#toh lore

Oh and you also need to acquire a galdorstone, which is a rare, powerful, magical,protected and ancient relic thats.... Guarded for a reason.

It's necromancy and cloning. The show made it hard to do because of its problematic nature and removing that literally takes away a part of why belos doing this is so wrong. (It's not only about him using his brother's corpse, but the importance of a sense of self, these people have to go through. Complex identity issues and probably feelings of being a copy of someone else, which necessarily doesn't need to be the case, but something the show itself, imo is trying to bring up plenty of times)

if it was easy, belos wouldn't go to such lengths to achieve it. He would simply have more grimwalkers than what he already had, (and he had a lot already. When harvesting the ingredients, he literally destroyed eco-systems, eating Palismen and harvesting the trees.)

The galdorstones themselves had to be protected because of their strong magical abilities being used for selfish reasons, and letting them be harvested and used by specific few, would for sure cause societal problems. It is also hinted (not specified) that the ones that exists today are those protected by the graveyard (which is a very old one and created for again, said reason above)

Ethical dilemmas indeed

John Bailey, one of the head writers of TOH, just did a lore drop in the form of an ancient poem about the Titan and oh boy, we are in for a ride.

So here's some interesting lore bits for whoever doesn't want to read anglo-saxon verses.

The poem is 1 of 11 that were found on an expedition, all dedicated to the Titan

The collection was found on a bathysfearic expedition, an olden device used for deep sea exploration (seems witches invented it good 300 years before humans)

The Titan is reffered to as Ruler

The poems were retrived in Late Deadwardian era so it seems they are older than that (possibly from a time when the Titan was still rotting)

The author describes the decay of the Titan but proceeds to go existential asking where witches came from

They have two theories: either small creatures ate the carcass of the titan and evolved from its magic OR there was evolution in some sort of wombs? in the Titan itself

Eventually those musings turn a bit angry at the silence, the author is desperate to know the origins of life

By the end of the poem, the author seems to be a bit drunk on an old appleblood variant judging by the break in format

And they finish with speculation that humans came from the Titan's butt (kinda proving that witch kind was very aware of humanity early on)

“Day 1”

WARNING: HEADCANON

Who knows the true reason for the Collectors' attack on the Titans? Who can remember how bloody the war was? How did it start? Probably, only history, lost among the pages of old archives, can answer this question, and maybe.. and Archivists themselves will be able to tell you about the reasons for this war. But what exactly are Archivists? What are they? What are they capable of, and what are they willing to do to achieve their goal?