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The Thistle Men are...
A government project of some sort. After Episode 8, and the reveal that they've set up a town in an army base, and considering how the cop acted in episode 3... Sylvia Parker is an assumed name
Sylvia isn't her real name: it's her mother's, which she took on after her mother died for the purposes of fighting the Hungry Men.- Jossed: It turns out Sylvia Parker Sr just named her daughter after herself.
Alice... is dead.
- Jossed. She shows up alive and well in Episode 10.
The woman hunting Keisha
- Is from Thistle, but higher-ranking/more evolved than the Thistle mooks
- Is the template from which the Thistle men were created
- Is a fallen oracle
The town of Charlatan
Is actually a failed Praxis site, and whatever time dilation is affecting Praxis sites is causing the town to loop through a disaster. The town of Charlatan
Is a town that a god tried to protect from the nuclear war of 1983 ala Night Vale, but pulled the town out of time too late.- Alternatively, Charlatan is another Night Vale.