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Hello, theory for uh... Rain World and its dlc Downpour? Yeah Spoilers ahead.

Theory and spoilers below

So, we know the Saint and how it seems to not have an Iterator, yeah? BUT WHAT IF IT DID.

That's right I think I found the Saint's Iterator. And it's the one and only already dead Sliver of Straw.

Why? The triple affirmative. For those who need a refresher, the triple affirmative are the rules to finding a solution to ascension in Rain World and they are as follows.

Affirmative that a solution had been found

Affirmative that a solution is portable

Affirmative that a technical implementation is possible and generally applicable

With this we should hone in on 3 and 2 because without them 1 is incomplete.

Now what is more portable, applicable, and technically implementable than a pearl with the answer key?

The Messenger that can move on its own free will. And that ANYTHING can interact with. This may also be the reason as to why it can understand the Iterators, it was built to.

Now the counter argument would be Sliver of Straws death, long before the Saint. But we have seen with Big Sister Moon / Looks To The Moon that Iterator's structures and importantly the entities in them still function a bit, even past the Iterator's semi-death.

With this I think that Sliver of Straws did a test run of the Saint and sent out its triple affirmative message right before passing onto Rubicon to wait, but along with that sent out an order to its structure to trap the Saint and to wait until a region got cold enough, then send it over.

Straws would do this to allow the others time to find their own solutions, but still help them to ascend if they couldn't.

(Pearl image belongs to and was gotten by legomann97 on reddit)