Part Starlet, Part Harlet, Part Damsel In Distress

(Keep in mind I personally don’t believe anything that started being influenced AFTER Miss Holloway got the Black Book would be one of the five listed in there. The Black Book is super old and it’s possible some of the old Black Altars fell out of use or got replaced)

!!SPOILERS FOR ALL OF HATCHETFIELD!!

WIGGLY: Lakeside Mall

This is self explanatory. It’s explicitly stated to be a Black Altar and it’s where he attempted to be born.

NIBBLY: the Old Waylon Place

I went over this in my last post about Black Altars. However it IS entirely possible that at some point the Waylon place fell out of use and there’s a new Black Altar not listed in the book.

TINKY: CCRP Headquarters

I’m not 100% on this, because the only reason it’s got the time travel properties in the first place is because of people trying to harness Tinky’s power in in the FoA/Time Bastard timeline, but it seems to me like that wouldn’t be possible if it wasn’t already an Altar (unless they somehow had the Black Book). I’m assuming it was built on someplace that used to be a Black Altar.

POKEY: The Starlight Theatre

We don’t know WHERE the Apotheosis comet landed in the NMT2 timeline but since that’s where it began in the TGWDLM timeline this is the best guess I can make. I’m presuming in both timelines it landed in the Theatre because:

A). Pokey presumably couldn’t just manifest without using the Altar if they’re so important

B). It fits with his whole Musical Theatre deal.

I 100% believe the Roller-Rama isn’t his altar. He was already manifested in the world when Otho was brought to the Roller-Rama and that place had no other supernatural properties besides him.

BLINKY: Hatchetfield High

I’m aware this is somewhat of a stretch but it’s the only Altar we know of that doesn’t have a clear link to a Lord in Black. Blinky’s whole deal is that he’s a voyeur, and the whole point of Watcher World is peer pressure and the constant feeling of observation. I’m not saying it’s perfect but it’s the best link I can make.

Important Sidenote: I wholeheartedly believe Watcher World isn’t his Black Altar and he only created it in a timeline after he manifested. We’ve seen him physically in Watcher World so it’s safe to assume he’s already been brought into the real world in that timeline.

Also, I’m like 99% sure Watcher World was supposed to be located somewhere in the Witchwoods (???) and the woods absolutely CANNOT be a Black Altar; they’re maintained by the Hatchetmen, the only real opposition to the followers of the Lords in Black, and all the psychic energy there is a result of their interference, presumably nothing to do with the Lords.

The caveat I have to this is it’s entirely possible that Watcher World is a Black Altar created after the book was written and Blinkys followers moved out of Hatchetfield High and into the Witchwoods without being noticed by the Hatchetmen. I still believe if that’s the case then Watcher World itself wasn’t built until Blinky’s actual manifestation. I don’t think he’s interested in bringing about the apocalypse; that doesn’t seem like his style. I think Watcher World’s timeline is one where Blinky’s already won, and this is his end goal; creating somewhere he can watch people suffer.

WEBBY: The Witchwoods

There’s really no evidence to suggest Webby even has a White Altar so this is just an addendum to the theory, but the fact that it’s made out of the bodies of children who could presumably see her and is used for rituals against the Lords in the same way the Lords followers used their own Black Altars for them makes me see some sort of connection.

It’s also pretty notable to me that Willabella and Webby both have access to Hannah’s mind and Willabella is called the Witch in the Web. It really feels like there’s a connection there.

The whole “nothing dies in the old Waylon Place” thing has been bugging me for a while, since we don’t see anyone come back from the dead who died in Lakeside Mall in Black Friday (Hannah specifically says that the apparition she sees is NOT the real Ethan) and it’s unclear wether Richie at the beginning of the show was an actual ghost or more metaphorical (I’m leaning towards the latter since unlike Max he doesn’t have a “ghostly” appearance), so there has to be something about the old Waylon Place specifically, right?

Well… after rewatching Honey Queen I’ve got an idea of what that is.

Solomon specifically refers to the fact that the black magic and human sacrifice done there was done by the Church of the Starry Children, the same cult who sacrificed Linda to Nibbly at the end of Honey Queen, specifically so that Nibbly could take over her body and walk the earth.

The Lords in Black can’t physically interact with anything on our plane of existence without manifesting in it first (see: Pokey as Otho, All of TGWDLM and Blinky’s manifestation in Watcher World versus Wiggly in Black Friday and Tinky in Time Bastard only being able to communicate psychically in the real world), but they have no issue pulling Max into the Black and White.

My theory is this: when Linda was sacrificed to Nibbly, it was in the Old Waylon Place, or another black altar with similar properties that allowed her to come back undead, which meant Nibbly could take over her body. If she was killed there on any other night of the year, she simply would’ve come back as a vengeful spirit the same as Max.

If we go by the theory that each Black Altar has its own patron Lord In Black, and that specific Black Altar is tied to that Lord being able to physically manifest (once again see Wiggly’s attempt to physically manifest in Black Friday being inside the mall and halted once the mall burns down), that would mean the Old Waylon Place is (or used to be) Nibbly’s black altar. (N.B. Human Sacrifice is literally Nibbly’s whole deal, its mentioned in Honey Queen & the Summoning), and the reason people who die in the Waylon house come back to life is because it’s imbued with some sort of power that allows Nibbly to temporarily inhabit their bodies after death.