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True. I'm just really curious where this is all going and what exactly is going to be revealed in this storyline.

This was just based on a guess of mine, really. Though honestly we know very little about Voltaire. He desires to 'make this world a better place' but how? He's definitely much more evil than Pandora, just looking at his track record. We have no idea if he's as old and unstable as Pandora, or naturally reset like her, etc. Usually things go like this; Good vs Evil, Order vs Chaos, Man vs Nature, etc. It could be an entirely wrong assumption on my part of Voltaire's character, given that we know so little about him. Also, we know more about Pandora's plans than his. What exactly he hoped to accomplish by murdering Elliot has yet to be revealed. AS FOR MAGUS; We have no clue if her involvement with Magus went any further beyond the spiritual plane and a series of advice and guidance. We have no idea if she's been empowering and guiding all along, although with Magus' ability to 'Amplify' emotions, I heavily suspect he was totally guided to Tedd DURING the creation of Ellen, considering Tedd has never had another outburst of anger like that anymore, and Ellen/Elliot was the start of the Sister titles/series. And they're on the cover, but we have NO indication that those series of events are connected to Pandora's recent actions of trying to upset the balance of magic. Diane and Susan are as well, though I suspect more H&D manipulating things for those two, especially given their hatred of aberrations. 'Pawn of Chaos' I think more and more is Sarah. NONE of the main cast (or villains) would ever suspect /her/ being the one chosen to mess with things, and she's still notably absent from the present gathering. Given that Justin and Susan have jobs and Diane hasn't yet been introduced to the full main cast (and Ashley is too sugary sweet bubblegum pop good to pry)

I'm almost certain its Voltaire at this point. Sirelick and the other abberations are not human any more, and don't have any human like emotions, being so twisted. Most immortals would kill them on site. Voltaire decided to work with one, knowing full well what Sirelick is. Voltaire decided that lying and scheming to get the 'status quo' back was good He decided to endanger countless lives just to try and kill Elliot. He was willing to let Dex, Greg, Grace, Noah, Melissa, and Justin die to do so. He did not think of involving more than one person in on his idea, or that simply telling them would work. He does not care how many people he purposefully puts in danger, so long as he gets what he wants.

H&D; Lawful Neutral Evil. Why I say evil is that it is heavily implied that they were the ones to help Nanase and Susan awaken their magic...but that they also placed the murder of an aberration on the shoulders of two very young teenage girls, when they had prior knowledge of France's government to help them take out the aberrations instead, and simply awakening Nanase and Susan would've still tremendously helped in the long run. They believed they were doing this for the greater good, as far as we know, but I hesitate to call anyone who decided that teenagers should take on something like that couldn't fall into the traditional 'good' spectrum. Volty is Lawful Evil or Neutral Good. Pandora is Chaotic. I think she's the most representative of the Blue-and-Orange morality spectrum that most immortals will probably represent. Her morals do not fit into the human world as we are aware of it. The most we know is that, no matter how insane she is, she still loves her family. Which is why Volty is taking a mighty big risk here...

This is getting interesting. I suppose Voltaire and Pandora are supposed to respectively represent Order and Chaos. Volty wanting to preserve the status quo by any means necessary and Pandora simply doing this out of love for her son/wanting to give him a better world to participate in. Which, I assume, Voltaire doesn't exactly know all of her motives. That would've required him to constantly be keeping tabs on Pandora, and if he could do that, I think he would've guided our main cast to her much sooner. It was only after she'd been running around marking people (I'm pretty sure she marked Dex first and then Justin and the others) that it seems that he got involved. Also, I'm pretty sure Elliot isn't Pandora's important pawn, since he had the Cheerleadra spell WAY before Pandora started getting heavily involved in the matter. I don't actually know if she has any, really. From the main cast, the character/s most LIKELY to be her 'pawn/s' are Diane and Susan, considering this arc's title and focus on their relationship....OR Sarah. Sarah has a ridiculous spell that she has an affinity toward that, as of yet, NO ONE ELSE knows about it. We haven't seen her tell anyone else and I note that Justin, Susan and Sarah are absent from this conversation with Voltaire...With Susan we see that she is working, I assume Justin is working/on his date (but we don't know yet).....But with SARAH we had a focus of Pandora going to talk to her. Not Elliot or the others....I really want to see where this goes.

Yeah I was like "...Elliot did you forget that you can break character from the personas those secret identities give you?" Then again he often forgets to read his spellbook for some reason. Is Nanase the ONLY one who keeps up with hers?

Sorry I meant Sarah. It's so hard to keep track (Since I know IRL Sara's >>) Yeah, they did CHOOSE those things, but if magic has its own will and set of powers...Why couldn't concepts like Order and Chaos have them as well? I mean, it's perfectly within the means for the immortals to choose how they spend their time but it could also be possible that even they can fall under influences like that. Also it stands to reason that any immortal like Pandora would eventually reach her state of mind, considering what Jerry told the girls. If immortals do not reset, they become extremely powerful and unpredictable. But its also possible that they could be influence by such concepts. And yup, that's what I was going with for Voltaire. Just because he wants to put back the status quo doesn't mean he's any better than Pandora (He's perfectly willing to throw Raven in harms way, even though Raven has done nothing wrong.) Also my guess is Sirleck really HATES elves. I bet a lot of aberrations do; Elves are essentially a slap in the face to them; THEY used to be human, they wanted power and immortality and here comes this kid who just happens to get a lot of that handed to them?

My guess is Col. Sanders...I mean Voltaire represents order, or the status quo (Hence his first plan and his assumption that Elliot was the messenger of Chaos. He still MIGHT be, if unknowingly and unwillingly). Pandora has been doing some pretty terrible stuff after all; somehow messing with the flow of magic, empowering and guiding several people (Luke, Rhoda, Catalina, Justin, Luke's friends...TEDD and Sara (Who I'm still interested in what his talents are). So Voltaire's goal is to set things back to the status quo. Moperville would still likely be a magical hotspot, since it's connected to the other dimensions magic, but the contagion would stop. So, obviously even those involved in Pandora's ill-conceived scheme by her own machinations will need to be stopped. OHHH or he was purposefully targeting Elliot to try and draw Pandora out. Which would explain why he told Sirleck about Adrian; to draw her out, because Pandora would not accept an abberation threat to her son. So one death (Because Pandora as she is now will no longer exist). I'm almost betting that Sara's power is going to come in handy when the group ends up facing Voltaire. Abner will also likely switch sides, my guess is because if his moral alignment IS Rick from Cascablanca, he's ultimately a good guy. and also I kind of want Abner to stay in the series. I totally don't think he's a good love interest for Susan or Sara >> So ultimately I don't think Abner will let Voltaire kill any of the main cast or Ashley. Also, I'm almost certain Magus or Pandora was involved way back when we first started the story line to get Ellen. For Magus to get out of the ethereal plane, Ellen has to shoot Elliot with her beam. But why? What exactly will happen? Will Magus be able to possess a form somehow that way? I really want to know WHY that's necessary.