Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-5632187-20130209000209/@comment-5264386-20130209002711

I've got a couple of theories, but for Brainwasher's sake:

SPECULATION/THEORY WARNING!! For one thing, who was the sorcerer who discovered the Dark sorceries? At one point in time, presumedably before Oolacile fell to the Dark, a sorcerer on the brink of madness discovered the Dark Sorceries. Now, isn't it a little coincidental that Manus uses most of these sorceries? Perhaps this is because he was the sorcerer who discovered them, before he became "Father of the Abyss". The Pursuers spell is unique in that it is the only Dark sorcery creates by the "Father of the Abyss", so perhaps this reflects Manus's berserk humanity.

Who created the Abyss? The Abyss could be the direct product of Manus's insanity, which in turn, could have been caused by the "Gollum Effect". The "Gollum Effect" is where an individual becomes so obsessed with a particular object, that when they lose it, they feel an utter compulsion to get it back. When Manus lost his pendant, this was the catalyst for his final descent into madness, thus, causing his humanity to go wild. This then caused Manus to lose his human form, and become the monster we see him as.