#I'm also cross referencing the prophecy and the legends lore and the Ferin tablets

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RIPTIDE THEORY TIME BECAUSE I JSUT CONSUMED ALL PUBLIC MEDIA IN THE SPAN OF LIKE A MONTH

THIS BITCH BE A LONG POST BUT I SEGMENTED IT INTO DIFFERENT CHARACTERS AND WHAT I DEEM TO BE THE MOST CONCERNING PART OF THEM

Niklaus Hendrix

While he definitely holds a major role in all events that the trio have gone through, I think Nik is a red herring to what the bigger antagonist is.

Nik is a pirate first and he chases what he desires, and it is .. peculiar .. that his compass opened the Hole in the Sea, but then again Nik has the power to open pocket dimensions.

He wants something else in the Hole, maybe the power that the Entity contains.

Doctor Ooze

Straight up, I think he was the 8-armed man on Zero/Canella: poly-armed with an ominous omnipotent eye (tattoo) on his forehead, bald with beard. He needed a place to start his research and what better place than the beginning of where his new subjects started.

Legend Lore of the Black Sea Map

"A map that is a guide, and a key, / Passed around the hands of destiny. / It leads to Chaos Infinity beneath the seas. / The Guarding Giant, the Nameless Prince, the Unborn Kings, / All await to be inevitably free."

I don't think we have seen any of the 3 Unspeakables. The 3 Unspeakables are not free, implying they too might be sealed away with the Dark Entity from the prophecy.

It's been hinted at that Dr. Ooze is the Nameless Prince, as he has similar intentions to creating a single race and has been on a rampage destroying other worlds. Gillion(?) suggested that Jug the Tortle is the Guarding Giant. But im not fully buying either of these.

I think the Unborn Kings doesn't literally mean unborn or "embryo", but rather they themselves don't know their role and have yet to realize that in themselves. I'm inclined to believe Chip might even be one, with all of his struggles believing in himself to be a leader/captain/good person.

Potentially others of the main cast (trio & primary NPCs) may also be Unborn Kings in this sense. HOWEVER due to Jay, Queen, Earl, etc. have left the Black Sea, they are now excluded from this. Leaving Chip, Gillion, Gryffon, and Drey (though we lost Drey somewhere to the Hole).

The True Prophecy

"An Entity threatens the world of stability, / Caged in the deepest layers of infinity. / The seal remains locked by a key of divinity, its release in time an inevitability. // A Seagods last egg, The Chosen is born, / Underneath an eclipse, in the midst of a storm. / 'Foreboded calamity' The Chosen is warned, / the shape of all life shall take a new form. / It's choice to be made with no time to mourn."

On youtube during the animation, the "key of divinity" was shown as the black and gold egg, the same one as in the one-shot. However, I don't think the egg is the key, but rather the hands reaching for it. Gillion is our only known divine being of our main cast, and I believe he is the only one who can handle the egg without collapsing the pocket-realm (like what happened in the one-shot).

"Deepest layers of infinity" could be a very broad perspective of what life is inside the egg. Much like Gillion in the Luxbris Pearl, where he was falling for infinity in an enclosed space, the egg may be of similar ability.

We also know that this Entity, has been fought before. So if the egg is the cage, it could be a reciprocal(?) being (similar to a phoenix, or the water horse if you've seen that movie) -- something that either rebirths or something that births a 'clone' and then dies itself.

---- explanation of first battle flashbacks ----

"[The Chosen's] choice to be made with no time to mourn" -- Our boy Gillion is gonna have fucking rough decision soon, and potentially that decision is between the land or the sea (but I don't think so, that would be silly and a stupid prophecy because the one cannot survive without the other as The Tree said)

Faye & Jason Ferin

Jason is a fucking Clone Soldier like DoppelGillion was. We don't have dates or a time frame for when those experiments were happening, but it sounds like it happened before the Hole in the Sea.

That means it likely happened around/shortly after Ava Ferin's death. "My son is stable", Ava's death likely shattered him (as losing a child does). I believe Faye offered this to him as 'a way to heal' when in reality it was to keep his focus on his work -- which also ties in to how focused he became for the promotion, and started to disregard his family as a whole.

The only thing that doesn't fully add up is how he responded to Jay about her mother/his wife. I wouldn't think an obedient clone would call off a Navy objective for a (now) false family.

So alternatively, like Gillion, Jason was hooked up to the repression machine to block out the emotions he felt about Ava's death as to regear him towards work. But a side affect means that those emotions were connected beyond Ava and reached the rest of his family.

Captain Lizzie & the Navy Mole

John and Caspian come to mind first as they are generally the most involved NPCs of her crew.

However, Caspian had been a pirate and with Lizzie well before she became a captain. Caspian being the mole just doesn't make sense character wise -- but at the same time he would be who Lizzie would trust most and ultimately be the biggest aid to the Navy.

John would make the most sense logically as he was a Navy Marshal. The way he went about becoming a pirate seems too out there to be faked. Also, I would think a higher up (Faye Ferin) might have (discretely) pulled him before he was sent into the Block as he would have more information on pirate plans than what he would be able to message.

And that leaves Rudith, the medic. He was on Jeraldo Island passively listening to all pirates who came in for aid. Yes, he had a safe house for the Granberry Pirates & Friends under his clinic, but that information seemed to be easily attainable, and maybe even for a price had the moment came.

Maybe an undercover Navy went in as sick, observed, saw Lizzie & Co frequent the clinic, then strike a deal to protect Rudith & his patients (despite the patients being pirates).