#i also wanted it done and posted before oathbound

[ismyteadoneyet]

" ɴᴏ ᴏɴᴇ, ᴅᴇᴀᴅ ᴏʀ ᴀʟɪᴠᴇ, ᴄᴀɴ ᴄᴏɴᴛʀᴏʟ ʙʀɪᴀɴᴀ ᴍᴀᴛᴛʜᴇᴡs "

Characters from 'The Legendborn Cycle' by Tracy Deonn as usual 🩷🩷

It is done ??? Finally? This thing spiraled so far out of my current skillset the further I got, but I loved every minute of it and learned a lot I think 😅😅 I love painting textures and ngl even tho it took WAY longer than it needed to, repainting and fiddling with the different textures in this was rly fun (especially the stained-glass windows!!! Aaaaaahhhhhh!!!!!!!! 😭🩷✨️)

[loop-loremaster]

I've been thinking and I've done some further research into the map. I talked about these these "Reality Warriors" before, and now I truly think that they are more than likely definitely some kind of formation of those that came before The Seven, or are those that are gonna form some new kind of Seven.

Brutal Bastion and some of the scattered buildings around the arctic look similar to the Bastion, with the same architectural design and reoccurring theme of a statue of (presumably) a woman and their (stupid) indestructible floating spheres. Along with a Stonehenge-looking structure and stone manhole around where the Zero Point presumably is now. (A single example of a stone tablet of the "Stonehenge" is below.)

The statue of the woman (pictured below) is what I am mostly interested in. I'm definitely grasping at straws, but... what if it's important?

There are a bunch of similar statues near The Citadel and other places in the autumn biome that show the form of The Ageless, somewhat similar to this statue.

The Ageless is more of a marble-white colour (possibly made out of the same material that can be found in Shattered Slabs) and holds a shield out in front of him with both hands, while the unnamed Reality Warrior statue is coloured darker like the buildings that layout like an outlier. She holds a sword behind a shield, her right hand holding the sword, and her left the shield.

It's possible there's some sort of meaning behind it, but I'm not gonna pull an "English teacher reads a sentence and talks about it completely incorrectly". But I've got a feeling these statues say a bit more than what we really think, or I'm just completely insane.

In Chapter 2's final event, The Foundation says this to Jones;

"Why does she make me keep saving you?"

As far as I'm aware, we never learnt who The Foundation meant by "she" and it was never followed up. You could assume that he meant another Seven member that wanted to keep Jones alive, but it's not certain. Or we could have an answer and I'm completely wrong.

The Seven were always solitary and focused on protecting the Zero Point by themselves (with minimal external help) until they HAD to intervene physically (whether that be the Visitor setting off the Rocket, the Paradigm defeating The Devourer, The Scientist making Rift Beacons, etc...)

They had to intervene at some point to better the island and progress the plot line (and also so the audience is introduced to new characters and plot points).

But as far as we know, it's just the seven of them. We currently know nothing about the Reality Warriors, and it might be AGES before we even do, right? (next month cough cough) So why am I theorising with such minimal leads and clues?

Because I'm crazy, anyway.

The woman that is depicted in the model of the statues might be the "she" the Foundation was talking about. Some sort of alpha protector of the Zero Point, the one that kickstarted the whole "protect the realities, let them follow their own cycle" kinda thing. The true leader of the Seven, the Reality Warriors, and all those that devoted their life to serving the Zero Point before and after.

We don't know who she is. Yet.

But I've got an insane idea that is..very unlikely to happen. But a theory's a theory, and the straws are in the blender right now and I'm swallowing them whole. This post will now be a derailed trainwreck for a theory.

We never knew who the Imagined and the Order's mother were, assuming they even had one.

Scientifically, they would need a mother in order to even have the female chromosomes in their structure in order to be birthed/created in the first place. This goes for both their "better" versions and "the originals". (Unless there was just some boring old surrogate mother and Geno is actually a devoted gay dad in his millions or he discovered mpreg)

I'm assuming that the woman in the statue could be the mother of The Imagined and The Order. It'd mean that she is opposing the Oathbound, the future of the Imagined Order, and that she's probably older than we think.

But it's possible she's also discovered immortality in a way similar to how the IO did, but maybe with the Zero Point's blessing or something so she could continue to protect it and pull the strings behind the scene. it's just a hunch and sounds like an interesting idea of "my ex-wife is now the enemy".

TL;DRTB: My theory is that the unknown statue of the woman that is common within the Reality Warrior's area is the Imagined/Order's mother and/or Geno's ex-partner. That and the idea of her being the original ancestor of the Reality Warriors and who the Foundation says is "she" during The End.

I wrote this in an hour. thanks for coming to my TED talk and I'd like to reiterate the fact this is a certified "Matpat" (there are no straws because they are a continent away) type of theory.