Zhidao's Storyline Theorycraft

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## Introduction

Welcome to my personal page where I theorycraft the current storyline and try to predict, synthesize information and test gathered from the current storyline plot and patch in any of the missing holes when it comes to the full history of Kovia .This page will be updated depending on any new content being released, and/or confirmed points of information that have been verified or declared false. This page is more of a gathering the school of thoughts when it comes to mapping out key information that has been presented, and not meant to be used as the official guide or official information when it comes to the true storyline developed by the developers, as this is just a theorycraft page by myself.

## Ancient Times

When it comes to the information on the Ancient times, there are a few races which are briefly mentioned in things such as in Reliquary or during the contents from specific lore from character's speeches.

### The Elf Rulers

From what is gathered from the storyline, the elves had been in control, and the rulers of humanity more than 800 years ago before the start of Kovia. The elves explained by Lord Arden Margraves, "the world and its beings are toys to be used as they see fit. for entertainment, without thought, morals or compassion." Path of Emperors.

Reading on the "Statue of The Knight of Mirrors," The Knight of Mirror would have been regarded as either a being or the ancestral leader of the elves. Following the text, there are explained a few 'characters' or I would say races other than elves.

Black Goat might have referred to Animah. The Giants, The Sun, and the Moon, might have referred to the ancestral leaders or the whole race that were exterminated by the Elves. Combine the words of "The Right of Hunt" with the depiction of what Arden called the Elves when they were the rulers, you can see the fact that the Elves rose to power by slaughter other races without care and enjoyed it for their own amusement.

Not sure what the Pacts mean. Bound by Words. Elves are very much into the ancient arts of words as depicted by how the Temple Gates as well as how River activates the Elder Stones.

The Fathers of Giants, might have been referred to the ancestral powers of either the Dwarves or the Ogres/Orcs. Might not be.

The Rats might be referred to Humanity as it's co-relates to the ability of humanity to reproduce and weak. "Legion of shrieking infants," should confirm this theory.

The Rite of Falls. No idea what it is. Maybe it's a ritual by which the elves have performed to control humanity?

### Rise of Humanity, Kovia

We know from the speeches the fact that Animah, the first prophet of the empire had 'merged herself with the outside being' and created the Imperial bloodline. With this in mind, The elve race started to lose control. Explained by Margrave in Path of Emperors, the Vile Gastater might have just been a key within the previous olden ritual which is used to perform the rituals. There are more of such keys.

The fight for power was located in the Westland and either some kind of event happened or the Elves pushed humanity eastwards, and then they lost control of Westland (which is why it's called Lost Province in the world map). During the centuries of which humanity was developing, a separate school of thought happens to appear which they knew of history of Imperial Bloodline or the those within the Bloodline don't want this information to be out, so they began to suppress that part of history. They went back into the temples of Ancis, and destroyed most things that related to Animah. Also known as The Holy Reclamation.

### Relic of Animah, Ancestral Might, the Cracked Bone

All of this came from the information on Reliquary. From the information of The Knight of Mirrors, the Black Goat which I hypothesis is Animah, had a crunched finger bone which is the Cracked Bone Blade equipment. It is one source of Animah's power. After the ritual to create the Imperial Bloodline, there was a Prophet Mersaran who granted Enoch the control over this broken bone. Enoch had four daughters, which casted him out, and took control. They are most like the Saints which suppressed all that related to the past, and not allow those who live in Kovia to know the truth.

## Future Content Related

In both Lord Margrave's speech and within the Reliquary, they proclaim that the Empire will be invaded by other forces. For Lord Margrave, he claimed that the Old Kovia group said, "They showed him some truths, the destruction of Kovia, mankind's bulwark, by the fires and claws of hordes. Orcs, ogres, minotaurs multiplying like vermin. and the return of elves." With this sentence being the final sentence of Lord Margrave to introduce us into newer storyline, I believe that there will be more introduction towards elves and their history with the new additions in the future.

### Return of the Elves

There are a few theories which I think is possible which to lead to the rise of the Elves again. First theory is the fact that the Empress Amalia in the storyline has elf heritage as she was able to open the Temple door with elf language. We currently do not know the fate of the Empress as she isn't mention anymore after the flashback with Reynar, so she might be part of it.

Another theory is the fact that the son, Prince Medard is technically the decendant of Reynar and Amalia, meaning he also is of elf heritage. With the future storyline of revival of Medard, I can see where Medard, in a quest for vengeance and arrogance that he had, would band together with the elves there were supposedly died off.

The last and most biggest clue towards the rise of the Elves is the fact that The Final Envoy of the Elves, the uncle of River, had gone missing when River was a child. This could be a segway in which the uncle returns with the elves in full force as the current Empire is under civil unrest.

### Rise of the Other Races

With the briefest introduction towards the fact that there are other Prophets or Race leaders, there might be other groups out there that belongs to the orcs, the Ogres, the Minotaurs, and all the other beings of which used to rule before the Elves as well and join in on the chaos. A less likely chance of this being part of the storyline, but still gives us some hints of other races being of importance.

### Old Kovia

When it comes to the Old Kovia, we know the fact there are a group of very enigmatic people that will strive to return to the olden ways. Our current knowledge about them is limited but doesn't mean that they aren't without powers. The fact that the Vile Gestater is just one of many ritual keys means that there are more powerful things out there.

## Additonal Information

**The Great Wheel:** Symbolism to the Eochian. Represents the cycle of life and death in the center of the earth.

## Needs more Information

There are a few things that have appeared above that either will be expanded on when future story mode releases or will be explained (hopefully) in the future. Just currently not enough information to determine what it is.

**Rite of Falls:** Mentioned in the Knights of Mirrors. Is that some form of enslavement ritual that gave control to the elves**?**

**The Pact:**

**The Titan:** a being with unruly power.

**The Enoch:** a being entrusted with taking care of the Ancestral Might, the Cracked Bone.

**The Beginning Prophets of Old Kovia:** There were Prophets different time periods, one of which Animah was mention to be a prophet as well. There is also Prophet Mersaran, who granted Enoch custody of the shattered Ancestral Might.

**The Four Prophets**: Most likely to be the four daughters of Enoch, different prophets than the Old Kovia Prophets.