- Jossed, I think, by this comic. Though it would've been pretty funny.
- He would have the power to release them, and if he didn't want to do that, there's also the power to unlock or open anything else he feels like. Useful, no?
- Especially when the Lion is locked in his armour as a punishment, and Abyssal fluff states his ultimate goal is to free himself and take revenge on the Neverborn for that humiliation.
- The Demon City isn't exactly "under death".
- Especially when the Lion is locked in his armour as a punishment, and Abyssal fluff states his ultimate goal is to free himself and take revenge on the Neverborn for that humiliation.
- Based on some Word of God I don't feel like locating at the moment, the keys in the hands of a clever enough person are basically omnipotence. I believe the power for having all of them was something along the lines of "the ability to do anything you can even vaguely phrase in terms of words like 'lock' or 'key.'" Who wouldn't want that?
- In other words, think Yakumo Yukari. Minor looking power (unlocking, manipulation of boundaries) can be used in really broken circumstances. For example: The Deathlords cannot die; therefore you might say they are bound - or maybe, *locked* - to life. Therefore the Deathlords can be killed by someone with all five keys. Which makes you wonder how the God of Locks was killed in the first place...
- The god's power was enhanced and purified when it was reforged as the Keys. Like how animal hide is tougher once it has been treated and cured as leather.
- Maybe, just maybe, Chopshop got so stoned out of his shell, he thought it'd be funny to create a resplendant destiny and follow some PCs around. He's gonna wake up tomorrow with such a hangover and shout; "I did what?, you CAN'T revoke my bronze faction membership, I'm Chejop F*** ing KEJAK!"
- Silly, Ten Winds is merely a Wood-Air hybrid DB. This explains his green eyes and white... color scheme?
- But wouldn't that need ike silly solar circle spells or SMA?
- Actually there's a canonical spell for that at Terrestrial level sorcery, well within the reach of a Sidereal.
- Nah, he's really the Silver Pimp in disguise...keeping an eye on the Abyssal he had so much fun with while she was in Abyssal Camp.
- Oh, most definitely. Extra points for that one, since it implies the possibility of lesbianism. :D
- While we're at it, Fury and Flame are the same way, and got along muchbetter.
- "Oh, but she's so cute. let's keep her." Evidence for this one on Page 1?
- I theorize that Cluivnarihe is, in fact, the King of Uncloaked Steel, whom is using awesome abyssal ninja powers to take its form.
- If he were a pirate ninja, his power would know no bounds!
- No dude, you're doing it wrong. I postulate that Ten Winds is a neverborn. There's piles of evidence hidden in the comic. This theory is ireffutable, as Jukashi will now surely confirm.
- By gods, you're right! His eternal and remorseless hunger will surely consume us all!!!
- Only if he doesn't get enough booze.
- By gods, you're right! His eternal and remorseless hunger will surely consume us all!!!
- Maybe it was Elegant Nova of Progression's doing? She did make that odd comment to Misho that "You really do deserve to be called my s-* TWACK* "
- You sure it's not something frilly with white skulls all over it? :D
- White teddy bear skull.
- Hello Dead Kitty.
- With her outfit and the comments from Marena, I'd have to say a simple black thong. No lace, no nothing.
- I think it is something baroque that totally does not match the rest of her clothes.
- I was thinking it was a chastity belt until she called it underwear.
- So her underwear is simultaneously made of leather, frilly and thongs and has Dead Hello Kitty motifs.
- So, would that make them Hello Schrodinger's Kitty undies?
- So her underwear is simultaneously made of leather, frilly and thongs and has Dead Hello Kitty motifs.
- The other two I could possibly believe, perhaps, but that last one? WAAAAAAAAAAAY too ludicrous. It's never gonna happen.
- Why does Ten Winds feel responsible for Contagion dead? Is he perhaps not actually what he claims to be???
- Or maybe he is, and is actually that old. Dragonblooded can certainly use a number of methods to extend their lives...
- He is obviously a repentant Deathlord in disguise. Jukashi, please confirm.
- Your powers of perception are uncanny, sir, for this is the utter truth!
- This cannot be, for he is truly a Sidereal! Ney, all the Sidereals, swapping out the same Resplendent Destiny!
- Or maybe he is, and is actually that old. Dragonblooded can certainly use a number of methods to extend their lives...
- I think Ten Winds is actually the Shinma of Time who infiltrated Creation in order to topple the system of currency with its own hands due to a personal vendetta dating as old as the rise of House V'neef. Or maybe he's just a pair of Starmetal Perfected Kata Bracers. Explains how he fights so well.
- Isn't he an ex-Immaculate Monk Dragon-Blood?
- How the heck did you come up with that? That's, like, so far-fetched.
- Yeah, silly me, he's probably the Unconquered Sun puttin' around for shits and giggles.
- Isn't he an ex-Immaculate Monk Dragon-Blood?
- Ten Winds is actually the Violet Bier of Sorrows. The building.
- New fan theory: Ten Winds is a CONSTRUCT! * cackleflee*
- Of course! That explains why he doesn't take the hat off. It's to hide all the levers and suchlike!
- Obviously Ten Winds is an Air-aspected Fair Folk. Explains how he didn't want to intervene Misho destroying the Fae in that one issue and how he doesn't respond to titles such as Terrestrial or Dragon-Blooded.
- That or he's an Ice Mind that found a way to kill and take over the body of a terrestrial ;)
- Of course! That explains why he doesn't take the hat off. It's to hide all the levers and suchlike!
- New theory: ten Winds is a Dragon King. :D The hat hides the horns.
- No you fool, Ten Winds is Jukashi's shameless SI.
- Ten Winds is a First Age Lunar.
- No, no, I've got it! Ten Winds is actually... An Air-Aspected Immaculate Master!
- Psh, get out. * Eye-roll* Your kind of theories aren't welcome here.
- No, no, I've got it! Ten Winds is actually... An Air-Aspected Immaculate Master!
- The Sidereal Key is the Wagon.
- As I've said before, Ten Winds is Autochthon.
- Obviously Ten Winds is the resplendency of Faen Luif (or her current incarnation, at least, per the wall of text strip a while back), who's sticking with Misho in order to keep watch over the Orichalcam key as well as her own.
- Good call. Now the question is, is Ten Winds a Reaper Daiklave or a regular Daiklave?
- As I said before, Ten Winds is Autochthon—or even one of his sub-souls. The point still holds. This explains a lot of things, such as him being made of ice, him feeling responsible for the Contagion-dead Dragon-Blooded, being a chain-smoking drunkard who manages to do a lot of things in really short time, and so on. This even explains why Secret gained weight over the last a few months she's been with the troupe, which should be impossible given that she's actually a ghost brainwashed to believe that she's a Deathknight, dispatched by Eye and Seven Despairs to moliate into a deathly portal the moment Misho collects the Keys of Creation together and snatch it from his control with a legion of dump trucks. Made of undead polar bears and piloted by books. That bleed light bulbs when cut. You know everything makes sense now. My interpretation of the comic has been validated.
- Damn, you figured it out. Might as well not continue with the comic, now.
- Damnit Rocketbilly! If there's no comic come Monday morning, I'n holding you responsible! Do you fools see what your Wild Mass Guessing causes? DO YOU?!
- No, no, it wasn't him! It was the epileptic trees that did it!
- Ouch! Stop throwing around memes and tropes! Those hurt if they hit you at high speed!
- Damn, you figured it out. Might as well not continue with the comic, now.
- You do realize that he agrees with every theory anyone ever comes up with, right? Besides, everyone knows Ten Winds is actually not a Dragon-Blooded or a Sidereal, but an Infernal using high Essence Larceny Charms to mimic being a Terrestrial. * winks*
- Technically, Ten might be an Infernal using Black Mirror Shintai to copy a very old, very self-denying air-aspect terrestrial who has the Motivation of 'KEEL ANATHEMA.'
- It's all true!
- See what I mean? I could have said that Marena has bones made of Chiaroscuro glass, or that Secret is Ten Wind's daughter. I'd have gotten the same response. That's what makes speculating so much fun, though. If Jukashi quit, we'd probably track him down and give him a wedgie or something.
- The Infernal Key is actually Joe Biden's insurance plan.
- No, no, see... The thing is...Misho is actually his own ancestory, and Secret his long-lost cousin - as is Marena (and Karen). Ten Winds is Marena's great-uncle. They're all related to Thrice-Radiant Misho.
- The infernals don't get a key because they use combination locks.
- The Ebon Dragon claims to know the combination. He doesn't.
- Nova was actually the Elemental Dragon of Wood back then but she grew up.
- Why must you unravel all my plots!?
- Because I can't draw.
- Haven't you figured it out? He's an Abyssal Pattern Spider.
- Why must you unravel all my plots!?
- Waaaiiiit. Has anyone suggested that Ten might be Eclipse caste? I mean, think about it. He's shown Terrestrial and Sidereal tendencies. Eclipses can mime both. He's old. He has old knowledge. A First Age Eclipse would be very old. He is a little crazy. Eclipses are not sane.
- O Oh. Maybe he's a Deathlord. Or a disguised Dragon King. "My god, man, your disguise... you're three feet shorter! How do you DO that?"
- Ten Winds is obviously the only surviving Ten Winds Exalted in the Second Age.
- So would Ten be his Exaltation and Winds his caste, or vice versa? Or is he a Mahjongg exalt from the Winds clan, Ten being his personal rank?
- You're both wrong. Ten Winds is obviously the Chosen of Chuck Norris!
- No, Chosen of Bruce Lee!
- Ten Winds is the sole Chosen of Ten Winds. Only he can do his own awesomeness justice...pardon, "Justice!"
- So would Ten be his Exaltation and Winds his caste, or vice versa? Or is he a Mahjongg exalt from the Winds clan, Ten being his personal rank?
- Sheesh, people! Ten Winds is obviously an Immaculate Monk under the influence of Five Days Darkness using a Ride Charm.
- Le' Gasp! Thats why he joined up with Misho! Misho is already a Celestial Sorcerer, Ten-Days Darkness is just trying to get him to jump up a level! Jukashi, you mad genius! Excalmation!
- Secret's actually a Raksha and her tattoo is her Grace, isn't it?
- Evidence for all the Ten-isn't-Terrestrial theories: here. Subtle, but noticable- in panel three, he says "The Dragon-Blooded" and says "them" and "their", implying he isn't one of them.
- He's implying he's not one of them, as in the ones that are doing horrible things. Say you're an American philosopher commenting on Americans being gun obsessed, over-patriotic idiots, (Example, not actual belief.) you refer to said Americans as them, not us. Otherwise, you are implying that you yourself are a gun obsessed, over-patriotic idiot.
- Karen is Marena's solar mate. I mean, she exalted saving Marena's life and they don't need to have that kind of relationship.
- Of course he is. How would any Terrestrial, particularly one who was involved with the Wyld Hunt and who has had centuries of adventures in a world littered with remnants of the First Age, know anything about the other kinds of Exalted? That would be completely impossible. I guess I should have tried to conceal it better.
When the Usurpation was coming down like ten thousand tons of bricks, a Sidereal who disagreed vehemantly - maybe one very personally intimately connected with Misho, who felt he was certainly not worth the wrath that he was about to receive, or perhaps one who simply believed that this treason was wrong, decided to 'save' him in the only way she could. She used Draw Forth One Shard, one of the high-level Obsidian Shards of Infinity Charms, to duplicate him, choosing the 'Shard learns everything the original learns' choice. Then the duplicate was rendered swiftly unconcious, and hidden as the Usurpation came down like a thousand tons of bricks. The original Thrice-Radiant Misho is killed, and she decides to hide her Misho copy very, very well - along with Eternal Dawn. She set him up to awaken at some time in the distant future, and the difference from the original was in his Essence trait - essentially, she dropped him back to a very low Essence score, which also robbed him of most of his Charms and any ability scores he would have needed the high Essence to sustain.It explains him effectively having Past Lives (5) (he doesn't, because this is still technically his first life, but it's as much the same as no nevermind) and having no memory of his mortal life before he Exalted the second time (because he didn't - he's a shard-copy of the first Thrice-Radiant Misho.)
It's possible even that his proper Exaltation Shard came back - with the original dead, once it was freed from the Jade Prison, it was tricked into believing it was already there, and so it needed to move - thus, there's no uncomfortable metaphysical questions like "couldn't you use this to dupe Exalts you like?" (or at least none that need to be addressed now.)
And before someone says "But Misho has a reflection," We Don't Know That. It might be true that he does, but again, is sidestepped by "he has the original's Exaltation Shard, which might even have carried his original High Soul with it," mumbo-jumbo (it's Exalted; this kind of thing can happen,) or it might be that he doesn't, actually, have a reflection.
(Why yes, I have been reading Scroll of the Monk and cackling to myself imagining all the funinity one could have with that nugget of a charm.)
- He has the Heart of Tears Limit Break. Either he's who he says he is or Desus has done a lot of soul-searching (and don't think he's faking it-Desus in the First Age would never pick a Flaw that would have forced him to act like a wimp). Come to think of it, the latter explanation could also explain why he stole Misho's identity-he really, really wants to start over.
So, now we know what really happened to Roxas. He didn't disappear back into Sora. He was recruited by the Crimson Panoply of Victory.
- I'm torn between wanting this to be true to see what happens and being absolutely horrified at the suggestion.
They look close enough alike to disguise themselves as one another. And I'll be damned if a 262 doesn't have a heavily parental vibe to it.Secret's a death night so she look's juuuuuust different a enough to pass for someone else, no sweat means her scent has got a to be radically different, and of course, Marena thinks she's dead, so she'll have a hard time recognizing her daughter.We know that the silver prince did something "horrible" to Secret, which is probably whay she can't remeber her mother.Finally, two of the people at the interview montage had reasons for being there, (Ten Winds and his Sidreal student/friend) had actually reasons for being there deliberately so secret may be the third.
- Apparently jossed, since Marena didn't seem to react to Secret's father's name when he's summoned.
- I hope this'll happen. I've managed to gather a lot of loathing for Aria.
- He showed in strip 108 just to sell them a horse. Maybe he was weirded out by the idea of his mother pulling a cart?
- He was also among the applicants in the first strips. Most likely he's assigned to keep the tabs on their group. Also, it's unclear whether he knows about Marena being his mother - it's perfectly in line with Sidereal dickery to keep him in the dark.
- Damnit, beat me to this theory. The hair matches up with the daughter we see during the Thorns attack, eyes change as a result of Sidereal Exaltation, the skin color's lighter than the daughter's but we don't actually know what the dad looks like so it might be possible to vary a fair bit there, and it certainly lines up with Aria's little bit of info. He also seems a lot shorter than Nemen Yi so he seems younger which kind of gave the 'son' vibe in the first place.
- Apparently jossed, since Marena didn't seem to react to Secret's father's name when he's summoned.
- No, it was the other way around. I propose the Misho was the one who taught Chejop. Wouldn't you say "Whoops." if you realize what someone you taught had done?
- I like my theory better, as it is crazy enough to be confirmed by Jukashi.
- Third Man Born In Readiness is Moonshadow Caste. He's using the Moonshadow caste power to learn out-of-splat Charms to take Alchemical Charms (such as his seemingly-robot eye). He handles Equipment for similar reasons: the ability to interpret anything. His name combined with his low Essence may indicate that he's the third holder of his Shard since the Lion acquired it.
- Contagion of Sights is, obviously, Day Caste. She is the newest of them ("don't you know me well enough yet?"). She may or may not be Marena's daughter. Might have a stealthy airship for no reason other than the classic anime goggles look.
- Face Of The Final Reach is Dawn Caste, augmenting combat skill with Survival and Stealth - may jump out at the group later when we (the audience) think only Flame, Ben, Fury, and Sights are after them. Probably male, due to the designation as Third Man's "bro," but never underestimate the power of no gendered pronouns. Clearly has Essence of 4+ , and as such may be more dangerous than Ten in a fight. Under that mask, Face has probably gone the high-Appearance route (note the name), due to Jukashi's penchant for random surprises.
- More dangerous than Ten Winds? Preposterous.
- Day Caste Abyssals and Night Caste Solars also have a hollow circle as their Caste Mark.
- True, but it's silver. Fairly tenuous, I know, but hey...
"It's all true!"— Padraig O'Ruanai/Jukashi
"nooooo my scheme"— Padraig O'Ruanai/Jukashi
- Misho was Frank Miller. That ought to explain his adversion to blood and casual sex.
- Secret:Get the hell away from her, YOU BITCH!!!
In Real Life, one or more of the following may be the case:
- Marena and/or Secret's players are actually male (they both seem like the sort of characters a male gamer might stereotypically create; the busty, cheerily oversexed woman and the cute loli-goth).
- Misho's player is female.
- Secret and Marena's players are dating/experiencing UST.
- Misho and Marena's players are dating/experiencing UST.
- Karen's player is Marena's player's actual sister/friend and/or Ten's player's girlfriend.
- Secret was the first interviewed and accepted character, making the Essence Cannon girl unlikely Secret's old character.
- Whoops. Maybe the player submitted both at once, and went for the Stealthy one.
- Secret was the first interviewed and accepted character, making the Essence Cannon girl unlikely Secret's old character.
- Resonance does not work like that. While it can harm the Death knight in question, it never harms them lethally. usually it causes milk to curdle, fire to burn odd colors, stigmata, animals to drop dead(think when the Bird died and landed on secret) or for Bad things to happen to the Abyssal's loved ones. also, resonance is partially caused by Abyssals internalizing the Dark miracles they are supposed to be causing, and they can trigger it's release at will, though with little control of how it manifests, so he could easily just vent it before it grew to high.
- If this is because all of Marena's family are some sort of Exalted then her grandfather already qualifies. Granted, that does mean she will be also qualified to Exalt as such.
- Marena and Karen are way too old to Exalt as Dragon-Bloods. They've passed the window (besides becoming Celestials). But her youngest daughter disappeared when she was still young enough to Exalt, and Marena's husband was apparently Dragon-Blooded.