#also huge thanks to the people over at the StarDB discord for doing most of the translation before I was even awake

[anyacad0]

Tribios trailer analysis

first: doesn't the land to the left look like the neck of a dragon? I'm guessing this is our first look at Georios' body, as well as near-confirmation of their connection to the Permanence.

the words here aren't entirely clear, but they seem to be foretelling Tribios' death, rather alarmingly, and then her final end will be in warm gold.

when mem's book said there used to be more Tribios, I assumed it meant 8 like Vill-V, but no, there's a thousand of them. Or at least there were. Now there are only three. That means hundreds of Tribios' fragments have already died off. It's no wonder she can't remember how exactly she claimed the coreflame when so much of her is just gone.

"you shall shatter into a thousand fragments

and wither in the soil of foreign lands"

and then there's the bit with all the Chrysos heirs. I'll list Tribios' evaluation of each, their probable HI3 counterpart, coreflame, as well as how they're described in the trailer description.

Castorice (Aponia, Death)- Like you, some will be trapped in the past. Described as "a butterfly perched on a branch".

Unkown (Hua, Time)- some will bury time itself. By process of elimination, she must either be the 'after echo of a wave" or "chess piece biding its time". I'm leaning towards the former because Oronyx's coreflame is yet to be retrieved, so Phagousa's heir is probably the better candidate for the one biding their time.

(at this point in the trailer, there's a shot of a dragon's eye. No dialogue accompanies it, nor is it mentioned in the trailer description, but this is likely meant to represent the Kosma expy heir to the Earth coreflame who's shown wearing a draconic gauntlet in the golden epic trailer.)

Cipher (Pardofelis, Trickery)- some will discard their humanity. Described as "a gold coin with different faces on each side." Given that the Nameless Faces MV shows her in some kind of burning village, I think it's safe to say she certainly does have another face beside the implied laziness.

Unknown (Mobius?, Ocean?)- some will discard their humanity. I think she is the "chess piece biding its time", based on the fact that Phagousa's coreflame has already been claimed. Could also be "tha after echo of a wave" because, you know, the ocean. She also plays the violin, and Phagousa is seen as a god of revelry.

Aglaea (Eden, Romance)- some will discard their humanity. Describes as "the hem of a skirt not yet sewn", perhaps referencing her role as the "backbone" of the Chrysos heirs and humanity.

Hyacine (Sakura, Sky)- some will forfeit their life. I think she is the "gentle warm ray of light" since she will probably restore the day/night cycle and seems to be a kind person based on what we know from the golden epic trailer.

Anaxagoras (Su, Reason)- some will forfeit their life. Described as "a paradoxical retort", so maybe he won't actually die? fingers crossed.

Phainon (Kevin, Deliverance)- some will become utterly alone. Described as "an unnamed sword."

Mydeimos (Kalpas, Strife)- some will lose everything. Described as "a migrating lion".

"Light Calendar 3760, Month of Evernight

Tribios,

the Holy Maiden of Janusopolis, became the first to bear the Coreflame,

seeking to quell the chaos that plagued the world."

So at this point, the only Chrysos heir totally unmentioned has the following combination: Griseo and Law/Ocean. If we go back to the Golden Epic trailer, we can now see that the missing Chrysos heir is the twelfth and final one, the one Aglaea's narration suggests might be from beyond the sky, and that the visuals suggest is a member of the Astral Express. Basically, it's almost certainly March 7th. So perhaps Dan Heng's power of friendship attempt would have failed if they hadn't been using March's camera? Maybe it's because March possesses the coreflame that the camera was able to tip the scales? Heck, what if the coreflame is in the camera?