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In my mind, it's like some mad boss armour from a Final Fantasy game haha

Calling it now, Immortui has bonded with the bone claw...

My guess is either Sil, Ray or Pine (the Dalki that escaped with Jim and Jack 1000 years ago)

I hope at some point (not necessarily now but soon) Minny has to summon Quinn through the shadow to help her like Quinn summoned Aurthur way back at Fex's execution. We can have another 'Return of the Punisher King' title

wonder if this has anything to do with Helen!? (long shot, but maybe)

World broadcast you say!? Perfect opportunity for Quinn to make a full public reappearance!

they guard the red heart?

I 100% think the Truedream gang (which also included that bloke who could, what was it, modify memories!?) will make a reappearance, or at least their actions will have had massive consequences. I especially think this because in one of the chapters during the Quinn vs werewolf Graham we cut to Truedream. Almost to remind us these guys are still around and plotting. There was definitely something to Truedream giving Pine that ability as well...almost a foreshadowing of Truedream creating an army again, like you mentioned. The reason I mentioned clone Jim before was because he has Jim's knowledge. Unless cloning was part of Jim's equivalent exchange ability, clone Jim will know how to clone. Or at least know how to build the technology to allow it. So yes...maybe that specific clone of Jim isn't around anymore, but another version could be. Regarding the shadow. Another way Truedream could have got hold of the shadow would have been to capture Sam, Dennis, Linda or Samantha and forcibly extract the ability from them. In addition to that, wasn't Laximus the original shadow user and didn't he take the shadow stone that Bryce made!? doesn't that mean shadow abilities could now be associated with potentially high ranking red vampires too? Anyway mate, I've enjoyed our theorying. I've just moved on to the chapter beyond this now, so this might be my last reply. I hope to see you in later chapters where all our questions will be answered!

it wa mentioned earlier but people in general should be stronger now. Widespread use of Qi enhancing body and abilities. More higher tier armour will have been created over 1000 years so the standard for armour strength will have increased. Quinn needed to disappear for 1000 years so that everyone else could do some catching up (so that at least some could pose a challenge for him). It's not that Triple A rank is weaker comparatively at all...its just Quinn is so strong and not used to his new stats at all!

The shadow is 100% teachable to vampires. From memory Sam, Linda and Samantha also learnt the shadow (as well as Dennis). This is a super difficult one to predict. Let's summarise what we know: 1) Noone knows of the Cursed faction, all shadow members were Cursed faction leaders, potentially means they've stayed hidden so not many others will have been taught the shadow. They could just have easily have started a new faction with a different name which completely blows a hole in this idea though. 2) all vampire corps vampires learn the string ability. This one seems really telling to me, the string ability is great but surely you want diversity in your ranks. A lot of the other vampire abilities, particularly family abilities were super strong, so why not learn them. This indicates that the vampires are really fractured but also that knowledge has been lost (at least by certain groups). If the shadow ability was widely used and known about wouldn't the vampire corps have tried to convince someone to teach them? and if it was widespread wouldnt it be more easy to convince at least one person to do this? There's also the potential for Truedream to have gotten his wish. He's been after the shadow ability for ages and is the reason he went up against the Blades in the first place. If he ever did manage to get it can he transfer it to a human?

1st point - I completely agree about bringing back the Dalki. I think it would be a dumb idea, that plot line is over now and should remain so, it's why I said hypothetically. My main reasoning for mentioning this was more due to the 'Altered' we saw earlier (the guys who attacked Quinn in the hotel) and their link to Logan. We know he's doing similar experiments from this and no idea what his current agenda is. Having human altered derived from a demon tier dragon would be a massive boost to anyone's army - and no doubt they would be Dalki-like. 2nd point - I know we only say Quinn and Ray communicate very briefly, but from that communication I was of the understanding that Ray was basically in full control of the dragon. Is this what you understood? or do you think it's more like a muddy/tails situation, or do you think it's more like a Vincent/Ray situation in Quinn where they are there and can only observe?

Hypothetically speaking it can still be used to make Dalki. Logan would probably know the process, plus clone Jim if he's still around (the one that escaped with Truedream). I think as a plot point it will now be used to embody Ray (Rey!?) and eventually allow Quinn a demon tier dragon ally who has the mind and strategy of a legendary warrior. It/he can also fulfil a mentor role for Quinn if Vincent is no longer around. I think why Quinn is still keeping it in his shadow is that, for now, there isn't really a safe place he can release it. Also he wants to understand more about this future world before making any decisions. He's that strong at the minute he doesn't need his shadow, plus it could be another give away that it's him - depending on who else has been taught it in the last 1000 years (possibly very few or a small selected group).

If I remember from an earlier chapter his shadow MC is around the 8000(!?) Mark after his fight with Graham. He's worried that in a fight his MCs will be reduced so much that the dragon will be forced out (I think)