ALL The Mass Effect 5 Teases Explained By ONE Theory

[@ShoddyLegion]

It's just a theory, A MASS EFFECT THEORY!

[@iferutoznola5565]

Bhatarians

[@Shack-lion]

Just when I thought we were deep enough 0.o) we’re thrown deeper

[@N1ght_Breaker]

Once I heard "it's just a theory", I knew someone would have made the reference in the comments, somewhere... lol

[@TheOriginalsquarebiz]

okay I wanna play yo game.

[@MidratsSnack]

Dear Mike Gamble, Hire Atharia.

[@gamingdude96]

I'll keep insisting Atharia is actually a part of the writing team and is undercover to test how we'll react to their ideas 😅

[@N7krogan9]

It feels good knowing we are close to a Mass Effect game, if the writer from the Deus ex series brings her A game I think we are in for a treat

[@K4M0N1]

This did not feel like an hour. Amazing video, will be super fun to go back and see this when we know more!

[@shaenni9122]

Legion could speak not because of his intelligence. But because he needed to speak for his mission to contact and help Shepard. Geth don't use general language because for them it is too slow and inhibiting. But his mission demanded it. And the initiative Krogan were only that fertile because while they were in stasis they were getting gene therapy the whole trip to andromeda.

[@Neo101ai]

Yep, and she has missed so many already existing clues in the trilogy and Andromeda, especially the recording from Andromeda talking about reapers. Also, if they go multi-verse and time travel they will Mess Effect the story like many who touched them have, and that would be the "closure" people are looking for since the core team who made the Trilogy is now gone and is making their version of Mass Effect called Exodus. What I see in the newly released Dragon Age, I shudder to think what they are gonna do to Mass Effect...

[@inderezzed8454]

Not just the fact that the Jardaan might be the villains of the next game, but bear in mind how imperialistic Javik mentioned that the Protheans' plans were when he was introduced in ME3. It'd make perfect sense that the Jardaan/Protheans returning to a Reaper-Free Milky Way might possibly take an opportunity to restore their empire or some other level of imperialist behavior.

[@georgevirtus]

Doubt Javik would do anything, he was vengeance not leadership. Also doubt he would go back into constant war when he lived war all his life, perhaps he wants to know what peace is.

[@paulodiaz5774]

I don't think it is Garrus. The armor shape does not match. Though it really does resemble a Krogan armor and given that Krogans are long-lived aliens is more realistic in the new timeline.

[@hadesblackplays]

i still wanna believe its grunt

[@paragonseven]

The head specifically looks like a turian's crest, at least to me. I hadn't enhanced it well enough to see that detail, so I believed they were a krogan too for the longest time. Can't wait for the Gamble tell-all so we can figure out who it actually is lmao

[@paulodiaz5774]

​@@paragonseven i get your perspective that it looks a Turian's head when you look at it like the body is facing his companion while the head is facing the ship, the head may look like a Turian but when you look at the armor in that perspective, the edge has a pointed corner which is very unlikely to a Turians armor having a cylindrical edged armor. But if the perspective is that both the body and head are facing his companions, it is 100% a Krogan with a rounded hump on his back, and given that Krogans and Asarians are the longest-life alien species in ME, it can explain that they can survive if this game is set decades or hundreds of years after the Reaper war. But this is only my opinion.

[@stormemes2585]

@@paulodiaz5774 ​ i think the thing that makes me think it's garrus (or at least a turian) is the fact that the figure's legs are so close together. if you look at his splash art on the squad selection screen in mass effect 2, his legs are similarly close together. looking at a standard krogan's resting stance, their legs are set pretty wide apart. they may not be garrus (as much as i'm hoping it is) but at the very least i don't think they're a krogan

[@paulodiaz5774]

​@@stormemes2585 well speaking of legs. If you look closely, the orientation of the legs is just like the legs Salarian or Quarian where it is opposite of human legs (I don't know what's it called) unlike the usual human leg orientaion, and human and Turian legs have the same orientation.

[@stephencoleman3415]

3:38 that looks way more like a Krogan than a turian Garrus

[@mustafaozturk2542]

I think you stretched the theory about paralel universe Shepard. There are some 3 key points you missed in your theory crafting. 1- Cerberus lost their head illusive man. This hints Alliance System swooped in and turned Cerberus into military company of Alliance System. 2- Cerberus created the Lazarus Project and they created clones of Shepard if the original Shepard needed any organs or tissues. We know this because they established that in the 3rd game DLC. 3- Liara recorded Shepards life story in a box before the last battle on the Normandy with the crucible project. I believe they are going to use one of the clone Shepard instead of parallel universe shenanigans. The Shepard we will see is a clone and he/she will know the story of Shepard through that information box.

[@Scooby-Doo_Villain]

@@mustafaozturk2542 Might be a multiple choice origin should they use Shepard as the protag again. Might borrow a leaf from Dragon Age and introduce a ME Keep website for choosing your character and story beats. Certain results lead to original survivor Shep, clone Shep, or even Rider. It’d add a lot more replayabilty and isn’t anything more complex that what Inquisition and Veilguard got for their character backgrounds.

[@thepenguin8101]

@@mustafaozturk2542 Pretty good guess

[@lydia721]

no.

[@erezben14]

@@Scooby-Doo_Villain Don't think they'd need a ME Keep since they released a remaster and that the saves carries on automatically, hence no need for a keep

[@Scooby-Doo_Villain]

@@erezben14 Not msny people are up for playimg 3 to 4 full games with dozens of hours of content each just to set up a single playthrough.

[@AspenleafStudio]

Really admire the thought, research time, and effort you put into this. Great work!

[@scoliosisking6143]

Absolutely brilliant video, well done on it and your astute theorising both! I feel like the N7 trailer music being a dark reimagining of Shepherd's introductory music is a big hint that may have been missed. IMO - the villain is "control" shephard from another shard of the multiverse, and the game will be set after the "destroy" ending

[@Jswin-fi2pn]

Oh, this is absolutely brilliant! I enjoyed every minute of your video and even shed some tears! You've made me even more excited for N7 day! All your hard work analysing everything bought together into these amazing theories, that all absolutely make sense. If they are true it's going to be just a perfect game! I'm looking forward to seeing your N7 day live, I'm sure it will be even more fun than last year! 🤩 Thank you, Atharia

[@paragonseven]

Thank you! 💖

[@mexamrc]

Pretty interesting how the theory developed. The only thing I would hate is if they actually did a parallel universe. It's been over done recently and I am so done with it. I really hope they don't do that.

[@MaiNKoncept]

I agree. Parallel universe ls very seldom compelling and comes across as cheap plot divises. Time travel if done well could be interesting, but would open a can of worms to me, would the reapers have knowledge of this? They lived for eons so would they exist somewhere out there. I would want a very very sober approach to time travel. And alternate universe shepards sounds meh. I didn't even really like the shepard clone plot.

[@Crushonius]

@@MaiNKoncept yeah it killed final fantasy 7 for me with the "remake"

[@mexamrc]

@MaiNKoncept I agree 100%. Even the thought of time travel can be very tricky because then you can ask why not go back and warn even sooner that the reapers are coming and show the schematics of the weapon to the alliance and so on. The clone of Shepard was also a pretty lame villain. Yeah I really dislike the idea of parallel universes, it sounds very corny.

[@thomasmofield5552]

@@MaiNKoncept Then if time travel is a thing... Leviathans might want to fix a mistake and regain their supremacy.

[@Commodore22345]

@@MaiNKoncept "would the reapers have knowledge of this?" Maybe they did. That would explain Sovereign's line "We have no beginning. We have no end. We are infinite." That would suggest some understanding that time is not linear and may indicate they are able to move throughout time freely.

[@gamesadergaming1321]

It makes sense that we would have teleportation beams because the Alliance + council races would be pulling every piece of tech from the dead reapers, countless cycles of harvesting imagine the kind of technology the Reapers have available to them.

[@TheOriginalDarkSheep]

That's definitely a Krogan..

[@romanaghost]

Thanks! What a fantastic effort! If I ever needed a P.I , I would pick you! ❤

[@paragonseven]

Hahah appreciate it, thank you!

[@vasyear]

Years ago I found a data pad in a kettle base, it was between "benafactor" and "Hztch" and if I recall the "benafactor" is from the Milkyway, and the last line says "perhaps you would be interested to see my homeworld, like you once showed me yours"

[@cronos2726]

@@vasyear this. They left way too many mystery around this topic, and it is a potential connection point between the galaxies. They never revealed the benefactor, which means 2 possibilities: it is a known character planned to be revealed “later” (and never happened), which I would exclude and second, it doesn’t have relevant body form. If I remember well, the benefactor appeared in various forms to “speak” to people, the first thing I thought about was in one of those terminator movies, where the robot intelligence changes faces appearance on screen to speak with the protagonist. The benefactor has been pulling strings around the Andromeda Initiative, which we known for certain it was a huge cover up for Alec to work on AI-people interface (SAM, story from Initiation). I am not sure what are the goals of this character, but this guy has traveled out of the Milky Way, if we have interpreted well this datapad message, connecting specifically with the Kett. Could it be a some kind of unknown synthetic species? Is it geth? Too little info to speculate now, but it is a connection point. Everything depend on when the plot is set. I personally think it is around Andromeda’s time, 600 years in the future for the Milky Way, specifically in another timeline ( we have to assume that a time anomaly has happened, to bypass the choices of the end of ME3), otherwise the plot in Andromeda has not resolved yet and many things would not make sense with the Jardaan and Kett. But time travel is a possibility, it would be incredibly messy, but it could be. It remains to understand what is the focus of the plot, but if dark energy/scourge is involved, they can build anything that can explain space-time anomaly and they virtually have no limits to bypass previous story choices

[@marknewell7355]

I absolutely love it when paragon drops a mass effect video especially when its a nearly hour long deep dive into the new mass effect, ive had few theories of the endings and the choices and keep getting the vibe that only the humans if synthesis is that only all humans fully synthesised and not all the other species did giving the himans more sway in the galaxy and could easily bring shepherd back. And for destroy shepherd is recovered and alive and humans are held in hight regard in the galaxy i believe everything you say is what id be happy with, ill definitely be watching the live of N7 day i cant wait hope its something juicy

[@paragonseven]

If you're starting the Veilguard today, hope you enjoy!!

[@roguerifter9724]

I'm getting it today but probably won't start it until tomorrow.

[@wglattli]

Do you plan to make a review of this game?

[@MysticFL1-Beth]

I’ve been looking at the shadows at the bar in mass effect and it looks a lot like Femshep shadow that could be it! What he would hope no one would notice

[@paragonseven]

@@wglattli Undecided! I'm still going through DAI rn, so I might even do a first playthrough of DAV live. No plans as of now though!

[@harbingerdown9877]

Please let this be Biowares big comeback. Please let it be a long great sci fi adventure. I always hated the endings. This video and channel deserves more views❤

[@martinjrgensen8234]

Veilguard is honestly quite fun. As with every game, it has its issues, but gameplay is the best of any Bioware game

[@Richforce1]

I think Bioware is going to be sent to the EA graveyard before this game releases.

[@magnum7782]

@@martinjrgensen8234 the gameplay was not the best, if anything they went backwards from andromeda which despite the issues was the most fun, DAV is repetitive as heck

[@notcrazy6288]

It won't be. The talent of their writing and programming staff has been gutted, and ideological infants are in charge.

[@ChadThomas-rq9ow]

Quit trying to make vielgaurd happen. It killed dragonage. Stop

[@VulcanSays]

Happy Halloween to everyone.

[@shizzon85]

Now I'm about to replay the Mass Effect Trilogy again. Lol

[@Scarab324]

3:34 It looks more like a Krogan.

[@khoavo510]

Agreed, the silhouette has that Krogan bulkiness to my eyes

[@andreas2610]

@@khoavo510 drack maybe?

[@dominicmoras4283]

@@andreas2610 I'm thinking Grunt is more likely. Drack is nearing the end of his life in Andromeda. Grunt could work for both 2190 and 2800's.

[@andreas2610]

@@dominicmoras4283 why not kesh? After Drack died his last wish was that kesh joins ryder's crew or something idk

[@neoshek640]

It is. I think this is the first time she ever said this was a Turian. She always said it's a Krogan and it just simply looks like one.

[@yukoncornelius73]

To further your theory of AU Shep and how you could patch it so that it doesnt force you to pick the perfect destroy ending... Doesn't Javik give Shep a memory shard during the last mission on Earth? In theory, the AU Shep could be given this shard by whoever recovered it to restore your original Sheps memories and bring everything current

[@kleeenco]

are you sure that's Garrus? it looks like a Krogan to me

[@LarryAsberryJr]

I love this video. I had parts of this prediction last year and used the Mass Relay Explosion as the catalyst that fueled the scourge. It explained how the Remnant originated from the Geth. As the Geth traveled to Andromeda to search for their discovery, they got caught up on the explosion. I didn't understand how the time travel would work so I like that you addressed it. Overall great research into these theories. Wormholes get a lot cred here. They enable travel across galaxies, time, and parallel universes? That's the toughest part of this theory.

[@Thanatos--]

That was so dense and I loved it. Thanks for putting it together.

[@EvilJ069]

I want that N7 coat, but I ain't paying $500 for it

[@henrynielsen4766]

I just want to play as Conrad Verner in ME5 😭

[@GeekyMagpie]

I liked meeting his sister in andromeda

[@xLEG1TSCOP3Zz]

😂😂😂

[@Swank1079]

Just found your channel, instantly subbed✔️ this has to be thee most into detail about a video game on a KZbin channel I’ve ever witnessed!

[@paragonseven]

Wow, that's incredible praise, thank you so much!

[@stevenp5896]

This is the best! Thank you so much for your time and effort 👌 been looking for a new ME channel for awhile and glad I found you

[@Sam-yh5ov]

Still think voice 3 says "We've reached the heart." Could even have something to do with the Tempest entering the black hole to time travel

[@paragonseven]

Ooh definitely could be! Or "we've breached the heart"

[@petiertje]

Playing as Shepard and Ryder again? yes please. This breakdown got me all enthusiastic again about the next ME game :)

[@mikaeljohansson101]

I'm not really a fan of time travel narratives. However, the idea of the Jardaan being Protheans is fascinating. The exact timeline of the Prothean-Reaper War has not been well-defined. The existence of locations such as Ilos indicates that the 'full' eradication of the Prothean species could have occurred centuries or even millennia after the war began, with isolated cells or facilities enduring well past the fall of the Prothean Empire. It might just be that clandestine elements of the Prothean military reached Andromeda via salvaged Reaper technology, where they may have created the Angara and Kett as an envisioned weapon against the Reapers. I wonder if the lack of biotic abilities exhibited by the Angara and the Kett were in fact intentional design choices on the Prothean's part? Perhaps biotics somehow play into Reaper indoctrination, and severing a sentient being's connection to it actually makes them immune to indoctrination?

[@UltraViolet-FM]

At about the 52:00 mark, I see a face on that poster, and it takes some squinting to see it.

[@EvilJ069]

Don't forget about the end of ME3 where the little boy asks for more stories of "The Shepard"

[@Lyingblood]

3:44 looks more like a Krogan to me

[@nicolen.5504]

What a great video!! Love that you not only use real-world science as evidence (since Mass Effect is at least partially hard scifi), but also evidence from story structure and dev posts. I have heard too many theories that sound like fanfic or are half-baked, so its refreshing for one to be so through and plausible. Plus listening to your breakdown while studying has been making the time pass way easier lol

[@paragonseven]

Hope your studying has gone well!

[@Flameville]

I just hope and pray they do it justice. They have the answers to the test, I hope they don’t fail.

[@CMDRJosh]

So, im onboard with this theory but with your theory about the Quarian ARK, im pretty sure most or all passengers on that ARK died from the cross species virus that forms the whole story of the Andromeda Annihilation book

[@cristiancaravan6140]

But why would Liara be looking for Alternate Sheppard (unless you use control or synthesis)? When he died on the Citadel he was in way better shape then at the end of ME2, which means they would not have to work as hard to bring him back.

[@ideadlift20kg83]

Issue is how old is Liara in that teaser? She has noticeable wrinkles, Asari can live up to 1000 years. This could be hundreds of years after Me3. I just hope they do not use the wormhole thing to travel back in time and retrieve Shepard in that way xd

[@M4t7theNinja]

That picture of 'likey Garrus' looks more like a Krogan

[@bradreed4414]

34:03 well mudskippers can live out of water despite being fish. So that makes sense it could go “where it doesn’t belong”

[@Eventuality]

I enjoy your theory videos, from the attention to detail to the hypothesis themselves. Kudos. I also had a thought on Michael Gambles tweet from 2 years ago: - Liara T'Soni (Doctor, Shadow Broker and It doesn't fully make sense, but for someone who had to take a role imposed on her in a moments notice after the fall of the previous Shadow Broker, it sorta does in a way. Besides, the amount of resources and capital needed for something like this outside of official governments (Citadel, Asari, Turian, Salarian or Human means) had to come from someone with both means, connections and most importantly, network intelligence. Most would say that it was the Illusive Man, but by then he was too tied with Shepard's mission or with studying how to control the reapers. Plus his idea of "humanity first" wouldn't mesh with the Initiative's idea of uniting the species to one cause... just a theory of course, but since N7 day is around the corner, my mind won't stop thinking these :D

[@randomrobc]

What a wonderful video! You’ve put so much effort into this and it shows. You deserve more subscribers and I’m sure you’ll get them :)

[@SithAriYT]

An incredible work as always!!! :)

[@paragonseven]

Thank you! :)

[@Scarab324]

If time travel is introduced now, why didn't someone go back from the future and warn everyone that the Reapers were coming, with the plans from the Tigel?

[@paragonseven]

I assume because it would break the timeline to do so. The Andromeda crew returning to 2190 wouldn't break anything (I think) because their "original" selves are flying towards Andromeda in cryo sleep. So there's no chance of them accidently meeting themselves or something. But of course, this is just a guess. :)

[@Scooby-Doo_Villain]

@@Scarab324 Only logically consistent way to get around that would be unintentional time travel. The Andromeda Initiative figures out how to stick the Scourge into a black hole thinking “oh hey we’ve got a shortcut now” and then X, Y, Z happens when trying it out resulting in an oopsie to the past that they can’t recreate.

[@Scarab324]

@@paragonseven I didn't think that the crew could meet themselves. I was more referring to the problem that a Milky Way team in the future, with the knowledge of how to defeat the Reapers, could go back in time and give that knowledge to the peoples of the Milky Way much earlier so that the Reapers can be defeated before the cause so much damage in the first place. That would be a problem with time travel. That's why I advise against it. Time dilation would be much more suitable here. In addition, using quantum encryption, one could talk to the peoples in the Andromeda Galaxy directly from the Milky Way, since quantum particles, no matter how far apart they are, are entangled and react to one another. Therefore, communication over this distance would be easily possible and without any time difference. Teleporting like in ME1 to the Citadel or in ME3 from Earth to the Citadel would be a way to get directly from the Milky Way to the Andromeda Galaxy. All you would need is a teleporter on both sides.

[@dorottyapapp]

​@@Scarab324 🎉

[@paragonseven]

@@Scarab324 Again, if there's no Kerr black hole for that Milky Way team to go into, then they literally can't go back in time. There's only a known Kerr black hole in the Heleus cluster. And I'm pretty sure if they told people about the Reapers in the past, it'd make the entire trilogy plotline useless, which is why I don't think they'll go there.

[@Neonvarun]

The dedication is Insane 👏🏻🙏🏻🫡

[@christinwhite4876]

You’ve really outdone yourself with this one, fantastic analysis and plausible conclusion!

[@greasy8394]

Imagine they will make the indoctrination theory cannon which means ME3 "ended" on a cliffhanger and we still have yet to see an actual boss fight with a hybrid Harbinger Illusive Man like how it was supposed to be originally before it was cut out.

[@garwynrosser8907]

The Marauder Shields!

[@arielfetters5662]

I think voice 3 says "It's reached the heart" A very interesting theory overall, nice work.

[@greggmacdonald9644]

I see a new Paragon7 ME vid, I watch :) YES, your Continuation Theory makes lots of sense to me, and I've long thought that they'd sidestep the endings somehow, and involve parallel universes or timelines as well.. I've said as such in the past on Reddit, and gotten pushback for it. Thanks for this theory vid, and I look forward to your take on the N7 2024 content, very much! I will add one thing that you've probably already thought of: If the Jardaan are a variant of Prothean, then it seems obvious to me that they'd naturally want to re-assert Prothean/Jardaanian hegemony over the Milky Way Galaxy, since they'd see themselves as the rightful owners of it, and over all who live there. That certainly gives motivation for an Antagonist!

[@paragonseven]

Definitely agree with the Prothean Empire making a comeback, IF the Jardaan are Prothean and villains of course. :)

[@josephtretteen3970]

I think your mistaken that is a korgan not garrius.

[@dukimanx6228]

I'm going with the butler, using the candlestick in the study! The greatest thing about this endless teasing is that we know they are working hard on the story. That bodes well for the characters and us:)

[@nopeyepp]

Some of these theories do seem overly convoluted but it's hard to deny the effort and strong logic. Great work

[@arnevesper]

It’s both exciting and therapeutic to listen to your videos! This was excellent! :D I really, really hope Shepard comes back

[@ball2224]

In case you wonder, ME Andromeda went on a sale on steam for 80% off. Most likely this years N7 will be somehow related to Andromeda

[@zaedenuk]

Andromeda and the legendary editions are perpetually on sale 😂

[@jonathancrochetiere8280]

Great work. Can't wait to see how much of it you got right. Keep it up!!!

[@gbrassa]

Bruh yall are too smart for me but this single video has made me more excited for mass effect than any of the teasers have done. Well freaking done. Hook line and sinker.

[@Sergiu_Pirscoveanu]

This is very well done. Very intresting finds and points you have here. Nice work.

[@lonsunocook]

You give me hope, I appreciate it. Either way, your video has made me more excited for five than I have been in a while

[@MadsStjernholm]

poor shepard, can´t catch a break...

[@Fallen_Crusadr2364]

I got a question. Assuming the wormhole travel ends up happening, could the N7 helmet piece actually be from a damaged Ryder helmet? It might be a stretch, but a fresh looking helmet piece in fresh snowfall could be a recent breakage

[@fazums]

What if the character in the N7 suit from the trailer is actually Shepard? And the only way to bring him back was to upload his consciousness into a machine?

[@lexomoniyi]

Incredible video 24:46 not even finished yet and it’s all making much more sense with your analysis

[@blaize2638]

Sorry veilguard but your gonna have to wait, Paragonseven uploaded a new mass effect video.

[@dorottyapapp]

Same XD

[@NoahRoze]

Wasn't the geth telescope also mentioned by suvi in me:A? Didn't she say they're the reason Andromeda was discovered?

[@nomadwojtas8547]

After watching this movie, I don't know if I want a new mass effect. I like this theory so much that it could make a great story. And if what you say is not true and does not appear in the game, I will be very disappointed that they didn't come up with an idea like YOU.

[@laioren]

20:30 - I hope you're correct, but given the recent situation with the Veilguard, I'd assume that absolutely nothing anyone did in the first three Mass Effect games is going to have any kind of impact or presence on the next Mass Effect. Everything you cite here could be interpreted as simply simply implying that in the next Mass Effect game, similar choices with consequences options will exist.

[@Dyslexicminipainter]

Amazing work on this video here are my crazy unwanted theories 1 I think that relay in the trailer is probably a relay that connects to the second citadel that’s it in dark space mostly because the citadel was a mass relay it has to connect to another relay 2 reincarnated shepherd through artifacts from past lives. the thing the consort gave Shepherd in Mass effect one could that have been a past life artifact from a ancient shepherd I know the proteins use that type of passing of information through touch but maybe because the consort gave it to Shepherd and said it was for Shepherd maybe something 3 ever since the first time I’ve played Mass effect Andromeda and got to the end there it always seemed like whoever the Jardaan were split into two groups. One group wanted to create the Angara . The other group wanted to use their technology to augment themselves, hence the kett wasn’t until watching some lore videos theory videos got me to think that it may have been the Prothean or a faction of Prothean that left. So they either wanted to build an army to come back and out the Prothean Empire or to fight against the reapers. it’s pretty crazy how Ilos description almost matches what happened at habitat seven Sorry for bad spelling and grammar errors

[@r.katiekane252]

Shepherd's death was, and will remain the single biggest gut punch I've ever received from a video game

[@miersdelika5016]

Love your theory vids!

[@seirraalpha937]

What if. And I'm 100% spitballing here. The N7 shown in the trailer is the shepherd from control. It wouldn't be hard after a time skip for the alliance to build shepherd a body and have him/her upload shepherds mind to the synthetic body.( the same way a geth would)

[@MassEffect_fan]

When you say "dual protagonist" does that mean we'll be able to choose between Shepard and Ryder or will we be forced to alternate between the two? I hope it's the former because I think switching multiple times will take us out of the thing.

[@paragonseven]

No clue cause this is just a theory!

[@ChanceDraws]

Love the context you give to support your work! It shows thought!

[@OhNoLenX]

I'm surmising liara is on the planet that shepard was recovered from and she just happens to find bits of gear left behind after the fact. Kinda like the dogtag mission.

[@maraudershields283]

I like everything I hear here, all except the parallel universe stuff. The evidence you show and the links you make do really fit the bill. But I just don’t want more multiverse in my life, and I don’t think Mass Effect needs it.

[@alphamorion4314]

26:05 so far I'm not hearing much about the game respecting the player choices made in the original trilogy, but I'm hearing a lot about retconning ways into circumventing them and thus make them in anything MORE irrelevant than they ever were. Granted, I'm talking from a place of cynicism, I am aware of that and there could still ways in wich the devs surprise me. Here's hoping.

[@D.Fletcher]

Did I hear it right? Liara's happiness depends if Conrad Verner returns. That's a big win 😅

[@invaderj815]

What if at the end of ME3, when Liara did that mind share, she got pregnant with Shepherds' daughter, and that's how they bring Shepherd back so to speak by playing his daughter

[@smoogieboogie1694]

As someone who liked Andromeda I'm still very excited that we aren't ignoring that story and its implications and actually continuing it. And your theory gets me even more excited. Not just because of what I already said, but also because bringing in all the dark energy and time manipulation content that would have originally majorly factored into ME3's ending, the writers kinda have the chance to address and fix one of the most notoriously controversial game endings of all time.

[@Aquineas]

I have no idea if you're right or wrong and honestly I won't mind either way, because this was pleasantly entertaining. Thank you!

[@IanWatson]

I think a good chunk of this, particularly the black hole-as-portal hypothesis, is pretty strong, and I've had thoughts along those lines myself. But some of it's definitely a lot more of a reach. You had a lot riding on "this angara is angry at the geth," for example, but I don't see it; I don't think the image is clear enough for that. I'd love to have playable Shepard and Ryder, though, and I really hope they go in that direction. Incidentally I'm currently the content lead for a tabletop RPG, Æon, whose first edition was published 10 years before Mass Effect, in 1997. There are a lot of tonal similarities between the settings. I've heard rumours that members of the original ME team were fans of Æon, but I've been unable to confirm anything. I was all ready to give up on that... and then I saw the ME5 teasers. Believe me, I was FROTHING at the MOUTH when I saw "Epsilon-Oculon-Nebula" (EON).

[@dorottyapapp]

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[@jonathanschmidt7874]

Great video! Had a lot of fun watching, especially since I didn't follow any of the ME5 teases over the years. One thing I hope, and that may be a very unpopular opinion, is that they decide of a more or less strict canon ending and move on from there. At least for the big stuff (reaper resolution, race resolutions, etc.). As much as I love ME3, it got really messy in places as there were so many balls in the air (even tho the war asset system was a really neat idea to account for many of the minor choices you made in ME1 and ME2). This new game would not only have to deal with the outcomes of ME3, but also introduce the Andromeda crew and races and conflicts, a lot more sci-fi elements, and tell a compelling story... and I believe it would likely crumble under the pressure.

[@ronnielee8238]

Heres a problem with the prothean theory: The protheans were not a single monolithic race. They were a culture. A borg like culture that assimilated and enslaved other geneticly different races under their banner. Unlike human divisions which are mainly culture, "race" and religious, protheans would have been very, if not wildy different from one individual being to the next based on species, cultural identification, religions if any, and the prothean moniker as a nation state. All within the prothean empire were prothean, but not all protheans were of the prothean species.

[@willgame4coffee]

All the emphasis on the idea of our choices mattering also explains why the legacy edition was not just released but released how it was, as a single bundle. This allows players to replay the games, make their choices, and have them be able to be migrated to a new game.

[@RaphaelAmbrosiusCosteau51]

So excited to watch more of this later :)

[@UK-Lynn]

Oh my goodness, what a phenomenal breakdown. The time and work you have put into this is incredible. Thank you so much 🤗 you've got me even more excited for N7 day than I thought possible great work Atharia 🤗❤

[@jenkinskevin]

Now that would be my Mass Effect dream! Having Shepard and Ryder and hopefully we get to either choose which one to play as or interchange playing as both like in Detroit becomes Human!!!

[@dorottyapapp]

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[@ATShields935]

What if "Anomaly readings all across space" was said by Ryder & Co from Andromeda witnessing the Mass Relay Network collapsing at the end of Mass Effect 3 from Andromeda, with this being the inciting incident that prompts them to look into returning to the Milky Way to begin with?

[@SolidJungle]

Great video! Can't wait until N7 day, hopefully they show something substantial.

[@term4018]

Very thorough. Enjoyed the theory and fills some holes I had thinking about it. New sub now :). Keep it up.

[@dollfacedreamz97]

I have yet to see and hear about this character Thane Krios I mean yea he’s dead but not his son far as I know but the mystery N7 character reminds me of Thane Krios and his son they both have similar slim body design and both head shapes could fit that helmet. I seen no one talk about these two characters

[@Scooby-Doo_Villain]

16:50 could be "Its an Ark" or "its the Ark".

[@paragonseven]

Here for this! Maybe referring to the the quarian ark...

[@colinrobinson7680]

The problem i have with it being in the milky way is that quarians, geth, and krogans are going to have wildly different reactions to you based on past choices. They either or worship you or should attack you on sight for what you did to them. It can't be just some change in dialogue.

[@Grandtemplar305]

Decided to go back to mass effect for N7D really hype for the new one hopefully the dialogue choice are great

[@jaydenedwards4005]

33:40 doesn't Ashley call Sgepard skipper after romancing her for a certain time

[@troycegowdy6253]

35:00 Would it work if we play as Shepard in Perfect Destroy and Ryder in all the other endings?

[@Kenny-mp2sl]

I love these theory breakdown videos you do! 😊

[@Kelh90]

Lots of hard work gone into this and it’s great. Voice 3 16:48 I think sounds like “it’s the Ark”. Which if there is a crossover between Milky Way and Andromeda would make sense.

[@reasonablechristianity]

3:33 slight problem with that decision. The Character in the trailer is a Krogan.