Miscellaneous Void Century Collection

seiryu

Even though Oda said he only cares about people talking about the "true ending" of One Piece, he still cares too much about people figuring out things that are close to the end of the series. There is no way Oda reads this forum, but since editors might through hits/searches I guess there is some risk with posting everything I've pieced together about the stuff right before the end of the series. For organization purposes, I'll have things categorized by spoiler tags to skip ahead as desired. So maybe contradictory that I'm going to start with the biggest stuff, but there's already a whole bunch of theories on the Moon Residents from Enel's cover story, so I think we should all agree that the residents of the Ancient Kingdom are the Moon Residents that had futuristic technology potentially thousands of years ago. The key is that they successfully integrated into the Earth residents and established a country that began to thrive based on the super-advanced technology. Context implies D.s are the descendants of Ancient Kingdom residents, but the juicy theorization is why they are so few and why they are spread all over the world. Some people may overlook the confirmation that a Pluton DOES exist and is hidden in Alabasta. In addition to what Robin read and all the intel Croc had, the context of the Void Century and the history of the Nefatarri family implies a Pluton has already been created. How does an army with technology essentially 1000 years old defeat an army with technology that is thousands (emphasis on the plural) of years ahead? Especially since the Ancient Kingdom were open minded and probably had many elite strategists, the easiest answer is using their best weapon against them. Since they are peace-lovers, the Ancient Kingdom had no intention of using Pluton, but had to build it just in case. The original 20 countries successfully steal it and use it against the Ancient Kingdom to win the war and thus ending the Void Century. The results of this explain the geography (that doesn't seem like the right word, but I'm tired/hungry) of the New World/Grand Line as a whole. The Ancient Kingdom used to be ALL of the Grand Line islands together. Laugh Tale is the capitol of this huge island (Elbaf, which is HUGE, is the biggest chunk of this; I'll come back and add the official picture later => interesting side not is that it is the only island, so far, that crosses the Calm Belt. Because it is so dangerous for most fighters, it isn't used to cross into the New World). This explains why only Grand Line islands have a magnetic field, and more importantly why the Road Poneglyphs have to be used to find Laugh Tale (since it's the reference point for all the other magnetic fields). I guess mini-theory is that all of the advanced electronics is what created it, but I guess there could be something "magical" about the island (like God Valley, which is implied to be in the New World). Since Poseidon literally can destroy the world (destroyed a big chunk of it in probably one shot), the blast is more than strong enough to kill even powerhouse fighters with mastered defensive busoushoku. Since the shockwaves are strong enough to kill normal people, this explains why so few D. Clan individuals survived. A big part of the Ancient Kingdom is their diversity. Oda shows the normal flow of genetics/evolution in all aspects. Thus, the genetic diversity among D.’s means that they integrated and married outsiders for generations and generations (likely 100’s of years). Which also means it took a while for the hatred/jealously to develop. So we pretty much know the gist of the true “history”, but this aspect focuses on the creation of poneglyphs. All it takes is just one samurai (with excellent craftsmanship) to travel to the Ancient Kingdom. However, who this was is key. We know it is a Kouzuki and that the prosperity allows for expansion of the family clan so that some return to Wano Kuni. However, the big twist is probably with Toki. This is a WHOLE separate theory: I’m really thinking Toki is an Ancient Kingdom resident…so she marries her exponentially distant relative (distant enough to not have any negative genetic passing to Momo/Hiyori). The key breadcrumb is that Toki knows parts of the Void Century history and is purposefully looking for Kouzuki in Wano Kuni. I assume it is more just for personal reasons and wanting to confirm that her country’s efforts, family’s efforts, and personal hardships were not in vain. Since I don’t think she’s dead, she will be a major key when Luffy does succeed in overthrowing the Government. I don’t think I can top this last part, so I’m probably missing at least some stuff, but I’ll end the theory here.

Marco Polo

These are some really cool ideas! I imagine Toki has ties to the Ancient Kingdom, however she's not one of the D. Clan. The Amatsuki family (her bloodline) were one of the major families in Wano if I'm not mistaken? Maybe she's actually from Wano, but was tasked with something hugely important? I might have to write a theory about this sooner or later...

seiryu

> These are some really cool ideas! I imagine Toki has ties to the Ancient Kingdom, however she's not one of the D. Clan. The Amatsuki family (her bloodline) were one of the major families in Wano if I'm not mistaken? Maybe she's actually from Wano, but was tasked with something hugely important? I might have to write a theory about this sooner or later... The thing for me is that Oda already showed with Law that he’s willing to introduce the D twist later. They have a reason to hide it. The thing that bugs me is that there is big implication that she knows big revelations about the Void Century, and with her power, being of that generation makes the most sense since the only other way is to read poneglyphs. Always looking forward to other theories!

callais

Was Pluton confirmed to actually be in Alabasta? The poneglyph that tells it's location was in the royal tomb, but I don't recall robin ever saying where the ship itself actually is. Something that baffles me is how Pluton got lost. It's supposed to be absolutely enormous, so I feel it would be hard to lose it, but the OP world is also gigantic so maybe I'm overestimating lol. Plus, if the 20 kingdoms have it, I feel like they wouldn't give it up easily... plus the ancient kingdom knows where it is, since they wrote it's location on the poneglyph... idk lol too many questions still. If the twenty did manage to steal one of the weapons, it's possible that someone in the ancient kingdom switched sides and sold them out. As for Toki, I'm not fully convinced that she dead either. And I also think she has something to do with the ancient kingdom, mostly because of this page. She definitely knows more than she's let on, at any rate.

seiryu

> Was Pluton confirmed to actually be in Alabasta? The poneglyph that tells it's location was in the royal tomb, but I don't recall robin ever saying where the ship itself actually is. Something that baffles me is how Pluton got lost. It's supposed to be absolutely enormous, so I feel it would be hard to lose it, but the OP world is also gigantic so maybe I'm overestimating lol. Plus, if the 20 kingdoms have it, I feel like they wouldn't give it up easily... plus the ancient kingdom knows where it is, since they wrote it's location on the poneglyph... idk lol too many questions still. If the twenty did manage to steal one of the weapons, it's possible that someone in the ancient kingdom switched sides and sold them out. As for Toki, I'm not fully convinced that she dead either. And I also think she has something to do with the ancient kingdom, mostly because of this page. She definitely knows more than she's let on, at any rate. Never directly stated, but Robin's reaction to reading the Pluton specific poneglyph is the biggest breadcrumb. The location is on there, but Robin doesn't describe anything during her brief conversation with Cobra. Even Cobra's response implies it exists. It isn't "lost". It's being kept hidden by the Nefetarri family. Makes sense since they have one of the biggest countries with most of the area desolate and full of hiding spots. We have been shown how much respect the Nefetarri family has even among the other Tenryuubito. They hate Cobra, but they still respect what he has to say because of whatever behind the scenes stuff we aren't shown (probably just proper leadership). A survivor of the Ancient Kingdom is responsible for the Alabasta poneglyph, but this one and likely most of the poneglyphs are created after the war or close to the end of the war. The poneglyphs document the truth and all the dark stuff the Tenryuubito did to win the war. I'd disagree on the many questions aspect. With 80% of the series completed, most of the picture is in clear view. Of course there are still key puzzle pieces missing, but the big picture is there. With the 100% connectivity, the breadcrumbs are all there. It's just a matter of trying to find them all since Oda does a great job of hiding them. Yup, a spy/traitor is likely. Plus, we see dastardly D.'s like Blackbeard, so someone getting bribed with the idea of money/power makes sense...wait...this might be Im! New theory later on this. Yup, seems like we fully agree on Toki! We need more strong women.