The absolute highest point of a mythology — the moments, revelations, or story beats that define an entire lore and justify all the hours people spent going deep on it. Peak lore is the payoff: the plot twist that recontextualizes everything, the backstory detail that makes a character's whole arc click into place, the piece of lore so good that it's the reason everyone stays in the fandom. It's the gold standard against which all other mythology in that universe gets measured, and it's usually the first thing anyone mentions when defending their obsession.
The reveal in episode six is peak lore — it completely reframes everything that came before it.
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