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[weirkey, full spoilers] okay here’s a shot in the dark
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I don’t even think it’s particularly likely
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But
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It would be interesting
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They established that Earth is just another realm, but that the nine realms are all clustered next to each other while Earth is separated by some kind of barrier or vast distance
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And I’m kinda wondering like
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What would happen if The Gang found their way back to Earth
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Would they still be able to soulcraft?
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Like Earth doesn’t have any sublime materials so they would be limited
Echo
Theo lost his soulhome last time, but he was essentially moved into a different body, he didn't actually go there physically.
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But would they still have their cantae and shit
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What stops soulcrafting from working on Earth
Echo
So now that it's been confirmed that his old Earth body is dead and he's physically in the Nine Worlds, I do wonder if he'd be able to keep his soulhome if he went back now.
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Is it the same thing that stops people from traveling to earth?
Echo
I'm wondering if maybe all the natural cantae of Earth is actually what's forming that barrier.
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Echo
: yeah!
Echo
It just all gets pulled into the giant dimensional block so there's none around for anyone to use.
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So my long shot in the dark is
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By the end of the series, Theo will break a hole in the barrier to Earth
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And soulcrafting will like
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Start leaking in
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Earth clearly is important to Vistgil’s plans in some way
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He’s going to a LOT of effort to bring Earthlings to the nine realms
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Why
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What is he doing that he couldn’t do with local agents
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I don’t think there’s anything inherently special about Theo
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So there must be something different about earthlings that Vistgil needs
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And the only big difference I can find is the total lack of soulcrafting
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I wonder if Vistgil’s specific goal requires sowing chaos
Princess Emily
The other thing to mention about Vistgil's plans that hasn't come up since the earliest books is that
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he gives these Earthlings OP artifacts of some kind
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Which bringing overpowered outsiders who cause increased demon attacks wherever they go would certainly accomplish
Princess Emily
and then takes them back at the end
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and like that's gotta be key to his plans somehow
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Oh good point I forgot about those
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...what if those things are like
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The Kinstone thing that Fiyu powered up when she hit authority
Princess Emily
maybe the artifacts accumulate something when adorned by somebody starting from zero (which would be very hard for anybody from the Nine Worlds)
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They power up as you advance
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That’s be a neat little racket
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That’d
Princess Emily
yeah it would be
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hitting EVERY advancement milestone on a big ol' journey
Princess Emily
then get offed at the end and he takes back the artifact with all of that growth
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There’s clearly more to his plan then that
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But that might be a means rather than an end
Echo
Yeah, I do think he's essentially using them to farm something.
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In which case earth would be a convenient source of people who have zero soulcrafting but are proven to be very interested in it