Many questions, most requiring answers that would count as 'world spoilers.' The fact you're asking them makes me think I've done well to give the narrative the job of world relating! You're asking all the questions I want readers to be asking at this point. I can tell you though, because it's buried in the text already, that aside from Serwa, only Apperens Sacarrees is rumoured to have successfully recited a metagnostic cant.

Good question: I originally worked out the story over the course of a three year long D&D campaign in my mid-teens. I had been wrestling with the implications of determinism since I was fourteen, so the whole dichotomy of meat and spirit was front and centre in my thinking. I kept picking at the story for years afterward, marbling in more and more thematic concerns the deeper my knowledge of philosophy became. But the master theme, and the dilemma that cracked apart my Christian worldview, remained constant, primarily because no one had any answers to my questions, then or now. I write about this in "Outing the It that Thinks" which should be coming out this summer in a Nietzsche anthology called "Digital Dionysus."

I've been interested in apophatics for quite some time, but the No-God predates that interest. A better way to think of the No-God is as a philosophical zombie (p-zombie), of a piece with all the other soulless instruments of the Inchoroi. A perfectly unconscious god, and so in that respect, entirely at one with material reality, continuous with it, and so an agency invisible to the Outside.

Not until the series is concluded, no. Sorry, but you'll understand once you've completed TGO.

Serwe is an important cipher in the books. Kellhus is not above chicanery. There's not much more I can say without getting deeper into either, which I don't want to do until the series is completed.

Fair question. What I've said is that I could die happy having completed The Aspect-Emperor. I say this because this is the narrative and world that I have had blocked out for more than thirty years now. I actually have alternatives beyond this point, several competing story lines.

I think when people set down The Unholy Consult they'll totally get what I'm saying, and until then, it will likely strike them as worrisome.

We don't know much at this stage, and as far as we know, neither does Mimara. Somehow she was able to see some greater power through her Tear of God.