I Am Not the First Cevarian

"I am not the first cevarian has been made so much of as people have tried to puzzle through this book," he says. "There's only a guess at the story of that first cevarians." The universe is cyclical but within that cycle of creation and destruction that is the divine year, according to Cevarian. He could also in a very sneaky way be describing his own self- doubt? I'm still worthy of this position right? There are an infinite number of failures out there for him to become the new son.