Possible. While Monsters depict the Dragon as a Western Dragon, it also depicts the country as a western country and not Wano so it has to be partially retconned.
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Okay, I am now going to tell you what the Void Century Century is. It is not as potentially spoilery as the rest as you won't be able to draw a conclusion.... Because it is based on an actual Void Century (or Dark age as historians call it)
Now how did I get there, well I once read a theory from a Muslim redditor who claimed the Void Century is based on the end of the Islamic Golden age, which many scholars date at the Siege of Baghdad. After the Siege, the great Library of Baghdad was destroyed, its knowledge lost for eternity. Mesopotamia is also known as the cradle of civilization, and if you google "Saturn Satan", you stumble upon black cubes that look somewhat similar to the Kaba in Mekka and also somewhat similar to phoneglyhs. I don't know what these cubes are as it is a conspiracy theory which is a big no for me. At this point my research stopped for a while, until I came to a shocking realization using the philosophy of the Ourouboros snake...
Civilization did not just collapse once in Mesopotamia, but twice! In the 1200 ADs...
And in the 1200 BCs! The Bronze Age Collapse!
Now starting in 1200 BC all the high cultures of the Mediterranean Bronze Age collapsed: Mycene, Hatti, Egypt, and Mesopotamia!
And the cause of it... Well it is lost.
But it is believed to have something to do with Pirates! The mysterious Sea People! No one knows who they were or where they came from, with some people even speculating they came from Atlantis (which is bs but still interesting). After the Bronce Age collapse, writing was largely lost until the Phoenicians reinvented it. Both Egyptians and Mesopotamians are known to have written via masonry... Just like our Ancient Kingdom!
And this led me to the next part, because the 1200s BCs are the years of Ramses II., whose wife is called Nefertari and who is believed by some to be the pharaoh during the biblical Exodus, where Moses took the Israeli slaves to Canaan, and on his way he split the Red Sea!
And now to the last part, I also googled 20 Kings, and it led me to the 20 Kings of Judah. I wasn't satisfied though and looked further, and found out that Israel, when it seceded from Judah had 19 Kings. And here is the thing: The first King of Israel, Jerobeam, is possibly not the actual first King. He achieved the throne via the help of Egypt, and it is believed by many that the actual first King was the Pharaoh of Egypt, with Jerobeam as his proxy.
19+Egypt=20
Now please note that these Kings form a line of succession and didn't all exist at the same time, still it seems fitting.
Now you might say "I have never heard of the Bronze Age collapse, so how could Oda, a Japanese man have?" Well we already know that Oda is familiar with Ancient Egypt (Alabasta) and ancient Mesopotamia (Enel), and the Japanese Wikipedia article of the Bronze Age collapse is awarded, which means the theme has quite the reception over there.
End of a Civilization, lost History, lost writing, Pirates, Slaves, a split Sea (colors match)... I think this is the source. Now you might realize that I have covered Islam and Judaism, two of the three Abrahamic monotheist religions. What I left out is Christianity, and I have some sources from Christian history as well that I am going to tell you later... Again I don't really want this to spread too much so splitting it up might be a better idea.
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Totally unrelated to this but also worth mentioning: I found Imu again, he has an article on Japanese Wikipedia. It is a cultural mental illness of the Ainu people that is exclusive to females and causes them to imitate others or do the exact opposite of them, and it is caused.... by the sight of a snake!
Last but not least I found secret... satanic... meanings in the name of Nami. If you thought it just means wave, you didn't dig deep enough. But I won't tell you until someone solves the first riddle
There is a hint in this post, I googled something super weird, and if you find out why, you can solve the riddle.
If you don't solve until this evening I drop another hint
Something was off about Pedro's death. In reality he's alive, and he survived because he's a Logia.
The guy tried to blow himself up a few times, and he seems almost incompetent, trying to commit suicide in order to avoid any inconvenience. But if he was a Logia, then blowing himself up is actually a good strategy, and something he would even have experience with.
He got the nickname "Treetop" because he can't stay on the ground, since Zanisha keep flooding Zou. He was handcuffed when he was tortured by Jack and when he was scolded by Perosperos 5 years ago. Was it a seastone handcuff?
It was never explained how Pedro could control Pekoms in his Sulong form. He does so similarly to how Caribou can keep a hold of people with his mud.
While Oven forced him to drop his sword by overheating it, this doesn't mean he can't survive an explosion. His hands must stay tangible in order for him to keep hold his sword. Besides Oven is a confirmed Haki user.
This cover is foreshadowing of Pedro return in Wano arc:
There was a group of people who originally opposed Im sama and his ideology and fought him until they died managing to hurt him/force him to leave the public sphere and operate from the shadows.
Their will is passed on to random individuals each generation until Im sama's threat is completely eradicated and are currently composed of the individuals on Im sama's wanted list
Sabo has been captured and is being brainwashed and his body modified to become the ultimate PX model with top tier haki, top tier strenght, a logia devil fruit and the most deadly new science weapons Vegapunk is working on currently.
I've found the map to One Piece, Oda might have really said too much when he said Stampede contains a hint...
Think about it, how do you call a Laugh Tale...?
I've found the map to One Piece, Oda might have really said too much when he said Stampede contains a hint...
Think about it, how do you call a Laugh Tale...?
Cut the stand up and then you got it. It leads to a very famous story (one of the most famous of all), one where we already can confirm that Oda knows it since he has already used it as a reference before.
Can't really say more here. This is 99% sure a spoiler since Oda said the movie contains a hint, and what I found out is a guaranteed inspiration behind how the world of One Piece is shaped, it definitely already is part of this story, both the overall story, and, unrelated to this, also behind a very specific arc.
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Okay, so another possible reference behind Imu is Imhotep. Imhotep is a legendary scholar from Egypt, who is credited as the builder of many great pyramids as well as the creator of writing (though this is wrong). He is also one of the view non-pharaos to achieve a deified status, and is linked to the Greek figure Asklepios, so there is the connection to the snake as well as a possible tie-in to the eternal youth surgery.
It's because these too are included. We know for sure that Oda is familiar with that stuff because he is a friend of Hiroyuki Takei and both worked together on Kenshin as assistants before they created their own series. Takei's Shaman King is already full of esoterics, but the canceled sequel, Flowers has a main antagonist shaped like an Illuminati triangle with legs so there is that.
Pedro is the traitor. Luffy couldn't feel his presence at Zou and we dont know what he did after BigMom almost killed him the first time. We still need to see his Sulong form.
Hey so I digged a lot deeper into my Imu is Luffy theory, and found dozens of hints. Most of the stuff requires proper setup, but yesterday, thanks to the new Buster Call project, I found a hint that is very visual.
As you might know, the Katakana for Imu (イム) look like the Kanji for Buddha (仏).
I will eventually compile all the stuff that I found, but it has gotten really confusing, basically I am doing this for 2 months now and already forgot some parts of what I initially found
Oh boy I really should have read more.
Basically this story is Chaoskampf for Luffy, the CDs and the Red Line is the Snake/Dragon Luffy has to slay.
However, it is also Chaoskampf for Imu. After all the leader of the Revolutionary army is Dragon after all, and their flag is a Dragon's head.
I wrote about Baal Hadad, the son of Dagon and Phoenician (Canaanite) counterpart of Zeus. He fights Yam, the water dragon, which is written as im, but i in this case is a consonant and you have to guess the vowels, ancient phoenician script works like Hebrew (actually it is the other way round).
Baal Hadad appears with the Thunderbolt and Bull, same as Luffy in the Corrida Colliseum, he is violent and gluttonous, and he is also equated with a devilish figure, basically because there was conflict between Jews and Canaanites, and also because his Carthaginian counterpart Baal Hammon received child sacrifices.
As you might know, I have also written that the D. is likely related to Dingir, the Sumerian sign for a god, written as an initial D.
Now guess what the Sumerogramm associated with Hadad is....
After stealing Kaido's dragon fruit by eating his heart, Blackbeard probably will at some point or another, maybe after One Piece is found by him or Luffy, go attack Mariejois with his Earthquake fruit. Normally he would never get close due to the WG fleet, and most likely no Yonkou in history has ever been able to. However, after Kaido's dead, and BB possibly has some other superweapon like Pluton on top of that along with taking over more territories, he'll definitely want to just blow Mariejois into the sea and kill everyone who hasn't evacuated by the time he arrives, whether it's World Nobles, innocent civvies, or whoever else. Either Mariejois or Reverse Mountain. By doing that he'd make a big hole in the red line, connect the four seas. That'd put him in position to quickly attempt world domination with his fleet and use the massive advantage offered by owning control of the choke point so that only his fleet can go from sea to sea and nobody else can.
I know some people might doubt that the Quake Quake fruit can really make an opening in the Red Line, but if it can't, what can? That fruit can sink islands and cause extreme destruction. Most likely,the situation is that only the Reverse Mountain or Mariejois itself are the 'weak points' in the Red Line which can actually be blown through by this fruit, or else Whitebeard would obviously have made openings in the Red Line eons ago, since the Marines couldn't possibly hope to surveil the entirety of that continent and protect it from Whitebeard's potential attacks.
If even the Quake Quake fruit can't do that, though, then it is probably One Piece itself which can. Either One Piece or Pluton, since it's supposedly capable of destroying islands. I think it is highly likely that Blackbeard will break the Red Line in at least one of those two places, even if Luffy or other protagonists manage to stop him from getting there too soon/warn people of his approach so that he doesn't totally massacre everyone in Mariejois or something. This last part is mostly vague speculation but this plot point may have something to do with Luffy destroying Fishman Island. Maybe Blackbeard and Luffy both obtain the power of "One Piece". Blackbeard heads off to blow a path through Reverse Mountain with it while Luffy heads back to Mariejois. Mariejois is evacuated by the time Luffy gets there as well as Fishman Island, or Luffy outright conquers Mariejois with his fleet and gets the civilians out of there for what he's about to do next. Then he uses One Piece to blow through the Red Line at the Mariejois weak point. This obviously collapses rocks and rubble down onto Fishman Island and destroys it.
That fulfills the prophecy without Luffy being a mass murderer: he would have zero choice but to destroy Fishman Island if he wants to break an opening through there and connect the four seas on the other end of the world than the one that Blackbeard now controls. That would do a whole lot for gathering his allies from the seas. Let's just assume Blackbeard is far too powerful at this point in the story for Luffy to try to confront him head on after he breaks Reverse Mountain and takes control of the choke point/begins his world conquest from that side of the planet. With 3 DFS and a giant army and possibly also Pluton it would be no big surprise that Luffy has to turn around and head back to Mariejois if he wants to gather a world scale fleet capable of stopping Blackbeard.
The alternative is that Luffy gets One Piece first and breaks Mariejois/crushes Fishman Island, getting a head start and forcing Blackbeard to do the same with Reverse Mountain, but I get the feeling it'll be the other way around. For now this is the most logical reason I can think of for why Luffy will destroy Fishman Island. Blowing up a city, even one without any civilians in it has no real purpose, but collapsing rubble onto it because there is no other choice for him to open the four seas makes 1000x more sense. At that point Dragon will definitely be allied with Luffy along with all remaining Yonkou Crews beside Blackbeard's and there's going to be a World War Arc of ridiculous proportions.
Ultimately Blackbeard will go for one of two things. One, he goes for Mariejois, in which case he actually gets driven off by Luffy or the WG before proceeding to Reverse Mountain where he is going to do the same thing. The WG is left no choice but to abandon Reverse Mountain since they need all their manpower together to fend off Blackbeard. Meanwhile Luffy forces them to also leave behind Mariejois and he is the one who destroys that portion of the Red Line.
Two, BB goes for Reverse Mountain straight away and Luffy is the only one to attack Mariejois. Either way though, the end result will probably be BB breaking Reverse Mountain and Luffy breaking Mariejois/Fishman Island(but obviously not massacring anyone in the process).
After stealing Kaido's dragon fruit by eating his heart, Blackbeard probably will at some point or another, maybe after One Piece is found by him or Luffy, go attack Mariejois with his Earthquake fruit. Normally he would never get close due to the WG fleet, and most likely no Yonkou in history has ever been able to. However, after Kaido's dead, and BB possibly has some other superweapon like Pluton on top of that along with taking over more territories, he'll definitely want to just blow Mariejois into the sea and kill everyone who hasn't evacuated by the time he arrives, whether it's World Nobles, innocent civvies, or whoever else. Either Mariejois or Reverse Mountain. By doing that he'd make a big hole in the red line, connect the four seas. That'd put him in position to quickly attempt world domination with his fleet and use the massive advantage offered by owning control of the choke point so that only his fleet can go from sea to sea and nobody else can.
I know some people might doubt that the Quake Quake fruit can really make an opening in the Red Line, but if it can't, what can? That fruit can sink islands and cause extreme destruction. Most likely,the situation is that only the Reverse Mountain or Mariejois itself are the 'weak points' in the Red Line which can actually be blown through by this fruit, or else Whitebeard would obviously have made openings in the Red Line eons ago, since the Marines couldn't possibly hope to surveil the entirety of that continent and protect it from Whitebeard's potential attacks.
If even the Quake Quake fruit can't do that, though, then it is probably One Piece itself which can. Either One Piece or Pluton, since it's supposedly capable of destroying islands. I think it is highly likely that Blackbeard will break the Red Line in at least one of those two places, even if Luffy or other protagonists manage to stop him from getting there too soon/warn people of his approach so that he doesn't totally massacre everyone in Mariejois or something. This last part is mostly vague speculation but this plot point may have something to do with Luffy destroying Fishman Island. Maybe Blackbeard and Luffy both obtain the power of "One Piece". Blackbeard heads off to blow a path through Reverse Mountain with it while Luffy heads back to Mariejois. Mariejois is evacuated by the time Luffy gets there as well as Fishman Island, or Luffy outright conquers Mariejois with his fleet and gets the civilians out of there for what he's about to do next. Then he uses One Piece to blow through the Red Line at the Mariejois weak point. This obviously collapses rocks and rubble down onto Fishman Island and destroys it.
That fulfills the prophecy without Luffy being a mass murderer: he would have zero choice but to destroy Fishman Island if he wants to break an opening through there and connect the four seas on the other end of the world than the one that Blackbeard now controls. That would do a whole lot for gathering his allies from the seas. Let's just assume Blackbeard is far too powerful at this point in the story for Luffy to try to confront him head on after he breaks Reverse Mountain and takes control of the choke point/begins his world conquest from that side of the planet. With 3 DFS and a giant army and possibly also Pluton it would be no big surprise that Luffy has to turn around and head back to Mariejois if he wants to gather a world scale fleet capable of stopping Blackbeard.
The alternative is that Luffy gets One Piece first and breaks Mariejois/crushes Fishman Island, getting a head start and forcing Blackbeard to do the same with Reverse Mountain, but I get the feeling it'll be the other way around. For now this is the most logical reason I can think of for why Luffy will destroy Fishman Island. Blowing up a city, even one without any civilians in it has no real purpose, but collapsing rubble onto it because there is no other choice for him to open the four seas makes 1000x more sense. At that point Dragon will definitely be allied with Luffy along with all remaining Yonkou Crews beside Blackbeard's and there's going to be a World War Arc of ridiculous proportions.
Ultimately Blackbeard will go for one of two things. One, he goes for Mariejois, in which case he actually gets driven off by Luffy or the WG before proceeding to Reverse Mountain where he is going to do the same thing. The WG is left no choice but to abandon Reverse Mountain since they need all their manpower together to fend off Blackbeard. Meanwhile Luffy forces them to also leave behind Mariejois and he is the one who destroys that portion of the Red Line.
Two, BB goes for Reverse Mountain straight away and Luffy is the only one to attack Mariejois. Either way though, the end result will probably be BB breaking Reverse Mountain and Luffy breaking Mariejois/Fishman Island(but obviously not massacring anyone in the process).
Have you been paying attention to the story at all.
Luffy inherited Roger's will who's will is in fact Joyboy's will. Joyboy was the king of the Ancient Kingdom destroyed by WG.
The Noah ship was created for the sole purpose of transporting the inhabitants of fishmen island using the seaking's help under the commamd of Poseidon AKA Shirahoshi.
So fishmem island being destroyed by Luffy has a purpose.
