[quote][b]Grimoire card: Ghost Fragment- House of Kings[/b] Variks: You ask of House Kings, yes? They of the secret Kell. They who rule over ancient ruins in hope of one day returning to the shadow of the Great Machine. Kings are very mysterious, yes. Petra: I want to know what they are truly capable of. Variks: *laughing* Kings are very good at veiling their hand. They have embraced the Dark, so that none can steal from them anything, yes? Knowledge cannot be stolen so simply. Were it so easy… Petra: You joke now, but you said earlier that they could’ve proven a match for even Skolas. It was long my belief that the Wolves were the single most powerful House in the system… Variks: Kings only rarely fight in the open. They fight through their puppets: the Devils and Exiles. Petra: Kind of like Skolas…. Variks: What little I have heard of Kings’ Kell brings me to same conclusion. Petra: So why would Skolas try to treat with them? Variks: Skolas wants to take control of all Houses, yes? Kings are House, yes? Petra: No, no, that’s not what I meant. I mean, why would he trust them enough to try diplomacy? He didn’t with the Devils and he just completely ignored Exile. Winter didn’t have a Kell anyway, so that one was easy. Variks: Skolas may be cunning in his madness, but Kell of Kings is mad in his cunning. Kell of Kings lets one thing be known of him. He wishes to keep Great Machine for himself, to rule over not only Eliksni, but all creatures. Petra: So we may have two Kells with a God complex? Great… [b]Theory Time [/b] This supports my theory that Skolas has a brother who is the Kell of the Kings. Now i strongly believe that Skolas is based on a Norse character called Skoll. Skoll is a wolf (coincidence) and Skoll has a brother called Hati. Skoll (pronounced roughly “SKOHL”; Old Norse Sköll, “One Who Mocks”)(funny how Skolas mocks you throughout the whole campaine)and Hati (pronounced “HAHT-ee”; Old Norse Hati, “One Who Hates) are two wolves who are only mentioned in passing references that have to do with their pursuing Sol and Mani, the sun and moon, through the sky in hopes of devouring them. At Ragnarok, the downfall of the cosmos, they catch their prey as the sky and earth darken and collapse. It’s not entirely clear which one of them pursues the sun and which pursues the moon. The medieval Icelandic historian Snorri Sturluson, whose works are typically taken at face value in low-quality introductory books on Norse mythology, claims that Skoll chases the sun and Hati the moon.[1] However, Snorri’s source in this passage, the Eddic poem Grímnismál, says the following in the relevant stanza: Skoll is the name of the wolf Who follows the shining priest Into the desolate forest, And the other is Hati, Hróðvitnir’s son, Who chases the bright bride of the sky.[2] The noun used for Skoll’s prey, goði (“priest”), is masculine, and the noun used for Hati’s prey, brúðr(“bride”) is feminine. Since Mani (the moon) is male, and Sol (the sun) is female, the wording of this stanza strongly suggests that Skoll hunts the moon and Hati the sun. Now from that we can draw the comparison. Skolas was only willing to negotiate with the kings and not ruthlessly take they’re house by force. why? because why would he do that when his brother is the Kell. they are both Kells witha god complex. and Skolas is clearly Skoll, the one who chased the moon and Hati chased the sun (A.K.A The Traveler) One other thing that leads me to believe that the sun is the traveler is that many believe the Traveler to be Alpha lupi. and alpha lupi is always mentioned as female. this ties to the poem about the sun being considered female. also many of the grimoire cards give hints to it as some are titled “dreams of Alpha Lupi” this hints that Alpha lupi is asleep, as is the traveler. the similarities are uncanny. now if Hati chased the sun, that makes sense as the House of Kings is the house which has the most interests in the Traveler. that is because the Kings Kell wants the traveler for himself, He chases it. and Skolas chases the moon,or as the poem says “the Shining Priest” now sun and moon are opposites, night and day, light and darkness. if The Sun represents the traveler which is the light, then the moon represents the darkness. Skolas chased the darkness. the purest form of the darkness, the Travelers Mirror. or… it could mean another thing, if we take “shining priest” into the consideration, skolas also chased the Vex tech. he went in the Vault of glass. could the Shining priest” be Atheon?[/quote]