Time Pools EXPLAINED & Puppet Strings REVEALED!| The Owl House S2E12 Elsewhere & Elsewhen Breakdown

[@AceRide]

I find it very interesting that Phillip said it "felt like the Isles were trying to hide" the glyphs from him, since it seems like the Isles kind of volunteered them to Luz (especially the light glyph).

[@WhitneyVision]

Same! The isles/titan has seemingly chosen Luz as its champion against the false prophet who has harnessed its powers for nefarious reasons. I wonder if we're going to see just how Philip realized these glyphs existed in the first place. Did he steal them from his brother? Was he entrusted by the isles before revealing his true colors?

[@bobthebacon3163]

@@WhitneyVision I dont think thats true. Just the "Luz is chosen by titan" which is cliche.

[@DarkRaikon]

not really... she saw it from hida doing light spell and not from the isle

[@AceRide]

@@DarkRaikon Not exactly. The video glitched out and froze, with the glyph appearing afterwards. King couldn't see it when he looked at the screen, only Luz could; she traced it onto the leaf because he asked what it looked like

[@jismeraiverhoeven]

@@AceRide and in the episode where she found the ice glyph she also saw the light glyph in the formation of the stars

[@emma_nutella58]

Seeing how easy Belos is willing to sacrifice people just for his own gain has me worried for Hunter’s fate

[@JP_FRFR]

Yeah.. also lilith said to luz "he says everything you want to hear" he tells hunter that he is special- I am not ready for what is gonna happen in the finale

[@cookiedemon3053]

And Riane

[@amandajlemen]

Oh he's doomed....check out the way to identify an ortet....it's the page opposite the "grimwalker" recipe.

[@allsuper9268]

Their is something else important with this episode. Philip says that the island is trying to hide glyphs from him where as Luz found all of them in only a few months at most. I think this shows that Belos can’t actually communicate with the titan and that it is just propaganda.

[@MrSparklytuxedocat]

Really good point! Hoping that detail is indicative of Luz eventually being the one who can communicate with the Titan! Luz who was initially trapped in the demon realm, subsequently making a choice to stay to learn magic, find purpose in life, and throughout her journey experiences the wonders of the boiling island. If Luz eventually actually communicates with the Titan it would be such a fantastic foil to Phillips character- someone who was likely trapped without choice, cursed at some point by magic and who’s life purpose already was/ became the destruction of magic (at minimum wild magic). The whole time is circular thing in this universe really makes it feel like the Titan was trying to stall Phillip as long as possible, waiting for Luz.

[@chaddfrancis2179]

You were correct.

[@AceRide]

I starting to think the Day of Unity is Belos' second attempt at this plan; the first one having been foiled by his brother and/or the mystery witch who "lured" them to the Isles stealing the completed portal door. After this episode, I looked back at the drawing we saw in 'Yesterday's Lie', and noticed that Philip was depicted standing back from the witch, with what seemed to be a glyph in one hand and a torch in the other (similar to a torch and pitchfork). His brother on the other hand was shaking hands with them, with what seemed to be Little Rascal/Flapjack on his shoulder. If that is the case, it seems like his brother is being set up as more friendly and open-minded towards witches and magic, which would set the stage for Phillip betraying/killing him.

[@AceRide]

My current theory on how the brothers came to be stranded in the Demon Realm is this: the mystery witch fell into Eclipse Lake and was transported to the human realm, possibly being injured in the process. Their palisman went to find help and found the currently unnamed Wittebane brother, who brought them back to Gravesfield to treat them. At some point, Phillip likely noticed that they weren't human and let that fact slip to the townsfolk, who chased the witch out. The brothers followed, the unnamed one being worried about the witch and Phillip being worried about his brother. Out of desperation, the witch dove back into the water with the brothers close behind, and all three ended up in Eclipse Lake. If I'm remembering correctly, natural gateways created by Titan's Blood leaking into water are temporary, so it likely closed not too long after, which would be why the Wittebanes couldn't just go for an inter-dimensional swim back to Gravesfield.

[@kanosukiLexe]

@@AceRide you don't know how right you are nice dude

[@SuperSwordman1]

So something I love pointing out is that Lilith is back to wearing glasses (which we already knew) and her hair is starting to curl/poof out again. I love that. She's becoming who she really was again. And glad you pointed out the white robes. Not to many people seem to notice that. Also, the mark of Philip's nose grew while he was talking to the Collector

[@Poke_Miracle_Owl_Universe]

1. Yes and she's amazing! 2. Maybe the scar grew to be the basil green scar that runs across his face

[@SuperSwordman1]

@@Poke_Miracle_Owl_Universe Most people do seem to believe the wound becomes his green scar.

[@inked_page8234]

Since Belos only knew plant, fire and ice and we saw he used glyphs on himself it would make sense for for it to take a mud form. Water+earth=mud, mud+fire=boiling mud and Belos has a weird bubbly mud thing with his curse. Then glyphs don't work in the human realm, so maybe part of Belos plan is by going to the human realm so it'll cancel the glyph magic he used on himself.

[@sarahanyre]

OH MY GOD

[@pama1040]

no he just wants to go home

[@ericbrower611]

"A curse of feathers and mud" The curse of feathers of course refers to the Clawthorne sisters. While the instances we've seen of Belos' deteriorating body must indicate 'the mud'. "A betrayal of blood." We all assumed the betrayal refered to Eda and Lilith. What if it refered to Philip and his brother? Lilith had no idea how the curse would react. She thought it would be a temporary hex. And was too ashamed to do anything after it was committed. While we don't know for sure what happened to Philip's brother, he has shown to be a manipulative back-stabber. Exactly the kind to betray his blood.

[@mirmirma5824]

The poem definitely refers to Eda and Lilith, but I completely agree that it could also refer to Philip and bro or Belos and Hunter. Another double meaning line is "two hearts of stone." If Hunter is a grimwalker, then his heart is literally a galderstone. Belos, on the other hand, has a metaphorical heart of stone through his cruelty.

[@PDD555]

This is what I've been thinking. If we had more time, I think we could have seen a parallel between Caleb and Philip and Lilith and Eda, and how Belos did the exact opposite by unaliving his own brother after being given a chance. It's really poetic

[@theluigifan1]

Lilith: Stay mad. Narrator: And stay mad he did.

[@PH0S]

LOLLL

[@callhimtim3188]

the ribcage thingy in Philip's lair is an unfinished grimwalker. In _Eclipse Lake,_ we saw that a grimwalker requires a galdorstone as the heart, palistrom wood as keratin, and selkidomus scales as something (among other things). In the diagram in Philip's lair, the cube, which resembles a galdorstone, points to the heart. two triangles that kind of look like scales point to the skin, and we see an image of a selkidomus on the same wall just off to the right. The final clue is that the book from _Eclipse Lake_ and the diagram in Philip's lair both have the same image of a disembodied pair of eyes around the other images.

[@sarahanyre]

ITS HUNTER.

[@catboymiles7224]

as of hollow mind i can safely say that i’m almost positive that’s not an unfinished grimwalker per say - because don’t the grimwalkers need a bone from the corpse they’re being cloned from or something?? so yeah that, in fact, implies that the ripcage is something much more creepy on philip’s part,,,,,,,,, that’s the uh. corpse of caleb wittebane,,,,,,, this sure is a kids show

[@robby7499]

So ultimately tink the Collector is the mind behind the Titan and the one that really calls all the shots.

[@bella_daze3092]

SAME

[@abcdkoajsbd7944]

Oh and the collector has been the one talking to belos not the titan.

[@Poke_Miracle_Owl_Universe]

The collector definitely is extremely interesting I'd even say they are more interesting of a character than Belos

[@robby7499]

@@Poke_Miracle_Owl_Universe Especially with how otherworldly their powers are. Almost thinking they'd be the Owl House's answer to Bill Cipher.

[@Poke_Miracle_Owl_Universe]

@@robby7499 Yeah and the way they have been portrayed thus far seems like the collector is going to invoke fear in everyone's hearts

[@opaldragon009]

Another interesting theory I've seen is that he's keeping Hunter as a "gift" to the Collector (personally I still think it's the sacrifice theory, but both have interesting edges to them)

[@TheBigE9999]

I really hope hunter retains some of his base components' quirks. Like, Does he have a ticklish spot on his ear? Does he vomit the ambergris stuff? If you sed a plant glyph, would you be able to control his body since it's partially wood?

[@mikechicago6200]

Lilith is an awesome lady and her glasses and new wardrobe...yes! Also Eda reuniting with her pa, needed! Also time travel and Phllip is Bellos confirmed.

[@MM-rz8hr]

Flora does seem like the type to value the thrill of a story over its truth (being a celebrity adventurer introduces a couple of biases since she would rely on keeping an audience to maintain her popularity), which might explain a reason for her being willing to reinvent history n such for Belos. Cool idea

[@samurexatlas7373]

About Azura, I'm pretty sure Luz is going to write it in the past to make her love it in the present, thus matching Belos' ploy. After all, they're not all that different.

[@nichtich3910]

Oh my yes please!!!!!! This would be so awesome!!!!

[@saltyriot3799]

I literally love how Lilith punches Phillip in the nose and he heals it and in the first reveal of belos we got he has a bump on his nose where the palisman magic healed Liliths punch

[@GameJam230]

I've been theorizing about glyph-based technology being used for Belos' staff since his battle against Luz in season 1. It's seeming a lot more likely now!

[@aidanbarnes4290]

I never thought of all characters that Phillip would turn out to be selfish and cruel. I wonder if he was always this way or being stuck in the boiling isles made him go mad

[@Poke_Miracle_Owl_Universe]

He probably was a jerk all along

[@lukamijailovic.]

@@Poke_Miracle_Owl_Universe nah my theory is that he got insane trying to find a way home and to get his brother back. Since Phillip's brother looks exactly like hunter it's clear that he is a grimwalker. So I think that the brother was probably killed by a witch or something that has to do with wild magic and in his sorrow Phillip went insane and started hating witches

[@Poke_Miracle_Owl_Universe]

@@lukamijailovic. Hard disagree Phillip isn't that type of guy also I don't think that Phillip or his brother were grimwalker my theory is that the grimwalker is a clone/a better version of hunter who'll follow everything Belos says without a shadow of doubt

[@electrobob992]

11:33 It also means that.. He was planning to let them go during eda's petrification cause he knew they both had yet to go back in time since she still had the same colored eyes. He also knew lilith was going to betray him later on. If not he probably would have petrified them all as examples.

[@DrMutran]

But why would Phillip/Belos need to steal the portal if he was the one who built it? Could this have something to do with Eda and her owl beast? The mural on Edas ceiling does depict some kind of owl deity, and the design of the door matches the design of the Owl House. Also I wonder what would have happened to Phillip if he made his glyph tattoo with all four symbols? It makes me wonder if Luz ever tried the same thing she might become the true voice of the Titan.

[@soirema]

The point is he didnt leave the island, so he didnt build it

[@ChrisJones-gx7fc]

‘Wild magic’ is just magic, and magic seems to come from two main sources: the bile sac in witches and nature (a.k.a. glyphs). Belos likely created the term to scare witches and get them to join a coven as part of his rise to power. Witches have access to all kinds of magic, but the coven seal cuts off their access to all except the magic their seal represents. He brought back Basilisks so he could study how they absorbed magic from living things, which could include witches. So knowing all this, my theory is on the Day of Unity, Belos will gather all the coven witches inside the Titan’s head, then paralyze them and absorb all their magic for himself, whether it’s to make the portal powerful enough to bring the Titan to Earth (if that vision proves true), allow him to fully control his Beast form, or to just gain more power. That would leave only Covenless witches and glyphs to fight him, and we know he said there’s a dark fate for any witch who doesn’t join a coven. So the final battle could be Belos harnessing all that magic (which could involve him going full Beast mode) versus the Bad Girl Coven (Luz, the Owl House team, and all covenless witches) using their magic and glyphs. Glyphs only work in the Isles, getting their magic from the Titan, so if the Titan were brought to Earth then glyphs would likely work on Earth so long as they stay on the Titan.

[@Quackenspiel]

It's amazing how much lore and story the show fits in one episode. Your breakdowns are always much appreciated

[@TheCommenterDragon]

Yay WhitneyVision time again! I loved episode 12, especially since it confirmed once and for all that Philip Wittebane was Belos all along, and not his brother so to those who theorized that Belos was Philip's brother i'm afraid i must say "So much for that theory" anyway i also loved the moments with Luz and Lilith i adored her new outfit Lilith looked gorgeous with glasses!

[@theflashgirl2057]

But he still has a brother

[@theflashgirl2057]

Had

[@TheCommenterDragon]

@@theflashgirl2057 True, but the point i'm trying to make is that the people who theorized that Belos was Philip's brother were sadly wrong and this episode confirmed it.

[@mikechicago6200]

Cool Aunt Lilith is here baby and she's so cute yet silly!

[@patrickkh1245]

Maby when Terra said Belos looked forward to meeting her He meant his past self meeting her because he knew they were going to travel back in time.

[@JohnTK]

I never noticed that when Phillip activates the collector's disk thingy at the end of the episode, the injury on his nose from Lilith grows bigger. I feel like this is clearly indicating that that small scar will eventually grow into the face-wide scar that Belos has in the present day.

[@Jest-Pumpkidding]

From Lilith

[@JohnTK]

@@Jest-Pumpkidding thanks for correcting me, I've now fixed it.

[@emilei8589]

the glyph patters belos were making resembles so much as atoms and the fire glyhps are whats holding the spells together by being the main source of "power" to make sure nothing bad happens to them

[@akilcharles3473]

I can't help but feel as if there would be some repercussions coming towards Luz. Afterall it wasn't a coincidence that she would end up in the boiling isles in the first place. And even after seeing this latest episode, Luz will soon find out in time that because of her interfering in the past to find out about Phillip Wittebane, she maybe be the cause for the current events that's happening in the future/present such as wild magic,Eda being curse and attacking her father and so on.

[@ericbrower611]

On the thought of Belos putting Lilith and Eda against each other; I have noted several times how the 'enlistment' list was blank. Yet for some reason, they had to fight each other. Plus, Philip is working with *The Collector.* And it's *The Collector* that created the Owl Beast curse. I'm not really sure it's an 'Owl Beast' curse. Eda's father Dell carved Owlbert because the owl is Eda's spirit totem (in theory). Lilith shares the curse, but she doesn't become an owl beast. She's a... Umm... (I'm not sure *what* she is). But it isn't an owl beast. So then, what *is* the curse? Does it cause your spirit totem to take monstrous physical form? Just a few inane questions to get tongues wagging.

[@ErickP3768]

I think that the day of unity is really just the day we’re he gets to reunite with his dead brother. It seemed apathetic when ever the subject of going to back to the human realm came up both in the past and present. He even said he needed the collector for something else, but was willing to give them info in exchange for a sacrifice. Glyph magic doesn’t work in the human realm so he is planning to transport the titans skull into the human realm so there he can use magic. With that he can use whatever spell the collector told him to revive his brother. Since it might be that he needs to revive him in the dimension his soul was born in. The collector could be like a scale of life and death that needs multiple sacrifices just to bring back one person. Which could be why he is gathering everyone on the day of unity he plans on sacrificing all of the people on the isles. The reason he could have also been so interested in basilisk is because he was planning on draining all the people of their magic to power is portal and revival machine. Finally hunter will be the new vessel for belos brother.

[@joline3925]

Okay so clearly Belos has messed with the history books, and he took 400 years for his plans despite already seeming to be pretty far along back in the 1600s. WHAT IF... he used the time pools to get several hundred years into the future? He could have planted seeds for whatever historical progression of society he needed, to then just skip to the good part. My guess is that he orchestrated the downfall of wild magic, then came back into the timeline by the time the savage ages were truly savage, creating a much easier palette to apply his coven system. It also explains where he disappeared to in the time period between Philip's disappearance and Belos' rise to power

[@Loremastrful]

Time travel is funny. I saw the same events and came away with the opposite conclusion. The future will sort is out, but it's fun to speculate. 1) While I'm sure the guy turns into Belos, I'm unsure it's Phillip. The man who would be emperor didn't answer to Phillip. He recognized the name, but didn't confirm. 2) While planting the book may be a long game play. It is exceedingly risky. Especially since, if he can rewrite the district approved version of history he could have just added Phillip to the school's curriculum. Phillip's journal is knowledge he has no control over and handing it to a presumed enemy is like giving Luz a loaded gun. (This is also why S1 should have had Belos bend the rules for Luz to attend Hexside instead of a little Mary Sue obstacle clearance.) 3) My guess this is Alastair Witterbane. He joined his brother Phillip on this journey. Phil fell in love with the Boiling Isles. Al hated it. Phil started a life, but continued working on a way back to Earth for his brother. Al started fearful, but then grew hateful of the Boiling Isles. He wanted to destroy the place, but didn't have the power, so enter Emperor Belos. With some subterfuge and glyphs he climbs his way to power. Creates the coven system to keep the powers in check and build toward the day of Unity.

[@sasamichan]

there are a LOT of spells that can come in to play and I wonder what ones we'll see again before the series ends. What are your thoughts on Time Travel Body Swap Memory alteration Memory visitation Spying on people seeing the future shape shifter decoy shrinking living walking owl house teleportation transformation in to an other form combing two spells invisibility death by music I feel like any of these could cause a lot of drama , end the series or even instantly change the relationship between two characters. and they can be used by any one. they may have already been used by some one. I would love to hear what you think could come in to play, by who , when and how

[@theatom1632]

16:22 you mean... Like a bone of ortet ? DUN DUN DUN!!!

[@premierk]

It would be sooooo cool if Luz learn that teleport spell.

[@laelarose]

philips scar on his nose starts to grow across closer to his cheek thats totally how belos go that scar right? im not sure why it became all nasty but lilith gave it to him.

[@cynicalbutterscotch6581]

Perhaps it ended up affected by the glyph curse thing in some way

[@maxlee8780]

Yay 🙌 another Whitney gem. ❤❤❤

[@skistorm739]

for time travel you forgot the fourth small things change, reversed back to normal, no changes, dramatic changes or time-travel in the past to explain some history or future. but someone parts can't never change.

[@xelnagaprime_1071]

I wonder if anyone's realized the possibility that they can just go back in time to get more titan blood.

[@evelynlamoy8483]

Its been my theory for a while that the way Belos's techno magic works, is with a complex display of all glyphs that could work together, overlaid, and then only activates the parts needed to form a particular glyph, to cast that spell. This must however necessitate that there is some other magic at play (possibly more glyphs) casting a magic capable of reading his intentions and directing the glyph circuitry in his staff, otherwise for every individual action of it, he'd have to do something to manipulate what glyphs are actually active.

[@dutchstewart9462]

I have a potential theory for "The Owl House," could Luz (and humans in general) possibly be something of an amplifier for magic cast by witches? The reason I bring this up is because some of the most impressive feats (outside of Eda's) were performed with Luz either being directly involved or in close proximity to the spell being cast. Do you find this theory plausible or am I just finding something where there is nothing?

[@caitlinowens0622]

As Severus Snape said to Dumbledore, “You’ve been raising him like a pig for slaughter”.

[@amitysluzara2022]

If Belos has been pulling the strings this entire time my mind will be blown

[@MynicknameisViolet]

i like that recent animations (The owl house, infinity train), is taking a different aprouch to different universes and actually showing how humans have a tendancy to destroy everything.

[@rolandakaecak9332]

Also what's with the palisman remains? The one he chugs on screen just dissolves into idk.. magic? But why are there others just laying around, broken?

[@finn8628]

This wells super helpful! Me and my friends have been making theory’s on what’s happening for a while and we never really thought of it on this deep of a level. This was super cool to watch and it made me think a lot!

[@xxdogenatorxx6538]

Seething seas and puppet strings he no longer dreams of kings as things

[@arianaink100]

I like that belos uses magic like batteries and parts. Belos eats the palismen made of trees, uses creature parts to create hunter, and is pushing a narrative that there’s an idea of ‘magic and wild magic’, thus a necessity to organize and control. Belos has no understanding of a scale of time it has been hundreds of years and has been planning so often that he’s only had to act in the moment once luz and eda started being harassed by him and reacting. Luz understands magic as pieces of an entire whole and to work with it. Magic is made of elements that work together and work just enough in the moment to succeed the task. She’s a kid with some understanding of both human and witch tragedies is a heavy reader of intense understanding action and drama and the depth of actions consequences etc. Belos is also turning into palistrum wood/magicgoop because he’s been eating them for centuries like how you turn orange from eating tons of carrots. But also think of tolerance and body toxicity with foods, small amounts for only a little while vs palistrum wood being rare now and all the ones alive are in a forest hiding. And the sigils activate and are powered by some of the palistum wood he’s digested that’s why he looks so worn out after spells and reacting

[@DigiRangerScott]

Dark Implications was my high school’s nickname about 4 years ago. I graduated 10 years ago

[@kttypvnk8193]

when you talked about the time travel part it reminded me of 'butterfly effect' from the disastrous life of saiki and that traveling back from time and changing a bit of something has a huge effect on the future

[@kttypvnk8193]

i commented this few minutes ago and now you mentioned butterfly effect and i just knew that this word is really real and has the meaning cause i thought saiki just created this HAHAHAGVHGCBY im not so ignorant about the meaning tho but i just really thought the word 'butterfly effect' was made for entertainment

[@kanosukiLexe]

Can't wait to see what she says about hollow mind. Omg

[@greeninferno1339]

I wanted to add a few things to this amazing breakdown of the time travel implications of Belos/Phillip. I love how you pointed out causing a rift between the sisters: it’s a perfect plan! Put the sisters against each other, then guilt trap the target sister and dangle a relief “I’ll cure her” and torment them for decades because she... punched him in the nose once... which didn’t stop him as he got what he wanted... he’s a jerk, lol. Torments someone for decades before they even punch you. Anyways 1. Phillip holds an incredible similarity to Edas father. It could be that Eda is the great great... granddaughter of the brother. This would make Eda and her sister mixed blood, like I bet Hunter and Hunters parent was. 2. It could be that Phillip physically changed his appearance to have pointed ears and that of his children (both him and Hunter have a notch of ear missing from their left ear). Kinda like a grafting of flesh. Then say “oh, we don’t have natural magic because of WILD witches. Here, use this techno-mage staff but not glyphs.” But that would get in the way of my first theory with Clawthorns being mixed blood 3. Alternatively, Phillip/Beros could have kidnapped a branching lineage of his brother, splitting the two families of clawthornes and Hunters, and removing the wild magic from Hunters side

[@dylangarcia3898]

I wonder why Phillip tattooed glyphs on his arm in the first place considering it's causing him pain, my guess is that he was in a tight spot and he felt like he had no choice

[@WorldWeave]

My theory is that they’re holding back his wired mud/corpse form…instead of causing it like everyone else seems to think…

[@josh___something]

@@WorldWeave my tinfoil hat theory is that the glyphs are the result of Philip Fullmetal Alchemist-ing himself to try and bring his brother back, and "Belos" is his brother(/'s consciousness) based on the fact that belos and philip's voice are layered when sucking on talisman juice.

[@rindoodles5956]

I think he might’ve been trying to give himself powers like any other witch (Phillip being his greedy ol self), which clearly ended horribly wrong

[@WorldWeave]

@@josh___something that….would be an interesting twist

[@nichtich3910]

@@WorldWeave another KZbinr (It's Rebecca Rose), who is working on the show now, actually confirmed in her "breakdown" of the episode that Philip is indeed Belos and the Glyhs are why he is "cursed". She also stated that this Episode is only a Teaser for what's still to come

[@amber9605]

Okay but like, has nobody noticed Dells palisman looks similar to flapjack?

[@nimansabandara6361]

So do the scar on palasman's beak is similar to the scar on Philip's nose and Flapjack have a eye scar similler to Eda's father's.

[@joshbolack7797]

She could honestly just go back in time before the door was broken and sneaky use it and yeah she’d be stuck back in that time but like it was only a few months ago (not really that bad), and it’s not like all she did there has been undone or anything like how time altering stuff usually goes, it just hasn’t happened yet. Or do tricky shenanigans with taking the door back to the future, use it, get her home, then get third parties to take it back to the correct time. But the second option sounds like it’s more susceptible to King mucking it up

[@EverythingAndAnythingGoes24]

In Hollow Mind, one of the memories of Belos preaching to a crowd from a stage with a wood mask, peculiarly different yellow eyes that never got explained, and a prototype of his tech staff, while Hunter stages an attack from wild witches back stage. In it, he says he’s seen the human light. In Elsewhere and Elsewhen, Luz showed him the previously undiscovered light glyph. Let me say that again. He’s seen the human light. HUMAN LIGHT. LUZ THE HUMAN. Light the human. The human light shines in in 9 hues-which Luz also dresses in at Hexide due to taking all 9 tracks-, which the covens in the coven system were color coordinated after the human light, unintentionally causing him to get the idea for The Coven System. The coloration of The Emperor’s Coven takes on a whole new, well, light. The other covens can only perform one kind of magick and are symbolized by one color. Taking what we know about all the rainbow colors coming from white light, and combine together all the other colors make up white light, of course this symbolism fits perfectly to the preplanned ideal and intent that only The Emperor’s Coven could use all kinds of magick. Furthermore, white is typically used to symbolize good and purity, so Belos may use this psychological symbolism habit to trigger people to automatically subconsciously associate him and The Emperor’s Coven as good and pure, disguising his evil intentions with his cover story of a Titan guided emperor that destroyed the dangerous savage witches practicing wild magick, created the peaceful and orderly paradise of the modern day coven system, and works towards the great and wonderful day of Unity that will grant his worthy subjects a paradise safe from the dangers of wild magick. Or maybe he truly believes that what he’s doing as his ultimate goal is good-for humans at least. And he firmly believes that all witches and demons and wild magick are evil. Y’know typical witch hunter stuff. The Day of Unity will combine the drained magick from all Covens to achieve what looked to be the merging of the human and demon realm. Remember color symbolism and the covens? Luz’s Hexide uniform is a rainbow pretty much since she is taking all coven tracks at once. She’ll be a counter to this in some way, utilizing all tracks of magick. Since she’s not a witch, Luz, and anyone practicing glyph magick, won’t be drained of magick, as was established when the basilisk tried and failed to eat her glyph magick at the school. With the demon and human realms merging, Luz and anyone practicing glyphs will still be able to draw upon the magick from The Titan. That’s really all I have for this sudden theory mess.

[@electrobob992]

0:55 Something I noticed.. Look that the wound lilith left on him.. It GROWS when connecting to the collector.. Compare that the belos' green face scar.

[@AkaKillerwolf]

luz can make a staff (if she makes a palsiman) she can use glyths to power it up makeing her able to use stronger and premade combines or a menu basically to make combines like a chart

[@jondw]

you know, the "A" on Philip's coat also resembles the golden guard/Gravesfield symbol

[@qwefg3]

Part of me wonders if that 'sludge' is actually made of the same palasmen stuff he has been feeding off of... sort of a temporary stop gap of turning him into a 'living' version to extend his lifespan, but obviously there were side effects/errors involved. Also got to love/hate how he openly admitted he wasn't going to share knowledge and throw their lives away at the next trial he was going to face. He must really hate witches if he told them that outright instead of trying to bargin.

[@eggsploring1407]

I do love how the books azura are def going to be a crazy twist at the end it has to it just connects too much

[@Not_4uoo]

I felt the glyphs on the arm was keeping something suppressed like the Owl Beast but a “Mud Beast”

[@NonIntrovertial]

I agree - I think Philip invented curses when he was messing about with glyphs and accidentally cursed himself. I think the glyphs are to keep it at bay but he needs the more juice the longer it goes. What are the chances of someone who hates witches taking potions to deal with his curse?

[@ej73223]

Luz and co would only be in danger if Belos were to know they actually went back and did what he needed him to. It’s all in his past anyway, so it’s not like he’d just instinctively know when it happened. He totally could have been watching or tracking them, for sure, but I think (I HOPE) they’re probably safe for a while

[@electrobob992]

10:32 Well he might not have needed that actually. Remember we already saw, thanks to Ol Tibbles. There are shrinking potions, and humans can make potions if done correctly. Ergo he possibly learned to make the same potion, and since he made it.. His hands to cheek can reverse it. Ergo pours potion on self, shrinks, makes tiny glyph circles, etc.

[@sonictennyson2201]

I always think that Belos’ arm glyphs are probably self-inflicted wounds/scars he did to himself so that he could inherit magic inside him despite him not really knowing how Bile sacks work. Also it would be awesome if The Collector was like a Boba Fett neutral character,not evil but also not good,maybe doing it for the money or something else.

[@marsisbleu8596]

I wonder if Phillip needed the collector for the Day Of Unity. Or even to make the Owl Beast Curse

[@Mayhem_Inc]

Ohhh I like the Luz being the inspiration for The Good Witch series. I’m glad your channel was recommend again, I’ve seen a couple of your videos a long time ago but apparently I never subscribed, so I hit the subscribe button this time!

[@gaiapsyche]

this deserved so much more than 2 seasons

[@we2915]

I think it's seething seas and puppet strings, he no longer dreams of kings as magical beings or endings things its more likely to be magical beings

[@thecrakp0t]

Time travel will absolutely be used in season 3. There was a scene (I think at the tail end of season 1), where all the coven heads put their magic into a McGuffin that revealed a portal to the human realm, but the visuals indicated that time was passing, suggesting the human realm and the demon realm are one and the same, just separated by time, not space. Edit: also I can't believe I NEVER noticed Lilith kicked her own head when she stuck her head through the time pool. I thought it was just a random person.

[@A113-p9e]

Classic ‘hero creates their villain and villain creates the hero’ type deal. “I made you, you me first”. Batman, 1989

[@tatocraftv]

Nha for me they are still safe for now. You mentioned the star wars theory of storm troopers aim, but didn't mention that, in the later films, everyone, including vader, is obedient to that rule because Luke is seen as the emperor's possession because he wants to corrupt him. For me below is trying to pull a Palpatine on luz

[@unmasc]

food for thought: the A on philip’s jacket could also be a sideways D. now, if the theory of him having stolen the jacket from his brother is true, then that could be another link to Eda’s father Del. seeing as hunter is a grimwalker and therefore a clone of belos, and hunter and del having matching scars and palisman tying them to one another, it could be another clue that Del is philip’s brother.

[@amandajlemen]

The body in his lair is either an ortet or an unfinished grimwalker. And Hunter is the ortet for his new grimwalker. In the page opposite the grimwalker recipe, it tells you how to identify one, red eyes, the checkmark is by the teen age figure. An ortet is the original genetic specimen a set of clones are made from. And to take it further ...I think the body belos is in is already a grimwalker, he was dying then, I'm thinking he made a new body but messed up somehow, which is why he's disfigured....you see the similar diagram and the body parts in his lair. He needed a galderstone, stone sleeper lungs and selkidomus scale, palisman wood...and bone of the ortet....I think he's done the grimwalker spell before to prolong his own life. Just a theory.....that would explain why he and hunter look so similar, down to the notch in the ear and the hair color. The only issue with that is the galderstone.... supposedly no one has ever gotten one but we learn the coven scouts are looking for them. But what did he pull from the sand? Looked like a galderstone to me, it reminded me of when gus saw his reflection in it, same as when belos/whittebane saw his reflection in it. That's my theory anyway. Also explains how he had all the palisman wood (aside from him needing them to not die) and the body parts. Also....he says he found hunter and he would be so much trouble to replace.....yeah, he's part of his spell

[@zmaj12321]

A cartoon analysis channel with a STEM leaning? Where has this been all my life! Insta-subbed

[@FrolicTheCringeCat]

Lol i love how they put Dora into this ep XD

[@Tuner_of_Ch40s]

All of this is really interesting with the final episode

[@bancetheyorkshireterrier2003]

omg i just noticed that! 9:05 like wow that just shocked me

[@StarlasAiko]

While it is true that Belos could now off them because the time loop is closed, she does not really have too much to go on to know when exactly Luz went back in time. He will leave them alone until the very last moment, to make sure that they had enough time to go back in time.

[@sallyshoaf9505]

Did anyone else notice that the collector looks suspiciously like the person who captured the Owl Beast in Knock, Knock, Knocking on Hooty's Door?

[@firebat9664]

This show is actually scary. There is no way of stopping the day of unity. This is and has been in motion for years from belos. Belos is an actual scary freakin villian

[@Belussy]

8:04 you predicted the fact that its not his jacket before Thanks to Them, are you a time traveler? /j

[@tabbyztormspeedrunning4012]

i respect time travel being in a loop in loop form, so there is a possibility that Belos starting to knew that Lillith was time traveling or atleast no yet in that timeline during her being a coven head. Although belos might not knew Luz as luzura was a human, he might have noticed it after seeing her in the present timeline. he may have donated his diary which may have been spreaded with lies, But for the fact i'm pretty sure it took a while for belos to recognise Lillith over her 1 grey eye, 1 blue eye and the glasses. Belos maybe be aware for luz to end up recognising him as to who he really is, which is why sent a message to luz for another meeting.

[@BiRatQueen]

You mentioned Philip manipulating Luz and Luz inspiring the Azura series as separate points, but I think they could be the same. We've seen how often Luz uses the Azura books as inspiration for plans so what if Philip wrote those stories to control all of Luz's plans? He could use them to push her towards the boiling Isles, and also manipulate her in a really sneaky way once she gets there.

[@1andonlyTophBeiFong]

Luz does call Lilith by her real name once the Stonesleeper pulled her into the room. He also wouldn’t have had a hard time figuring out Luz was human because she can’t do magic without the glyphs and her outfit is pretty distinct, not only for the Deadwardian Era but also for the modern Boiling Isles time, and having confronted then assaulted him remembering her in the future wouldn’t have been hard either. He probably had a hit list with both of them at the very top from that day on.

[@blackpowderkun]

Glad I am not the only one to notice Whittabane's colonists undertones.

[@gurifiel]

He waited CENTURIES to get back at Lilith and everyone else

[@failenoohayo6678]

A theory I have is the "big plans the titan" has for hunter is really sacrificing him to bring back his brother.

[@DarkRaikon]

two witches torn apart now alone,...feather and mud! could it be that Philip didn't write the mud curse but his brother did to stop him...

[@animelover5871]

Everything she said make sense. Watch last episode see Phillip, Lilith and Luz at door. Stop went back to start. mouse show Luz three people Front of the door. That was 🤯. Can’t wait see next episode.

[@ihartyoutubification]

I don't know why it makes me so happy when she says "Alright, my little sweet potatoes"

[@FluffyMuffinCentral]

Here’s something I saw. The scar Lilith gave Phillip/Belos grew when he ate a palisman. Is Lilith the reason Belos has that big green scar on his face?

[@enigma3356]

Sorry ale no

[@FluffyMuffinCentral]

Wdym? It did grow. So technically it is

[@enigma3356]

@@FluffyMuffinCentral zgadzam się z tym że urosła ale Lilith nie jest powodem tej blizny. Tym powodem jest to że glify się aktywowały i dlatego zyskał magię oraz tą bliznę i tym podobne😁

[@kttypvnk8193]

dayum the creators really put alot of effort for this HAHAHA

[@TheBhsamurai]

I'm indeed not a genius or a scientist but if glyphs might also be use as electrical currents I'm definitely sure glyphs can be use for chemical compounds if you have knowledge of both glyphs and structural/molecular formulas. Glyphs also seem to been inter-woven in biology, life, etc giving said wild magic.

[@deluluisdasolulu]

Believe it or not, Philip/Belos is one of my fav villains/antagonists/characters... Oh god, they are just so interesting...

[@PFGFrankly]

ooooooh, it make sense, keep your enemy closer, cause they can be a potential tool

[@cosmiccupcake0007]

Thanks to this episode i now think that Eda's dad carved rascal, i mean look at his paliman and then look at rascal

[@awesley1725]

Or more likely one of his ancestors since its been like 100 something odd years

[@louiseyt5402]

now that i look back at it, the time pools, during that time, Philip must've just taken some titans blood from eclipse lake! that means luz could've taken more titans blood to secure her limited supply of it. I understand why she didn't do it considering the heat of the moment and no further planning and all but i think its either belos has already taken all of it, and expected titans blood to "refill" considering that he ordered people of the ec to go look for it. Or that the titans blood was drained later by the collector or someone else we haven't known of yet just a theory of mine doe

[@awesley1725]

If i had to guess its because of the relatively limited time the pool was open even with magical tomfoolery it still takes time to get there and back. Adding on that its in a maze of caves. It was safer to ask philip its just they didnt know he was going to be a massive jerk

[@louiseyt5402]

@@awesley1725 probably considering that it's all gone, could be that Phillip used it all

[@whims6278]

Best video take I've seen on this 🙌

[@embreadeacilys6675]

I didn't notice at first but when Philip/Belos break that Palismen, the new scar on his nose also shines. Do you think it is the source of his green skin disease? If we consider that stuff as a disease...