Quantum Ouroboros

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Quantum Ouroboros, Beast 0.

The Quantum Ouroboros is independent of time and space, maintaining providence through its agnostic connection to the material plane. Immutable, unbroken, and eternal, the two holy dragons are forever linked in acts of creation and destruction. - ElfJTrul

Official Ouroboros blogpost

The Quantum Ouroboros is a special Beast released separately from the other seven in the Season 1 collection. While the others were released from the Gate to the Seventh Realm unlocking event, The Quantum Ouroboros was reserved for a special auction hosted on famed Christie's Arthouse as part of their Cartography of The Mind curated NFT sale. A total of $1,569,960 USD was raised in total from all the NFTs sold under this event, and were donated to Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) which specializes in the research and advocacy of psychedelic usage for the treatment of mental health.

Auction

The official Christie's auction page for the Quantum Ouroboros was estimated by curators to have a valuation of $35,000 USD prior to the auction's opening. Auctions held on Christie's platform are held in USD, contrary to the [The Gate to the Seventh Realm#Implementation|Gate to the Seventh Realm]] auctions for other Beasts which were denominated in ETH. Many commenters in the Discord noted that the valuation given by Christie's curators when converted to ETH would make it the cheapest of all other Beasts auction in Season 1.

Despite the estimated value given by Christie's curators, the auction received a total of 23 bids before closing at $138,600 USD by a bid from realizeorigin. The auction opened on 21 June 2022 and ran for 7 days, ending on 28 June 2022, unlike other Beast auctions which ran for just 24 hours (with extensions for bids placed within the final 15 minutes of an auction ending).

Traits

  • Holy Order Alpha: Creation
  • Holy Order Omega: Destruction
  • Sacrament: Spacetime
  • Species: Holy Dragon

Lore

The Quantum Ouroboros is independent of time and space, maintaining providence through its agnostic connection to the material plane. Immutable, unbroken, and eternal, the two holy dragons are forever linked in acts of creation and destruction.

Trivia

  • By looking at the source code of the Forgotten Beasts contract, cult members made note that although the auctions initiated by the opening of the Gate to The Seventh Realm started with Chaos Chimera (token ID 1) and ended with Seven Tailed Kitsune (token ID 7), the Beast count actually begins at ID 0. This lead to speculation as to whether or not there was more than the initial 7 Beasts released from the event before the Quantum Ouroboros was officially revealed.
  • The Quantum Ouroboros is the only Beast from Season 1 to be animated.
  • The Quantum Ouroboros seems to have been referenced as early as 16 August 2021 on Twitter through the Ouroboros storyboard published by Magic Machine. There are 2 panels depicting a pair of Mesozoic Cockatrice familiars circling one another and biting each other's tails.
Arcanist Dr. Death of the Ether (3220) and Sage Voidoth of the Ash (531)'s Mesozoic Cockatrice familiars referencing an Ouroboros.

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