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Big D

Big-D is Properly Paranoid about sharing information because he used to be more open and one of his children died because of it

Probably the counterpart of Sanguinis.

• Given the vampiric-themes of the Blood Angels in 40k, it would be interesting if said character didn't die... but was Embraced.
  • Possibly of the Toreador Clan?
• He states this as a reason in Something is Wrong with Horse. Whether he's right in withholding information is something he reflects on a few minutes later.

Big-D has conquered the various magical forces of the world in more ways than one

It is mentioned he has many ex-lovers and children so he clearly gets around, and considering his basis has several children themed on various monsters that appear in the WOD, including a werewolf, a vampire, and a mage, this supernatural parentage could also mean the Horse the horse might actually be his biological child

Big D is searching for Golconda

His talk with Kevin shows that he wants to help free those who were forced into vampirism, and with the level of knowledge he has he's at least heard of the idea, if not how to go about it.

Big-D is bullshitting Kevin

• All this talk about his vision is a big fat lie, used to trick Kevin work for him and share what assets he has (and 9th generation vampire with knowledge about both local sects is a valuable asset). But when Kevin will have nothing more to offer, Big-D will unceremoniously shank him, possibly laughing at his gullibility.

Kevin’s isn’t the first identity D has stolen

• He refers to the howling as Krakus. Which mught just be him being himself, but maybe not. There’s a real life legend by the name of Krakus - a Polish prince who founded a city - which usually means a supernatural being in the World of Darkness. Maybe even the Methuselah Big-D claims his family bested.
  • Also, it’s a Polish name and he’s Middle Eastern and very heavily implied to be supernaturally long lived.

Big D is the Fiddler.

The flashback scenes depicting the Fiddler don’t show his face, but he does have Big-D’s sort of distinct dark hair and gold coloured clothing.

Big D is supernaturally Older Than He Looks

On top of looking perhaps even younger than Door one of his own sons - and not quite old enough to not only have one of who is somewhere over thirty but also to be a grandfather to a 11 year old - he has some strange turns of phrase, such as about those “movie films” instead of just “movies”.

• As of episode 2, it also appears Door and Marckus grew up separately too, potentially increasing Big D’s possible age; although it remains to be confirmed if this was when one of them was still young or not.
• The way he says "that shit was crazy" about witchburnings during the audiologs.
• The second audiolog has Big-D refer to "House" Tremere. He is also very coy and chuckles when Kevin asks him which 90s (giving 1890s as an example).
• The fourth audiolog has him reminiscing on the hijinks he got up to during the Prohibition, which would make him 88 at minimum if he was an infant at the time.
• His preferred unit of weight is apparently the "mina" (used both to describe the amount of force required for the imprisoned vampires to break out and offhandedly when delivering supplies to Horse). A mina is a unit of weight used in the ancient Near East, which wasn't in common use even by the time of the Roman Empire. This would make him not just Older Than He Looks but thousands of years old, older than all but a small handful of vampires.

Big D is a ghoul

He looks no older than his grand-son thanks to vitae, extracted from the vampires he hunts. He also uses it to get high. And possibly addicted his entire family onto it, explaining how they haven't became cripples while getting such a damage on regular basis.

• There are some people who are naturally immune to the bloodbonding effects of becoming ghoul, which is why independent ghouls exist, which is what he probably is. Additionally, he might be a revenant, a ghoul with a hereditary condition that allows them to produce their own Vitae, which would make his family the same.
  • Some ghouls are not immune, but for one reason or another outlive their domitor and deliberately kill other vampires used as a source of Vitae to avoid effects of bloodbond, which is another reason why independent ghouls exist.
    • The blood bond usually requires feeding on vitae directly from the vein of a Kindred, but it doesn't lose its ability to create and/or sustain a ghoul if, say, it is poured into a drinking vessel and fed to a mortal – it will even retain said ability for up to a few days, if stored in an airtight container, away from sunlight. Thus, all a mortal or ghoul has to do to remain independent is to never feed directly from any would-be domitor.
• If he is a ghoul, he may be even older than we think he should be. The way he reacted to Kitten mentioning the witch burnings of the 1500's implies he was there.

Big D is or is going to become a Technocrat.

He's based on the TTS-Emperor, who was based on the original God Emperor of Mankind. OG Emperor was a man who insisted that the universe was a rational universe free of superstitious nonsense in spite of the clear evidence to the contrary, and he was going to brutally subdue and/or murder anyone that got in the way of his vision, especially the nonhumans and supernatural beings of the universe.

• He finds Time as a concept odious and is constantly high as a kite. He's a recruitment material for Cult of Ecstasy.
• Alternatively, the usage of sense altering substances like DMT and ayahuasca if taken in conjunction with the shamanistic origin of the original character qualifies him for Verbena as well.
  • Verbena are notorious luddites and proponents of a complete dismantlement of civilisation, while he clearly doesn't give a fuck and very much enjoys luxuries of the modern age.
• Possibly Jossed in the first audiodrama; Big-D is apparently aware of the Technocracy, or at least the New World Order (which he probably mistakenly attributes Louis Pasteur to being a member of), and if him calling Pasteur a fascist is anything to go off of he apparently thinks none too highly of them.
  • Which might indicate that he is a Son of Ether.
    • That's actually an RL conspiracy theory (well, exact details may vary) about pasteurisation, and the flavour is closer to Verbena, Cult of Ecstasy, or Werewolves rather than Etherites.
  • Strongest evidence as of the Interrogation of Kevin indicates he's a current or former Hermetic, given his knowledge of the Massassa War - which is something only the Hermetics would really know about, and his casual referring to Clan Tremere as House Tremere indicates he's familiar with them from a Hermetic understanding of history; Only the Hermetics call them that - a mage House that hasn't existed for literal millennia. A normal Hunter wouldn't know this or care to make the distinction.

Big D is actually a Changeling or Kithain

• Vampires suffer from powerful hallucinations when drinking fairy blood, and Big D's odd behavior could be explained by having 24/7 access to Chimerical Reality. This doesn't exactly explain why he'd be leading a group of hunters, mind you.
  • Aside from the fact that he's confirmed to be a DMT (and maybe other stuff) addict, and spiked blood works the same way in canon.
  • In the first podcast episode, he sternly warns Kitten of the power true names can hold. Also, there is a fair bit of overlap between Changelings and Mages in terms of how they view the Technocracy and do magic. Also also, a hunter's life could lead him directly to the whimsy needed to stave off Banality.
  • It could be he's a Changeling that's achived Síocháin, basically fairy immortality.

Big D is a Mage

He seemed sober right up until being bitten (potentially willing DMT into himself on the spot), is in unusually good health for someone his age, managed to succesfully interrogate a captive Tremere on his own and has an abnormally long list of ex-lovers and children (including a literal horse). All of this potentially points to being a Mage, one notably skilled in the Life sphere.

• Unnatural longevity and health can also be explained through vitae addiction, and the experience with hunting and interrogating vampires would be a part of the bargain.
• In line with the mage argument: the audiolog also has his expressing having an immunity to Delirium (an effect brought on humans by seeing a werewolf's warform) due to being "built differently". He also directly expresses a hatred of the New World Order, in addition to his hatred of technology.
• His philosophy about the secret workings of the universe may indicate a Questing Avatar.
• His knowledge of the power of True Names and calling Kevin out as being part of House Tremere hint that he might well be a (former) Hermetic Mage, possibly one who quit the business due to being sick of the politics, or a former apprentice who flunked out for other reasons.

Big-D was displaced through time.

There is no denying that Big-D knows more then a typical mortal, and even some hunters. The Audio-logs hint that he was around to have killed Houdini plus other comments he's made indicate he was at some historical events. He does not look to be overly old either. While him being a supernatural is possible, it's also likely he was simply displaced through time during a hunt gone awry. While such circumstances are VERY rare in the World of Darkness, they aren't entirely unheard of or impossible. He does seem rather aware of Mages and how they function, as well as how powerful they can be. But, when confronted about being one himself, he denies it and even seems downright furious at the insinuation. It is possible that he was the victim of a powerful time Mage and flung forward into the future.

Big D is Seth or Adam

It would explain his absurd strength and several hints he may be older then he lets on while still making his claim to be just a man technically the truth(much like his 40k counterparts similar claim), hes just one of the primeval men, in the bible both Seth and Adam are stated to live to be over 900, so he can clearly live well beyond what a modern human can, its possible hes completely immortal and this death is incorrect, it would also explain his desire to kill Caine specifically it is not just Caine being the greatest vampire, it would be revenge for Abel(and possibly a mercy killing for Caine) similarly the comment about him having many children, while likely also literal, could also metaphorically be refering to all of humanity as they are all descendants of Adam and Seth, if he is Adam one of the "ex-children" mentioned may be Cainne himself, or the kindred in general(again much like his 40k counerparts own children that turned against him and became demonic horrors to prey on humanity

• Possibly Jossed. In the second audio-log, Big-D mentions hunting a Methuselah with his father and siblings. Adam has no father and by the time there were Methuselahs, Abel was dead and Cain a vampire, leaving Seth no siblings with whom to hunt.
  • Abel is canonically a wraith and Adams father is God, so it could technically be true, simply in a far less mundane way, of course the same theory could apply with Big D as one of Seths children or other descendants, still putting him in the category of primeval man since its clear this family business has been going on at least a few generations

Big D is Noah

• As in, Noah and the Great Flood.

Big D is one of the last Imbued Hunters, and none of the rest of the family are.

The series being set in 2006 (two years after the final book for Hunter: The Reckoning was published and supposedly ending the storyline), the complete lack of Witnesses, no mention of Hunter Net, and the fact distinct lack of or mention of the Second Sight means that something is very, very off about Big D's family if they are supposed to be hunters. That, or Big D IS a Witness, which is a whole different can of worms, and is just too paranoid to explain to his family the terminology and powers that being a Hunter provides.

Big-D is a Solar Exalt.

• It would explain a lot about his idiosyncrasies and quirks, why he doesn't perfectly align with most of the known supernatural creatures while still seemingly being immortal (or at least very long-lived), and knowing things he really shouldn't. He's a light in the World of Darkness-and he will not go gently.
  • Also, it would add a further parallel to the Man-Emperor.
  • I find this to be unlikely, as in Exalted vs World of Darkness, a project by Holden Shearer (an ex-White Wolf game designer, meaning his word, while still not canon, carries slightly more weight) the blood of Solar Exalt burns like sunlight to a vampire, meaning when Kevin tried to drink D's blood, he would have immediately taken aggravated damage equal to the amount of Blood Points drained.

Big D just uses a lot of hair dye

He's actually just as gray-haired as Door, while Door turned prematurely gray from dealing with his father's antics.

Big D is good buddies with Old Man Henderson

• Because the idea amuses me and it's a match made in heaven:
  • They are both ClockCuckoolanders to the extreme.
  • Both are Bunny Ears Lawyers when it comes to taking on supernatural threats.
  • Both are big fans of substance abuse, with Henderson being enough of a bro to pass the blunt after smoking the freaking Necronomicon.
  • They both seem to have insane backstories that have only been hinted at where there's no telling what parts are true.
  • Both of them have hearts of gold underneath all the insanity and badassery.
  • They both have over-the-top wardrobes.
  • There's confusion about both of their names. It's not known what Big D's name stands for and it's unclear if Henderson is the guy's first or last name.
  • Big D strikes me as the type of guy who would become righteously furious upon hearing about Henderson's missing lawn gnomes and swear his aid in retrieving them.
  • Seriously, somebody needs to write this fanfic.

The Family

One of the Family, or potentially all of them, are going to be Imbued, or already are.

Given that they exist in the World of Darkness post-Week of Nightmares, and they regularly interact with the Supernatural, they will eventually catch the attention of the Messengers and be turned into capital-H Hunters, if they aren't already and it hasn't been revealed yet.

• The traditional rule of law in Hunter states one can become an Imbued only during their first encounter with the supernatural, and usually in response to another Imbued dying in a supernatural attack. Boy, and likely Kitten, have already experienced the Supernatural but not had any known significant changes. Meanwhile, despite Door and Marckus both displaying experience and resources, they don't seem to use any Hunter Edges in combat nor interest in them, relying on conventional weapons and gadgets respectively, making them being Imbued unlikely as well. Marckus has even been explicitly kicked out of the Arcanum, a different order of scholars and capital-H hunters. Big D, though...

  Kitten: Have you ever suffered the Delirium, Sir?

  Big D: AHH, NO, I'm built different.

  • Alternately they may have been imbued and not realized it, possibly passing off any strangeness from it as accidentally mixing some of Ds stash into the food.

Kitten is a Bastet

• Kitten's demonstrated at least near-superhuman durability and agility in the series, from easily jumping out of the trap hole Pyotr dug in the family garage to taking severe beatings from Potence-enhanced Kindred and coming out none the worse for wear. He also displayed animalistic features such as a tail while escaping Pyotr's trap and his hissing was translated into legible speech in the captions, which would fit the Bastet who have a language composed of cat-like noises. One specific tribe of Bastet, the Ceilican, resemble housecats, have an affinity for technology, originate from Northern Europe, and have strong ties to the fae, which could tie into the above theory of Big D being a Changeling.

Kitten was Embraced

• And that's why he covers every inch of his skin. In the Horse audiolog, Kitten tells Door and Horse about an encounter with a vampire named Edwin Davies in college. Kitten is up front about how his story has a few holes; his memory blanked during the fight and whatever happened directly afterwards is too painful for him to tell. It's possible that the first blank is Edwin Embracing him during the fight, and what Kitten won't tell Door is his first experience as a vampire.
  • Seems unlikely, unless he can somehow fool whatever the hell Big-D has going on. Also Marckus has possibly seen what's under those clothes to some degree.
    • Considering Big D is willing to ally with Kevin, him being a vamped hunter would not be blasphemy to D, but might be an eventual problem to Door. In addition to being British.
  • Maybe he's wafer-Thin Blooded, with Edwin being too narcissistic and spoiled to handle his own Thin Blood. Thin bloods are vampires whose generation numbers are so high, they practically qualify as still human. The sun treats them like annoying neighbors instead of filthy heretics, and they can still eat, sleep, and fuck like regular humans, just with some sensory damage.

Kitten's life got really screwed up for awhile after his encounter with Edwin Davies

• When Kitten is explaining his story to Horse, he skips over what happened to him next, while hinting that he REALLY doesn't want to talk about it. There was probably some horrible fallout in his life after he killed Davies, especially since he mentioned that the guy came from a wealthy family and was popular on campus. From an outsider's perspective, it would look like Edwin Davies suddenly went missing, Sarah's eviscerated and partly devoured corpse was found in her flat, and Kitten was somehow connected and barely able to explain what happened. He might have been under suspicion for both deaths for a while, especially if Davies did have some kind of wealthy connections who could put pressure on the authorities. Kitten could have wound up ostracized from his friends and classmates and might have had to drop out to get away from harassment or accusations from the people around him. And that's not even getting into the personal trauma the poor guy would have been dealing with at the same time.

Markus has the potential to awaken as a Mage

• I mean... he might not show any interest in magic at the moment, it would make sense for a character based on Magnus the Red of all people. The only question is whether he'll join up with the Order of Hermes or go full nephandus.
  • A throwaway line implies he plays Magic: The Gathering (like Magnus) so he definitely has an interest in magic.
  • Big-D seems to be trying to steer Marckus away from the path with how he requested Kevin's body amongst the Licks they all staked and captured.
• He’s likely a sorcerer / linear mage already, given he had contact with the Arcanum before he was banned from it. We just haven’t seen it yet because sorcery is generally a lot slower and less viable mid-combat than sphere magic.
• Supported by Audiolog 5 with Brok's ridiculously bad luck towards the end of his fight with Marckus.

Door ended up with Disease Bleach.

Considering Big D's... unorthodox parenting skills, it is possible that Door was taken on similar expeditions when he was Boy's age. What he encountered traumatised him to the point that his hair regrew white.

One or more people Door loved were turned into a Vampire

This is wildly spitballing from some of Door's lines, three to be specific: "All Vampires are destined to become monsters. Each one slain is who-knows-how-many lives saved. ", "I've learned many harsh lessons in my mining days, this was one of them." and the punctuation on "I. Can't. Kill. A. Corpse." that sounds weirdly out of place in how harsh and angry it came off.

So my idea is that, when he was a miner, someone Door loved or at least cared about (Boy's mother???) was Embraced and he tried to help them fighting their thirst for blood. But he failed and either that person went on a feeding frenzy, killing many people in short amount of time, or Door was forced to watch or even help them them pick new victims until he couldn't take it anymore. Either way he killed that person. His insistence Vampires are just corpses and not people might be a copying mechanism helping him avoid confronting guilt over murdering a a loved one.

• Possibly confirmed in the third audiolog as when D is talking about vampires infiltrating all aspects of human life he somberly says "even family" implying either one of the family was embraced or one of the familys lovers was already a vampire and tricked them

Boy’s mother was killed by vampires

• Hard to be sure. Boy's true parentage is unclear.

Boy is a mage

• Big-D says Boy wanted a familiar. Only mages and sorcerers have familiars - and a child could hardly master static magic. Boy may very well might be a Master who cast The Foundling spell on himself, essentially reincarnating himself as a child after selecting a family to raise his new self.
  • Who’s equivalent would be be the reincarnation of? Malcador?
    • For starters Malcador wouldn't be born yet.
  • Horse refers to Boy as an Oracle, as in the greatest of archmages. Based on his reaction to (and at his age recognition of) absinthe, he would presumably be the reincarnation of a Cultist of Ecstasy.
    • Initially 'oracle' was a term for a priest whose duty was to receive and relay prophecies given by a deity/something else, exactly what he's appointing the Boy to do.

No-one in the family is Imbued, but Boy is about to be

• Despite being Hunters in the Old World of Darkness, all the members of the family behave like normal humans (for a given definition of normal, at least) without any hints of them having Edges, knowing about hunter-net.org or hearing from the Messengers. While it's possible the entire family is made out of Bystanders, that seems unlikely. However the Imbuing only happens when a mortal becomes aware of the supernatural for the first time and only started happening around the turn of the millennium. Big-D had definitely already fought vampires by then, disqualifying him for the Imbuing. If he had already brought Door, Marckus and Kitten along on Hunts when the Imbuing started, they would be too. However, Arc One is set in 2006, is explicitly Boy's first meeting with monsters, lasts for slightly less than two days and end with Boy saving his father's life by shooting a violent vampire dead. He might very well start hearing voices soon...

Boy is actually a werewolf

• A feral child taken in who is fed an exclusive diet of meat, with the sharpshooting skills to gun down a super-fast vampire with a mere handgun? Certainly possible, considering Big D is willing to also try to convince a vampire to join his crew.
• Markus mentions Boy is unusually strong, though he makes a joke of it.
• Probably not. Horse calls him an 'Oracle' in Something is Wrong with Horse.

Horse is actually a Fomor Big-D has allied himself with.

• Horse can apparently vomit literal gallons of blood on a regular basis and somehow remains alive, quite reminiscent of the numerous hideous deformities creatures suffer when forced to host a Bane. Big-D's abnormally vast knowledge of the supernatural compared to the average Hunter and the total confidence he has in being able to turn Kevin to his side can also be neatly explained this way: If he can convince a shard of the Wyrm to join his team, there's no reason lesser monsters can't also be talked into it.

Horse is a Composite Character based off both Horus and Sanguinius

• Though he’s most clearly based off Horus (similar-sounding names, the favorite son, urged into leading a rebellion against Big-D, etc.) he also has a few qualities in common with Sanguinius (involves copious amounts of blood and an apparent ability to see into the future). Unless we see Sanguinius get a more obvious counterpart later, it’s possible Horse represents both of them.

The Arcanum Cluedo Theories

The Ghoul is Spit, and he isn't doing it out of malice

• Considering the way he acted without his ritalin, he might have also been suffering being away from vampire blood for so long to the point he can barely control it, witch might be why Git is locked in the closet and why he's crying for help near Wernon's dead body. He just doesn't want to live this life anymore.

Spit is a werewolf undergoing his first change

Going with the common thought of Spit being a Red Herring for the ghoul investigation. Fatigue's body is left dismembered and rent, body parts scattered all across the room. A ghoul weakened from vitae withdrawl probably couldn't destroy someone like that within the space of a few seconds. A newborn werewolf on the other hand tends to experience frenzy and emerge straight into their powerful war form during a high-stress moment (like being strung out from a drug withdrawl and having a nervous breakdown). Also worth noting that Fatigue's profession in the chapterhouse was "elder scholar of lycanthropy lore", meaning he was the team's werewolf specialist, and he alone took notice of Spit's miserable condition.

• Git being stuck in the pubroom closet while unaware of what happened outside could be explained as an episode of delirium, the temporary, panicked insanity caused by witnessing werewolves in their warforms, which serves to maintain their equivalent to the Masquerade — he simply ran and hid without thinking, blanking out the traumatizing memory of Spit transforming.
  • Alternatively, Fatigue could have realized Spit is about to transform and locked Git out for his own protection. Which may potentially made Spit think Fatigue is the Ghoul and panic, making situation that much worse for the kindly old man.

Fatigue was the ghoul

• The Tremere love knowledgeable old men- Something Fatigue was. Additionally, Marckus and Harry both consider him below suspicion- Making your ghoul be someone who doesn't seem 'capable' of posing a danger would reinforce their cover very well. Plus, going off the above WMG that Spit is a Garou or other werebeast, it may be that Spit found out, wanted to resolve the situation peacefully (considering Fatigue was showing him a lot of empathy), but succumbed to the stress.
  • Unlike Fatigue's girsly fate, Occam was only choked unconscious, despite the ghoul having ample opportunity (three hours he spent alone) to kill him, implying that the Ghoul has some affection for Occam at least, which would fit with Fatigue's gentle disposition.

Remold is a Ventrue.

In Episode 2, Big-D mentions that he got details about a big secret regarding the Chapter House in Yarmouth before he freaked out over the Diablerie issue, something Kevin said that the Regent wouldn't want Hunters to know. In Audiolog 5, it's revealed that the local Arcanum chapter, ostensibly led by Chancellor Occam and controlled by a faction of "old guard" led by Remold Blacklaw. Said leader being an extremely arrogant, Lawful Stupid Blue Blood who destroyed every bit of research and documentation made about Vampires by Big D when the latter was banned from the Arcanum. In a sense, he almost looks, and acts, like a Ventrue vampire. Though the only thing throwing a wrench in this theory is his son Brok, which he might've adopted considering Vampires don't copulate like normal humans, if Remold is a Ventrue, then it could be said that Remold staged Big D and his family to be banned so he can destroy everything about vampires they contributed to the Arcanum, upholding the Masquerade in the process.

• He could have been embraced after fathering Brok.
• He doesn't need to be a vampire to be doing their dirty work. He might be a ghoul or be compromised in some totally mundane way like blackmail.
  • Or even manipulated without his knowledge.

There are two Ghouls

Someone may have been Ghouled since Kevin left the Carmarilla, or he just was never told about the other one. This way it doesn't free anyone of suspicion if they were accounted for during either of two Ghoul attacks so far, and allows for tension to remain if Fatigue was a Ghoul (in fact the other Ghoul may have offed him to not get ratted out in case the old man would be discovered).

The Ghoul has been killed, but there is a werebeast about

• Following on the "Spit is becoming a werewolf" and "Wernon was the ghoul" WMGs above, there's been a lot of werebeast talk. Wernon was the chapterhouse's lycanthropy specialist, Remold recalled the time he hunted a werebear, and the entire situation of the arc might bring to mind a tense game of Werewolf. Could be some foreshadowing to the creature the Arcanum should really be worried about.

The Ghoul wasn't the killer

As mentioned above, it doesn't seem likely a Ghoul suffering from withdrawal could massacre a man the way Fatigue was. Some alternatives:

• Spit, in line with theory he is a werewolf.
• A Vampire led into the building before the lockdown by the Ghoul
• A member of the Arcanum trying to settle some past grudges or keep Fatigue from revealing their secrets and blame it on a Ghoul
• Mathilda, because who didn't think of going on a killing sphree during long, unexpected, unpaid overhours?

The Ghoul isn't at the Arcanum Chapter House for Hunter data

As shown so far the Regent of Great Yarmouth is incredibly incompetent.

• Embracing Kevin for his skills as an accountant then promptly disregarding and largely disowning him when his advice goes against what she actually wants.
• Allowing the security at the 99p Store to lapse badly.
• Disregarding how much of a threat Big D is strictly because of how he's been diagnosed anti-psychotics.

So while there probably is a Ghoul in the Chapter House, they're probably not there for the Coalition data on Hunters at all. The reason they're there is probably far more hilariously self-serving, like being after some Boudican artifact in the Archives to enhance the Boudica roleplay.

• Or they could be after the Coalition data...but only so they can find people who are willing to partake in said Boudica roleplay. Or maybe its a more disgruntled ghoul looking for a electric razor so they can get the Regent to finally shave her vagina.

A full list of potential Ghoul candidates, with some speculation as to why they may have been turned

• Giles/Git - Being an employee of the 99p Store that the Regent of Yarmouth has her chantry in, it's possible Git is a Manchurian Agent who doesn't even know he's a Camarilla spy, either because the Vitae that's Ghouled him was slipped into his employee's lunchtime meal or drink, or he's been brainwashed by the Dominate discipline.
• Simon/Spit - Assuming the previous theories speculating he's some sort of Were-Creature are NOT true - if they are, the Hunters now have to deal with Spit instead of (or perhaps in addition to) the Ghoul Infiltrator.
• Elise - While Big-D did interrogate her, she did split off on her own both times the Chapter House occupants split up, and the first time she did so, she stole Git's keys, wallet and smokes. While perhaps a way to Troll one of Brok's goons, she may have her own agenda at play (especially with the keys). Assuming there is more than one sect with a spy in the Chapter House, Elise may be an agent of the Anarchs (due to sympathizing with their wish to be free of the Camarilla and survive on their own terms), or the Sabbat (due to wanting to get powers from Vampirism even her black magic can't attain)
• Doctor Waters - She also split off both times the group fragments, with the first time saying she had "reading" to attend to in a way that sounded... euphemistic. She also seems like the type a Tremere would Ghoul or even potentially Sire, being a scholarly intellectual with dozens of scalpels to draw people's blood in her handbag at all times. Assuming she is the Ghoul, her diagnosing Occam's injuries may simply be her way of covering her own tracks.
  • Building on this, there have been several things other characters and herself have dropped that allude to a cocaine addiction. Recall how Detective-Sergeant Chapman brought up using substitutes like contraband heroin yet it "didn't even compare" to Vitae. So considering Dr. Waters's station, it would be no baseless guess to think she's doing cocaine to tide her over before her next hit of vampire blood.
• Lord Fatigue - Assuming the previous theories implying he was the Ghoul infiltrator (or at least one of them) were correct, and now the Hunters have to deal with whatever ripped him to bloody shreds next...
• Amanda - Although interrogated by the Blacklaw's (to "inconclusive" results as Brok put it), Amanda was mumbling "Baba Yaga" to herself - who, in the World of Darkness, was a Nosferatu methuselah. While it's unlikely that she was Ghouled by the Little Grandmother herself (especially if Baba Yaga's destruction from the mainline games is canon to The Parenting's timeline), it's possible she's been Ghouled by a Nosferatu spy (who may have directly descended from Baba Yaga), trying to syphon secrets from the Arcanum, to pawn the knowledge of the hunters and/or its artifacts off later.
• Occam, though not voluntarily. Possibly resisting the control of whomever is forcing him to spy on his own arcanum chapter. Points in favor:
  • He was left alive after being attacked despite the killer clearly being capable of eviseration.
  • He's unaccounted for after being rescued.
  • He appears none the worse for wear after Fatigue is eviserated.
  • He's got the authority to lock down the arcanum and eliminate threats to whomever ghouled him.
  • He's got the Bald of Evil and Goatee of Evil.
  • He's in a perfect position to avoid suspicion - literally being above suspicion as the leader of the arcanum chapter.
  • You can read his plea at the beginning for the killer to step forward as him trying his damnedest to resist whatever has him in its grips.
• Mathilda
  • Sour, annoyed that the hunters are there, and her claims that she didn't know vampires are real is a convenient excuse.
  • Not in the room when the others hear the murder.
  • Claims the job doesn't pay well enough, giving her a motive for throwing her lot in with the vampires.
• Grimal - Grimal was confirmed by Harry to have been found crawling through the ventilation spying on the senior members of the Arcanum, as this is said Grimal tries to deflect this by saying that she got bored and kept falling asleep as she eavesdropped on them. To add to this, Grimal was spotted on the map in the Security Room which according to Matilda is the most ventilated room in the building. Meaning that it could access any room in the building. Now if Grimal was the Ghoul, the ventilation would be the prefect way to spy on the Chapter House for her Domitor and choke out Occam whilst he's alone. This said, she's definitely not Fatigue's killer, considering her presence is accounted for since the last time Fatigue was seen alive - being a captive of the Blacklaws.

Someone else is a werebeast

Building on previous theories. Someone else could be a werebeast, unrelated to whenever Spit is or isn't. Why would a werebeast be here? Remold did mention werebeast safaris, so it's possible he either got attention of some sort of Changing Breeds (not necessairly werewolves but most likely) to send a spy into the Arcanum, or royally pissed them off and that werebeast is there to kill him or worse. It may even line up with Horse Prophecy - Remold is a Blacklaw family patriarch, who has been pretty merciless and "mastered the Luna" may reference him slaying werebeasts. And he cares for physical prowess enough to be begging for death if a werebeast would leave his body broken.

Why kill Fatigue? It depends whenever Spit is or isn't a werewolf about to undergo his first transformation. If he is, the more experienced werebeast may have recognized it and killed Fatigue before he could be able to uncover this fact and expose him. If he's not, the werebeast could realize the guy who specializes in their kind is poking around to uncover the Ghoul and concluded it's only a matter of time before he discovers them. It may also be possible Remold's "safaris" were done with use of Fatigue's research and so he too was targetted in retaliation.

Matilda is a Werewolf

If the theory that there is a Werewolf within the chapter house is true, Matilda has a lot of suspicious things about her that makes her stand out.

• For one, her attitude around people. She is a bitch who goes out of her way to be rude to people even when they are trying to be polite. Werewolves tend to look down on humans in contempt, so her being forced to be in the proximity of a group that her species holds no lost love for could explain her attitude.
• Her reactions and priorities with the Ghoul hunt are weirdly skewed and misplaced. She had apparently just fond out Vampires are real and the servant of one is in the building, yet so far has reacted in the same way that you would if your neighbor let their dog out in your yard. Especially compared to Amanda she is never surprised by anything going on, from the Arcanum stuff, to Magic or even Occam getting assaulted. The one time she does talk about the Ghoul she asks Kitten if it could cost her the maid job, not her life. The only way this makes sense is if she knows the Ghoul is no physical threat to her. The only time she reacted in a way you'd expect to the things going on is finding Fatigue's corpse, and that could just be acting.

The woman seen at the end of Episode 1 is Marckus and/or Door's mother.

She looks similar to TTS Celestial Shaman Queen, so it's reasonable to assume she has some connection to Big D in this universe as well. She could be this setting's version of original 40k's Erda: the Emperor's female counterpart, a mother to his sons, and eventually his enemy.

The only problem here is that both Big D and TTS are Ambiguously Brown while Marckus and Door are pale and light-haired, but maybe they're adopted, or either Queen or Big D are mixed.

The series is a campaign played by the cast of TTS

• Big-D puts the "D" in "DMPC", as in a character controlled by the Storyteller who is a member of the group. It would explain his wealth of insider knowledge and seemingly erratic decisions. However, he is a well-managed DMPC as he tends to pull back out of the spotlight when a fight breaks out or the other players concoct plans.
• As for characters, Door has "Construction" as his Virtue AND his Vice, hence why he inspects a random picnic table. Marckus likely has "Creative" as his virtue, and "Nerd" as his vice. Creative in how he makes clever hunting gadgets, but his nerdy nature makes him buy plastic miniatures and experiment with things he really shouldn't. Boy was created using the "Innocents" book for child characters. Kitten is harder to pin down, though he has good athletic stats with how well he escapes a trap hole and uses stilts in a minefield.

The cast will go after other gamelines in later episodes.

Not quite confirmed. The first audiolog makes it clear that Big D is aware of other kinds of supernatural monsters in the World of Darkness, including Wraiths, Werewolves and Mages, but also stresses that he doesn't believe his family is ready to face any of them. In his estimate, they're not even ready to truly understand Vampires, which in classic World of Darkness are the bottom of the barrel for the horrors Hunters will have to fight.

This series is a Stealth Sequel to TTS

After the intended arc is resolved in-universe, they have another shot at tabletop gaming. The fact that none of them have gotten any better at character creation gives us a glimpse into where everybody ended up:

• The Emperor's character being a slightly better parent than the TTS-Emps we know suggests he was successful in being reunited with his compassion, even if he hasn't been restored to life. If he has been released from the Throne, he's become an outright Sense Freak to compensate for the millennia he spent immobile and decaying. If not, he's living vicariously though his character.
• Dorn is still Boy's adoptive father.
• Boy is just happy to be included, and is probably being mentored to a degree by his ridiculous superhuman adoptive family.
• Kitten survived or was revived, and ended up getting together with Magnus. They're still in the honeymoon phase. His presence at the table suggests he might also have taken back his position as Caretaker from the Fabstodes.
• Magnus finally found somebody else to GM so he can actually play. He's also calmed down enough to embrace the fact that the rest of his family is going to drive the campaign off the rails, so he might as well join in.
• Nostalgia (writer and Boy's VA) confirmed that Boy is Door's biological son on Alfabusa's discord, so that part is a minor jossing.

It's a stealth prequel to TTS

At some point the cast has nothing to do (possibly sitting in prison), so they spend time on a perfectly British entertainment - Warhammer 40k. And Big D has no idea what's going on at first, but requests to be the greatest mojo around here, so he's the Emperor with a lot of questions about the lore, until later he reads the actual books.

• Alternatively the series ends with only Big D left alive and him mourning his family before deciding to figure out how he can bring them all back, leading him to become the Emperor of Mankind to develop the Primarchs and using his definitely-not-godlike-powers to stuff their souls from the Immaterium into their Primarch forms.

Leman Russ expy character is going to be be a werewolf

• Now with If the Emperor had a Text to Speech Device on indefinite hiatus that means we not going to see how Leman Russ story is going turn out and that his voice actor Zoran now has nothing to do unless he gets an expy role in in this new series
• In 40k Leman Russ is the primarch of the Space Wolves. Obviously wolves are tied heavily tied with the lore of the Space Wolves. The Space Wolves even have a unique geneseed the Canis Helix which effectively turns all Astartes with Space Wolf geneseed into part wolf and they even have a gene seed curse the Wulfen where they end up turning into were-wolf like creatures
• Get of Fenris would be the most appropriate tribe, given the Knight Templar mindset as well as its association with the mythical Fenrir.
  • Alternately he will be a furry that really really really wants to be a werewolf
• Big D being wolf-blooded would explain why he claims to have never felt the Delirium.

There will be more Norfolk urban legends brought up.

The cities shown in Episode 1 are surprisingly real locales. So is the tale of the Fiddler of Binham Priory. This makes one wonder if they could implement other Norfolk ghost stories in future episodes, such as the Grey Lady of Hunstanton Hall, the Sandringham Poltergeist, or the Headless Woman of Blickling Hall among other ghost stories.

• Sorta confirmed, Bruva's Patreon has stated that one of their plans is for an audiologs starring Kitten and Big-D sitting in the kitchen. Kitten is making breakfast and chatting with Big-D about Norfolk Folklore.
• Confirmed, that audiolog has now been released.

More of Marckus and Door's siblings will turn up.

It goes without saying that at least a few of the other Primarchs will make a showing, be they direct copies of their selves from TTS or using a gender-flipped version to vary the group. It'd even be interesting if Ht G had all of the Primarchs, and they have to explain how Big-D - seemingly a normal human man - has 18/19 or 20/21 children.

Also, if the full lot exist, their age from oldest to youngest is the age the Primarchs were discovered in during the Great Crusade, making Door the 7th eldest child and Marckus the 9th.

• Adding to this, Sanguinius' counterpart is ironically a Reconciler. Possibly either a Devil or a Scourge. Alpharius is likely a member of the New World Order. Vulkan is Mummy (resurrective abilities). Guilliman is Judge hunter. Horus was likely a Nephandus.
  • Lorgar (possibly Logan?) is likely also a Nephandus, possibly from the Celestial Chorus or Knights Templar or maybe even the Lions of Zion or Batani before going - being forced? - through the caul. If so, it's probably Big-D's fault it happened. Some version of Kor Phaeron might have been involved, possibly the Nephandus who forced Lorgar through the caul. Some equivalent of Uriah might have been Lorgar's mentor before he was corrupted.
  • Or maybe Lorgar is a non-fallen mage who no longer speaks with his father due to different views on religion and God and maybe the Council of Nine Mystic Traditions, even if they both hate the Technocracy and vampires.
  • Or maybe he is a Technocrat.
  • Vulkan becoming a Mummy may be related to Big-D's Mummy Adventure.
  • Konrad is hyperfocused on hunting down Slashers, although he's fairly close to becoming one himself.
• Chapter 2 confirms that Big-D has produced many children with many ex-spouses, presumably accounting for the quantity. His favourite child is a horse named Horse.

Kevin is a lower generation than the other lickers.

Being able to successfully dominate multiple people at once even if only a short while, is quite a powerful move and may suggest he is not as high a generation as the other kindred he is living with.

• Confirmed in the second audiolog; Kevin is a 9th Generation vampire and the lowest of his group, followed by Shitbeard, Apeboy, and finally Pyotr.

The Black-robed woman is the Prince

Shitbeard refers to the district's Prince with female pronouns and suggests she's using the Hunters as catspaws. And you can see Big D's bus driving back and forth in tune with her playing (them like a fiddle).

Pyotr is going to kill Kevin and escape the house

If the theory Shitbeard and/or Kevin may have been of an older generation than him, Pyotr diablerizing on both and then taking off could make the arc of the miniseries be about the Family having to hunt down a monster of their own making, maybe even being forced to work with Camarilla against a common foe.

• Jossed. Pyotr is killed in Chapter 3 by a field of landmines outside the Family's house.
  • Well, technically speaking Pyotr did escape the house, he just didn't escape the yard.

Shitbeard might come back as a Wraith.

His Hidden Depths revealed in Episode 2 shows that he has quite a few possible Fetters and Passions to draw upon, and would be a much different person without the Brujah traits. The post-credits Patreon pop shows an older man passionate about education and he could possibly end up helping the Family in some way to Resolve his life as mortal and Brujah in order to Transcend.

• Has it been established that diablerized vampires can become wraiths? I can imagine that one would at minimum need to destroy the vampire who ate their soul first.
  • The end of the episode implies that he actually gets to ascend to Heaven.

Pyotr will be brought down from within

Diablerie can sometimes result in the killer absorbing some traits from their victims, this will cause Pyotr to take on Apeboys larping trait, leaving him open while he gives a melodramatic speech.

• Confirmed at least partially, while it was mainly him just being angry he did notably get distracted ranting about being "The Sword of Caine" which certainly didn't help him realize he was falling into a trap

Shitbeard joined the Sabbat as a shovelhead

Shitbeard is a college-educated liberal who clearly has great trouble rationalizing his beliefs with not only vampire society, but the Sabbat in particular. However, he may not have joined up willingly in the first place: The Sabbat has a favorite warfare tactic where they embrace a bunch of random street thugs and unleash them as cannon fodder, with the survivors being granted full membership. Given that Shitbeard is a muscular biker, he likely got swept up in one of these mass embraces.

• The Chapter 3 eyecatch establishes that Shitbeard was abducted from a charity blood drive hosted by biker gangs, and implies that the whole thing was part of a shovelhead roundup (as the blood drive disppearances are plural). Apeboy also turns out to be a shovelhead, as the circumstances of his death are more plainly written as "hit in the head with a shovel and buried in a mass grave", which is something of a tradition during this kind of recruitment drive — the prospective vampire minions are expected to literally rise from the grave.

Krakus and Co will meet their TTSD counterparts

Other dimensions and a multiverse are things that sort of exist in cWoD, and there are other ways too. It will be alluded very, very heavily to without ever explicitly explaining who they're talking about so they can dodge copyright.

Kevin had previously Diablerized a Malkavian Vampire

Considering his… flamboyant personality, and how it’s a bit loopier than most Tremere, it's possible Kevin Diablerized a Malkavian to get their powers of insight… And, needless to say, got hit HARD with Be Careful What You Wish For. For evidence beyond Kevin's personality being goofier than most Tremere, Kevin using Dominate on the Family does imply he’s at a lower generation than most vampires, as per an earlier WMG (only adding on Diablerizing his way up the chain), and the Tremere Clan Quest of VtM:Bloodlines having the player tasked with uncovering the secret to Malkavian madness from the Voerman Twins. One option the player can use to get the knowledge? Doing Diablerie on the Voermans. While the series probably won’t directly reference a Bloodlines mission unavailable outside of mods, the backstory of a magic-obsessed Kevin wanting to mix Tremere Blood Magic with Malkavian precognition, only to be tormented by Infectious Insanity, would be a compelling backstory (and possibly a way for the Family to get out of Episode 3 alive, I.E. Kevin attacking Pyotr, and causing a fight between a now Predator-like Nosferatu/Gangrel/Brujah and a Tremere/Malkavian.

• While still not outside the realm of possibility, we now know that Kevin's sire was an 8th gen vampire, explaining his ability to Dominate. And from what we've gathered in the second audilog, he's not actually all that crazy about the Sabbat and his nonsensical behavior seems to be a mix of suffering terrible abuse at the hands of the Tremere and a coping mechanism.

Kevin is going to be the equivalent of Malcador

A magic man who Big-D seems to be slowly developing empathy for and a rapport with.

• Moreover, Malcador was an advisor to the Emperor who routinely disagreed with them on many issues. Kevin fell out of favor with his Prince for telling her things she did not wish to hear, even though the concerns were legitimate. Macador's ultimate fate, being reduced to ash following a Heroic Sacrifice of sitting on the Golden Throne, is in line with what happens to a vampire if it is exposed to sunlight.

Pyotr will become possessed

It’s an occasional risk of diablerie, and he’s moving down generations fast. If he manages to eat Kevin too it seems likely the 9th generation Tremere will start Fighting from the Inside.

• Jossed. Pyotr dies in Chapter 3 and remained in control of his own actions throughout - aside from some tactical manipulation and button-pushing.

Kevin will save the family from Pyotr

Pyotr will try to diablerize Kevin to jump up yet another generation. But, while revelling in the high from his feeding and his sudden jump from 12th to 10th generation vampire, he'll leave himself completely exposed, allowing Kevin to capitalize and take him off guard using his Tremere blood magicks, both to save himself and to save Big D as thanks for the empathy the latter has shown him.

• Jossed. Pyotr is incapacitated in Chapter 3 by a field of landmines outside the Family's house, and ashed when the sun rises on his paralyzed body.

The backgrounds of Ape and Pyotr

Episode 2 told us that Shitbeard went to college before he became a Brujah vampire, with what I believe to be a degree in Kantianism. The 2nd Audiolog reveals that before he was a vampire of House Tremere, Kevin was an accountant in an unremarkable life who wanted to be something more. That just leaves the pre-Embrace lives of Ape and Pyotr, the former of which perhaps before he was Diablerized by the latter.

• Ape:
  • Perhaps he was a man living in his mom's basement like some nerd who likes to mimic the characters from his favorite media. That would explain his compatriots' cringing at his overdramatic behaviour in the second episode.
  • Alternatively, he was a failing or unskilled theatre actor, which would explain his quirky dialect and forced theatrics.
• Pyotr:
  • Perhaps Pyotr used to be a death metal drummer who became convicted for murdering his bandmates and found the Embrace to be the only way to escape human justice. That would explain his top-heavy physique even before he diablerized Apeboy.
  • Alternatively, he was a local, unrepentant serial killer who enjoyed tormenting his victims before killing them, and he found out that becoming a vampire would improve his murderous craft.
  • Far more mundanely and humorously he will be a retail worker, which will be treated as the most dangerous option do to it festering an utter loathing of humanity
  • The eyecatch in Chapter 3 reveals that Pyotr was actually an underwater welder who was Embraced by his workforce superior during a Sabbat underwater operation. This means that Pyotr was in the employ of the Sabbat even before his Embrace (possibly as a ghoul), and may have been granted vampirism as a reward for his service.

Pyotr will escape and become recurring antagonist

Whenever he manages to diablerize Kevin or not, Pyotr will escape. It feels weird they would establish he made a jump two whole generations, giving him an option to make this power boost permament, and then kill him off.

• Jossed. Pyotr is killed in Chapter 3 by a field of landmines outside the Family's house.
  • the part about him surviving is jossed, but him becoming a recurring antagonist is not out of the question considering creatures like wraiths exist in the WOD
    • Maybe as a Demon?
    • Definitely no: he left no corpse even for an Earthbound to possess, and demons themselves are a species of their own. Wraith/Spectre or Risen are the only viable options for him, and Risen is only if ST allows possession of unrelated corpses, since his is dusted.

The thing in the basement is...

• ...a Werewolf. For a moment it sounds like it was howling and Big D clearly had fought Werewolves before.
• ...A Wraith that Big D has somehow trapped. He did mention the house was haunted before they moved in (and, in fact, moved in because it was haunted), but no longer is.
• ...Another Vampire, it would explain why Big D didn't want Kevin to know about it, but also open a possibility of Pyotr advancing even further by diablerizing it.
  • Possibly the Methusalah Big-D mentions to Kevin.
• ...Another of Big D's children, turned into something supernatural, maybe even a Vampire. He may been keeping them alive in hopes of fiding a cure. Would explain why he doesn't want anyone know about it and his offer to give Kevin his life back.
• ...Horse. Because it would be funny. (Nope, Horse has a comfy stable on the grounds.)
• ...Krakus. Because they have to keep dragging him into the basement every so often or else he ends up scaring the neighbours. Whatever the hell he is.

Pyotr will be defeated by the thing in the basement

If he's going for Kevin, he may run into whatever Big D has locked in there. And whatever it is, it may just be enough to kill or chase him off, potentially saving Kevin in the process.

• Jossed. Pyotr is killed in Chapter 3 by a field of landmines outside the Family's house.

The family will not take down The Prince

The IRS will, just as Kevin predicted, perhaps they will have a grand battle and just when it seems like they are about to lose the IRS shows up to save them, or it will be an anticlimax and they will set out to slay the Prince only to get there and see the place already raided, either way Big D will be more scared of the IRS then The Prince.

• It would be HMRC, not the IRS, seeing as this is the UK, but I am absolutely in favour of this idea.
  • considering the shenanigans in this show I would not be surprised if somehow the american IRS showed up
    • They've tracked Big-D across the pond. There is no escape.

The traitor Primarchs are the ex-sons

• Unlikely considering Markus is on the main team, unless like in TTS he is an ex-ex-son
  • Perhaps they had a falling out in the past (maybe something to do with the Arcanum?) and have since reconciled. Kitten may have been a positive influence in that regard.
  • Or Marckus will become an ex-son.
• And instead of launching a galaxy-wide campaign of destruction, the ex-children have instead allied themselves with various WoD factions Big-D would oppose. Or they've simply cut him out of their lives.

Kevin will save the family from the police after the end of Episode 3

• The police will almost certainly detain the family after Episode 3, considering Big D explicitly admits to possessing illegal firearms (To say nothing of the literal minefield in their front lawn) and tax evasion. That sort of official attention is likely to attract the attention of the Camarilla. Considering Kevin is a powerful enough Tremere to Dominate multiple people at the same time, and has survived multiple Blood Hunts before, he's almost certainly their best bet at getting out unscathed.
• Jossed, partially; Big D manages to talk his way out until the very end, at which point his little plot collapses. Kevin is persuaded to keep the detective silent by blood-bonding him.

Elements of Pyotr were borrowed from what TTS would have eventually done with Konrad Curze

• Both are Ax-Crazy psychopaths and have some physical similarities as well, even with Pyotr being a Nosferatu. I wouldn't be surprised if parts of his personality and maybe even a few lines were taken from what TTS had planned for the character.
  • Jossed. Word of God is that they didn't have 40k in mind when creating side characters, but that they enjoy fan speculation and that, if they eventually return to TTS, they'd probably partially base Konrad on Pyotr.

The counterpart of Guilliman will be romantically involved with a woman based on Yvraine

• Because of 40k fans’ tendency to jokingly ship Guilliman and Yvraine, Guilliman’s WoD counterpart will either be married to, or otherwise romantically involved with, a woman styled after her as an inside gag. Her name will instead be Elaine or Evelyn or something similar.
  • Most likely a Sidhe, whose Fae form will be very Eldarish.

The family will eventually hide out at Kevin's apartment

• Kevin mentioned maintaining his apartment from his human life and Big D also talked about the family's precarious housing situation. With Kitten's house compromised for the time being, once the family gets away from the police, Kevin will let them stay at his place while they figure out their next move.

Guess the normal name of the expies

• Alpharius: Alfred, Albert, Ozzy, Oliver.
• Angron: Aaron, Adrian, Andrew, Anthony, Arnold.
• Corvus Corax: Corrin, Corbin, Cormac, Cornelius, Corrie.
• Ferrus Manus: Fernand, Ferdinand, Frederick.
• Fulgrim: Flavian, Flora.
• Jaghatai Khan: Jack, Julius, Junji, Tai, Chagatai, Carl/Karl.
• Konrad Curze: Connor, Conroy, Conrad.
• Leman Russ: Lee, Lemon, Russell.
• Lion El'Jonson: Leon, Leo, Lionel, Johnathan/John/Jon.
• Lorgar Aurelian: Logan, Lorance, Alexander/Alex.
• Mortarion: Morris, Mortimer, Marty.
• Perturabo: Paul, Percy, Peter.
• Sanguinius: Samuel, Saul, Sonny, Scott.
• Roboute Guilliman: Robert, Roger, Roman, Roland, Rex.
• Vulkan: Victor, Vince, Vincent, Vladimir.

The rest of the Tabletop characters from TTS Special 6 will get appearances in the next arc.

• Just altered so they can get past Games Workshops zero-tolerance policy on fan-animation. We already have mentionings of Krakus and The Monks appearance bearing resemblance to the Celestial Shaman Queen/Space Wizard.

Kitten's sister is gonna be mute like a Sister of Silence.

Marckus's "weirdo friends"

Alfabusa has said on his Patreon that the next audiolog will involve Marckus going pubbing with his "weirdo friends". Considering who he's based on, it probably wouldn't be too out there to speculate that these "weirdo friends" are caricatures of the Chaos Gods. My prediction for them would be as follows:

• Tzeentch (probably called Zachary or Xavier) is a total nerd who likes to pretend he knows everything and belts out random shit for the sake of it.
• Nurgle (probably called Nicholas or Nathaniel) is an overweight green-thumb who could be considered the "crazy garden man".
• Khorne (maybe called Cory or Calvin) is a paraplegic former pit fighter who's generally irritable but somewhat respectable.
• Slaanesh (maybe called Sally, Saul, Susie or Sammy) is a non-binary rich bitch who would develop the hots for anybody and is a major Sense Freak.
• And they play D&D.
• Alfabusa's Patreon publicly reveals three new characters: a wide-smiling woman, a plump woman with bangs and a guy in a cap. The first new character has teal hair and has a hat themed after aliens, so she's most certainly the Tzeentch stand-in. The big lady with the green, meanwhile...well, color scheme tells us that that's our Nurgle stand-in. As for the guy in the cap, he's either the pubkeep serving the drinks or maybe even the Khorne stand-in.
  • So turns out this is Jossed: they don't seem to be that much related to the Chaos Gods.

The family will some day face off against Pentex.

• I have no evidence of this, I just want to see the family trade blows against a demonic Barney the dinosaur.
  • Audiolog 5 contains a Pentex-funded radio spot, so this theory is one step closer to being confirmed
• Unless Big D is crazy enough to ally with them.

Elise is an expy of Ephrael Stern

Given how, when TTS ended, Magnus was assisting in the birth of ynnead with Stern, it would make sense if they had written more of Stern's personality before the show ended. Given how at least one character at the table (Grimal) is an expy of a TTS character, who's to say the other 2 aren't potentially expies as well. Additionally, both are deadpan snarkers and tied to the forces of magic (Ephrael as one of the most powerful psykers of 40k, Elise as an arcanum member with a penchant for appearing randomly.) This leaves harry, who is either an original character entirely, or, potentially, an expy of Ahriman.

• Jossed. As mentioned above - Word of God is that the side characters were not intended to be TTS character expies.

There's nothing supernatural or particularly sensational about the pit in the 99p-Land Shop.

It's exactly what they said it was, a shaft for an old, abandoned chalk mine. They've just been using it to dump trash, hence the smell and why they're so sketchy about it, as it's many kinds of littering, safety, and health code violations.

• FUCKING JOSSED as of Part 2 of the Blender Crusade.

The CEO of the 99 Pound Store chain is this setting's Cegorach.

Creepy smile? Check. Laughing at the folly of the profane who have no idea who they're dealing with? Check. Doing something random like an underground store just because he found it funny? Check. Fun with Subtitles? Check as well.

The CEO of the 99 Pound Store chain is Houdini.

Seeing the CEO causes Big D considerable distress, immediately insisting it can't be the case because whoever this person is, they should be dead. Previously during his interrogation of Kevin, a claim of being Houdini similarly triggered tremendous panic in Big D and an insistence that not only Houdini was dead, but that he'd killed him to boot.

The Blue Man is a Wyld spirit

The Wyld is the first member of the Triat and the only one that remains sane. (Y'know, relatively speaking.) its duty is to create and grow Chaos for the Weaver to spin and the Wyrm to eventually destroy. Sounds a lot like the Blue Man's insistance that constant, purposeless growth is both inevitable and the way things should be.

Giles is actually an agent of the Arcanum, and is working at the 99p store in order to investigate it.

Given his connection to Brok, the Arcanum leader's son, it would not be too surprising if he worked for the organization as well. In fact, his continued friendship with Brok may just be a means to stay in Blacklaw's favor. He took a job at the 99p store either to independently look into rumors surrounding it or as part of an assignment given to him by the Arcanum.

• This may be Jossed by the fact he's hired by Arcanum as a part-time security. Though not necessairly, if Brok, who seems to have been at least somewhat Locked Out of the Loop, got him the job and whoever approved of the hiring either wasn't in on the mission or was afraid denying it may somehow compromise him.

The Prince is setting the Regent up for a fall behind the scenes

• Much has been made about the incompetence and stupidity of the Regent of Norfolk. (See her entry on the character page for examples) Meanwhile little has been said about the Prince, other than Ape’s comment about her being a ‘sterling example of degeneracy’. Assuming the Prince isn’t similarly inept, she’s probably well aware of how much of a screw-up her underling is and how much she is putting their operation and the Masquerade at risk. However, for whatever reason, she may not be able to openly remove her from her position or kill her. Maybe the Regent has powerful friends or supporters who would cause problems. Whatever the reason, it’s possible the Prince has been secretly arranging things in the background in hopes that the Regent will get taken out by Hunters or thoroughly discredited with the Camarilla without the Prince having to take a direct role. Perhaps she leaked the initial information about the tunnel or the missing persons reports to Big D.

Other TTS expy characters will appear in some form or another.

• Kaldor Draigo will be a powerful awakened Mage, possibly a Marauder, as per his godlike Parody Sue presentation from TTS.
• Karamazov will either be an elder vampire trying to uphold the Masquerade or a high-level Technocrat trying to preserve the Consensus.
• A select few of the Antediluvians will be expies of the TTS Chaos Gods, whilst others may be some of the Eldar Gods.

Edwin Davies was a changeling, not a vampire

• Kitten thinks that Davies was a vampire, but his description doesn't really line up with Wo D vampires:
  • Davies didn't just consume blood, but also organs. There are vampiric bloodlines that do this but they're heavily concentrated in India and the Middle East.
  • He died immediately after being skewered by an iron fence, which most vampires could survive without much trouble.
  • Kitten says that he was relieved to learn that it wasn't "really" Davies, even though vampires really are more-or-less the people they were before Embrace.

Polydora is Kevin's sire

• Kevin's sire is:
  • Female
  • Tremere
  • The direct childe of the Regent
  • "Lost in the sauce" of her blood bond to the Regent
• Meanwhile, Polydora is:
  • Female
  • Tremere
  • The direct childe of the Regent
  • Extremely toadyish to the Regent (who she must by Tremere clan rules be blood bond to) to the point of giving up on obvious lines of logic when the Regent doubts them even slightly

Big-D's first guess about the Blue Man was Metaphorically True.

• He was either a Tzimisce with a fascination for flesh-sculpting that could "blossom" given certain stimuli, or a self-sufficient Tzimisce creation that wasn't a vampire. His location under a Tremere chantry, combined with his innocuous appearance and the fact that Tzimisce presence was implied earlier (the alcohol-resistant salmonella arguably falls under their biomanipulation purview) implies the Tzimisce, a Sabbat clan with a hatred for the Tremere in particular, placed him there as a spy.

There will be an audiolog about Door and Boy at O'Tolley's

As things appear now it seems they'll be absent through most of the arc, so that would be a good way to give them some spotlight. And they are heading to a fast food that is a subsidiary of Pentex...

Someone will be Calling the Old Man Out

Either or both of those will happen:

• Marckus will figure out, thanks to Big D admitting he considers torture to be amateurish form of interrogation, meaning he didn't torture Kevin, and him casually using Kevin's driving license, that Kevin is still alive and confront his father about it.
• Remold will decide Spit is the Ghoul and demand his execution, making Brok having to choose between his father and one of his only two friends.

If both occur we may even see Marckus and Brok gaining some empathy for one another, due to shared frustration with their respective fathers.

Either Brok has a kid or sibling(s)

Notice that when Remold and Big D try to out-ham one another, each one refers to himself proudly as both father and grandfather. Meaning either Brok is a father himself or Remold has another kid with a child of their own.

• Supported by the Blacklaw Family Photo seen at the Arcanum, which appears to depict Brok with at least one sibling.

The O'Tolley's burgers will cause tragedy

Building on the "Door and Boy at O'Tolley's Audiolog" theory, this may also play into Horse's prophecy: "Thine faeder, laid bare, dessicated on the rocks by thy hand." Something tells me that either Door or Boy will be influenced by whatever demons are in the burgers, but either way, desperate measures will have to be taken that will lead to Door ending up hospitalized and out of commission.

The Aftercredits of Chapter 3 shows Pyotr becoming a Mortwight

In the Old World of Darkness lore, Hell exists but it's reserved for Demons as established by Demon: The Fallen. In Wraith: The Oblivion lore, all forms of afterlife exist in the Underworld as a means of allowing for Transcendence for Wraiths who still linger on in death. But in Wraith: The Oblivion, Oblivion itself acts as the closest version of Hell that can be presented in the overall setting. As it's an ever swirling void of entropy itself that plagues the Underworld with destruction and madness, turning halpess wraiths into horrid Spectres who serve Oblivion's will. If a person dies an exceptionally violent death, like Pyotr did, then they can become a Mortwight which are people who instantly turn into Spectres upon death. When Pyotr wakes up what he's seeing is the entrance of Oblivion and his Shadow appears before Pyotr to drag him into Oblivion, mocking him with a fork in hand which is a reference to the colloquial term of Spectres in the Underworld being called "Shadow-Eaten".

Door and Boy will meet one of Remold's other kids and grandkid

Building on previous theories, it may possibly happen during their visit to O'Tolleys. Either they'll have similiarly antagonistic relationship Big D has with Remold and Marckus with Brok, or, by contrast, will actually get along.