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* If this is true, Charlie's true form had better look like [[TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey HAL.]]

[[WMG: Charlie's real appearance will be based on [[ComicBook/{{X-Men}} Charles Xavier]]]]

* This one is kind of jossed kind of confirmed? Peace Through Superior Firepower showed that Charlie's personality changed dramatically after attuning to the dish. This suggests that the Arkentools can normally alter their wielder's personality to match their own, so presumably this didn't happen with Wanda because her personality already fit. This may have happened for Stanley or he may have always been like that.

* Faq wasn't Wanda's original home, Faq was betrayed by Wanda, and Faq was destroyed by Stanley and her home was destroyed by Olive Branch who isn't in any way related to Ansom, jossing all aspects of this.

* Sorry, not fourth, but fifth. The Arkenshoes are in. So yes, this will be fifth if it isn't jossedificated.

* Jossed - As of Book 3 Page 17, Charlie admits to having allied with the gobwins.

* Seemly Jossed. He's a caster and had to be popped in a city. There is no indication that natural allies can produce casters.

* Jossed - the fourth tool were the Arkenshoes.

* Jossed/confirmed. While Charlie did use to occupy El-Efbaum, he wasn't running mercenary missions from it, being much more pacifistic and insular at the time.

* Jossed: [[http://archives.erfworld.com/Book%203/144 Charlie confirmed the fact that he's a Carnymancer.]]

* Faq wasn't Wanda's original home, Faq was betrayed by Wanda, and Faq was destroyed by Stanley, jossing all aspects of this.

* [[strike: Seems to be]] confirmed with the latest comic.

In ''Inner Peace (Through Superior Firepower)'' there are numerous references to the ''Wizard of Oz'' such as the Emerald City and the road made of yellow bricks that led to it. Those that read ''Inner Peace'' know that Charlei was once the leader of the side that ruled the Emerald City, and took the title of "Wizard". Those that have watched the Wizard of Oz know that [[spoiler: the wizard is a fraud from Kansas]]. This implies that Charlie is also [[spoiler: a fraud from Kansas]], and therefor not a caster

* Corollary: It has never been confirmed who started the rebellion that killed King Saline. Everyone assumes that Stanley did it, but there's a problem with the theory. King Saline loved and trusted Stanley and Stanley, though he was not a royal, was part of King Saline's clan, the Plaids. It wouldn't be far fetched to say that Stanley had the hobogobwins kill King Saline IV, but we have no real evidence of it. We did have real evidence that Stanley destroyed Faq and got some spell-casters out of the deal, but maybe he did that for Saline. Furthermore, we know Stanley has a deep seeded hatred of Charley that was never explained. Lastly, Stanley wasn't ready to rule as shown by his troubles as Overlord. Perhaps Charley had King Saline IV killed in order to weaken the kingdom so that he could get the Arkenhammer. After all, we know from Charley's dealings with Parson in the first book that Charley wouldn't have minded getting the Arkenpliers. All Stanley would have to do to find this out is beat the crap (interrogate) out of the hobogobwin(s) that killed Saline to figure out who put him(them) up to it. That is beyond Charley's abilities and it matches his style. This would also explain why Stanley hates him if Stanley really did care for his King (he was already heir, why speed up the process?) - Tropers/{{Thecommander236}}

** Partially {{Jossed}}: Parson has turned back to Gobwin King. However, it is possible that his turning back was possible due to his Disbanding immunity. Charlie had threatened Parson with Disbanding to avoid Decryption, he would've definitely tried to disband him after the Tripod Blunder.

** And the latest story reveals his signamancy is actually that of [[Peanuts CHARLIE BROWN]]. Which, given his whole 'fated to fail' thing, we really should have seen coming.

[[WMG: Parson's being immune to Disbanding will be a CheckovsSkill]]

... So he can attune with the Arkenshoes and return them (and himself) to Erfworld. If the Arkenshoes can take someone from Erfworld to Stupidworld, then they can do the reverse as well.

Book 0 mentioned that Charlie payed a terrible price to avoid croaking from Olive's poison. Also he had to forgo all his heroine buds for the Deal of the Lifetime with Jillian. In spirit of Carnymancy, perhaps he let his body die, while he uploads his consciousness to the Arkendish. This allows him to not die, but he can't fulfill the Tool prophecy, so Fate wants him gone. Or perhaps, he learned that uniting the tools will cause the bearers to die. And thus Parson was summoned to kill him.

* Apparently confirmed.

[[http://www.erfworld.com/book-2-archive/?px=%2F2010-03-26.png This]] shows that he ''does'' have a mind for tactics, or at least planning ahead in the event of the unexpected. So a few ways of [[FanWank explaining]] his luck based survival throughout the first chapter are:

For instance, to elaborate on [[http://www.erfworld.com/summer-update-2009-archive/?px=%2FE036_TheMutant_jackcomic.png how farms work]], whenever a war-world pig "depops," it's actually teleported to a "food preparation" or "service industry" world that handles butchering pigs. They butcher the pig, and the pork is teleported to the larder of whichever side originally owned the pig. The Schmuckers that the war-world side paid for the butchering is actually paid to the unit/side/corporation/whatever that butchered the pig in food-prep-world.

*** Corollary: Rob will use Parson's friends for this or the problem could solve itself. There are several ways this could go down. Tropers/Thecommander236 [[note]](put your name by your theory)[[/note]]