Maybe Enryu was a tower resident who was stationed or born on the tower's final floor (rather than the 134th), which explains his shinshoo mastery. Perhaps he learned from the original Ancient one, as well as the Plant and Machine gods. I'm just leaving it out there. Maybe he was the final boss of the tower, the final test given by the tower, but because Zahard closed the doors, his purpose remained unfulfilled, so the OG adopted him as God's messenger and granted him extra powers and the privilege of being an irregular who can come in and out of the tower whenever he wants. Just throwing this theory out there. Something that crossed my mind. They claim the admins above the 134th floor are hostile, and if he is the final boss stationed at the top, he may have been above the administrators from the start. Perhaps the tower made him that way. What are your thoughts
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What would make more sense in that scenario is if he was a former GW companion, tried to suicide by 135th admin, got trained instead by said admin as revenge against Zahard for sealing the floor, then sent to the Outside, and then back to the Tower with the Thorn.
This would check the boxes of why he has shinsu mastery, how he’s an Irregular, and why he hates Zahard and cared about Arlene.
It’s a little convoluted. But this is ToG.
It’s unclear if Enryu was only able to kill an admin because had the Thorn or if that’s something he’s innately able to do without it. Not trying to start this discussion here, but the purpose of Urek being shinsu-less in FoD was to show that Bam being able to use shinsu was not from being an Irregular but from having the Thorn.
So, the Thorn granting an independent domain against the will of the Tower’s enforcers is very reminiscent of the powers belonging to an Axis. A god-like entity.
Meaning Enryu being a divine messenger checks out from that alone. It doesn’t explain his emotional attachment to Arlene, though he could have very well could have just been no diffing all those HRs like it was his day job.
However, this is what would connect the dots on all of that…Ok so Enryu’s massacre seemed emotional right like it was primarily motivated by disgust. Disgust. Anger. Repulsion. Contempt for Zahard for acting like a God…..but why would an Irregular Divine Messenger even care about what some guy does in the Tower and why would he even care about what heartbreak some lady might face?
There is actually an answer, and we may have some hints for it in the story.
Think about it, what physically connects Zahard and Arlene?
Their three-red-eye symbol, that we now associate as Zahard’s, earrings they both wear. Good chance, that not only do Zahard and Arlene come from the same place, but they come from the same civilization. The same civilization, with the same cultural practices, worshipping the same god...
In the panel or two we’ve seen of Arlene’s silhouette, what does her attire seem to be? That of a priestess…
Zahard was born with the seed of a king. Who gave that seed to him? Is he possibly betraying the mission of the being that gave that seed to him?
So now, we have a priestess and a boy with the “seed of a king” from the same kingdom, the boy larps as a God-King and betrays and commits a grave injustice against the priestess in the process……
And then a divine messenger comes from the Outside, comes to warn of retribution against the false King (God), and punishes him for desecrating the Shrine of….a priestess? Or his priestess? Or more exactly the priestess of his god...which is same god that ruled over Zahard when he was a boy. So it’s not only retribution for Arlene, it’s divine justice against an apostate.
