- In the Battle of the Breach, Israphel and his Dragons were attacked by skeletons. This suggests that they are on opposing sides.
- Possibly confirmed. Lalna's been said several times to be Fumblemore, including an episode of the Tekkit series.
- Confirmed; how they changed their names is unknown, but the characters are definitely actors.
- Either multiple accounts or a server plugin with the /nick command.
- Possibly confirmed. Lalna's been said several times to be Fumblemore, including an episode of the Tekkit series.
- Semi Jossed. You can escape The End in the more recent versions. You just gotta kill dragon to do it.
- Possibly Jossed as of episode 24, Israphel can travel through time using Nether Portals.
- Actually, Verigan was the father who lost his life in the Sand War and Karpath was the son. Karpath disappeared after establishing the Templars, presumably to go start a family. It's believed at this point that Karpath is Peculier's father who went through the portal under Mistral City and sealed it behind him. Karpath might still end up being the big bad though if his time in the Nether corrupted him.
- As of the latest episode... pretty much confirmed. The sand is actually A prison for something much MUCH worse.
- I can see where you are going with this but than wouldn't Herobrine be a devil? It is known that notch is worship as a god in their world than you can't take him down.
- Perhaps Notch isn't omnipotent, but just a powerful entity with Godlike powers. That would make Herobrine his Evil Counterpart. He would just be a powerful Humanoid Abomination.
- A deity with godlike powers... like Ridge?
- Right after (before?) our heroes follow him back in time, thus explaining how he has a grave in Terrorvale and one in Mistral City.
- Or he could just, I don't know, be screwing with Simon and Lewis. After all, those weren't real graves.
- I made this connection the first time I heard the name, and didn't actually notice that they were spelled differently until now.
- Partly-jossed as of episode 24. It seems that the man in red was referring to Jock the pirate, as he has burned down BBQ bay. Hower also possibly-confirmed as Jock admits to burning down Minstral City, which previously was blamed on Lysander. Maybe he was framed after all.
- The exact phrasing was "You shall be met again by a man in blue and a man in red." The heroes hadn't met Jock by this point so that disqualifies him from the prophecy. Jasper is still the most likely candidate for "man in red." Whether this means he might be a follower of Israphel or the prophecy means something less insidious is still up in the air.
- Confirmed by episode 27, when he's in the dark about the murders in the Skyhold. Confirmed further episode 30, when Lysander prevented the Cult of Israphel from taking control of the Skyhold.
- Or he just likes to stay silent to freak them out.
- There are no real NPCs in Shadow of Israphel. It's the rest of the Yogscast with new skins and a server plugin to change their nametags.
- This means that Griswald isn't going to be the only familiar face, and now that they're in the Nether we'll be seeing the wizard Burgmund with his pigmen buddies.
- Blast. The last bit is Jossed with the playthrough of The Return. The rest of it still stands, though.
- Alternativly, they are sidequests.
This could lead to many possibilities for people being possessed, and well as a possible explanation for Skylord_Lysander's Face–Heel Turn. Simon will probably be okay due to his childlike innocence, as well as the fact that he is, in some ways, too stupid to be evil. However, Lewis became the Grim Reaper in "The Journey", so he might have the tiniest bit of evil in him.
This may include things like hallucinations of Israphel giving him orders, Simon asking what the hell he is doing and Lewis replying he can't control his character and being unable to log off, occasional lapses in control where Lewis tries to fight off the madness, and Lewis hunting down and trying to kill the other heroes. He will probably be saved from it by Simon or an NPC, fight it off just before making Simon Killed Off for Real, or by being exorcised by Madame_Nubescu, Fumblemore, or Swampy_Bogbeard. If the latter happens, we may see Lewis' character Xephos thrashing around and moving his head in seizure-like jerks. Lewis will then swear revenge on Israphel for what he made him do. He may also be forced to kill a beloved secondary character, such as Knight_Peculier. This will become a Brick Joke, with Israphel trying it again later, only for Lewis to resist easily.
- Jossed, at least on what happened to Lysander (others like Vitali and Jock, who was the actual one to burn Mistral City is up in the air).
- If that does happen, however, it won't be Knight_Peculiar, as he was killed off in episode 38 due to falling into lava from an incomplete mine cart track.
- They may just use the thunder gun mod. Ooh, that would make a good phaser, wouldn't it?Lewis: Um, I think Creeper_Boss is immune to phasers. In fact, I think I made it worse.
- Because the Backstory is still being written. Whether it's The Corruption Cosmic Retconning the server, or a combination of his canonical Time Travel powers and Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory, as Simon and Lewis keep playing, the game gets more and more complicated.
- KP has a bridge dropped on him in episode 38.
- Lehparsi's tomb is located in a sandy area and made of sandstone: a connection to The Sand.
- Simon and Lewis are attacked by a large number of undead at Lehparsi's tomb, possibly acting as guards to keep the heroes from stopping the evil at its source. A connection to the monster army that Israphel seems to have at his disposal.
- Lehparsi's Tomb is blocked by obsidian, and is marked by a sign warning against entry. There has to be something important down there.
- The tomb was possibly sealed by Verigan himself, as several signs were left by him warning against entering. Also the Livestream special "The Legend of Verigan" suggests that Prof. Grizwald may have been the one who originally set the great evil loose in Minecraftia. Some Grizwald's stuff is found at the tomb. This all suggests a strong connection between Lehparsi and Israphel.
- Leshparsi is Israhpel spelled backwards so there probably is a connection.
- Jossed as of Episode 38(?), sadly.
- Well, if they add some traits to their dwarfs from Terry Pratchett's Discworld then they could include dwarf battle bread. It would be pretty funny if Honeydew's greatest weapon turns out the be a loaf of dwarf bread.
- "Honeydew, Miner cancels Construct Stone Staircase: Interrupted by Israphel."
- "Honeydew, Miner cancels Construct TNT Bridge: Interrupted by Creeper."
- The only problem is the block limit: You can't have any more than 1024 blocks in your ship, and the Skyhold easily breaks that limit. Furthermore, every block must be connected, otherwise parts will be left behind, not only meaning parts could go missing but certain objects on the inside would stop the fort from moving altogether, and they would have to move it back to the exact place it had been and fix it.
- Yogscast buddies? Almost certainly. Hannah? Possibly. Sips and TotalBiscuit? Doubt that, sorry. Though I do agree with everyone they've met so far joining them, such as Isabel and the pirates, Lysander and the entire Skyhold, etc.
- I think there will be an open call for fans with non-ridiculous Minecraft names... at least so they can let loose a Rain of Arrows. It would also be cool if Israphel used server commands to render him and his minions to be ignored by mobs, and spawn hordes of Skeletons, Zombies, and a few Ghasts... who would be taken out by the Skylords, flying planes.
- That would be one epic moment!
- As of where we are now in the case, we have a lot of people pledging their support. There's Fumblemore, Skylord_Lysander and Skylord_Jasper with the Skyhold and other possibly future skylords, Isabelle_Peculiar with Pirate_Tinman and the other Pirates of BBQ Bay Adephon and the Templars... There's also likely to be Spackard, the other non-zombified dwarves of Stoneholm, the carnies... Plus they could also call for help like Neia and Misconduct did and get a ton of people involved.
- Not Tinman. He was fired from the Yogscast a few years ago due to some controversy. I don't know much about it, but you can look it up.
- Adding on to this, GameChap and Bertie might arrive to help as well, with Gamechap wielding the Golden Sword of Justice and Bertie a crud load of TNT and Redstone torches.
Just came to me as I made to edit a WMG. Lewis' character has always been mentioned as being a spaceman in somewhat Medieval times yet no one moves to ask him if he has any spage-age weaponry to aid them in battle. I think that will about to change come the final battle against Israphel and all that (vanilla) Minecraftia can throw at them. There will be a sudden change in perspective (someone else takes up the recording job, and it has been shown that Simon does have a recording device) as Lewis says something like "Hold them off! I have an idea!" And goes off. He's gone for a few episodes and then once everything is bleak, Lewis/Xephos comes in decked out in the best armor and weaponry from the mods he was showcasing during the filler, guns blazing and swords drawn. Israphel gets an Oh, Crap! moment when he gets hit by the Uranium Mod's Nuclear Bomb and he's barely alive as Xephos comes up to him, forces him through the Lunar Portal and traps him on the Moon.
- As a side-note, the POV has alternated between Honeydew and Xephos for a few episodes now.
OR, Like what a previous WMG said, Lewis could offer up the idea to use space-weaponry, and Israphel might just kidnap him and (from Simon's perspective) they hold a rescue mission to get him back, and it's either they find him locked up and about to be tortured for information, or him wearing the full black Dark Matter Armor and Dark Matter Sword and under some very intense Mind Control which results in a "I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight with Simon/Honeydew.
- Oh, he'll cheat. Just offscreen or won't cheat Simon or something.
- Heck, this is practically confirmed, in some senses. Not sure they're all out Decoy Protagonists but they're definitely Supporting Protagonists. Whatever hearsay and urban legend exists for Simon and Lewis is mostly made up, while Knight_Peculiar is pretty much prophesised... Then again, they could also be prophesised to stand with him. Either way...
- Possibly jossed as of episode 38, due to his death.
- Probably because he figures the writers are up to something and doesn't want to ruin the story.
- Will it be Silverfish_Boss or Jeff_Boss?
- Or they get a wish or magical powers or something that allows them to bring people back.
- Xephos said they were blessed by Notch, so potentially Jossed. Or...
- I don't know if they could use the Aether mod that way, and Herobrine hasn't been mentioned at all...
- Well, in universe, Notch is the "God" of Minecraftia, and many people believe Herobrine is Notch's dead brother, so if one exists, the other does too. Plus, it would be an outright awesome way to use Herobrine as something other than a digital BEN-esque killer.
- His death was way too anticlimatic for him. I could just see him showing up again soon to save the guys when things go wrong.
- See my theory above for exactly how I personally think this will be accomplished.
- That or he returns as a zombie. Or a radioactive zombie.
- My reasoning: In a recent Custom Map they played, Simon ended up falling into lava but didn't die because there was a secret room underneath. Maybe the same thing happened to KP, and he's just stuck deeper inside the monster now.
- The initial theory kind of makes sense. I mean, he didn't leave the game after trying to swim in lava, and that kind of bridge dropped ending for a character that's had so much said about him (we KNOW he's relevant even if we're not sure how) seems clumsy. Israphel clearly has a personal beef with his family line and while it's realistic in... well, reality for people not to actually make it to the end of this kind of crisis, it just doesn't seem like a typical narrative for this kind of story, whereas thinking somebody's dead and their coming back to life would. They could be going for a nontraditional narrative by pulling an unexpected plot twist, in which case good on them for trying to subvert our expectations and for playing with the common tropes, but... I don't know. Could go either way at this point, depending on the writers.
- Actually, I think they may have used that to show that even the bravest of heroes can slip up, causing their death.
- Could be. In which case, good on them for trying to do something against the usual plotline, it's a good aversion. It's very likely that it was scripted and not a total accident as some assume - Peculier seemed quite eager to get on that particular minecart the second Lewis got out of it, which isn't like the Pecilier actor, who usually only forges ahead when leading the way to something, and the player must had the time to type out the words we're getting seperated in the approximately five seconds between that, and him going headlong into a radioactive lava pool, which suggests it was typed in advance. As Terry Pratchett says, it's sometimes more entertaining if the hero gets the flu and the milkman has to go and save the world, and if you buy the possible theory that KP was the hero while Lewis and Simon were in more of a Supporting Protagonist role -they fully admit they're admirably, but completely blindly, fumbling their way onwards without really knowing what they're doing- this becomes even more relevant. Still the initial theory has some weight, especially if it was an accident.
- There's also the possibility that he got cloned.
- He will return as Templar_Peculiar, much more powerful than before. Much like Gandalf.
- Biggest problem with this theory: you said SOON.
- Half-jossed. The creepers came from a meteorite that hit Minecraftia shortly before the Verigan special.
- Where is that from? I don't remember that part? Maybe the Sentinels/giant robot thingies are from space?
- In the legend of Verigan special, they reference a meteor that hit the planet. After that, the creepers started appearing.
- Where is that from? I don't remember that part? Maybe the Sentinels/giant robot thingies are from space?
- Pretty self explanitory now that we know that The sand isn't actually evil. It's a prison. Knowing that, it's pretty safe to say that prisons need guards. And the one most connected to the sand, is Israphel. He's there to keep people out and keep people safe.
- Or he was, but he was corrupted when the sands were because of his connection to them.
- This is actually pretty likely. Good theory.
- So once the sand crisis is over he might undergo a Heel–Face Turn ?
- It's a distinct possibility, yes.
- Or he was, but he was corrupted when the sands were because of his connection to them.
- It's entirely reasonable that he just doesn't know because he's never died before. Notice how, in Episode 37, he was able to teleport Simon back after the latter died, teleportation being something NPCs can't normally do. Also, he never logged out of Minecraftia, and at Granny_Bacon's funeral, he fell into a pool of lava and came out completely unharmed.
- Hopefully Jossed; there's now a weekly schedule for Fridays.
- Which lasted literally one week...
- Well, 1.3 was pretty poorly timed. They're probably updating the mods.
- They did make a trailer for SOI, saying new episodes would be coming next month. However, 1.4.2 was released shortly after...
- Which lasted literally one week...
- it hoenstly makes sense. Lots of updates all at once have probably messed with their plans somewhere (and honestly I wouldn't blame themfor trying to work in all of those clever little command controls that are going to be introduced soon. This series would've been so much easier for them with it...
- SOI will return in November, so they say... But 1.4.2 may have wrecked that as well.
Also, I think Lewis has been acting a little weird in Yoglabs. There's a whole bunch of weird experiments, he's suddenly saying they're evil, storing guns up in case the government ever tried to shut them down, and offhandedly mentioning a whole bunch of alien bacteria and monsters that have infected the place. Also, in the Zombiecraft episode, Simon mentions Duncan at one point and Lewis responds with, "Who's Duncan? He doesn't work for us." It feels like they have something planned with Yoglabs, and I think it's Shadow of Israphel.
- Potentially Jossed by Voltz Episode 25, where Lewis's comments reveal that Yoglabs is canon within the Voltz universe. It's very unlikely that Voltz will tie in as well, because Sips, Sjin, Ridge, and Duncan have never appeared in Shadow of Israphel.
- With the portal shown in "Raiders of the Last Archives", this may be either confirmed or jossed, depending on where they end up.
- Confirmed in a roundabout way this moment in Hannah's Advent Video. Lewis says that everything is in the same universe, and we've really been watching Shadow of Israphel all along.
Dwarves have already been included, so it's logical that Xephos' people would show up at some point.