#ras master

Hmm what if the Mergequakes weren't ACTUALLY tied to the Merge itself, but the presence of Ras's Master (as the mysterious red moon) in the Merged Lands? Maybe that moon was very chaotic and evil, maybe Ras's Master Disguised themselves as a moon so they could constantly view the realms, and when that failed, they took the form of the Blood Moon or something??? Maybe that's why Lloyd using the Cores made the red moon disappear, it was an unnatural and unintended aspect of the Merge keeping the realms destablized so it'd be easier to reverse?

So about Ras' master and shatterspin. From what I've seen, the two most common theories on who this being is, are the source dragon of motion or of strength. Personally motion seems more plausible to me, simply from a storytelling perspective and the fact that we are getting it as a set this summer. However, there is the fact that both shatterspin and Ras' teachings are all about strength, which would suggest that source dragon. So my theory is, that Shatterspin does actually come from the associated source dragon of strength, however the mysterious master is Motion. We know that the source dragon's are basically gods, so we should think about them as such: in many mythologies in real life, the gods are not always on the same side, sometimes even switching allegiances over a very long time. So maybe during the time that the dragon masters fought the five, strength was allied with the latter, powering their shatterspin and providing some kind of guidance, while motion was on the side of the dragons and helped with their rising dragon technique. The five were defeated and since all source dragon's are needed for the world to function, strength was not banished or something like that and once again taken up into the ranks of the other source dragons. I don't know what would cause a switch in allegiance, maybe strength saw the error of their ways, maybe motion realised that whatever strength was planning might actually be possible and planned a plan of their own, like it was the case with makuta teridax and the league of six kingdoms in Bionicle. I don't know, it just feels like we as a fandom should do more with the fact that the source dragon's are literal gods and not necessarily held to the morals of humanity.