Hey everyone, just stopping in real quick to apologize about the low frame rate in some parts of the video. I dunno why it was doing that but it was completely fine when I was editing the separate videos
Honestly, I really like your theory that the Arkeans are portal masters, but you skipped over the single biggest piece of evidence supporting it! The iron fist of Arkus acts like a portal. When the giants disconnect the fist from the robot king, it's the gist that sends them to earth in a similar manner to all of the other explosions. This was most likely either a self defense mechanism against would be usurper or simply a side effect of disconnecting a portal from it's master, but it supports the theory either way.
7:16 Krypt King's armour is powered by the spirit of a knight that possesses it. He's not wearing a powered suit of armour, he controls it through possession
They’re actually the first not only to surpass the knowledge of tech but to merge the different elements together before really way before Swapforce, they were defenders before turning evil, it’s interesting they were good long before and then somehow turned evil and for thousands of years ruled with a iron fist enslaving Mabu and possible other races to make monuments, statues, temples whatever for the Arkeyans and them still being a incredible foe to the Skylanders and if you look at Giants in the first level it’s statues in the cavern is Chop Chop I believe Arkeyans had different functions and stations amongst Skylands and different status and they had to somehow make each other somehow with petrified darkness inside the Arkeyans and if it was ever in all of them why does Chop Chop and Krypt King, Drill Sargent not possess it and a lot of these Skylanders were found like Terrafin found DS, Krypt King was a ghost that wandered into a suit and had activated the security in the factory, Chop Chop could of just stayed from the Arkeyans evil ways, theirs an Arkeyan solider hell it’s a few of them that don’t want to fight and would rather play Sky Stones, The Weapon Master have some sort of intelligence even then it’s odd theirs Robot ghost who has his own robot and it’s blue which is odd since all of those War machines are red, which it could be some of the Arkeyans are hybrids both a suit and robot, and the Arkeyans could be creations of the ancients as a civilization or protectors of Skylands kind of like the clones of Star Wars
I think that Splat being there is an error OR they're just using her as shorthand to display the Skylanders of the time. OR, because we appear to quite literally become part of the book and fight the same battles as before, we become the Skylanders of old alongside our teammates. Like going into a movie and becoming part of the cast until you exit the movie.
You might not know this but the writer of the books was a literal caterpillar/worm so the guy might not have all the knowledge of that time period so he might’ve replaced the arkeyans with the skylanders without knowing a thing during the writing of those books or he hates the arkeyan’s guts so he didn’t put them in his books not sure
WOAH WOAH WOAH HOLD ON A MINUTE aren't portal masters not hereditary, but rather they just happen to be born with the power of wielding a portal, as stated from a story scroll in spyro's adventure this makes the entire arkeyan portal master theory fall apart almost entirely
@Slicetheidiot also may be portal masters have some sort of magical DNA so if one of the parents of a baby is a portal masters then there is a chance that the child could be a portal master as well, also that story scroll neither confirm nor deny this line of thought could happen.
Yes exactly like Star Wars only rare that people have the power of connection to the force, Eon was pretty much like a maid to the previous portal master but he accidentally sent him to the dirt seas which pretty much gave him the opportunity for training to be a portal master
Oh man, hearing the theme for the first area of the Arkeyan Armory at the start took me back. That was the first melody I ever memorized. Those were the good old days.
Huh, you know that theory about the Arkeyans and Portal Masters being related is an interesting theory. I don't know if it's true but it's really cool to speculate on!
Love the idea of the Arkeyans having a "Die a hero, or live long enough to become the villain" streak. Them being utterly horrified of an eldritch terror to the point of seeing realm enslavement and total militarization, as preferable alternatives to succumbing to the Darkness, feels like it'd be a Lovecraft-like story.
Something I notice is that people assume that “hyper intelligent robots” can’t make mistake or don’t have culture. We need to think about how these things are sentient and probably similar to use
I don’t think that portal masters are a sub-faction or descendants of the arkeyans. Instead, my hypothesis is that both Portal Masters and Arkeyans share human ancestors that discovered portals. Perhaps the Portal Masters focused on harnessing portals and the unique magic within them to help themselves and others, while the Arkeyans sought to use the portals to expand their knowledge of already existing magic?
7:48 this little section reminded me about my own theory about the Arkeyans in terms of the style: Since Skylands is so massive, I believe that the Arkeyans adapted to their surroundings in order to survive and gather resources efficiently. Each games Arkeyans are very unique overall, with Swap Force having the most unique designs/models. So for all the areas we DON'T see Arkeyans in there could be a variety of them. Just a silly theory lol
Speaking of corrupting things in skylands remember those crystal’s used to power the evilizers and the evilized fire? (No idea how evilized fire is created honestly to be honest…) It’s very likely that these could’ve been created via leftover essence from the darkness as like you said in the lore it can corrupt beings. And in swap force we actually see creatures like various enemies being corrupted in game. Since it takes time with stronger beings like the four magic guardians (I think that’s what they’re called) means it’s likely far weaker since it’s only a small fraction of the darknesses power.
I think with the modern Skylanders in Pomfrey’s books about The Darkness, it’s likely for the same reason we play through the levels in the book through which they appear in its pages. I.e. the books of the Spellpunk Library warp whoever reads it into its pages directly. If that made any sense…
The Arkeyans have to be my favorite piece of lore in Skylanders. They keep popping up throughout the games, creating the vague outline of a timeline and culture, and giving us the chance to theorize about what all of it could mean! It'd be great if the other species in skylands could get the same lore treatment.
I may or may not have an explanation for skylanders existing before the giants. Eon at one point in time (I think through story scroll) says that the portal of power can sent skylanders through space and time, it could mean that some kind of portal master (maybe even Eon himself) helped with the war by sending some skylanders there
weirdly the vicarious visions games (swap force and superchargers) are actually confirmed to be non canon, despite them trying so desperately to fit into the toys for bob story
Tbh the arkeyans are freaking everywhere in skylanders It’s like mint, (yes the plant) you can’t go 2 chapters without finding at least some correlation to these mechanical fucks, New problem? : Probably the arkeyans Big bad? : Probably the arkeyans New skylanders : Probably the arkeyans WHERE AREN’T THEY INVOLVED!?
Theory for who the skylanders were: it claims there were skylanders in the war against the darkness, while these cant be the giants they could be the elder elemental. I know they are most likely the giants but its a possibility. Furthermore characters like Ninjini Crusher and Bouncer would have existed at this time and with no reason to have aggression against the Arkeyans it would make sense they would aid in fighting the Darkness.
You are one of the reasons why Skylanders is still alive, and I think some of your theories in this video may actually be true. I think the “Machine of Doom” is the good Arkeyan war machine in Giants, Ermit and the machine ghost helped the Skylander take down Robo Kaos so the evil Arkeyan’s wouldn’t conquer Skylands like they did 10,000 years ago. The good Arkeyan was probably called the “Machine of Doom” because someone knew that he would be the undoing of the Arkeyan’s and their conquest.
I’m almost certain that the Darkness Books refer to a second coming of the Darkness from later in the timeline. At first, it was brought into Skylands via the Dark Rift Engine and fought back by the Ancients and Arkeyans. And then later on, the Giants took down the Arkeyans, leaving the Portal Masters and Skylanders to deal with the Darkness later on when the Spell Punks repowered it. As for them being Portal Masters…maybe. We know that being one is almost random, that ‘you’re either born one or you’re not’, instead of being a specific species. Even Wizbit was a Mabu Portal Master. Though the Arkeyans could have been like the Kaos Klan, just a specific line of Portal Masters from a tribe. Overall, cool video, I enjoyed watching this.
I think the reason for the spell punk thing 8s that the spell punks worship the darkness, like several of the more evil creatures in skylands, they even look like cult members in design, if I had to guess, they worship the darkness, thus taking pride in their involvement. If that doesn't suit your fancy, its important to remember the books weren't written by a spell punk, they were just collected in the library, in addition, the library is abandoned, and we see the author's in-progress books, there is a very good chance the author left those books after he wrote them.
This helps so much of more me writing lore in my on story based in Skylanders but Arkeyans are important part so this help with when some of the information is a bit iffy on how Canon they are.
In the supercharger darkness books the best I could figure is that it is showing the skylanders still in the books after the level is finished also it could have been a way for vv to include some concept art because high volt is still in the light element in one of them
1:11 Nice, I didn't expect to make another Skylander video cameo, so this is kewl. There may have been extra tidbits of info, but I can't find my S:SA annual, so I can't check it currently. Kinda sucks, but oh well. Anyways, I really liked the video, and the human part was cool too. As for the Superchargers stuff, it's most likely a time travel situation with Dive Clops, Splat, and High Volt. Similar to the Mask of Power arc, and the Time of the Giants level. I can't wait to see more. Fun fact, Hood Sickle uses a material known as Dark Remnant to fight in Imaginators, as a substitute for spirits... this is interesting, as Dark Remnant is a prominent piece in the FNaF franchise, with even one of the characters, RWQFSFASXC, being made from Dark Remnant. The fact that they're pretty much identical, and Imaginators coined the term 1 - 2 years before it was in the FNaF series was wild. There's also the Arkeyans having faceplates that open up, and them essentially being possessed robots... It's all kinda too coincidental... or is it? :P
So idk if I'm remembering this correctly but isn't Dive Clops and Eye Brawl brothers in the books? Would it make sense to have Dive Clops and Eye Brawl exist in the same Era? Like Eye Brawl got sent back cause of the gauntlet and Dive Clops because of the whirlpool? That last bit is part of his back story apparently?
Yea the arkeyans could open up their faces, as shown wnen Kaos gets inside and Pilots the Conquertron in the cutscenes of Giants. Also supported by the Glacier Gully level also in Giants with the machine ghost. (I swear Noodles is one of my favorite antagonists in the franchise. Thank you for existing Noodles.)
4:30, i would argue they had time traveled if anything. That would be my best guess, therefore the Giants are still the "first" and still have history with the Darkness. I also would say the lore wouldn't mention a few modern day Skylanders traveling back in time since their individual lore is mainly about how they became skylanders, not what feats they've achieved after eon found them. My biggest supporting evidence would be the events of the Mask of Power series and how the skylanders and kaos time traveled in that and how it ultimately made a loophole in the timeline. Ie. Kaos being the reason why the mask split into pieces in the first place causing a butterfly effect up until kaos travels back in time to collect the pieces then having it split up again causing the butterfly effect again in the future. Rinse and repeat. Another point i'd make albeit, not as important, but a detail i noticed is that whatever past a specific Skylander may have, never shows up or is mentioned in the games at all. Like example with say Boom Bloom and Dr Krankase in your last video. They can exist together in Imaginators like no drama ever happened. Although yes they are just skylanders in that game so nothing would happen true but still. They make the games in the scope that all Skylanders are in the spotlight. Not any particular one. So thereforeone of the books of darkness showing some skylanders helping out in the ancient war wouldn't count since it didn't name names and since it's in the events of the game. Not in a bio. Now if it were to say Spyro was born 1 billion years ago and was a skylander back then despite the Giants forming 10,000 years ago and being the "first", then yea there would be a huge problem.
I think the weapon master being on the ruins was more a way of the Arkeyans protecting the core of light. As you said, they were terrified of it being destroyed so they set up the machine of doom to kill anyone who would try and destroy it, and stationed the Weapons Master on the ruins to keep everything in check. My personal explanation for the spellpunk darkness book is that those guys were elder elementals who fought alongside the giants. Both are the first skylanders If roller brawl is an arkeyan, so is Mags because they’re both very similar looking vampires
7:37 the arkeyeans in swap force might actually be greebles in armor. In beta footage the greeble wore the armor and used arkeayen tech in concept art. Idk how a greeble is fitting in a rip rotor though
6:13 i think chopchop isn't a robot but rather an undead arkeyan warior , same as crypt king . Just look at their skeleton . Does it look robotic to you? Or maybe those two are just skeletons that wear arkeyan armor that they had found
krypt king was stated to be a ghost possessing an arkeyan armor,and chopo chop was born using undead magic and technology,so even tho it doesn't look like it it may be part robot
Like I said in a comment before they learned to wield magic and undead a lot of the Arkeyan defenders the ones with maces in Giants and SSA have bones so Chop Chop just most likely deviated it is possible because theirs a few Arkeyan warriors in giants in the level before you fight Kaos stating that they would not join the fight but rather play Skystones in peace and be passive with the Skylander, Krypt King is just a armor with skeleton that never awaken for whatever reason most likes due to them not have a king to rule snd the fist is probably deactivated being in the Chompy cavern for god knows how long and so the ghost just took refuge in the armor and being it’s life
When you said that the arkyans were portal masters, I was skeptical. But when you mentioned kaos taking over the arkyan empire, you have me convinced. Amazing theory man
i belive that the arkeyans were created by the ancients to battle the darkness but he corrupted them and made them think that the only way to protect skylands was to conquer it in a tyranical rule. also the books in the spellpunk library i belive are meant to be set in newer times like 500 years before ssa cause the arkeyan empire was set 10 000 years ago
That’s a very interesting theory about them being portal masters originally. Here’s my thoughts: Portal masters are basically just anyone in skylands who can activate a portal and in ancient skylands they were way more common. Also I believe people really misunderstand the story scroll because I take that as saying they literally started as just wizards that became robots. And since in skylands making sentient robots seems easy this is probably where the purely robot arkens come from Also I like to compare them to the Romans in our world because they are both a ancient society that spread on conquest, but were taken out by local hero like people (like Attila). And yes I take “Giants are the first skylanders” to mean literally “they were first to make the title for themselves” which may have been copied by Eon
Hey I think the o in Kaos’s mom’s name is silent. I haven’t seen the academy show in ages but I’m like 90% sure it. Maybe google a clip of someone saying her name in the show. Ps please be Fiesta for the next Skylander backstory video. He has a whole origin comic and it’s amazing. You showed a panel of it near the end when talking about Roller Brawl and vampires as a whole.
to your theory that arkayans are portalmaster a have a argument and 2 counter argument, 1 portalmasters controls minions, to us it is akylanders to kaos and his mom it is dark minions, and arkeyans like to control things 2 chopchop is suposed to be an arkeyan and portalmaster can moove on earth my chopchop never mooved 3portalmastry isn't genetic, it is totally random who has it and who hasn't, (besides earth where everything is a portalmaster, even my cat is, he pushed a skylander and it fell on a portal while i was gaming, and the game said "too much skylanders on the portal")
@@endercon042 i know i know that is the greatest tragedy that happened to this FRANCHISE (aside from imaginators’ story) but i meant in the canon and mythos of the franchise
I was under the impression arkeyans are mostly undead cyborgs like Chop Chop. I also remember that there were some arkeyans in Giants who chose not to follow Kaos and they just wanted to play some skystones.
Do you think eyon just found that he culd have a comfy life if he hid all the evil things he did and sent his Skylanders (ancient hero that have always saved Skylands after the history revision) to save them maybe even from some stuff eyon and others he worked with did
If your theory about the Arkeyans is true, then if I’m to make a comparison they’re kind of similar to the Kree from the Marvel series. They both see themselves as heroes who are really evil. Maybe the Arkeyans sending them to the mines was a way of being merciful, much how like the Kree think themselves merciful when they kill people.
I do notice somthing i think in between there coulve been a civil war or som cause u got blue arkeyans and red ones i think they could be difftent race
Also while i personally subscribw to the theory bouncer is an arkeyan duw to his connection to the sport roboball it's never been confirmed anywhere that he is one
I wonder if after the war against the darkness and the fall of the arkeyans it was stated some kind of law for portal masters to follow, something like the rule of two from Starwars’s Sith Lords. Because the only portal masters that appear in game (correct me if I’m wrong) are Kaos, his mom, Eon and the player, that makes me think if there’s some kind of master and apprentice rule
umm i know this video about the lore but can someone explain how the arkeyans wear stille aktive in the vault stage and ssa and after the events of giants
Could somehow be a security thing maybe only few were left to roam with most being dormant or maybe a lot of the ones were being made they never were active when Robot king was active and were later finished and turned on during SSA
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Hey everyone, just stopping in real quick to apologize about the low frame rate in some parts of the video. I dunno why it was doing that but it was completely fine when I was editing the separate videos
It's ok,I don't mind low framerate.anyways keep up the good work :)
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I’m so happy that you have taken my theory and put it out there and even showing my reddit post in a past video thanks so much!!!!
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I would live a video on the Wilikins and Evilikins!
I think splat is in the book because in spell punk library you enter the books so splat is just representing what ever character your playing as
That’s what I was gonna say lol.
Honestly, I really like your theory that the Arkeans are portal masters, but you skipped over the single biggest piece of evidence supporting it! The iron fist of Arkus acts like a portal. When the giants disconnect the fist from the robot king, it's the gist that sends them to earth in a similar manner to all of the other explosions. This was most likely either a self defense mechanism against would be usurper or simply a side effect of disconnecting a portal from it's master, but it supports the theory either way.
I had always assumed that Chop Chop was just a dead Arkeyan soldier, didn't know anything about him being a robot
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Krypt King's armour is powered by the spirit of a knight that possesses it. He's not wearing a powered suit of armour, he controls it through possession
So like Chop Chop but bigger and better?
@ not exactly, Chop Chop *is* an Arkeyan soldier, not a spirit possessing armour
They’re actually the first not only to surpass the knowledge of tech but to merge the different elements together before really way before Swapforce, they were defenders before turning evil, it’s interesting they were good long before and then somehow turned evil and for thousands of years ruled with a iron fist enslaving Mabu and possible other races to make monuments, statues, temples whatever for the Arkeyans and them still being a incredible foe to the Skylanders and if you look at Giants in the first level it’s statues in the cavern is Chop Chop I believe Arkeyans had different functions and stations amongst Skylands and different status and they had to somehow make each other somehow with petrified darkness inside the Arkeyans and if it was ever in all of them why does Chop Chop and Krypt King, Drill Sargent not possess it and a lot of these Skylanders were found like Terrafin found DS, Krypt King was a ghost that wandered into a suit and had activated the security in the factory, Chop Chop could of just stayed from the Arkeyans evil ways, theirs an Arkeyan solider hell it’s a few of them that don’t want to fight and would rather play Sky Stones, The Weapon Master have some sort of intelligence even then it’s odd theirs Robot ghost who has his own robot and it’s blue which is odd since all of those War machines are red, which it could be some of the Arkeyans are hybrids both a suit and robot, and the Arkeyans could be creations of the ancients as a civilization or protectors of Skylands kind of like the clones of Star Wars
It’s nice to have a video like this. The Arkeyans have so much interesting lore, but you don’t usually see people exploring it online.
I think that Splat being there is an error OR they're just using her as shorthand to display the Skylanders of the time. OR, because we appear to quite literally become part of the book and fight the same battles as before, we become the Skylanders of old alongside our teammates. Like going into a movie and becoming part of the cast until you exit the movie.
The Arkeyans are just like the Dwemer from the Elder Scrolls. They both experimented with crazy stuff and they suffered for it.
You might not know this but the writer of the books was a literal caterpillar/worm so the guy might not have all the knowledge of that time period so he might’ve replaced the arkeyans with the skylanders without knowing a thing during the writing of those books or he hates the arkeyan’s guts so he didn’t put them in his books not sure
10:19 I really like the amount of weight this holds. It makes your theory have more debt.
WOAH WOAH WOAH HOLD ON A MINUTE
aren't portal masters not hereditary, but rather they just happen to be born with the power of wielding a portal, as stated from a story scroll in spyro's adventure
this makes the entire arkeyan portal master theory fall apart almost entirely
That may be true, but there still could be portal masters in the Arkeyan empire
@@jackpray8669 oh that is still possible, but it wouldn't be possible for every arkeyan to be a portal master without highs and lows in population
@Slicetheidiot also may be portal masters have some sort of magical DNA so if one of the parents of a baby is a portal masters then there is a chance that the child could be a portal master as well, also that story scroll neither confirm nor deny this line of thought could happen.
@@jackpray8669 the story scroll directly states that it is not from blood, so this cannot be true
Yes exactly like Star Wars only rare that people have the power of connection to the force, Eon was pretty much like a maid to the previous portal master but he accidentally sent him to the dirt seas which pretty much gave him the opportunity for training to be a portal master
Oh man, hearing the theme for the first area of the Arkeyan Armory at the start took me back. That was the first melody I ever memorized.
Those were the good old days.
Y'all Skylanders is part of my childhood so I'm watching this
skylanders is so good, I wish it didnt rely so heavily on the toys to life aspect so it would be easier to revive the series and stuff
Huh, you know that theory about the Arkeyans and Portal Masters being related is an interesting theory. I don't know if it's true but it's really cool to speculate on!
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Love the idea of the Arkeyans having a "Die a hero, or live long enough to become the villain" streak. Them being utterly horrified of an eldritch terror to the point of seeing realm enslavement and total militarization, as preferable alternatives to succumbing to the Darkness, feels like it'd be a Lovecraft-like story.
If another Skylanders game gets made, I honestly think the evil Arkeyans would make for nice villains.
Something I notice is that people assume that “hyper intelligent robots” can’t make mistake or don’t have culture. We need to think about how these things are sentient and probably similar to use
0:10 3 aschctually, all of ssa's magic eternal source place is in old arkeyans places
I love Giants and I love the Arkeyans, thank you for this lore video.
Love this analysis. I’d never think of arkeyans being portal masters but honestly I really see ur points.
I want to make a theory the supercharger skylanders in the books basically took over the giant's place when they were exploring the books
They self inserted as they read, they were inspired by the giants. It makes sense
@@Devotchka101 basically like they rewrote the books
I don’t think that portal masters are a sub-faction or descendants of the arkeyans. Instead, my hypothesis is that both Portal Masters and Arkeyans share human ancestors that discovered portals.
Perhaps the Portal Masters focused on harnessing portals and the unique magic within them to help themselves and others, while the Arkeyans sought to use the portals to expand their knowledge of already existing magic?
7:48 this little section reminded me about my own theory about the Arkeyans in terms of the style:
Since Skylands is so massive, I believe that the Arkeyans adapted to their surroundings in order to survive and gather resources efficiently. Each games Arkeyans are very unique overall, with Swap Force having the most unique designs/models. So for all the areas we DON'T see Arkeyans in there could be a variety of them. Just a silly theory lol
Speaking of corrupting things in skylands remember those crystal’s used to power the evilizers and the evilized fire? (No idea how evilized fire is created honestly to be honest…)
It’s very likely that these could’ve been created via leftover essence from the darkness as like you said in the lore it can corrupt beings.
And in swap force we actually see creatures like various enemies being corrupted in game.
Since it takes time with stronger beings like the four magic guardians (I think that’s what they’re called) means it’s likely far weaker since it’s only a small fraction of the darknesses power.
The modern skylanders are in the book because they jumped into the book, in the level
I think with the modern Skylanders in Pomfrey’s books about The Darkness, it’s likely for the same reason we play through the levels in the book through which they appear in its pages.
I.e. the books of the Spellpunk Library warp whoever reads it into its pages directly.
If that made any sense…
The Arkeyans have to be my favorite piece of lore in Skylanders. They keep popping up throughout the games, creating the vague outline of a timeline and culture, and giving us the chance to theorize about what all of it could mean!
It'd be great if the other species in skylands could get the same lore treatment.
I may or may not have an explanation for skylanders existing before the giants. Eon at one point in time (I think through story scroll) says that the portal of power can sent skylanders through space and time, it could mean that some kind of portal master (maybe even Eon himself) helped with the war by sending some skylanders there
weirdly the vicarious visions games (swap force and superchargers) are actually confirmed to be non canon, despite them trying so desperately to fit into the toys for bob story
Wait so the canon timeline of games is SSA,Giants,Trap Team and Imaginators?
that's anywhere but true, where did you hear this from?
@@undeadking8068 vicarious visions literally stated on twitter years ago
@@undeadking8068 i looked it up apparently Alex Ness said it
Tbh the arkeyans are freaking everywhere in skylanders
It’s like mint, (yes the plant) you can’t go 2 chapters without finding at least some correlation to these mechanical fucks,
New problem? : Probably the arkeyans
Big bad? : Probably the arkeyans
New skylanders : Probably the arkeyans
WHERE AREN’T THEY INVOLVED!?
Chop chop was always my fav cool to see some lore on his race overall good vid
Theory for who the skylanders were: it claims there were skylanders in the war against the darkness, while these cant be the giants they could be the elder elemental. I know they are most likely the giants but its a possibility. Furthermore characters like Ninjini Crusher and Bouncer would have existed at this time and with no reason to have aggression against the Arkeyans it would make sense they would aid in fighting the Darkness.
I pretty much had the exact same theories, but that one about the arkeyans being portal masters is wild
You are one of the reasons why Skylanders is still alive, and I think some of your theories in this video may actually be true. I think the “Machine of Doom” is the good Arkeyan war machine in Giants, Ermit and the machine ghost helped the Skylander take down Robo Kaos so the evil Arkeyan’s wouldn’t conquer Skylands like they did 10,000 years ago. The good Arkeyan was probably called the “Machine of Doom” because someone knew that he would be the undoing of the Arkeyan’s and their conquest.
I’m almost certain that the Darkness Books refer to a second coming of the Darkness from later in the timeline. At first, it was brought into Skylands via the Dark Rift Engine and fought back by the Ancients and Arkeyans. And then later on, the Giants took down the Arkeyans, leaving the Portal Masters and Skylanders to deal with the Darkness later on when the Spell Punks repowered it.
As for them being Portal Masters…maybe. We know that being one is almost random, that ‘you’re either born one or you’re not’, instead of being a specific species. Even Wizbit was a Mabu Portal Master. Though the Arkeyans could have been like the Kaos Klan, just a specific line of Portal Masters from a tribe.
Overall, cool video, I enjoyed watching this.
Absolutely in love with your work. Thanks for your effort to make the insight. Comment for the algorythm
I think the reason for the spell punk thing 8s that the spell punks worship the darkness, like several of the more evil creatures in skylands, they even look like cult members in design, if I had to guess, they worship the darkness, thus taking pride in their involvement.
If that doesn't suit your fancy, its important to remember the books weren't written by a spell punk, they were just collected in the library, in addition, the library is abandoned, and we see the author's in-progress books, there is a very good chance the author left those books after he wrote them.
I like your videos very detailed and you have a very good passion for the series I myself love and adore the arkeyans.
This helps so much of more me writing lore in my on story based in Skylanders but Arkeyans are important part so this help with when some of the information is a bit iffy on how Canon they are.
In the supercharger darkness books the best I could figure is that it is showing the skylanders still in the books after the level is finished also it could have been a way for vv to include some concept art because high volt is still in the light element in one of them
I really want to study the Arkeyan world
This is certainly gonna help me with writing some of my lore.
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Nice, I didn't expect to make another Skylander video cameo, so this is kewl.
There may have been extra tidbits of info, but I can't find my S:SA annual, so I can't check it currently. Kinda sucks, but oh well.
Anyways, I really liked the video, and the human part was cool too.
As for the Superchargers stuff, it's most likely a time travel situation with Dive Clops, Splat, and High Volt. Similar to the Mask of Power arc, and the Time of the Giants level.
I can't wait to see more.
Fun fact, Hood Sickle uses a material known as Dark Remnant to fight in Imaginators, as a substitute for spirits... this is interesting, as Dark Remnant is a prominent piece in the FNaF franchise, with even one of the characters, RWQFSFASXC, being made from Dark Remnant.
The fact that they're pretty much identical, and Imaginators coined the term 1 - 2 years before it was in the FNaF series was wild.
There's also the Arkeyans having faceplates that open up, and them essentially being possessed robots... It's all kinda too coincidental... or is it?
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So idk if I'm remembering this correctly but isn't Dive Clops and Eye Brawl brothers in the books? Would it make sense to have Dive Clops and Eye Brawl exist in the same Era? Like Eye Brawl got sent back cause of the gauntlet and Dive Clops because of the whirlpool? That last bit is part of his back story apparently?
@@pokedigi1237 They're twins, apparently.
Yea the arkeyans could open up their faces, as shown wnen Kaos gets inside and Pilots the Conquertron in the cutscenes of Giants. Also supported by the Glacier Gully level also in Giants with the machine ghost. (I swear Noodles is one of my favorite antagonists in the franchise. Thank you for existing Noodles.)
@@potatoofmemes And Krypt King can open his face.
4:30, i would argue they had time traveled if anything. That would be my best guess, therefore the Giants are still the "first" and still have history with the Darkness. I also would say the lore wouldn't mention a few modern day Skylanders traveling back in time since their individual lore is mainly about how they became skylanders, not what feats they've achieved after eon found them. My biggest supporting evidence would be the events of the Mask of Power series and how the skylanders and kaos time traveled in that and how it ultimately made a loophole in the timeline. Ie. Kaos being the reason why the mask split into pieces in the first place causing a butterfly effect up until kaos travels back in time to collect the pieces then having it split up again causing the butterfly effect again in the future. Rinse and repeat. Another point i'd make albeit, not as important, but a detail i noticed is that whatever past a specific Skylander may have, never shows up or is mentioned in the games at all. Like example with say Boom Bloom and Dr Krankase in your last video. They can exist together in Imaginators like no drama ever happened. Although yes they are just skylanders in that game so nothing would happen true but still. They make the games in the scope that all Skylanders are in the spotlight. Not any particular one. So thereforeone of the books of darkness showing some skylanders helping out in the ancient war wouldn't count since it didn't name names and since it's in the events of the game. Not in a bio. Now if it were to say Spyro was born 1 billion years ago and was a skylander back then despite the Giants forming 10,000 years ago and being the "first", then yea there would be a huge problem.
I think the weapon master being on the ruins was more a way of the Arkeyans protecting the core of light. As you said, they were terrified of it being destroyed so they set up the machine of doom to kill anyone who would try and destroy it, and stationed the Weapons Master on the ruins to keep everything in check.
My personal explanation for the spellpunk darkness book is that those guys were elder elementals who fought alongside the giants. Both are the first skylanders
If roller brawl is an arkeyan, so is Mags because they’re both very similar looking vampires
I'd love to see this be elaborated on! It'd be awesome!
7:37 the arkeyeans in swap force might actually be greebles in armor. In beta footage the greeble wore the armor and used arkeayen tech in concept art. Idk how a greeble is fitting in a rip rotor though
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Easily the best video yet and love how long it it was too (pause)
5:24 Pomfrey wrote those books not the spellpunks those books were int eh library possibly because the spellpunks wanted to keep that info hidden
Oh that explains the secret red avalanche button.
6:13 i think chopchop isn't a robot but rather an undead arkeyan warior , same as crypt king . Just look at their skeleton . Does it look robotic to you?
Or maybe those two are just skeletons that wear arkeyan armor that they had found
krypt king was stated to be a ghost possessing an arkeyan armor,and chopo chop was born using undead magic and technology,so even tho it doesn't look like it it may be part robot
Like I said in a comment before they learned to wield magic and undead a lot of the Arkeyan defenders the ones with maces in Giants and SSA have bones so Chop Chop just most likely deviated it is possible because theirs a few Arkeyan warriors in giants in the level before you fight Kaos stating that they would not join the fight but rather play Skystones in peace and be passive with the Skylander, Krypt King is just a armor with skeleton that never awaken for whatever reason most likes due to them not have a king to rule snd the fist is probably deactivated being in the Chompy cavern for god knows how long and so the ghost just took refuge in the armor and being it’s life
When you said that the arkyans were portal masters, I was skeptical. But when you mentioned kaos taking over the arkyan empire, you have me convinced. Amazing theory man
I wish that we got more information on the arkeyans they seem so interesting
I can't wait for you to cover dragons. Drobot will be a good one to cover
Also the gauntlet sucked the giants inside of it like a portal too
i belive that the arkeyans were created by the ancients to battle the darkness but he corrupted them and made them think that the only way to protect skylands was to conquer it in a tyranical rule. also the books in the spellpunk library i belive are meant to be set in newer times like 500 years before ssa cause the arkeyan empire was set 10 000 years ago
That’s a very interesting theory about them being portal masters originally.
Here’s my thoughts:
Portal masters are basically just anyone in skylands who can activate a portal and in ancient skylands they were way more common. Also I believe people really misunderstand the story scroll because I take that as saying they literally started as just wizards that became robots. And since in skylands making sentient robots seems easy this is probably where the purely robot arkens come from
Also I like to compare them to the Romans in our world because they are both a ancient society that spread on conquest, but were taken out by local hero like people (like Attila). And yes I take “Giants are the first skylanders” to mean literally “they were first to make the title for themselves” which may have been copied by Eon
Hey I think the o in Kaos’s mom’s name is silent. I haven’t seen the academy show in ages but I’m like 90% sure it. Maybe google a clip of someone saying her name in the show. Ps please be Fiesta for the next Skylander backstory video. He has a whole origin comic and it’s amazing. You showed a panel of it near the end when talking about Roller Brawl and vampires as a whole.
to your theory that arkayans are portalmaster a have a argument and 2 counter argument,
1 portalmasters controls minions, to us it is akylanders to kaos and his mom it is dark minions, and arkeyans like to control things
2 chopchop is suposed to be an arkeyan and portalmaster can moove on earth my chopchop never mooved
3portalmastry isn't genetic, it is totally random who has it and who hasn't, (besides earth where everything is a portalmaster, even my cat is, he pushed a skylander and it fell on a portal while i was gaming, and the game said "too much skylanders on the portal")
so cool!!, thanks for the amazing video!!
Skylands’ greatest tragedy
Was Actibliz milking it to death
@@endercon042 yeah but the arkeyans started out as good guys before becoming corrupted and losing their civilization to history
@@clonetrooper2003 I'm not talking about the Arkeyans. I'm talking about the franchise, which is why I said Acti/Bliz
@@endercon042 i know i know that is the greatest tragedy that happened to this FRANCHISE (aside from imaginators’ story) but i meant in the canon and mythos of the franchise
Bro is matpat now
I was under the impression arkeyans are mostly undead cyborgs like Chop Chop. I also remember that there were some arkeyans in Giants who chose not to follow Kaos and they just wanted to play some skystones.
Adding onto the superchargers bit,maybe they were heroes before the skylanders were even formed. But then again,it still Doesn’t add up.
Do you think eyon just found that he culd have a comfy life if he hid all the evil things he did and sent his Skylanders (ancient hero that have always saved Skylands after the history revision) to save them maybe even from some stuff eyon and others he worked with did
18:21 being a human isn't the same as being a portalmaster, aurora isn't one and some mabu are, like wizbit
If your theory about the Arkeyans is true, then if I’m to make a comparison they’re kind of similar to the Kree from the Marvel series. They both see themselves as heroes who are really evil. Maybe the Arkeyans sending them to the mines was a way of being merciful, much how like the Kree think themselves merciful when they kill people.
5:20 So no future generations make the same mistakes
I was just thinking about this
I do notice somthing i think in between there coulve been a civil war or som cause u got blue arkeyans and red ones i think they could be difftent race
10:40 here you said that it got banished to the end of the realm but actually, it got into the academy scealed in a jar, and kaos stole it from there
The first ‘skylanders’ were Arkus and the other leaders of the races of Skylands
This is epic
Also while i personally subscribw to the theory bouncer is an arkeyan duw to his connection to the sport roboball it's never been confirmed anywhere that he is one
Its confirm on his card (tradingcard) it says the was a sport star before later joinig the gigants
@@sepp4815 him being a star of the sport doesnt automatically mean he was a arkeyan
@@GamerNerdCJ I meant only the sport thing the arkeyan is just his theory
I was wondering could you do a video on the different timelines?)
ARKEYANS!
Yknow what’s crazy? I don’t remember anything about the archeans and I played up to trap team
What a shame. You shoulda payed more attention lmao
Wait a minute Skylanders has multiple time lines!!!!
Wasn't it the Iron Fist of Arkus that sent the Giants to earth?
Its not really explained but its likely that the magic power of the fist, but it could have been some last ditch arkeyan spell to defeat their enemies
I wonder if after the war against the darkness and the fall of the arkeyans it was stated some kind of law for portal masters to follow, something like the rule of two from Starwars’s Sith Lords. Because the only portal masters that appear in game (correct me if I’m wrong) are Kaos, his mom, Eon and the player, that makes me think if there’s some kind of master and apprentice rule
YES YES YES YES
umm i know this video about the lore but can someone explain how the arkeyans wear stille aktive in the vault stage and ssa and after the events of giants
Could somehow be a security thing maybe only few were left to roam with most being dormant or maybe a lot of the ones were being made they never were active when Robot king was active and were later finished and turned on during SSA
is it safe to say any skylanders of the dark element stem from the power of the Darkness?
No wait, I think you might be right about the portal master thing…
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Academy is probably the best timeline. It makes all the important characters more complex, explains the arkeyans and wumpa island crossovers better
whats the music at 1:34?
Time of the Giants level theme
@@arrangedsloth8493thanks
Why are there 3 Skylanders timelines 'cause of their different continuities?
Was Tech the first Skylanders element?
Why would the Arkeyans power their battle armor with Petrified Darkness?
All Portal Masters die under The Darkness' will after their corruption?
Skylanders lore is like a 5 y/o just rambled on
I’m so glad I found you yesterday your vids are so good!! Thank you for your service 🫡