Aetheria went quiet after a 2021 pitch push (per Why Aetheria Went Quiet),
not in 2026. Cut or softened claims with no source in the repo; shrink
aquasynth and odin-gjallar avatars to 256px (438K/458K -> 35K/47K).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>