Apparently it's Huntokar, not Huntocar. I got close!
Anyway, in the latest Welcome to Night Vale episode, we actually don't hear anything from Cecil. Instead, we merely get a confession of responsibility from Huntokar, one of the gods of the Night Vale multiverse.
We also get confirmation that the Woman From Italy, the Distant Prince, the Glow Cloud, and apparently, collectively, the Five-Headed Dragons, are also gods.
Huntokar is the Destroyer, but she never intended to be. In fact, among these gods, she's the only benevolent one. There are an infinite number of Night Vales - all towns within the small desert valley that she declared her domain when the gods were picking areas (ironically, the Woman From Italy is everywhere except Italy.) She's the object of Bloodstone worship, and they honored her with ceremonies wearing the soft-meat crowns. But it was the first Night Vale that she created that led to the current disaster.
It was her primary Night Vale that was threatened with obliteration in 1983 by a Soviet missile launch, but in attempting to protect her city, she shattered reality, causing every variation of Night Vale to collapse in on itself.
Now I don't exactly know if this means that the Night Vale we've spent our time in has been that combined Night Vale or if the effects of the events she is describing are only now manifesting. It could be that this combination of Night Vales is why the town is so weird (though the existence of these strange gods prior to Night Vale suggests that there's plenty of weirdness to go around.)
The shattering reality in the last episode does now seem to have an explanation, and how Cecil could be meeting his nonexistent brother. We're getting close to the "season finale," but I think it's remarkable how much backstory is revealed in today's episode - backstory that I frankly never expected to get from Night Vale.
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