Since everyone is talking about the implications of Winda being a ritual beast, I thought it would be a good Idea to talk about something I haven't see people mention: Apoqliphort Towers.

I don't like doing this because it makes me feel like a jerk, but I'm going to have to correct a bit of this.

The lswarm virus infected gem-knight master diamond who hosted the shaddoll core due to a forced fusion with gem-knight emerald infected with the virus. This born the shaddolls a key role player this era.

Although this is a popular theory due to {Absorb Fusion} depicting a green gem, the Master Guide 4 says a few things that I think make this theory very unlikely:

It seems that “Crystal’s” core, which had stopped functioning after the Great War, began overloading due to the forced multiple Fusions he endured. The Core absorbed all light, and turned into an ominous form. Something like this has never happened before…

That last line definitely wouldn't be there if it was talking about an Lswarm influence, considering they were the penultimate enemy at that point. Rather, this description supports more the other popular theory, that it was the unprecedented frequency and forcedness of Crystal's many fusions which led his core to malfunction and malform. The Shaddolls were formed, most likely, of the crazed, despairing minds of multiple forcibly fused souls.

The constellar passed on their legacy to a new group called the tellerknight, who created the yang zing with the aid of sombre to defend any future threats. Both play a part, but not a major one.

Two things here. First is that Sombre is all the Constellars (except {Constellar Raselhague}, who became {Evilswarm Kerykeion}, her counterpart). The way it goes is this: the Constellars combined their strength to become {Constellar Ptolemy M7}, and M7 gave its form and power to {Gem-Knight Lazuli}, allowing her to become {Constelkar Sombre}. So the Constellar race was completely wiped out in essence, and Tellarknights would have to be their spiritual successors at best, and not direct descendants.

And the second thing is that we have no proof of the Tellarknights ever creating the Yang Zing, or even interacting with them. Constellar Sombre is said to have created them in the Master Guide, and she is shown doing so in {Yang Zing Creation}. As we discussed in another exchange yesterday, she did this soon after the war with Sophia was over, because she left the planet after that, and when we saw her descend again, it was already the middle of the next war, and only then was she the {Tellarknight Ptolemaeus}.

The gishki having been mostly wiped out during the war with Sophia, have only 2 remaining members who found the necroz. They play a major role.

You'd think so, only they don't explicitly do anything until {Void Vanishment}, and after that when {Nekroz of Sophia} shows up. More on that later.

The gusto face a similar fate to the gishki, and found the ritual beasts, they play a pretty minor role.

I'd say they're shown to play a much bigger role, actually, considering their fight against the Shaddolls and Yazi in {Ritual Beast Ambush}, and the capture and transformation of Wen into Wendigo in that same card, and then even later, Ulti-Gaiapelio duking it out with Tierra herself in Ultimate Providence. That's already more appearances in actual events than the Nekroz got.

El-shaddoll winda attacks the naturia sacred tree for reasons unknown and damages it, causing it to release a program known as the qli who serve to deal with the threat posed to the tree and it's core.

We're pretty sure that's what they do, yeah.

The qli unknowningly release the infernoid, an ancient race who lived within their bodies to the world. they seek destruction

We're not sure if the Qli do this knowingly or not, but it seems more likely to me that they know what they're doing, as Tierra is referenced in their flavor text, and the Infernoids are inside them, and run off of the same orbs that they use. Also, in {Void Launch}, we see how the Infernoids come out of the Qli, and it's not violent or anything – it's like it's all been prepared beforehand. Plus, {Qliphort Monolith}'s OCG flavor text specifically mentions the Infernoids' flood of fire. With all that in mind, I feel like the Qli knew what they had inside of them, but they also operated under a strategy which called for their own powers to be used before they unleashed the demon equivalents of nukes. After all, the Qli are pretty powerful, but we see in {Void Expansion} just how much damage the Infernoids can do. It would make sense for them to be only a last resort.

The leader of the shaddoll battle the leader of the qli and wins becoming shekinaga

{El Shaddoll Construct} battles {Apoqliphort Towers} and ends up assuming the form of {El Shaddoll Shekinaga}. It's assumed by most that she managed to subjugate Towers to her will, as Shekinaga is an El Shaddoll, not a Qli.

The shaddoll posses and control ritual beast pettilfin

Yep.

The sacred tree chooses 10 HEROs to become carriers of its will, these are the zefra.

That, I'm pretty sure, has to happen later. At this point, the Qliphort spheres are within the Infernoids, and not yet on the Oracle of Zefra. Also, to be clear: heroes, not HEROes.

The shaddoll leader fights with one of the necroz members and is frozen in ice by the power of the 3rd dragon of the apocalypse.

To be completely honest, this is a point of contention among many, and not backed up by anything definitive, but there's a theory which is (in my opinion) pretty strong that indicates that it's probably true.

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