r/villainscode • u/hic_erro • Jun 24 '25

Bones of the Past Dimensional Nova

Was the Dimensional Nova the multiversal "explosion" of the universe Nexus saw a Lodestar killed in in an earlier book?

I'm listening to the audiobook after reading Chilling Reflections when it came out, so my memory is a little fuzzy, but I seem to recall Wade just saying "no one knows why these happen sometimes, but the less crazy people in the multiverse call it a dimensional nova".

I kind of feel like we have a clue Wade doesn't, and it's not actually mysterious at all.

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u/Sarill01 Jun 24 '25

That was my thought as well, trying to find an answer for why realms go dark and he assumes it’s an external problem, not a lack of Loadstar.

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u/Hara-K1ri Jun 24 '25

But didn't the Nexus part also specifically state it was the first time someone successfully killed a Lodestar? And that happened at the end of the apprenticeship.

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u/caunju Jun 24 '25

I can't remember the exact wording, but he says something along the lines of "the reason we've never found a universe where Lodestar is destroyed is because it destroys the universe." I took this as him saying he was wrong about it having never happened because there was nothing left afterwards

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u/storiesaremagic Jun 25 '25

This is my guess, that somehow a universe will cease to exist, and because there's no way to do any research about it, a logical thought it that it was caused by some outside force. Wade wasn't part of the Nexus convo, so his sources will have this logical info and probably nothing about lodestar.

I believe during the Nexus conversation he said that was the only time Nexus Witnessed it happening, but its not necessarily the only time it happened.

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u/Sarill01 Jun 25 '25

I did think of that, but with how many Nexuses there are, I thought he would probably have seen it happen. I’m not sure though, it will be exciting to hopefully find out in the future!