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I've seen a few theories floating around that the Master of Masters is the traitor of the Foretellers. Set everything up to ensure failure and the apocalypse that he foresaw. I can understand why some may come to that conclusion, because his actions suggest that he rigged everything for failure:
-He gives the leadership role to Ira, someone who thinks a lot but rarely acts;
- Aced is denied the leadership role that he obviously desired, but the Master suggests that Aced could take over the role if Ira proved to be an ineffective leader, stoking his ego;
-and Gula is given the task to find a traitor, which will inevitably lead to accusations and drama, as we witnessed in Back Cover. He also tells Gula to trust no one, encouraging suspicion and accusations that would make any tense situation worse.
These roles either came into conflict with his students' personalities, or were sure to cause friction. So, was the Master's goal to pit his students against one another to start the apocalypse on purpose?
I'm not so sure.
The Master makes this very clear at the beginning: he believes that the end of the world is inevitable, and he’s not interested in trying to stop it:
If there’s one thing that Greek mythology has taught me, it’s that prophesized future is inevitable. More often than not, someone’s efforts to avert their fate end up contributing to a self-fulfilling prophecy. The world’s end would’ve happened no matter what anyone did, so why would the Master go through the trouble of rigging the game if failure was already assured by fate anyways?
What’s more, whereas most of his students seem to have been set up for failure, Ava’s role to organize the Dandelions actually seems to be set up to succeed. BC’s character log states that due to her age, Ava is often thought of as a friend amongst the Keykids. She’s a friendly, approachable figure compared to the other Foretellers, a personality perfect for convincing wielders from all Unions to join her Dandelions. She’s also one of the most loyal to the Master’s teachings, and one of the least likely to muck up his orders. And these Dandelions ended up being the children who ended up saving the worlds and preserved them as the KH-verse as we know it today.
So, why would the Master of Masters actively work to end the world, which was already ending anyways, while also taking care to ensure the worlds’ survival?
Perhaps the Master was impatient and wanted to speed things up. Or maybe had somehow created a situation where the world had to end a very specific way. But rather than spout baseless speculation or possibilities, I’d rather focus on this:
Here’s the theory.
The Master was NEVER interested in stopping the inevitable. He was always focused on the future. Possibly even preserving the future. And in order to do that, the Master conceptualizes the Dandelions, wielders with powerful hearts unconquerable by the darkness. And because there are so many worlds (the ones that ended up being saved were as numerous as the stars… hell, they ARE the stars), he’s gonna need a lot of Dandelions.
To this end, he had his students organize their Unions, groups of hundreds of thousands of wielders, bringing together as many potential Dandelion candidates as possible, and the Books of Prophecy provided holographic worlds to give them a variety of experiences without actually having to leave Daybreak Town. Missions, Lux collection, and even the inevitable clashes between the Union leaders were meant to encourage competition; wielders would push themselves to become more powerful, at first for fun, and as the situation grew more dire, out of necessity.
Essentially, the Master of Masters, through his students, made Daybreak Town a crucible for producing as many Dandelions as possible, and Ava, loyal to the Master’s teachings and actually decently equipped for the job, successfully recruited enough that the myriad of small worlds that make up the KH-verse today were saved.
Do I think that preserving the worlds was the Master’s end goal? Hardly. He’s definitely up to something with that huge box and No Name and Luxu. Trying to figure that out is just Wild Mass Guessing at this point, but whatever it is, it seems like the Master needed as many worlds as possible worlds to in some form beyond that fated day of prevailing darkness.
I've seen a few theories floating around that the Master of Masters is the traitor of the Foretellers. Set everything up to ensure failure and the apocalypse that he foresaw. I can understand why some may come to that conclusion, because his actions suggest that he rigged everything for failure:
-He gives the leadership role to Ira, someone who thinks a lot but rarely acts;
- Aced is denied the leadership role that he obviously desired, but the Master suggests that Aced could take over the role if Ira proved to be an ineffective leader, stoking his ego;
-and Gula is given the task to find a traitor, which will inevitably lead to accusations and drama, as we witnessed in Back Cover. He also tells Gula to trust no one, encouraging suspicion and accusations that would make any tense situation worse.
These roles either came into conflict with his students' personalities, or were sure to cause friction. So, was the Master's goal to pit his students against one another to start the apocalypse on purpose?
I'm not so sure.
The Master makes this very clear at the beginning: he believes that the end of the world is inevitable, and he’s not interested in trying to stop it:
Master of Masters said:You really think you can change the future? You have to focus on what comes after. There’s no use in thinking about how to change events we know are gonna happen.
If there’s one thing that Greek mythology has taught me, it’s that prophesized future is inevitable. More often than not, someone’s efforts to avert their fate end up contributing to a self-fulfilling prophecy. The world’s end would’ve happened no matter what anyone did, so why would the Master go through the trouble of rigging the game if failure was already assured by fate anyways?
What’s more, whereas most of his students seem to have been set up for failure, Ava’s role to organize the Dandelions actually seems to be set up to succeed. BC’s character log states that due to her age, Ava is often thought of as a friend amongst the Keykids. She’s a friendly, approachable figure compared to the other Foretellers, a personality perfect for convincing wielders from all Unions to join her Dandelions. She’s also one of the most loyal to the Master’s teachings, and one of the least likely to muck up his orders. And these Dandelions ended up being the children who ended up saving the worlds and preserved them as the KH-verse as we know it today.
So, why would the Master of Masters actively work to end the world, which was already ending anyways, while also taking care to ensure the worlds’ survival?
Perhaps the Master was impatient and wanted to speed things up. Or maybe had somehow created a situation where the world had to end a very specific way. But rather than spout baseless speculation or possibilities, I’d rather focus on this:
You have to focus on what comes after.
Here’s the theory.
The Master was NEVER interested in stopping the inevitable. He was always focused on the future. Possibly even preserving the future. And in order to do that, the Master conceptualizes the Dandelions, wielders with powerful hearts unconquerable by the darkness. And because there are so many worlds (the ones that ended up being saved were as numerous as the stars… hell, they ARE the stars), he’s gonna need a lot of Dandelions.
To this end, he had his students organize their Unions, groups of hundreds of thousands of wielders, bringing together as many potential Dandelion candidates as possible, and the Books of Prophecy provided holographic worlds to give them a variety of experiences without actually having to leave Daybreak Town. Missions, Lux collection, and even the inevitable clashes between the Union leaders were meant to encourage competition; wielders would push themselves to become more powerful, at first for fun, and as the situation grew more dire, out of necessity.
Essentially, the Master of Masters, through his students, made Daybreak Town a crucible for producing as many Dandelions as possible, and Ava, loyal to the Master’s teachings and actually decently equipped for the job, successfully recruited enough that the myriad of small worlds that make up the KH-verse today were saved.
Do I think that preserving the worlds was the Master’s end goal? Hardly. He’s definitely up to something with that huge box and No Name and Luxu. Trying to figure that out is just Wild Mass Guessing at this point, but whatever it is, it seems like the Master needed as many worlds as possible worlds to in some form beyond that fated day of prevailing darkness.