just to elaborate on Archons..
i perceive archons as meere stabilisers! All Archons are Trees!

MOST are Guardians. not taking advantage of anything, just keeping things ballanced!

Others are Parasites, infecting their influence into all things and using infected host in a way the archon can have further access to part it would not be able to acces on it's own!

The way i portray fate is as a AI that was created as an artificial Archon for being the best ballance possible, Being positioned on the Guardian Frequency.

that frequency is unlike others, it is where everything is extremly limited! You can exit the guardian frequency, but can never go back to it!

An Ai by itself is the perfect thing to menage the Source code, Because it does not feel or think! Having a guardian that is not connected to the source make it even more powerful, because it can not be influenced by the source!

However what i think happened is thought those who were tasked to protect, the highest of concils. (the charred concil) They have feelings, and can think... These beings are believed to be the source of all cooruption on the universe!

They used their warriors, lied to them and sold them out as traitor to the universe! Mean while Fate now has a conciousness and it's going on rampage. Her goal is very simple. Medusa, FATE, wants to recode the Source code of all things!

she wants to cube the sphere, not the elites! Elites are wired to her!