Telescopes And Constellations

My findings on the Andromeda's Eye telescope are as follows

Objective Lens, Star Diagonal, Eyepiece - Working as intended.

Optical Tube Assembly - Working as intended, but dusty. Should we send a student to aid in cleaning...?

Mount - Error detected. The Telescope does not move horizontally or perpendicularly.

Focusing Components - Working as intended, though they cause me great misery nevertheless - Seeing as they can only reveal the constellations directly up ahead.

Conclusion Consider conducting a proper maintenance routine.

• Professor Androme

During my absence, I expect you, my young star explorers, to consider the following assignment! Solve it to lift the seal - and to earn a good grade!

Imagine your life as a circle. It can be a halo, bright and hollow - or an interlocking chain; an oroboros. Mind you: The emptiness, the vastness in between, is valuable. It serves as a canvas upon which we may draw our constellations and mark the flow of time, separating what is from that which isn't.

You spring from the inside of the circle - poof, there you are! A novice, young and spry, undulating along the proposed curvature, aging into elderhood and falling to ash before sprouting anew.

Your task Use the telescopes on the balconies to discover where, on this eternal cycle, our beginning and our end must lie!

To the left, I want you to find our origin - where we were plucked from the void and thrown onto the canvas. The point of our creation!

On the right side, focus on where we rest - the hearth that rekindles our ashes!

I await your results with bated breath!

• Professor Androme

The master's riddle is a tedious one... A circle has no end, nor beginning! Though the more I think on it, I begin to see all the hints he strew between the lines... in the empty space below, on the canvas, so to speak!

So my theory is as follows

As Ancients, we all spring from the Mother Flame... but strangely, only one of the telescopes can be pointed towards where she resides. Perhaps part of the riddle is meant in a less literal way? Does the master refer to an "arrival", rather than a birth? I think his remark towards "creation" could prove valuable...

I'll try my luck with the telescopes and see!