#lore speculation

My favorite is that the blight potion mixed with his berserk training (pulled from ingame descriptions) is that he has a 3 tier berserk system. 1 and 2 are just basic levels of him using different abilities like final blow and berserk and massacre. Tier three is using the power of Blood "Blood Fury" and "Blood Thirst" ability alongside all his other things into a state I call "Deep Rage". In game it's basically a mode where I have to keep killing enemies before health runs out, In lore I say its Theron losing himself completely to the blight and the only way to get him out is to let him basically hemorrhage until he's out of blood. Then quickly revive him.

Outside that i imagine

- he often pressures Alistair on elf rights affairs. Quietly using the fact that he put Alistair on the throne for this

- when Morrigan starts going to the Inquisiton, Theron focuses more on hunting the blight while worried about his own calling

-he's unsure if the calling is worse or less than it should be due to the dark ritual and the blood potion. Worried, he'll become something worse than some of the darkspawn he fights

- keeps a gauntlet fist around Vigil's Keep and the power he has there, and the silver order he helped make

- post veilguard when it shows that all his efforts to prepare the world was pointless, Theron goes on a mad quest to find Anders and uses the mad mage to try and find a cure for the blight while losing himself to his own bloods madness. Eventually leading to his own son (with Morrigan) Kieran, having to kill him.

- or depending on the Inquisitor, he becomes a part of an effort to make a dalish nation. Taking the role as a brutal expansionist general. Happy to lead an attack on different Orlesian holds and settlements to conquer them for the new Dalish Nation

- if going mad due to blight, and anders is spared, he will find the mage and does to him what Viddasala does to her personal Saarebas. AKA start pumping him full with an insane amount of lyrium until he's little more than a mad magical nuke of a person

- with the type of enchantments on starfang I have it said he could basic cleave people in half even if they wore full armor with starfang.

Outside of DA:

- modern he's just a firefighter with interest in HEMA fighting

- cyberpunk he's an offshoot of NetWatch know as a NetWarden. A really specific set of special agents made to hunt and combat blackwall breaches. There's a very specific movie character that best describes his vibes

- generic superhero he's called a Triple Threat. Part of some corporation making super soldiers out of deadmen to do impossible missions for clients

- Star Wars he was an old republic jedi knight who got a lineage force curse put on him that affected his descendants so much they cloned him in hopes that the curse would leap back onto the clone. That clone being a teenage Padawan during order 66 that goes into hiding but slowly finishes his training around the time of the fall of the empire.

- Witcher he's an elf that left his isolated clan and got picked up by a witcher. Since witcher trials don't work on elves he was just trained in the methods and skills of monster hunting and after his master died he just does jobs as a low tier monster hunter. The Witcher amulet he owns os broken and weaker than usual, and the silver blade he has is broken leaving him with only a Steel greatsword and a set of full plate armor. In this verse he's kinda just angry and bitter all the time because the witcher world hates elves and he often debates leaving to live within nilfgaard rule due to them being a bit less brutal, comparatively.

I heard a theory about if there is a darker than dark then there will be a lighter than light which is presumably the real world, if that is true, there is some stuff we can glean from it if it is true.

If we put it on a spectrum one end is the dark world, then the light world then the real world, since fictional characters cannot enter the real world, Lightners can enter the dark world but Darkners cannot leave the dark world, we can establish a rule that higher levels can enter lower levels but lower levels cannot enter higher levels, while lower levels cannot enter higher levels they can however they can be aware of higher levels which can explain 4th-3rd wall awareness. Which is also supported by the fact we the player are able to exert some control, or at the very least, interact with the light world AND the dark world via the soul, meaning that everytime you go down things change form, with the ends having the most extreme transitions, real world becoming game entity and object becoming entity (darkner) and with the lightners being in the middle ground can imply a less drastic change thus the change in appearance but not full form like the ends of the spectrum, if this is also true we can tell that the real world characters that take form in the light world do not change form in the dark world, meaning they cannot change twice, which explains why the Soul and the annoying dog (more on him later) do not make any physical changes to their appearances.

And taking in consideration that physical objects become darkners in the dark world, we can also possibly conclude that the Deltarune characters or the physical game being an inanimate object and just programmed code in the real world can be seen as a parallel to how inanimate objects become animate in the dark world

This might get to crack-theory territory so I don't blame you if you disagree with me.

But, you may ask... do we have a case for absolutely certain of a character who is indeed real and does take form from the real world beyond the soul? Actually we do. While it could be brushed off as a coincidence, Toby Fox manifests as the Annoying Dog in Deltarune (as well as Undertale too), and Wingding Gaster spoke through Toby's twitter account, since Toby Fox manifests as the Annoying Dog in Deltarune, it can stand to reason that communication can be established through the one individual we can definitively say is a real person that exists in some form in the game, as for a character from the light world to interact with a real world person they have to actively be in the light world, as how a lightner must be present in the dark world for the darkner to interact with them, meaning that to carry a lower level's message to a higher level, it must be carried by an individual from the higher level, and if this is true, then Wingding speaking through Toby Fox's account is the perfect gateway to establish 2 way communication and leak into the real world, you can also say something along the lines of the digital nature of Deltarune can cause a viable leak into the real world through other digital means, but that's an alternative conclusion.

So Vergil ate the fruit from the qliphoth tree... Does that mean when he merges together again, is he still all powerful or is that just a game MacGuffin now? Does that make him the new King of Hell/Demon World? Has Mundus truly been defeated for good since DMC1?

I always wondered how trapping the Radiance inside the Hollow Knight made time stop in the entirety of the kingdom. You can kinda see it if you associate the Radiance with the passage of time ("dawn will break", she represents the sun, etc) but why would that affect the entire kingdom and not just specifically the inside of the black egg?

The black egg is made of void. The Hollow Knight is also partially made of void. We know void has the potential to deny time. But how does placing the Radiance inside the Hollow Knight and the Hollow Knight inside of the black egg stop time for everyone? How does void know the Kingdom's borders to know where enough is enough and "oh from this point on time flows naturally"?

So my theory is, what if the kingdom's stasis actually has nothing to do with the Hollow Knight and it was actually a separate plan from the Pale King to keep Hallownest lasting forever?

How did he do that? Fuck if I know, but if the Hollow Knight plan doesn't make sense either then everything is fair game.

The king does say "VOID, harness shall be placed upon you", but the harness here doesn't necessarily mean the Hollow Knight, it could just mean control will be placed upon the void, which it kinda happened even before the Hollow Knight with the Kingsmolds and Wingmolds.

It's gotta be at least a bit tied to the Hollow Knight plan though, since Hornet mentions changing places with the Hollow Knight will prolong the stasis, but how? To what degree? How does everything work? Did bro just put a darkness blanket over Hallownest while he was sketching his plans for the Hollow Knight? I NEED ANSWERS!

My personal experiences and how they relate to Kris from Deltarune. thought of 'em after watching this video.