The first and most obvious thing is that Cauldron was evil. Or at least amoral to the point where it makes little difference.
They were trying to build an army that could fight Scion, which they did by harvesting the corpse of the other entity and figuring out what gives powers by trial and error. And then giving formulas to usually-technically-consenting test subjects. A lot of people died at first, a lot ended up with unwanted physical changes, and a lot successfully got superpowers. They had rather large dungeons for the second group, planning to deploy them against Scion eventually. Once they had reliable products they'd sell them.
The second thing is that they ran everything. The entire Protectorate was a Cauldron plan, as was the Birdcage, and they have fingers in every heroic or villainous pie. Had, if the newcomers are right about Cauldron being eradicated yesterday.
They did not know where the Endbringers came from or how they fit into the alien life cycle story. The original source for most of what they knew about the entities was a member called Contessa. Her power showed her, back when it could show her literally anything. Before Cauldron killed it, the second entity had neutralized Contessa's power to stop her asking anything about them; she likewise couldn't ask her power things about Endbringers or Eidolon.
Some parts of the collected written works of Cauldron were regularly updated, but there have indeed been no new notes since shortly after Behemoth.
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Date: 2016-03-27 03:43 am (UTC)They were trying to build an army that could fight Scion, which they did by harvesting the corpse of the other entity and figuring out what gives powers by trial and error. And then giving formulas to usually-technically-consenting test subjects. A lot of people died at first, a lot ended up with unwanted physical changes, and a lot successfully got superpowers. They had rather large dungeons for the second group, planning to deploy them against Scion eventually. Once they had reliable products they'd sell them.
The second thing is that they ran everything. The entire Protectorate was a Cauldron plan, as was the Birdcage, and they have fingers in every heroic or villainous pie. Had, if the newcomers are right about Cauldron being eradicated yesterday.
They did not know where the Endbringers came from or how they fit into the alien life cycle story. The original source for most of what they knew about the entities was a member called Contessa. Her power showed her, back when it could show her literally anything. Before Cauldron killed it, the second entity had neutralized Contessa's power to stop her asking anything about them; she likewise couldn't ask her power things about Endbringers or Eidolon.
Some parts of the collected written works of Cauldron were regularly updated, but there have indeed been no new notes since shortly after Behemoth.