The Truth of King Harald? Ch 1141

Let me preface this by saying this is purely magical thinking, I just have a hunch.

I think this page is foreshadowing Loki’s backstory, metaphorically. In Elbaf so far, the truth of Loki’s crime and his morality has been intentionally ambiguous, a question rasied by Oda. It seems we’re about to get an answer based on the end of this chapter.

I believe it’s going to turn out that Harald was bad, as people have said. I think the line that sticks out is ‘the entire branch was severed from the tree to ensure the fire wouldn’t spread to the other villages’. Perhaps Harald intended to conquer the other giant nations—a perversion of his son Hajruden’s goal to unite them. Loki was a liar and a trickster, but wasn’t a bad guy, so he couldn’t sit idly by and had to stop him. However, Loki couldn’t tell the truth of his father’s warmongering and took the blame, ironically telling a lie that people believed was true.

Again, disregard this nonsense, I just wanted to write this out of my head, haha.

Let me preface this by saying this is purely magical thinking, I just have a hunch.

I think this page is foreshadowing Loki’s backstory, metaphorically. In Elbaf so far, the truth of Loki’s crime and his morality has been intentionally ambiguous, a question rasied by Oda. It seems we’re about to get an answer based on the end of this chapter.

I believe it’s going to turn out that Harald was bad, as people have said. I think the line that sticks out is ‘the entire branch was severed from the tree to ensure the fire wouldn’t spread to the other villages’. Perhaps Harald intended to conquer the other giant nations—a perversion of his son Hajruden’s goal to unite them. Loki was a liar and a trickster, but wasn’t a bad guy, so he couldn’t sit idly by and had to stop him. However, Loki couldn’t tell the truth of his father’s warmongering and took the blame, ironically telling a lie that people believed was true.

Again, disregard this nonsense, I just wanted to write this out of my head, haha.