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Tower of Answers: Chapter 2 - The Cave Google docs version.
The
second in a series of
analysis and
theory posts whose purpose is to shed some light on some of the mysteries and secrets present in the series and provide you with some answers. Although a lot of thought has been put into these over a long time I spent reading this series, as with many analysis and theories, these answers could be far from the truth. You might disagree with my points but at least try to entertain the ideas presented until the end to see where I am going with them.
If you have
not yet read chapter 1, I suggest you do so before reading this as I will be referencing things I covered there.
In this chapter I want to talk about the cave Baam and Rachel were in and give you a possible answer as to what might have happened. I also want to talk about the possible whereabouts of the cave. There is limited information about this subject so I am going to work with what I’ve got.
PSA:
The highlighted parts are links to screenshots and most of them are large and in format best viewed on a PC screen. I suggest you read this on a PC if you can.
The entirety of chapter 1 is based on what is in the Webtoon but in this chapter I will also use information SIU provided in his blogs or Q&A sessions. This chapter is more of a fun to have rather than need to have since the outcomes of this chapter are not very important to the behind the scenes of Tower of God that I want to talk about in chapter 3.
The World Above
Tower of God starts with Baam running after Rachel in a dark rocky tunnel. This is not a jog that Rachel is doing, she is panting and running out of breath. Almost as if she was running away from Baam. Baam catches up to her and makes them both fall. Baam then opens the gate of the Tower and they both go in.
Throughout the story we are then shown some events that happened between Baam and Rachel in the cave. Before I reveal what I think happened, I will talk about one thing - The World Above.
Rachel told Baam that the World Above is
a world of light and happiness, that it’s a place without darkness and that only
chosen people can live there. We have learned over time that this is a lie. Baam knows that
Rachel absolutely despises that place and
Rachel describes it as a dark place multiple times in the series. Rachel absolutely hates her destiny of living in that world and because of this she wants to leave that place behind, climb the Tower and see the stars.
So, is Rachel saying that she is one of the chosen ones who can live in the World Above, the world for the chosen ones? We know she is not, if she were then why does she despise that place and want to escape it at all costs? She is not a chosen one and the World Above is not a world where chosen people live. It is a lie.
The only time Rachel describes the World Above in a positive light is when Baam was in the cave. However,
she never gives too much information about it and Baam has to
fill in the gaps himself. This scene is actually quite interesting if we take what I said about Rachel in chapter 1 into account.
Rachel knows that Baam is the child of prophecy, she knows that he is the chosen one. Yet here we have Baam telling Rachel that he thinks he is not one of the chosen ones like she is. He then proceeds to telling her that to him
she is like an angel, this shocks Rachel. The girl who was working as a servant, most likely treated like dirt most of her life and had nobody really care about her was now being told that she was like an angel to someone. To her that moment was important but Baam ended it with a question that scared her.
If I go up there… Will I be able to make friends with more angels like you? Rachel has found a place where she was cherished and valued, but this was only because of the current circumstances. Disregarding whether he was allowed to or not, if Baam were to go up and meet other people, she would have lost her special place and position. This cemented the fact that Rachel would never reveal the truth of the World Above to Baam, this was her safe space where she could feel special. However,
a certain event happened and everything changed.
The Cave and the ‘Outside’ World
With that said, let me now tell you what I think chronologically happened in the Tower, the ‘outside’ world and the cave. Not much information is given so I will work with what I’ve got and what I know about the characters. You are now treading the headcanon territory.
Arlene finds a ‘way out’ and ‘escapes’ the Tower. She settles in this ‘new’ place.
She communicates with the Outside God through unknown means and offers the body of her dead child.
Unknown amount of time after that, the Outside God sends his messenger, Enryu, into the Tower to leave the Thorn for Arlene’s child and make it so that the Thorn fragments can be hidden. For this end and
another reason Enryu kills the Administrator. He then gives certain people special eye powers (Grand De Jah and Grand De Sah) which would later be used to guide Arlene’s child to the Thorn fragments. During this night Arlene’s child is revived.
The boy who was born the night the Tower cried. The night the Tower cried is the night the Tower lost one of its Administrators. Arlene’s child was revived on this same night.
Arlene knew this was the day and was waiting for her child to be revived. The Outside God revives her child by either using his own power or the power of the slain Administrator. However, things didn't go as expected for Arlene. The baby that was revived could not control the power given to him; the power went out of control. Everyone in Arlene’s household or wherever she was staying except for Arlene herself was devoured by the baby's power. Arlene was shocked, she has never seen anything like it. This is the reason Arlene calls her revived child a Monster who will Devour the Tower.
To prevent this tragedy from happening again and being afraid of the monster that was revived, Arlene banishes her child and seals him in a cave until one day he re-enters the Tower as prophesied. This cave is off limits, nobody is allowed to go in there in case the ‘monster’ starts devouring people again.
Arlene eventually takes Rachel under her wing.
While serving Arlene, Rachel hears stories about the stars and about the prophecies. She learns that Arlene’s child would one day enter the Tower she had read books about. Since Rachel has dreamt about seeing the stars she heard stories about from Arlene, and knowing that her child would one day enter the Tower, she is curious what kind of person this child is and decides to meet him.
Rachel finds the entrance to the cave where Arlene’s child was
sealed. Although impossible for Arlene’s child to open from the inside, Rachel opens the seal from the outside and
falls into the cave. Even though Rachel knew that a ‘monster’ was sealed in this place hence why she came with a knife, her curiosity and desperation for the stars got the better of her.
Rachel and Arlene’s revived child meet. She names him the 25th Baam. She tells Baam that only chosen people can live in the World Above and that he couldn’t leave with her. This is because she was not even supposed to be there. That place was forbidden, she could not allow anybody to find out that she was sneaking down there. On her subsequent visits she would
drop down a rope to get into the cave and pull it back up after she left. Telling him that the World Above was not for him and taking the rope away, she ensured that Baam would not leave the cave and get her in trouble.
Rachel then visits Baam every now and then and teaches him about the world. Baam asks her
what ‘fight’ means and to explain it to him she makes an example of herself being hurt and asks him what he would do if that happened.
He replies that he would fight.
Over time, Rachel gets to know Baam and learns that he is not any different from her. She tells him stories about the stars and learns that he does not share the same sentiment for the stars that she does. She decides to take Baam’s place and enter the Tower in his place.
One day Rachel tells Baam that
she is soon going to go up the Tower. Now, I don’t actually believe that Rachel could get into the Tower by herself. There is most likely a part of the prophecy which foretells or describes the day that the prophesied child would enter the Tower and Rachel knows what it is.
Rachel is then found out by the people in the World Above and
dragged away by the hair in front of Baam. She is hurt in front of Baam. The fact that she told him she was leaving and now she was being hurt made Baam cross the boundary he was told not to cross. He climbed up and left the cave.
Knowing he was not supposed to be there, Baam sneaks around. He sees other people and other children in the World Above. Baam breaks into a house and finds a mirror, he sees himself for the first time. Remembering the children he just saw, he realises he stands out. He cuts his hair and puts on some clean clothes he found laying around. Also remembering that he would need to ‘fight’ whoever hurt Rachel, he grabs a knife. Now that he looked like everyone else, he left to search for Rachel.
He eventually finds the place she was dragged to, Arlene’s place. Rachel is being reprimanded for going into the forbidden cave, Baam sees this.
Baam is discovered and they try to take him back into the cave to seal him again. Thinking he would never see Rachel again, his power goes out of control. Baam starts devouring everyone who stands in his way. Although Arlene did not get devoured the night her child was revived and his power went out of control, this time around Baam was angry. His power was much stronger. He devoured Arlene too.
Rachel witnessed all of this. She is scared of Baam and runs away. Baam chases after her.
Rachel runs back to the cave, she knows this is the place where she would be able to enter the Tower.
Baam chases her, catches up and makes them both fall. He asks her where she is going to which she replies that
she is going up the Tower.
They both enter the Tower.
There it is. An estimation of the events that I believe could have happened since Arlene ‘left’ the Tower until Rachel and Baam entered the Tower.
Rachel was confident that she would be going up the Tower. This implies that there is a part of the prophecy which tells when the prophesied child would enter the Tower. Rachel either knew that day was the day, or she made that day into the day.
It’s possible that the prophecy describes the events that took place that day. Rachel could have forced it by letting herself be found out that day on purpose which would cause the following events to take place, or it was simply some other indicator. If this is true, then it’s also possible that the other part of the prophecy that Garam did not tell Baam is regarding exactly the events that took place on that day. Of how Baam killed a lot of people and his own mother, afterall, the truth would destroy him.
Coming back to what I talked about in chapter 1 and what Rachel said to Headon.
He's... ...Baam... ...took everything... ...from me. The first thing I explained Baam took from Rachel was her dream of climbing the Tower and seeing the stars. The other thing Baam took from her was Arlene, the person she admired.
Baam does not seem to have any memories from the cave other than the ones with Rachel and SIU says that
something had happened just before they entered the Tower. Baam not remembering much is most likely due to him blocking out the events of what happened, or because his power took over and went out of control.
Make no mistake, Baam is no saint, he really might devour the Tower, just
look at those eyes.
Irregulars
Before I talk about the possible whereabouts of the cave, let me say a few words about irregulars since there seem to be a few interpretations of what an irregular is.
An irregular is somebody who enters the Tower (Inner, Middle or Outer) by their own means without being chosen and helped by Headon.
A person does not need to open the door of the Tower to be considered an irregular (Rachel), but anyone who
does and enters is considered one.
The Great Warriors, Enryu, Phantaminum, Urek Mazino,
Rachel and Baam are all irregulars because they entered the Tower without being chosen and helped by Headon. Anyone from outside of the Tower would be considered an irregular because of how they would enter the Tower and not because of the fact that they are from the outside.
Being an irregular has nothing to do with being from the outside of the Tower, it’s about how you enter the Tower.
The Whereabouts of the Cave
With that said, let’s now talk about the whereabouts of the place where Arlene, Rachel and Baam were. You might have noticed that every time I mentioned Arlene ‘escaping’ the Tower or the ‘outside’ where Rachel was, I used quotes.
I think the ‘outside’ world that Arlene ‘escaped’ to is inside the Tower.
Allow me to show you how I came to that conclusion and decide for yourself.
First, I will start with the biggest disproover of this theory:
this Q&A response from SIU in which he states that the place where Baam was is different from the Tower. Thanks SIU, you have killed the theory before it even started. But wait, what if it only seems that way because of how we think of the Tower?
According to SIU, each floor of the Inner Tower is physically separated from others. The Middle Areas are connected and one could theoretically move between them but the paths are so complicated they would
need a guide to not get lost.
When we see the word ‘Tower’ we think of the entire thing that is inside of the structure, but what if that is the wrong way to look at it? The Tower is the combination of the Outer Area, Middle Area, Inner Tower, all of the bits that connect those areas and the place where the Administrators reside, right? That sounds about right. As long as all of those places are being used for the purpose of the Tower, are connected and the area is accessible to regulars, then that
entire area is what is considered the Tower. This includes the floors above the 134th floor as those are used for the purpose of the Tower.
SIU said that
where Baam was, the World Above and the Tower are not different worlds. That the
place where Baam was is just
different from the Tower. It is different because the place where Baam was, used to be a part of what is considered the Tower but not longer is. That area has been cut off from Tower inhabitants and the rest of the ‘Tower’ some time after Jahad became King - it is a lost area of the Tower.
If we consider the biggest disproover as an argument, we also need to take other things SIU had said into consideration.
In another Q&A SIU stated that people inside the Tower cannot leave the Tower. It is the same with entering, nobody can enter the Tower except for people with special power and abilities.
There is only so far we can spin the words to fit something into what we want it to be so let me now show you the evidence that the ‘outside’ Arlene ‘escaped’ to is in fact inside the Tower.
Shinsu According to Ashul Edwaru, the famed blacksmith who met the Great Warriors and interviewed them, shinsu only exists within the Tower, it does not exist on the outside of the Tower. He highlights that
Shinsu is created by the Tower and even a sealed room inside the Tower would contain shinsu.
According to Endorsi, one can fill their stomach with shinsu instead of food to not feel hunger.
We have Baam who spent a very long time inside the cave alone before Rachel found her way there. How did Baam survive for so long without food? There is not a single time we see
Baam say or show that he is hungry, he only eats because Rachel eats. In short, Baam has no need to eat because he fills his stomach with shinsu.
Even if a spell was placed on Baam to keep him from feeling hungry, spells existed in the Tower since the beginning and there is no proof they exist outside of the Tower.
When Baam and Rachel enter the Tower, neither shows any signs of feeling different. Apparently the Great Warriors felt uncomfortable with shinsu replacing air at first, yet we see no indication from both Baam or Rachel. Even when Baam runs into the room with the eel which has a high concentration of shinsu, he feels no different. Rachel and Baam are used to shinsu.
Time To me the biggest indicator is time. Arlene ‘escaped’ the Tower a long time ago. If you want to consider the
removed line by Headon which states that Baam was born on the day the Tower cried, we can assume that Baam was revived the day that Enryu entered the Tower. In other words a very long time ago.
Arlene who was only immortal and had eternal life because of her Immortality contract and shinsu somehow survived in the ‘outside’ world for thousands of years to eventually meet Rachel who not long after would enter the Tower together with Baam. Any Administrator contract should only apply within the Tower so unless Arlene was inside the Tower all along, how did she survive all this time?
A counter to this could very well be that time passes thousands of times faster inside the Tower and all those thousands of years inside the Tower were only a few years on the outside. We have a similar relationship between the Hidden Floor and the train, and how 30 days+ there lasted only about a second on the train. Although I actually believe that the time inside the Tower passes many times faster than on the outside, there is no proof of this.
Stars Urek states that the
outside is millions of times bigger and freer than the Tower. So how come Rachel’s ‘outside’ does not have any stars? Just like Rachel, even Khun heard legends that stars exist on top of the Tower.
During Rachel and Wangnan’s conversation during the Floor of Death arc, Rachel implies that
Arlene has not managed to see the stars like
she wanted.
If stars existed in the place where Rachel was, she wouldn’t need to try to climb the Tower to see them. Even when Rachel gets into the Tower and sees the artificial stars on top of every floor, she is not satisfied.
Books Rachel calls Headon a fairy who leads kids up the Tower, she says she
read about him in a book. How can a book on the outside say that there is a being who brings kids up the Tower? This system was only established after Jahad entered the Tower. Unless Phantaminum or Arlene herself wrote that book, a book like that should not exist in the outside world.
So could Arlene have written that book? It’s possible but I find that extremely doubtful. Arlene
calls Administrators by what they are, the Administrators. After all she went through and how she suffered in the Tower, would she call the Administrator who performs the selection of regulars for the system Jahad built a fairy?
Language When Rachel and Baam come into the Tower they both meet and speak with Headon without having a pocket to translate the language - they all speak the same language.
There are hundreds of languages in the Tower so why would the outside be any different?
When Arlene ‘escaped’ the Tower she was able to communicate with the people on the ‘outside’. Let’s explore the options.
Arlene already knew their language since she is from the outside. This outside would have to be the same outside she was originally from otherwise how could she communicate with them?
This ‘outside’ has no stars like her hometown - it is not the same outside.
This does not work.
She had another pocket and could use it on the outside. This does not make much sense, if pockets were used on the outside then the Great Warriors would have just come in with them in the first place. Macseth built the pockets to allow people of the Tower to communicate with each other.
Even if the pocket worked for Arlene and she understood what other people said, how would they understand her?
This does not work.
When the Great Warriors came into the Tower they most likely were able to communicate with Headon. It makes no sense for whoever created the Tower to make the first person who greets newcomers speak in a language they do not understand. Headon and the Administrators must speak the same language as the people on the outside from which the Great Warriors came from. This would mean that the ‘outside’ Arlene ‘escaped’ to was in fact the same outside she originally came from. We already established this can not be. This place has no stars and is a dark world.
This does not work.
There is only one language on the outside and Headon knows it. This would be weird. The outside is millions of times bigger than the Tower, it’s simply not possible there is only one language out there.
Even if there was, why would the creators of the Tower make it so that there are different languages within the Tower? They clearly modelled that after their own world.
This does not work.
Arlene learned the language of the ‘outside’. Unless Headon knows every language from the outside this doesn’t make much sense. SIU commented on the fact that Headon was able to communicate with Baam and Rachel and said that
the reason is a spoiler and that he was trying to keep the fact hidden. How would saying Headon speaks every language be really considered a spoiler and needed to be hidden?
This does not work.
Headon and other Administrators can speak every language in the Tower. This is very plausible. It would make perfect sense that the Administrators would be able to communicate and understand Tower inhabitant before Macseth created the pockets.
The place where Arlene, Rachel and Baam were is inside the Tower hence why Headon speaks the same language.
This works.
Headon knows what Rachel is like When Rachel enters the Tower and meets Headon he tells her
that he knows what she is like. You could argue that Administrators can read people’s mind or past, but if that was true, why did the Floor of Tests Administrator ask Baam
why he was climbing the Tower? If Administrators could really do that, to irregulars no less, they wouldn’t need to ask such questions.
Even though Arlene said she found a place without the Administrator, if Headon was spying on Baam and Rachel while they were in the cave, he would have known what kind of person she was. I will talk about the no Administrator and Headon being able to see what happens in the cave a bit later.
Murals SIU told us that the murals we see on the first floor
foreshadow the entire story of Tower of God. I want to focus on 1 specific mural, the one where
Arlene offers her dead child to the Outside God.
On this mural we can see a small human-like figure holding up a smaller human-like figure towards a massive bird in the sky. The murals are not literal, they are metaphorical. The massive bird in the clouds represents a greater being above - the Outside God.
What I am interested in is how this mural that is inside the Tower could possibly depict an event that supposedly takes place outside of the Tower?
It is true that we don’t know anything about the murals, by who and how they were created but a mural depicting an event that does not happen inside the Tower does not sit right with me.
Enryu Whether a good piece of evidence or not, as evidence, Enryu is quite interesting to me.
Enryu entered the Tower, caused havoc and killed an Administrator. Very impressive Enryu. But how could you possibly have done this? Something just doesn’t add up. Allow me to explain.
As I mentioned earlier, shinsu does not exist outside the Tower, yet we have a person who came in and was more skilled at using it than every other person we have ever seen. The power of the Thorn doesn't really matter here, we don’t even know whether he used it, it’s Enryu’s skill I am talking about. For someone who should have never seen and experienced shinsu before, he instantly knew how to control it and make thousands of bangs. You can’t just drop a newborn baby into the ocean and expect that baby to be the best swimmer there is. This is very suspicious.
It can’t simply be because of talent, what he did just does not seem possible. Not only was he making thousands of spears using shinsu, he must have also used shinsu to defend himself when he fought the Administrator. There are even rumours that Enryu can create life with shinsu.
There is simply no way we can attribute Enryu’s entire prowess to the Thorn. Although Baam does not have the complete Thorn, do you really think that once he does, he will have the same power Enryu had when he killed the Administrator? Of course not, that would make killing Jahad trivial.
So what does this all mean? I can think of 2 plausible explanations.
The Outside God created a replica of the Tower for Enryu, just a place with shinsu and that’s where he mastered shinsu.
Enryu was actually in the same place as Arlene. I am not saying he has always been there, no. He was sent to that place at some point and mastered the control of shinsu there with the help of the complete Thorn. This would of course mean that the place where Arlene was had shinsu and we know that shinsu only exists in the Tower.
Once Enryu mastered the Thorn and control over shinsu, he entered the Tower.
Yes, he entered the Tower from
inside the Tower. This is not unthinkable considering he opened the door to the 43rd floor directly which is completely different from all the other irregulars who entered on floor 1 (Phantaminum excluded because Axis).
Earlier I mentioned that Enryu killed the Administrator to cause enough havoc to hide the Thorn fragments and also mentioned other reasons. One of those reasons is that the Thorn is dead inside and Thryssas are what seem to awaken the Thorns. He needed to bring Thryssas into existence. Another reason could have to do with reviving Arlene’s child.
Remember how Headon calls Baam
the boy born on the night the Tower cried? Again, if we consider this statement and that Baam was born on the same night that Enryu killed the Administrator. Then it’s possible that what revived Arlene’s child is not the power of the Outside God but the power of the Administrator that was sacrificed, the Outside God just made it possible.
If the power of the Administrator was used to revive Arlene’s child, it would make sense that the child was not outside of the Tower, how would that power transfer then?
Another thing to consider about that statement from Headon is how he even knows this. If he knows that Baam was born on the night the Administrator died, then he must have seen what’s going on.
The Three Eyes Symbol There is the Three Eyes symbol that we consider to be Jahad’s symbol in the cave. Let me list a few possible explanations as to why the symbol is there.
The symbol does not actually belong to Jahad. It signifies something else and Jahad simply uses the symbol as his own. This symbol could very well be the symbol for fate since Jahad seems to be obsessed with talking about it.
Arlene put the symbol down there. She put it in her dead child’s cave to show that her child would one day come for Jahad or some other reason. I find this highly unlikely.
This place used to be a part of the Tower after the Great Warriors entered the Tower. Jahad’s influence reached this place and his symbol was put up. After Jahad became the King of the Tower, this place was separated from the Tower.
Possible locations of the Cave
With all of that said, if we consider that Arlene’s ‘outside’ is inside the Tower, let’s now talk about the possible locations of this place.
The biggest clue we’ve got is that
Arlene found a place without Jahad and the Administrator.
The Floor of Death No Administrator, hmm, this sounds like the Floor of Death right? Let me outright say that even though it’s theoretically possible, I do not believe the ‘outside’ is on the Floor of Death.
There are really only 2 things suggesting it could be the Floor of Death:
- When Baam jumped into the blood of the Administrator, he said he felt like he’s lived here before.
- Arlene said the place had no Administrator and Jahad.
The problem with the first is that only Baam is shown saying this or even reacting like that. Rachel is not shown having a similar experience and we know that Baam actually did live on this floor before he was killed. Rachel never shows any signs of disliking the Floor of Death and we know she absolutely despises the place she was at. If she sensed she was back in the same place, we would have seen some indication that Rachel is uncomfortable.
Even though Rachel learned about the Floor of Death, Enryu and more about the Thorns once she entered the Tower, not once has she ever mentioned any parts of the World Above being destroyed. It just doesn’t fit.
The second just doesn’t work timeline wise since Enryu came and killed the Administrator after Arlene supposedly ‘escaped’ the Tower. So unless the timeline is different than what we were presented with, the ‘outside’ is not on the Floor of Death.
Floors above 134 This can not be true since Jahad’s symbol is in the cave and there are books about Headon taking kids up the Tower. If the cave is inside the Tower, it has to be below floor 135.
Floor 1 Floor 1 is where I think the ‘outside’ actually is. Allow me to show you a way how that’s possible. You are now treading the headcanon territory again.
When the Great Warriors entered the Tower, floor 1 was just like the other floors, they conquered it. As the Great Warriors continued to climb the Tower, they encountered people like Luslec and Quadrado who would climb with them in the Great Journey - there were Tower natives climbing the Tower before Jahad became the King of the Tower. Therefore, it is possible that the first version of a regular system was created at some point during their climb. The Great Warriors would clear a floor, and when they did, Headon would start picking chosen regulars from that floor as well. Those regulars would then climb the Tower and stop if they reached the current highest cleared floor until the Great Warriors cleared another floor. The ranker system did not need to exist at the time, you would just have the natives and regulars. Once the Great Warriors reached the 134th floor, they ended the Great Journey and Jahad became the King of the Tower, he changed the system into what it currently is.
Strong people had to exist by the time the Great Warriors reached the 134th floor otherwise it does not really make sense how
Arlene and V formed FUG to oppose Jahad. If they were recruiting people who were only then starting to climb the Tower, then Jahad’s followers would have wiped those people out during their climb. It does not make sense for the likes of Luslec to have to climb the Tower from the very beginning if he was clearing the floors together with the Great Warriors and yet somehow he is a ranker. A version of the regular system must have existed at the time of the climb.
Jahad changed the system and created rankers. Everyone who had already climbed to the current top was made a ranker and did not have to climb the Tower from the very start. When this change was made and the ranker system was introduced, more people wanted to climb the Tower, the Age of Climbing began and Headon had a full time role.
Headon stopped acting as the Administrator of his floor and the starting point for regulars was moved to floor 2. When this happened, Headon excluded his part of the floor from the rest of the Tower. It became a separated place within the Tower, a place without Jahad and without the Administrator’s influence.
This is why there are no stars and Rachel describes the place as a world of darkness. Without an Administrator’s influence, there are no artificial stars in the sky. Remember when the Hell Train was approaching the Floor of Death?
All the lights were disappearing. This is because there is no Administrator’s influence.
Then there are the books about a fairy who brings kids up the Tower. They exist since this place used to be a part of the Tower.
Headon speaks the same language as Rachel and Baam because the place used to be his floor.
Headon knows what kind of person Rachel is because he can see the cave. Rachel even mentions that she had never seen a mountain as big as the one in the cave. She says there might be a
bigger world out there than they thought.
The Three Eyes symbol exists in the cave because this floor used to be under Jahad’s influence.
Let’s look back at the floor 1 that we’ve been presented with. It’s a small room which you can get to if you follow the paths between floors, this is how Yuri got there. Is this all there is to this floor thought? A small room and a few murals?
When Rachel refused to take Headon’s test,
Headon noticed that the guest had arrived. After the guest arrived, there was still enough time for Headon and Rachel to have an exchange and for Headon to move her into a hidden room to watch from, only then Baam was warped in. If the guest had arrived, then where was the guest before he warped into the mural room but after he arrived in the Tower? Could it be that you don’t actually enter the Tower into the mural room? Headon just moves you there after you’ve entered. This would mean that the first floor is more than just the mural room.
It’s even possible that the 1st floor that we’ve been shown is not actually the real floor 1 but a place that Headon created to greet irregulars.
Arlene wandered the Tower for a long time and eventually found the lost floor 1. She knew floor 1 was no longer in use, that regulars started from the 2nd floor and that this place was no longer a part of Jahad’s Empire. She did not know what kind of place it would be but she could feel there was no Administrator’s influence.
The last thing to mention is that because the ‘outside’ is actually inside the Tower, Arlene could re-enter the rest of the Tower the same way she left. More on this in chapter 3.
How can they be Irregulars?
If the cave really is inside the Tower, how can Rachel and Baam be irregulars?
As I explained in the Irregulars section, being irregular means that you entered the Tower with your own power or means that do not involve Headon helping you. There is no requirement of having to be from outside the Tower. We know different ways of entering the Tower exist because Enryu entered on the 43rd floor.
This is why the God of Guardians told Baam that he was
similar but different from the other irregulars.
Chapter 2 - FIN -
And here I end chapter 2. Like I said at the start, this chapter was more of a fun to have rather than need to have, and isn’t really necessary to what I want to show you in the remaining chapters.
The cave interests me as it’s one of the biggest secrets in the series and there is not much information about it which gives me a lot of room to fill in the blanks. Although some or all of the things I said might be wrong, unless explicitly shown otherwise in the Webtoon, I believe the cave is inside the Tower. After reading this chapter, what do you think?
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Luslec, the founder and leader of FUG is by far one of the most mysterious and intriguing characters in TOG. Very little is known about him except that he’s ranked #15 in the Tower and he uses a hook in battle.
One of the most interesting facets of his character is his last name as he shares it with Arlene and Bam. What could this mean? One option is that he was adopted into Arlene’s family, which isn’t unheard of in TOG... Jahad does it with the Princesses and the Lo Po Bia Family adopts many member. Officially, he is born on the 80th Floor.
Here comes some theory crafting with very little to go on. We know that he traveled up the Tower with Jahad and the Great Warriors, along with Quadrado and possibly Yeon Illarde. This is what I find most intriguing (and a bit of a tangent...just go with it for a bit. ) According to Illarde’s wiki she is an old family member of Yeon Hana. More interesting, under the Irregulars section of the TOG wiki, the number of Irregulars in the Tower is kept a secret. Just recently we learned that Ghost May be an Irregular.
By Hwa Ryun’s discussion regarding Luslec, the FH’s only find him a threat out of the organization and will act when if he stops being idle. Since Jahad and the FH’s eliminated Arlene and V’s existence from the Tower’s history, it wouldn’t be hard to believe that information regarding Luslec isn’t readily available and outright discourage. Since the FH’s find Luslec a threat, his ranking isn’t only because he is the head of the most dangerous crime syndicate, his position in the top 15 means he has the power to back it up.
So I believe Arlene is Luslec’s sister. He came in the Tower after the Great Warriors and Jahad entered the Tower but before Jahad became King. We know that Enryu was the 1st Irregular to enter the tower DURING Jahads rule, so he had to come before. We know he was a Warlord who served under V and the two can be considered to be very close friends. Why isn’t he related to V? Arlene was the only one said to have the last name Grace, even back when she was Regular climbing the tower long before she and V got engaged.
Speculation on what Luslec May look like. I believe that beginning of Season 2 Bam/Viole’s appearance was based on Luslec himself. I also believe that he was the one who gave Bam his name Jyu Viole Grace. He most likely heard it from Arlene and V when he was born, maybe he was even there when Arlene gave birth. So he may have those gold eyes seen in Bam and Arlene and long brown hair that Viole has.
When do I think he’ll appear? Possibly towards the end of The Nest Arc. This season seems to be delving into FUG at a considerable degree and the fact that Jinsung and Mirchea good friends, I wouldn’t count him out just yet. I think he’ll show up as the Gang are escaping the Nest and they run into a complication.... Maybe the Lo Po Bia FH shows up and he’s like “Nah, fam”. And when all hope is lost, the Great Heretic himself appears. This could change the tides of the war and will ramp everything up into serious mode... and a clash between LPB FH and Mirchea. Maybe He kills the FH(unlikely... and that’s assuming that Luslec is a secret Irregular). Imagine, an immortal Family Head slayed by FUG’s leader..... Insanity.
Of course this is just my head canon and what I came up with from the LIMITED information we have about this fascinating individual. What do you guys think?
(Sorry for rambling, there was just a lot I wanted to say for awhile now)
FUG.... Forgiven Under Grace????
FUG.... For Unforgettable Grace???? Only time will tell.