The Arcane Conspiracy: Devourers

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I’m gonna start a thread of posts where I basically think of a convoluted theory or thought that has SOME credibility. I wanna know what you guys think. Anyways to kick off the first of this series off, this is my devourer theory.

Devourers were created by Durza

Basically, what im theorizing is that Durza created devourers, or atleast the material that they use to take curses. Starting off with the main support of this theory:

The Purple Veins:

This is a the devourer argos uses (image is from the wiki)

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Now, at first glance it looks like a normal sword, but if you zoom in you will notice a tiny, purple/blue-ish vein material. This is what I presume to be the part of a devourer that allows it the function. Now i want you to look at this item that AvatarJames (the creator of AO UGC) made:

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This is the Durandal. In lore, it was a weapon that freedrock use, but durza stole, corrupting it. The same purple veins of energy are quite literally everywhere on the weapon. If durza “corrupted” this weapon, it could VERY LIKELY have to do with the absorption curse. Now there are some flaws to this such as: The version in AA looks nothing like this, and The weapon in AA has no function that all to absorb curses and it is just a strong sword that talks to you.
Too disproove the first point, Though yes it is UGC and the AA design looks nothing similar, it still is Official UGC. Vetex had to had approved it meaning that it could very likely be, if Durandal makes in appearance as a weapon ingame, it could very likely have the same design.
As for the second point, we don’t ever get to fight a real curse user ingame, and it’s function, if you think about it could correlate to the absorption curse, as it drains your energy.

The absorption curse

The absorption curse allows the user to not only absorb magic, but curses. There is straight UP NOTHING in the series like the absorption curse as of now, And it would be pretty lame if the explanation was “ah yes, it is actually just a rare ore that can absorb curses”. We’ve seen people imbue magic on weapons, so who’s to say that Curses, even external curses wouldn’t work the same? Even though the absorption curse was later removed from durza, we know that curses can have lasting effects so why not the absorption curse?

Durza

Durza created his undead army for a reason. He wanted more power, so it would make sense if he ended up giving members of his army devourers, to retrieve curses for him. That would also tire into why multiple nationsh ave so many, as if he actually mass-produced them for his army, there could be a good amount in the war seas.

So what do you think about this theory, leave any critiques or ideas about the theory in the replies :+1:

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Yeah that used to be it’s old sprite but honestly if it appears in AO I doubt it would look like that :moyai:

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dude is cooking…
my only problem with the theory is how they ended up in the war seas
and why they’re only stated to absorb curses, if it was absorption-curse imbued wouldn’t it also be able to drain mana, something which would probably be important enough to mention to the ao player
i like this idea over the “oh just a rare ore” idea :+1:

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I was actually gonna make a section on this but The entire “wrath of the gods” (durza trying to nuke the earth) event didn’t destroy all the seas, as mentioned above it could be possible that durza gave it to his army and they easily could have been flung away in the massive explosion/ earthquake (it was so strong that it straght up sent a large chunk of earth into space), so it would be more than possible that some of them ended up in the war seas, At minimum, even if the weapons were destroyed it could be possible that the material inside of them fly away

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The wiki says they’re similar to the grand navy’s handcuffs, but I asked on the wiki if they had a source for that

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This was the gist of what I got
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Wiki is pretty unreliable so i wouldn’t trust it but i still am confused about the whole magic-draining handcuff thing myself though

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aa models are just retextured roblox gears so i doubt that’s what vetex really envisioned durandal looking like

i’d say the offical ugc is more of what vetex wanted for it

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I will wait for further cooking. Nice idea you got going

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I feel like devourers are not a recent technology, especially since most people like Warren are familiar with them.

I don’t think it’s possible that they only became a thing in the war seas in the past two months after Durza Batista bombed the world

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Problem 1. The war seas are on the other side of the planet compared to the 7 seas which Durza was in.
Problem 2. In AO i believe that dark magic is something that is practiced far more in the war seas, maybe as a counter to curse users which are far more active and influencial, as such groups like “The Order” would more likely be the base of these tools (espicially when we consider that no none order member has used onr yet in the story)
Problem 3. Devours don’t help reanimate corpses with curses, so I don’t think it would strenghtin Durza’s army, and since there was fewer curse users in the 7 seas, i don’t see them being made in plenty amount for his army. And weakinging the enemy could be most likely be done without the swords anyways.

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And the absoption curse doesnt even absorb curses, durza kills curse users by draining their stamina till they die.

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it does steal curses, it’s just that durza has to drain stamina rather than magic to take curses

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zawg my man hades corrupted it freedrock never interacted with durza and if he did durza would get obliterated + on top of that durandal is the strongest legendary weapon by miles, durza aint capable of doin allat

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Yeah i realized that later, doesn’t really discredit the theory too much as I still do think it is interlinked with the curse. It is pretty likely hades made the absorption curse himself but thats a topic for another day

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hades did make the absorption curse its confirmed hades made all experimental curses and absorption is an experimental curse

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tf is a experimental curse :skull:

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the strongest type of curse which werent made by prometheus, 2 exist, lazarus curse and absorption curse

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And potentially the growth curse

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no lol