Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4821842-20170516033623/@comment-31564770-20170524145212

So I'm gonna throw my own theories in here just cuz, and I wanna see what you all think.

Right, so in the finale we saw some scenes which have been confirmed to be in the future with Henry and Lucy in the EF running from some darkness. There's that one part where it seems some massive monster busts in to their log house thing and Henry tells Lucy to run while he fights the beast using what appears to be Charming's sword. Given the roar that beast made and it's size, I wanna throw preliminary bets on it being an ogre. We've seen throughout the show that a big part of FTL history is the multiple brutal ogre wars which the humans only barely won each time and often with the help of magic. When the army starts drafting kids to basically just throw at them to slow them down, you know it isn't going well. So let's say the ogres have returned. That still doesn't explain why Henry was talking about how they'd found him and Lucy like they were searching for them specifically, or why Henry had Lucy take the book and run to protect it. The ogres tend to be more of a conniving destroy-all-life type of enemy, without much strategy beyond tricking the humans into letting their guard down so they can attack. I doubt they'd have an agenda as specific as stealing the book, so that means there's someone in charge who wants it done. Maybe it's some sort of shadow-in-the-east Sauron type villain, who never leaves their base but is still insanely powerful and commands vast armies of darkness, or maybe it's more of a commander who sends their armies to raze villages and then shows up in person in the burnt remains of the town to find survivors to torture- I can't really explain what kind of villain this is, so I'll just give you the image in my head right now: this villain is a woman, but kind of twisted-looking, with the unnaturally thin frame and long claw-fingers and grayish skin. Sort of serpentine in the way she moves. She sends in her armies of ogres to raze a village, and when they're done killing everything and burning down homes, when the village is pretty much silent except for the crackling of the remaining fires, she slips out of the woods and into the village, walks down the center road and stops by the well in the center of the town. She pauses, as if listening for something, then whips her head around and looks right at the little boy who's hiding in the remains of his family's house. She's totally seen him, and she sort of teleports right in front of him and asks him in this creepy rasping voice if he's seen these two people- here she describes Henry and Lucy- and when he's too petrified to answer she teleports him back to her lair of darkness to be tortured with the rest of her prisoners. Sorry for such a long description, haha, I just couldn't figure out the best way to describe that villain without actually spelling out what I had in mind lol. Anyways, we have the shadow in the east or the creepy inhuman lady, and I'm not sure where this will go. But I feel like either way, they're after the book either because it holds the secret to killing them or otherwise ending their plans for destroying all goodness, or because they want to absorb the book's power or something so they can become an ultimate overlord of evil. Probably the ogres are allied with them because they promised to allow them to be their terror police or whatever and they can have free reign once the villain wins and takes over, but of course the villain has no intention of sharing power with anyone and they have a way out of whatever pact they made. In all likelihood the ogres and the villain made some sort of immutable magical blood pact where the ogres help the villain and the villain lets the ogres kill stuff, but what the ogres don't know is taking over the world is a secondary objective to obtaining ultimate power, and with that power comes the ability to break the blood pact or something.

Anyways, that's my idea. Of the two villain archetypes I proposed, I would probably prefer the second one- serpentine inhuman up close and personal creepy lady- to a Sauron villain. Unless we combine the two and get a Sauron-esque ancient evil reborn that actually does leave its base and survey the village burning carnage itself. I don't even know.

Please also note that this entire theory is based off the shadow and roar of an unknown evil beast being an ogre, and the rest is just my fantasies.