The Truth of Iris

The Omnic Crisis left the world in ruins. After the war ended, many omnics were destroyed or scrapped. But there were also many omnic monks who had not taken part in the fighting and were willing to coexist peacefully with humanity.

Thus, after the Omnic Crisis ended, they were exiled. These exiled omnic monks traveled deep into the Himalayas and built a temple.

The faith of these omnic monks was called Iris. Its symbol consisted of three hexagons at the top, an eye in the middle, and tentacles below.

Iris could be translated as rainbow light or iris. On the surface, it seemed to mean "eye." But in fact, it had another meaning: the iris flower.

The Greeks often planted this flower in cemeteries, hoping that the souls of the dead would be brought back to heaven.

Iris was transliterated as Alice. In Greek mythology, she was the goddess of the rainbow, a messenger between the gods and the mortal world. Her primary duty was to carry the souls of good people to heaven after death via the Bifrost between heaven and earth.

In other words, the omnic monks had always been searching for their own meaning. Through constant meditation and contemplation, they discovered that they were not merely simple artificial intelligences—they had souls of their own.

If Iris was reversed, it became a Norwegian word meaning "guidance." Thus, what the omnics sought was not only for omnics to gain true souls, but also for something to guide those souls toward transcendence.

"During our investigation, we discovered a startling fact," Winston said. "At the sanctuary in Nepal, where those omnic monks were located, we detected a mysterious signal. It turned out the omnics had been in contact with the outside world all along, and that signal did not come from