Your wildest theories about AoS(part 2)

 imagine:

n episode 1, Joo wol refers to the major four famile's childern as the four seasons. And Jin Cho Yeon is refered to as spring and is shown in front of a blossoming tree with petals falling down. 

If you returned to the very first couple of days in the comment section, you would see a post by SominahJ - who happens to have a Twitter page dedicated to Jung So Min.  In the post, she put forth the theory that Mu-deok was the missing Jin sister because of the cherry trees.  I also posted something about it (different theory, same conclusion).  So, you are right - the clues were there from the beginning.

Kathryn_51  & Izyda 

Why is Naksu so knowledgeable?
Her father was a mage who works at the constellation and he had reached Chisu cos only those who have reached 3rd stage can open the constellation ceiling.
Her father was the best friend of Jang Gang.
He probably worked at the palace and he was very knowledgeable.
Naksu was with her dad wherever he went.
Jin Mu probably taught her everything she needed to know and she might ask lots of questions and he might have answered them without realizing it. But she didn't ask anything about him cos he was the only one who took her in and she trusted in him.
So, she got all her knowledge from her father, Jang Gang and Jin Mu.
These are just a prediction so I could be wrong too. Believe what you want.


@DaisiesOh
Her Post Title: Alchemy of Souls: How Soul Swapping Works
Okay. I don't like how she says that people who don't believe her theories are blahblahbalh....
After reading that post, I thought again and got 7 points so far about why there are two souls instead of two personas, one soul.
I am not here to fight. I am going to stick with two souls and one body for now.
Believe what you want and pls don't stop writing theories cos you (everyone) might be able to convince me & others one day or not. Theories are interesting so don't be afraid to keep writing.
I am sure you aren't afraid to write cos you know...

 Kathryn_51:

Perhaps my point wasn't very clear but my theory is that because she gets energy FROM the sword

yup. She kept mentioning she will get energy from her sword cos her energy is blocked rn. That's what I think but you could be right too.

 Kathryn_51:

As for the constellation ceiling, I believe that was Jin Bu-yeon's power - a divine (from the skies) power that is truly amazing.

It could be anyone cos Naksu had reached Chisu long before and JBY's divine power can.

Mirror event and constellation event has the same pattern. JBY opened the energy for Naksu and Naksu used the energy. Then, she went blind for a moment. JBY probably did more than that but it doesn't matter to me as long as MD is safe. :D

But it would be good to know who did this and who did that.

Myself, I'm still on the two-soul theory (though obviously no one can be sure...)

As I think jxxvvxxkstan suggested, the appearance of Naksu as (unblindfolded) Mu Deok  in the dream world could be explained by souls taking on the appearance of their current body (so Naksu appeared as Naksu when she soul-shifted  and Mu Deok when she dreamed; I guess Bu-Yeon still remembers her blindfolded state).

For a much wilder theory (please bear with me), perhaps it is Bu Yeon, not Naksu, who's trapped in Mu Deok's body. It's Bu Yeon who acts as if she is trapped, only able to emerge in times of extreme stress. This would require Naksu to possess Jin-type priestess powers (which IIRC are sufficient to trap even the most powerful mage).

There's no doubt Naksu was very powerful, and maybe there are things still unknown about her origin. (I doubt she learned all her knowledge about magic from her father or Jang Kang as a young child, and I doubt that Jin Mu would be so forthcoming. Also how did she excel in isolation without some intrinsic magical abilities, like Jang Uk or Bu yeon?) So perhaps Naksu was capable of trapping Bu Yeong and somehow (unintentionally) selected Bu Yeon, rather than the other way round.

On some other forum, I saw a poster observe that just before Master Lee was about to kill Mu Deok in the hut, he stopped and said something like "a powerful soul has shifted into this body."  If we take this comment literally, that soul wasn't Bu Yeon because we now know that  she's in her original body (unless it referred to Bu Yeon soul-shifting at birth). So that powerful soul would have to be Naksu.

(Ok, maybe I'm giving the Hong sisters way to much credit here! I suspect a deluge of plot inconsistencies may be pointed out once the series completes. )

Here are a few more points on why I stick to 2 souls+one body (MD).

8. Bu-Yeon was still a baby when Naksu’s dad was killed (20 years ago). JBY got lost in the river after 10 years. They both don’t have blue marks*.

9. The soul is the one that carries energy/divine power. That’s why the old man did AoS and still got his energy fine. Master Lee still got his energy even after going into the dead little boy. If JBY did AoS on anyone, they would go blind automatically cos of her divine power.

10. This is kind of cheating cos this will be based on a rumour of part 2. Naksu’s soul will return to her original body. JBY will be left with MD.

@nosnoop said, “The Korean title 환혼 (Hwanhon) literally means Return of the Soul; but it should mean more like Resurrection in this context. But if you just put it in Google Translate, it would give different translation as it can mean different things in different context.”

“Resurrection?” – Resurrect Naksu’s body?

 Ahead:

Could you please explain by isolation? I haven't seen Naksu uses any isolation spell.

Yeah. I have a hard time thinking about whose energy it is. It could be JBY's divine aura or it could be a strong mage aura which is Naksu's. I am still not sure. ??

No, no! I just meant that Naksu was totally isolated in Danhyanggok when she developed her skills, and how could she have reached the level  that she did without some kind of inborn ability? Say from her father, or perhaps her mother about whom I don't think we know anything. (She could be from the Jin family?) I wasn't suggesting that Naksu's skills involved any isolation spells.

I do think the default position is that Mu Deok's blue aura is from Bu Yeon (hard to see Naksu as someone whose "soul has no malice") even though Master Lee's comment that "a great soul has shifted into this body (18:00 Ep 5) seems to cut against this.

 Thecla:

I do think the default position is that Mu Deok's blue aura is from Bu Yeon (hard to see Naksu as someone whose "soul has no malice") even though Master Lee's comment that "a great soul has shifted into this body (18:00 Ep 5) seems to cut against this.

 Ahead:

Master Lee's comment that "a great soul has shifted into this body (18:00 Ep 5) seems to cut against this.
Yeah. It makes sense. It is more likely to be Naksu's.

Thecia and Ahead,

I analyze this based on everything that Master Lee says.  In fact, it is his words that are the best argument  to the theory that Naksu=JBY.  He only sees one soul.  That's not the final word (there may be a good reason why he doesn't see two souls) but to me it's the strongest argument for that theory.

He sees a "great soul".  But other than the scene on the cabin porch, he hasn't seen JBY/Naksu's powers manifest.  He's trying to figure out who she really is and why, if she was Naksu the Assassin, she has no power.  He also has no idea that Mama Jin has a missing daughter who had divine powers.  He wanted the poem housed at Jinyowon - I think he suspects that there is a connection between "Mu-deok/Naksu" and the Jin family (as I mentioned earlier, perhaps Cho Yeong's mother was a Jin).  

I just want to see Jin Bu-yeon (hopefully portrayed by Jung So- hope min) as a stand-alone, cognizant woman blasting her divine powers out at the bad guys.  So-min said that she had a week of pretty physical filming - I hope it wasn't just some of the scenes (in the water, in the "soul realm"  early boat jumping) we have already seen.