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Kemtros
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Solmestix said :
Also, i think that maybe the yellowish dialogue that we see is the 6th unborn elder god. It is a well known theory that the elder god is the one, 'not of form' and i believe Sliske knows this and serves it to gain his own power.

I've been sticking with this theory for quite some time, and Xau-Tak would be the alternative. It sounds like the final summit is what the mysterious voice wants, and the voice said something like the Stone of Jas wants a user, false or not, so the voice must want someone to win.

Now give me a quest that actually requires Temple of Ikov so I can get some satisfaction on what to do about the Staff of Armadyl.

23-May-2016 18:17:19

Zulkir

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IF Xau-Tak is Sliskes master (The voice), they're trying to inflate the former to Zaros levels of behind the scenes string pulling.

It seems it wants the gods to be gathered there, perhaps to kill them? perhaps to drain them of their power? to enslave them maybe? We're aware tier 3s can magically manipulate immortals, Whose to say that isn't their grand plan?

Regardless. The snake took a part of my soul and I don't like my property taken, I was wrong about him just wanting a laugh, he's a sad death fearing roleplayer who can't stand the fact his race is self destructive, wanting our truly immortal bodies instead so he can never die, and the fun can never end for him.
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23-May-2016 18:21:14

Wahisietel
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IT IS NOT XAU-TAK.

Xau-Tak is Wilson's personal thing. The fact is, Osborne would not let Wilson make Xau-Tak so important as to be the one be behind Sliske. Xau-Tak being the reason Sliske is so interested in us is already cutting it close, they definitely wouldn't let it go any further.

Couple that with the fact that the quest clearly indicates that Sliske lost interest in Xau-Tak a long time ago, and is known to have been serving Zaros as recently as the start of the Sixth Age, we can definitely rule it out.

If it were Xau-Tak, it would be incredibly bad storytelling, and Jagex are better than that. You never were our brightest star, Khazard. 'Vermin slaughtered like lambs'? What does that even mean?

23-May-2016 18:22:43

Kemtros
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^Thank you. Xau-Tak feels like they're being saved for the Pirate quests, and this and Elegy were just teases. We'll almost definitely find out who the master is during the Endgame, and with the Pirate quests coming after that, I think Xau-Tak's reveal would be saved for that instead. The Endgame just doesn't "fit".

23-May-2016 18:27:47

Wahisietel
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If you guys want some actual candidates to speculate over, I suggest Zaros, Jas, or the Sixth elder god.

My money's on Zaros or the Sixth Elder God personally. You never were our brightest star, Khazard. 'Vermin slaughtered like lambs'? What does that even mean?

23-May-2016 18:33:26

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Aig123 said :
I'm honestly more curious as to how he knows of the Schism, he said it relates to souls as well.

Sliske didn't know about it until reading The Divine Delusion. Sliske didn't pen that book, it clearly says "- Oreb, Magister of House Charron" at the end of it. I know, I did a double-take until I saw it too.

But on the topic of Xau-Tak: it wouldn't make sense to me on the basis that it would be far too forced if Xau-Tak WERE the voice. But... That doesn't mean Xau-Tak doesn't have its own knowledge or lacks its own allegiances.

Assuming that Xau-Tak is a cephalopod-like being: Octopi and squid have very, very different ways of existing compared to humans. They are the closest things to aliens on our own planet - if they were to get together and live together as a collective, rather than the loners that they are, they would have rivaled humanity ages ago.

And it seems that time is a big theme with Xau-Tak. I would not be surprised if Xau-Tak had advanced knowledge regarding the Elders' place in everything, just on the basis of having ascended. (Of course, the method of ascension is also important.)

So, if these assumptions prove true, even only a little, the idea of Xau-Tak lending an 'ear' to the Sixth Elder or some other power would not be out of the question, exactly. (Alas, I have an ENTIRE theory spanning all of this, and I am too tired and too unwilling to expand on it.)

23-May-2016 18:36:14 - Last edited on 23-May-2016 18:39:59 by Healthorg

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Wahisietel said :
IT IS NOT XAU-TAK.

Xau-Tak is Wilson's personal thing. The fact is, Osborne would not let Wilson make Xau-Tak so important as to be the one be behind Sliske. Xau-Tak being the reason Sliske is so interested in us is already cutting it close, they definitely wouldn't let it go any further.

Couple that with the fact that the quest clearly indicates that Sliske lost interest in Xau-Tak a long time ago, and is known to have been serving Zaros as recently as the start of the Sixth Age, we can definitely rule it out.

If it were Xau-Tak, it would be incredibly bad storytelling, and Jagex are better than that.

The player name was mentioned in the investigation of what happened to the ship.
Sliske lost all his leads into his investigation to what happened.

Fast forward a few thousand years.
The player, who was referred to in the past, crops up in person.

By then, who knows, maybe Sliske was caught up in **u-tak's web/influence by then.
Our arrival just drove home the need to do something.

Who knows, maybe the last shred of the original Sliske is making a desperate grab to get free of Xau-tak's control.

23-May-2016 18:42:23

Don Marenzo

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Wahisietel said :
I doubt/hope it's not Xau-Tak. It would be really forced and wouldn't make much sense overall.

Sliske's master is clearly Lucien anyway. Maybe you guys are seriously overthinking this and it (was) Zaros. The cutscene took place before FOT* and Zaros lied when he said he wasn't working with Sliske.
I hope you're right Wahisietel.

23-May-2016 18:53:58

Aig123
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I'd find the entity within the Strange glowing orb to be a more fitting master than a pirate God.
In that sense, Sliske's goal would be to build a capable vessel for the entity, and he was after our soul to mold and manipulate as well.

23-May-2016 19:29:24

Zulkir

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Aig123 said :
I'd find the entity within the Strange glowing orb to be a more fitting master than a pirate God.
In that sense, Sliske's goal would be to build a capable vessel for the entity, and he was after our soul to mold and manipulate as well.

Remember the diagram did mention a Mahjarrat drawing too within the alchemic symbols.

This just screams full metal alchemists father to me.
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23-May-2016 19:31:17

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