusion to the splitting of the Original Sin, which takes place in Chrono Story at the hands of the Forbidden Fruit.

''To cleanse the sins,

I need the captive boy

God-sent, given to me.''

It seems that it's indeed the Master of the Hellish Yard's intention to cleanse the sins, even if it means destroying the world, aka the Third Period. The "captive boy" is referring to Irregular/Allen Avadonia, and the third line implies that Sickle willingly gave the black box containing Irregular to the Master of the Hellish Yard. But wait, isn't Irregular inside the womb of the Master of the Court, waiting to be reborn? Questions, questions.

''When I put the Key in the hole,

History shall end

Through the boy named "Punishment".''

"Key" is a proper known here. It seems to be referring to the Golden Key, the Vessel of Wrath. In Caprccio Farce, the theater inhabitants, specifically Ma, speculated that the Golden Key was in the hands of the Master of the Hellish Yard, who is also described by the Servants as "the one who holds every key". This is a link to the idea of cosmic gatekeepers to the afterlife, which are seen in various mythologies in religions, ranging from Christianity (St. Peter the Apostle) to Shintoism. So Irregular's known as "Punishment" - a sort of retribution for all the sins of the Third Period, which have piled on top of each other. Wrongdoings, both great and small, do not escape the awareness of the Master of the Hellish Yard. By "history ending", it could mean an end to the Third Period, which is implied to take place EC 1000 (sidenote: I personally think that Irregular will be reborn by EC 999).

''To destroy this twisted suffering,

I need something that destroys everything.

This place – Evillious – not supposed to exist,

shall turn into a blood-soaked hell.''

This part's sung by Miku. As Michaela, Master of the Court, or someone else, we don't know. Evillious, referring to the Western part of the Bolganio continent, is referred to here as "not supposed to exist". This could mean two things: Sickle, by creating this world, broke some sort of rule, or that it was never meant to turn out like this. The sole source of all these Sins? I can think of two: Eve Moonlit and the dastardly Irina Clockworker.

''She became a dictator.

When she unleashed the "Punishment",

Someone said,

"Now, we will all rot!..."''

I wonder who "she" refers to. Could be Nemesis, could be someone else. Take note of how the deleted part of the Nemesis poem also mentions a civil war hero who became a dictator. "Punishment", as I've already discussed, refers to Irregular. What's so special about him, anyway? I'm getting the feeling that he's a key (pardon the pun) part of this whole operation. Why's he so powerful, and why's he so important?? Only time will tell.

And that's it for now! I still have to wait for these lyrics to be revised and/or added to.

Also, here's some additional stuff I noticed while listening to the song:
 * The first part sounds a lot like the opening part of Wordplay.
 * Some parts of it sound like Recollective Musicbox.