The comet is completely made of radioactive materials.
Whenever it passes Earth, its "light" either horribly mutates people or gives them superpowers.- It probably was, considering the Nuclear Weapons Taboo, it simply couldn't be said out loud.
Will is a reincarnation of The Blazer. And in turn, Ark might be a reincarnation of Will.
The three games deal heavilly with reincarnation. And while Will->Ark is stretching it, there are enough paralells between the Blazer and Will if you equate the ruins in Illusion of Gaia with the different areas in Soul Blazer. Furthemore, Solid Arm states that Will reminds him of the Blazer.- Well, the games are "Spiritual Successors" to one another...
The Tower of Babel is a Space Elevator.
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◊ image, the top of the tower is clearly so far up that you can see the outline of the planet and the horizon. The original civilization (Babylon?) that built the Tower and made use of the Comet's light probably used it as a way to access the Comet. This actually explains how Shadow was able to fly off and meet Dark Gaia for battle: he was already free of Earth's gravity (or, at least, mostly free). Applied Phlebotinum likely explains any issues regarding oxygen and sheer height, as well as how far up Shadow needed to be to take off. This actually fits very nicely with the original idea of the IRL Tower of Babel: It was supposed to be a way to reach Heaven. Heck, the article on this site even makes a bit of a comparison near the end of the page. How Will could have made it all the way to the top of such a colossal structure likely has to do with how much space is in the tower compared to outside, as well as the fact that an elevator and a Vampire basically allowed Will to skip whole swaths of the tower's floors. The denizens of Angel Village are the descendants of the Mu people.
Before the Mu boss fight, Will meets Rama and a few other spirits of the Mu people. They tell the story of a comet-themed catastrophe, which they decided they needed to escape. Having no trees with which to build boats, instead "They started building an undersea tunnel. They dug on, not knowing how long it would take..."Our heroes end up finding and walking the length of this tunnel, a feat which Neil says took "nearly a month." By estimate of average human walking pace and walking 12 hours a day, that tunnel is around 1,000 miles long. How long would it take for people to dig a tunnel that long using hand tools? Decades? Generations? We know the Mu people successfully completed the tunnel as our heroes emerge from the other end without incident, so presumably the survivors/descendants made it to the mainland and settled there.The comet is a "weapon of evolution" which causes those bathed in its light to change. The Mu people were bathed in its light and then spent generations under ground. Then, at the mouth of the tunnel, we find a village filled with "angels" who say they're the form that humans evolve into, who live underground because they can't tolerate sunlight. Also, some of the pillar-like statues found in Angel Village resemble those found in the tunnel.It may as well explain their emotionlessness. They spent possibly a century toiling away in the cold, damp and dark, endlessly digging and working with no basis for time or circadian rhythm, never seeing light or color, eating meager meals of flavorless mushrooms, always with the lingering temptation of turning around and walking back to Mu. When they finally emerged and found they could no longer tolerate the sunlight, they dug straight down where they stood and made their new home, able to manage ambition (a sculptor resolving to build a thousand statues) and yearning (dancing for hours on end in a futile attempt to feel a human emotion, or rushing to be painted with a passionate expression despite all evidence that the artist is a serial killer), yet still living their entire lives without ever laughing or crying. That inability to cry or feel despair may have been the thing that allowed them to survive digging the tunnel, at the cost of joy.- I always thought this was explicitly canon?
Will and Kara are reincarnations of the Incan rulers.
Provided the whole scene on the golden ship involved actual ghosts and was not just a form of elaborate hallucination: Just why do the Incans insist that Will is their king? Did they want to believe it in order to set sails and finally pass onto the afterlife (their duty of waiting for the "king" fulfilled), or is there an actual relationship between Will and the king? If he is a reincarnation, the ghosts might've mistaken him for their king because their souls "look" the same (because they are).Spinning this further, what if Kara is a reincarnation of the Incan queen? The hair is similar, and it's certainly suspicious how Kara was very fixated on the queen's ring, which also turns out later to be connected to the Tower of Babel (though it could just be that she is an ancestor of Kara).This could also explain one of Kara's lines early in the game about how she feels "as though we've met before, as if we were good friends". They might have a thing for having to find each other again in a new life... The Master/God/Lord Of Light and Gaia are light and dark counterparts of one another.
Gaia dwells in dark space and Will's power is explicitly that of darkness, in contrast to Kara's being light. If Kara were the protagonist, he would be her patron instead with a style more akin to The Blazer. Dark Is Not Evil being highly in effect since the two are both protectors of the planet. It's obscured by Dark Gaia who is not the "Gaia of darkness" but rather the rogue spirit of a dead world gone on a cosmic rampage. It may or may not have drawn on the World of Evil to become even more powerful, due to needing the firebird to defeat, but that's total conjecture.