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I got inspired by some of the theories I've seen floating around Tumblr and decided to throw some of my ideas with the little info we have rn.

First off, the "Voice" (the entity that's possessing MC and helping them and their party.)

In summary, we know next nothing about who they are other than the fact they know a lot about the afterlife realm and potentially a lot about the Old Gods. Based on this alone, I'd say they are an entity that is god-tier, maybe somewhere around the Old God's level.

During Chapter 2, they said "knowing my name would be more dangerous to you than ignorance," but the wording is strange. Dangerous to us how? My first impression was that they wanted to keep their involvement a secret from Nifara, but the wording is just too weird for it to just be that. Is their name a Cognito hazard or something?

Current Theories (Crack and Serious)

Nifara and the old gods aren't the biggest power to worry about in the afterlife realms: Based on what I understand about the old gods, they are the kind that were willing to annihilate the dwarves and separate the realms to stay in power just to have it their way and remain in power. I really doubt that someone like them would allow the existence of other afterlife's (and potentially gods) if it were up to them. Who knows? Maybe they did try but realized it would be a Punic victory at best, impossible at worst if they tried.

We will be making allies within other afterlife realms: I am under the impression the other gods/entities involved in the other afterlife's are not pleased the old gods interference and are willing to interfere with them regardless of the debatable power imbalance. Considering the story seems to be going into a "we are traveling through the afterlife's" route, I think we would be making allies in these realms going forward.

MC is also a construct: I played around with an idea in another tumblr post where MC was also a construct of sorts similar to Valax. Sure, it could be because MC is the leader and the party are more likely to listen if it came to them, but I get the vibes to that old theory when the Voice is able to puppet MC's voice.

After the bombshell info that Valax was created, the idea that her mother is likely one of the old gods cannot stop running through my brain.

1 - I originally didn’t think much about Valax looking like an elf (her ears) back in chapter 1, but she doesn’t look anything like the shadow-realm residents as she said.

2 - When she said her mother created her, it reminded me of the old gods creating the elves (Valax appearance didn’t help dissuading me).

3- I don’t know why but my mind immediately jumped to either Nifara or the mother of grey being a possible candidates. Nifara because the way Valax phrased how her mother is denied power sounds like ( the mother of grey is mostly because she seems to be the most mysterious).