Your wildest theories about AoS(part 2)

wanderee

Wow! That's an excellent theory. I enjoyed reading yours. I will read the original link later.

But Cho Chung's daughter becomes pretty useless by that theory.

Why does Cho Chung's daughter's soul look like Mu Deok (Bu-yeon) then?

Cho Chung's daughter had saved Naksu/Bu-yeon and Uk many times.

Your theory suddenly seems like Jin Bu-yeon is the FL after all. It looks like a different story. Still, it's possible in this story.

 wanderee:

Unlike everyone, OP believes that Mudeok had also went back to her original body (GYJ) and died.

What does OP stand for? 😅

Edited:

No idea why Windows Key+. = emoji showed "?" instead.

Jin Bu-yeon's soul >>> Naksu' body

Naksu's soul >>> Jin Bu-yeon's body (Mudeok)

Then,

JBY >>> Mudeok (Back to her own body with real Naksu.)

That's how I understand. Am I right?

 Kathryn_51:

Wanderee, please provide full credit to that blogger - her name, link to the blog and her twitter feed.

i have already mentioned this person in other posts over the last weeks, as well as the last post where i mention the theories wanderee wrote about. i linked their blog, but i'll do it again since it seems to have been missed by many.

twitter : DaisiesOh 
tumblr : Mind Melt on a Bun

i really recommend reading their theories ! they all have lots of research and relate AoS to actual historical, cultural and scientific facts, which makes them very complete.

hahaha ! well, if you're on the subway, riding the bus or just like me, waiting for next saturday to come, it should be fun to read :) can seem like long posts at first, but if you read 1 recap a day (from ep 1 to ep 12) it should be fine !!

Some new thoughts:

The Ice Stone can make tornado like wind 🌪️. Both Choi mage from the past and Bu-Yeon made it using the Ice Stone. So it can make all elements and can affect souls.
What's more interesting, when Choi mage summoned the tornado it showed him silouettes of the people - a man (Songrim founder?) and a blindfolded woman (Jin founder from the ritual?).
Maybe it can show the future? Maybe Bu-Yeon also saw something in it and that's why she was smiling? Like, that she will get soul shifted with Naksu?

Also, I still think the Ice Stone is divine in origin. Like water dragon divine. Maybe it has a whole water dragon inside, or part of it, or it is its egg. That water dragon in episode 1 wasn't shown just because. 

 I dunno if you play video games, but there was this rather old one called Jade Empire.
The plot there had some similarities. There was a big drought (a cyclical natural occurence involving water dragon's life span), which the villainous emperor solved by slaying the water dragon. Her blood/water started perpetually pouring from her giant body hidden in the royal palace, which ended the drought. But with a caveat, the water dragon not only supervised the distribution of water supplies and rainfall to the mortal world, but also shepherded the souls of the dead along the Great Wheel – the cycle of life, death and rebirth. And since she died, restless ghosts started roaming the land.

More about water dragon there, everything probably based on Chinese myths and folklore about water dragons:
https://jadeempire.fandom.com/wiki/Water_Dragon 

 wanderee:

Naksu is Jin Buyeon.

I found it unbelievable initially, but as I read the evidences, it could be totally possible. (The recent episodes have been emphasizing the connection of JBY and Jang Uk. It made me question the position of Naksu in the story, This theory might be the resolution for that.)

 wanderee:

Mudeok is the constellation mage's daughter. Jinmu took her in, after her soul shifter father was killed, with the intention of swapping her soul with JBY later on.

 wanderee:

He transformed JBY to Naksu as a revenge to Jin Family and also to use her for their grand plans. 

I was actually thinking this theory in the first few episodes that was released, but then my mind got confused at the announcement that Jung So Min will not be the main lead in the part 2. Made me doubt a lot of things andnot rush to conclusions.

Thecla 

Yeah. Souls are formless just like water & air right? :D

So, they will shape into any form they go into.

Ahead 
Thank you for taking the time and answering my questions.

About my comment about the men behind them being more Uncle Jin Mu's henchmen, I was referring to the people behind uncle Jin Mu and Bu Yeon while they were on the raft and trying to get Bu Yeon to work the Ice Stone. I don't see Daddy Jin, or mommy Jin for that matter,  on that raft

Thank you for picking up that conversation by Eunuch and Queen/Shaman. With this logic,  there is a possibility that the actual Daddy Jin was killed while searching for Jin Bu Yeon and Shaman's bro took over the body so he can infiltrate Jinyowon. But if this is the case, how did he remain alive and not petrified? Is this the reason why he is always out to look for Jin Bu Yeon and rarely at home? Because he was out feeding on energies?

Your pertinent follow-up questions about Daddy Cho are also intriguing:

• Why is he killing instead of absorbing energy from everyone? 
• Whose soul is inside Daddy Cho? Why was he trying to kill all of Cho's family?
• Naksu was hidden from him so she got free from daddy Chou and the 4 strongest mage
  
  

I guess we got 8 more episodes to find out about these daddy issues and also not forget the biggest daddy issue in the house, how will Daddy Jang Kang act and react now that he knows his son's energy is not contained?

I am envisioning an epic battle in ep 19 or early ep 20 similar to the opening of ep 1 except this time it's led by Jang Uk and Mu Deok/Jin Bu Yeon/Naksu supported by Daddy Jang Kang, Master Lee (Seo Gyeong? - someone here theorizes this and m on board simply because of the love letter. Why would it be taught to his pupil and propagated as a mage training manual of sorts)  Park Jin and Mommy Jin against Jin Mu and Queen/Shaman and Daddy Jin.

As Hong sisters go, someone (or more) has to die. It is a repeat carnage from 200 years ago. Hate the fact that Jang Uk keeps repeating the lines "if I die, you die too!" to Mu Deok/Naksu, it's such a foretelling of a tragic/bitter ending.  

Thecla 
You mentioned how you are bothered that Naksu's soul appears as Mu Deok when it is in the soul realm. It suddenly made me recall how this premise was used in Abyss (the Park Bo Young and Anh Hyo Seop drama of reliving your second life as how your soul appears, she became shorter and cute (instead of tall and pretty) and he became tall and handsome (instead of average and nerdy)). In there it explains that your soul takes on your "true" form.

Perhaps the reason Naksu's soul appears as Mu Deok/Bu Yeon is that she herself has or contains an ice stone similar to Mu Deok and that they are actually one Ice Stone. If this is the case then this may explain:

• Why Naksu's soul was swapped into Mu Deok/Naksu and not that "strong lady" in the tavern in the first episode, Mu Deok was drawn to her "twin"
• Why Naksu was picked up by Jin Mu and  not killed like the rest of the family 
• She was able to master the 4 levels of mage proficiency faster than an average assassin
• She was cold-hearted (?) because her "human" side was taken by her "twin" Mu Deok/Jin Bu Yeon. The next question would be, but Mu Deok/Jin Bu Yeon is much younger than Naksu, how was it spliced and half of it was able to be summoned about 10 years (or less) after Naksu? That answer may lie in Blind Priestess/Original Jin matriarch. She probably knew how dangerous it is to keep all the ice stone in 1 body so she kept part of it for her great-grandchild, Jin Bu Yeon, and half in Naksu, a Cho heir.
  
  The follow-up to this question then ties back to Ahead's questions on who is Daddy Cho and why he did what he did as a soul shifter (i.e kill instead of absorbing energy).  In a grander scheme of things, how influential/powerful are the Chos? How are they related (and definitely not in a family setting) to the Chois? On this note,  a couple of theorists here reckoned the Chois are the disgraced mage clan that was ostracised as they like to dabble in sorcery and thus became shamans. There is also a lot of discussion here that says the noble lady in the first ep is the actual queen (but is in the form of the actual shaman), which explains why she is familiar with daddy Jang Kang. But if that is the case, who then is the soul-shifting son she was helping to feed?

Haiz...so many questions and 8 more episodes to go! Let's hang in there guys and see how our theories pan out.