Clevatess: Majuu no Ou to Akago to Shikabane no Yuusha Episode 11 Discussion

The lore is giving me Shinsekai Yori or Bye Bye Earth from the better past civilization.Could even be as advanced as the latter creeping into sci fi territory.

Very interested in knowing more on how they disappeared or seems like made to since Zavthier seems to know and how the dark beasts existed before then.

The legend of the heroes is nonsense, a complete sham. Clevatess' entire journey with Luna was pointless, even his desire to wipe out the hominids. Alicia's heroic quest and the death of the heroes who pursued the Magic Kings was also nonsense. Because it was all based on that book, written by the real hominids. What happened to them? What led to their extinction?

Clevatess even doubted his own existence when he said he was born of chaos, just like this world. But who originally said that phrase? And apparently, there were other Magic Kings. He thought Clevatess and the other three were unique beings, not successors. In the end, Clevatess realized how ridiculous it all was. He did it out of boredom, perhaps seeking a real challenge, but he ended up abandoning everything, including his desire to destroy the hominids, after discovering the truth. All that chaos... for a damn book. But please, Klen, don't leave Luna alone.

And if Dorrel, or rather Vordin, gets hold of the book, wouldn't that be a problem for Clevatess? Maybe the King of the North wants to become the sole ruler of the world. But hey, maybe that book doesn't even contain anything important. It could just be Vordin's curiosity about a legend of beings that no one has ever seen.

Clevatess witnessing the former King of Hiden throwing Luna thrown into the furnace of the King's Forge, whose true name is Toth, Hidelius the VI, his family legacy being one who opposes the legacy of the hero in Edthea, it's such a wild theory that even Alicia and Princess T'ala admits that the history of the 13 Heroes were not what was surmised, but if there's any chance to correct history, they must be the ones who carve out this new path. And since even the former King himself is faulted to a degree, never once did Klen actually decide something that's off of his current trajectory, more than Drel coming to the forge, and Commander Royes being taken by Gart straight to the same place as well, with his Regalia.

Drel's rematch against Alicia and Royes is an exercise in frustration to show more of his overwhelming power, more than his dark ichor body and sword having taken hold of his humanity to dispel the legend of the hero. On Klen's end, knowing that Luna and the headless king's sacrifices formed the Master of Forges' book that even the youngest of the Lord of Dark Beasts can decipher, destroying humanity was his calling, even then and now, but Zavthier's interpretation which gave rise to the Book of Toah, just crushed all that ambition.

Now the book shown in the ED finally makes a lot of sense, and the lore has just expanded significantly. I'm not ready for the finale to come next week...

@KANLen09 I, too , had that moment when everything came into frame and it was amazing! The book, the grandchild's name, the title of the next episode, especially Drel's monologuing not once but twice (1st at the bridge when he tells Alicia about his and her father's relationship, 2nd his reveal about true humanity) is just a masterclass in that nostalgic 80s-90s storytelling. Who doesn't love a good monologuing, especially one that builds context in the events of the world, lol? It feels ripped from a cinematic cutscene from Disc 1 of some PS1 era game. I am loving this season of anime and this show truly feels like that cherry on top of the experience.

While I must admit at the beginning of the episode, having just finished ep 10, I kind of expected an unknown 5th Dark Lord to be the heart of the forge (just based off of previous anime, manga, and especially RPGs). I am much more interested in what they are doing with this angle