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[crazyabe]

PTW

[Dorsidwarf]

Interesting...

Apparently whatever MITD is, he doesn't leave footprints. Or anyprints. And he's not floaty or ethereal because he stomped the ground so hard he caused an earthquake once.

[GiglameshDespair]

Well, footprints might give it away.

[Zangi]

Nothing says it can't be floaty and still have appendages that can stomp things.

[Zanzetkuken The Great]

Hey, way back when the story was told about the gates, wasn't the statue in the same place the gate was in the panel after they sealed the fifth gate?  If so, does this mean all the areas behind the doors are simply one giant bluff?

[Remalle]

Doesn't look like it, though I wouldn't be surprised if Serini did pull something like that (fill the defenses with giant monsters in Kraagor's name, but have the gate somewhere completely different because rogue).

[Rolan7]

I'm sure the OotS forums have already debated this at length, but rereading that strip made me realize that Kraagor probably didn't actually die per-se.  No corpse, wasn't "clear" when the rift was sealed.

Of course, everything about the Snarl is in question at this point.  Even Roy acknowledges that.

[Akura]

I wouldn't be surprised if the MitD turned out to be Kraagor somehow.

[Strife26]

MitD will be revealed as the fans and readers, serving as a big twist to save the world once and for all when Redcloak has stabbed his boss in the spine and beaten down team good.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

MitD is obviously the avatar of the Snarl, having escaped containment millennia ago. I mean, come on guys, the gates are wide open. Can just walk out, you know.

Though MitD's race being some kind of Snarlborn actually sounds decently plausible to me, it explains why he doesn't know what he is (drawn differently), why he remembers having a parent but no details, why Xykon is so dedicated to keeping him around as an Ace in the Hole, and maybe even why the darkness sticks to him (thinking of that one Yugoloth who's so ancient and hideous reality itself puts a veil over her, killing anyone who passes the perception test to see past it and the wisdom test to not shut your brain off when you see past it).

[Lord Shonus]

Doesn't look like it, though I wouldn't be surprised if Serini did pull something like that (fill the defenses with giant monsters in Kraagor's name, but have the gate somewhere completely different because rogue).

That theory has been debated at great length, and the general conclusion is that it is extremely unlikely. From a meta point of view, the Giant has already done the bluff thing in two different ways (the three fake Xykons at the battle of Azure City and the multi-bluff at Girard's Gate) and is probably not going to keep dipping from the same well because that would be too dull. From the in-universe perspective, putting this many resources into a fake defense means you're leaving the gate almost entirely unprotected, which would be incredibly stupid.

[LoSboccacc]

http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0277.html

panel 8 explains the monster doors

[hops]

You know I highly doubt Redcloak will succeed at backstabbing Xykon if it comes to that. I mean, just on the virtue of everyone seeing it coming 300 miles away.

[Akura]

...Except that Redcloak is still carrying Xykon's phylactery while the latter believes it's in an unassailable fortress located somewhere in the Astral Plane. Hell, Redcloak probably has a command word to destroy it in an instant if need be.

[hops]

Well, maybe, but Xykon's Xykon. He exists just to flip the bird at good planning.