The TRUTH about the Merge! [Ninjago Theory] 

I have no idea how Wu caused the merge, maybe he was like " i forgot to tell you but there is" , typical Wu.

I think this is a theory that has a lot of weight to it. If it does turn out to be true, then Ras’s master must be insanely scary for Wu to want to merge the realms considering how many villains and threats he and the ninja have seen. It’s a similar thing to how Jordana is terrified of what she saw in Rox’s mind to have her so scared when Ras was sacrificing monks to a blood moon. I’m very excited to see how DR progresses with this plot line and all of the Ras’s master stuff!

Wu causing the merge is such a cool idea I can't wait to see how they explain it

6:36 This is an insanely good theory but swapping things a little could make everything make even more sense. The SD of energy being captured caused the merge, his lines indicate that insanely heavily. Wu is caught of guard, even though he wanted to unite the realms, the only thing he does do is make sure the realms unite savely, that's what the "not sure i can do it" line is. This goes against ras and his masters plan, they do NOT want the merge because it united the people and gave them a chance against ras' master. Now they want to undo the merge (like ras said in part 2) and seperate the people to dominate the realms one by one. Great video!

"Only unity can save us." I think you're right about the importance of that line. Maybe that's why the working title of Dragons Rising was 'Ninjago United'.

Yo, don’t forget when ras said to Arin that he is trying to reverse the merge making the whole “separated we have no chance” a Stronger argument g Great theory!

One thing you didn’t mention, that adds to this theory, is that ras tells arin that his goal is to undo the merge, and since wu caused the merge to unite the armies of all the realms against ras’s master, this lines up!

6:35 As soon as I looked at this quote again for a few seconds I was like "Wait.... OH MY GOD I get it!" Genuinely a really plausibel theory! I wouldn't be suprised if it were true!

One thing you didn't directly mention but makes absolute sense is when Ras confronts Arin telling him his ultimate goal is to reverse the merge, a target which, if successful, would line up with what Master Wu said about the united/separated thing, because reversing the merge would separate all the realms, making them powerless against Ras' Master, hence the reason why Wu technically said (according to your theory, which I love and totally agree btw) that only if the realms are united do they stand a proper chance against a threat of that level. On another note, I would also like to point out that your work has been utterly amazing! I can watch all of your reviews in repeat! Your opinion is so well-structured and possesses so many sensible arguments such that I find it hard to disagree with you in some areas. When I first watched DR S1, I was feeling like Ninjago was over for me. I was at that time finish High School, having grown up with Ninjago since I was 6, during S1. And with this massive plot change, It felt as though the story was starting to get a bit too overwhelming to me, specially when I found out that a place like The Administration exists. I was too much to me and I didn't like this whole new world. But, my love for DR has since grew, particularly once I started to notice the character work (thanks to you!). These writers are doing an excellent job and I can't wait to see where DR culminates. So far, it has the potential to be like the Oni Triology, for me the peak of Ninjago. That was hella long, I know. If you've read this far, thanks a lot for your attention and commitment to your viewers. Keen to see what next videos you're preparing...

If this does end up being true then it might explain why ras wants to reverse the merge to make it easier for his master to conquer

So this is basically the theory I currently have, But I have a few additions to it: The Merge Master Wu planned: I too, think Master Wu planned/caused the merge, But the Merge Wu planned is not the Merge that Happened. Wu's planned merge was Most likely much more stable and safe, I highly doubt Master Wu would risk the lives of anyone in the realms he was merging, but Something happened and the Merge needed to happen prematurely. The Storm before the Merge: This is where my theory slightly differs. I think the storm we saw at the beginning of season 1 episode 1 was not the merge or Coalescence, No, the Merge/Coalescence is what Master Wu did, The storm, I believe that the Storm was the Realm crashing into each other and destroying each other. The merge quakes also kinda supports this because Lloyd Describes the merge quakes as "parts of multiple realms trying to occupy the same space." and with the tares in reality that the merge quakes creates looks like the realms tearing each other apart to me. The death of a Source dragon: We do not have enough information about the said death of the Source dragon, but I'm confident in saying that when that Source Dragon was killed it completely destabilized the realms and is what caused the Realms to start crashing and tearing into each other. Why did Wu cause the Merge: Like I said before, I think Master Wu deliberately caused the merge, But why? Personally I don't think its because he Saw Ras' master or the death or a source dragon in his vision, The reason I think Master Wu caused the Merge was because of two things: 1 Destiny. I think the merge was Something that was inevitable, FSM was able to postpone The Merge, but it was not something he, or anyone could stop altogether, it was going to happen eventually. 2 Master Wu saw the end coming. The end of What? everything. Wu saw the end of the realms, saw the end of existence as they knew it. He saw the realm were going to smash into and destroy each other, The only way to stop the realms from destroying each other, was to merge them, all of them, into one, Hence "only unity can save us, separate, we stand no chance." The Merge that happened: The Merge that happened was Messy and Uncoordinated, People and places went missing, Wu was not prepared and the realms colliding happed to quickly, and most of all, When Wu caused the merge, it split his spirit into pieces, hence the multiple Wu wisps spirits. But yeah, that's my Merge crackpot theory

Wu is son of the First Spinjitzu Master, who we know created entire realms. If he had the ability to create realms, then perhaps he could have also had the ability to combine them! Also, if Ras's Master is so powerful that Wu literally had to combine the realms so all of its inhabitants (Including everyone who's ever lived in the Ninjago Universe since the Departed Realm is included) could stand up united to him, then he must be a truly powerful foe, maybe an Oni, perhaps? Furthermore, I think that Ras’s Master main plan is to gather a bunch of villains together, like what the Overlord did in Crystallized but on a MUCH bigger scale.

"Only be researching the merge lands we will able to save them from each other it mashed be done." " Remember when i sayd i couldn hear the brown screaming like someone was terrorably wrong." I think Ras mabey on to something i think ther is a danger coming.

This is actually pretty well thought-out. I thought the story would do something cheap like, "Wu failed to stop the merge from happening, therefore he caused the merge". But something like this feels much bolder, gives Arin legitimate justification for his disillusionment, and reveals that Ras was actually telling the truth and not a half-lie

1:05 don’t worry Crusty. I was spoiled more than 2 months ago 🥲

Doc Wyatt said that between Bolobo and Shade, one of them is dead. I believe that Bolobo is the dead one, and now Zant-Tanz has his power in Plants, which is just a new name for nature, as I can't see plants and nature as different elements. As for Shade, he looked a bit older then the other elemental masters, so maybe Obscura is his daughter, and just had the power of Shade/Shadow passed down to her.

I can't wait for Wu to say 'There's something I haven't told you yet' for the fifth time when explaining how he wronged this season's villan 20 years ago or something.

I think Wu and Gammadion learn Merge during their own adventure when they were young but don't know when the merge going to happen

My theory is that that wu’s visions are a side effect of traveling through time. Wu could’ve seen the merge happening by glimpsing into the future while he was in the time vortex. Alternatively the time vortex could’ve been what destabilized Ninjago. Maybe the merge was just the realms way of “fixing Ninjago.” All of this is really just a way to explain why wu had a poster saying “Control time, control everything.” However, I do think it works as an explanation.

Haven't seen you do a theory video in a WHILE, nice!

I think what happened right before the realms merged wasn’t the merge but was instead what the scrolls were referring to when they said coalescence and maybe it was caused by the death of a source dragon but I think they’re separate events that just happened at the same time and overlapped in ascetic the other realms being visible was the merge the sky’s turning purple with great winds was the coalescence. I think the coalescence would have been a sort of the end where all realms would merge and be destroyed but wu’s power of creation aloud him to pull the collapsing worlds together and cause the merge overlapping them over each other causing power to get stuck between them hence the people stuck in the void space thing.

I cant believe that Velika was the real villain the whole time

I think the unity line means even more considered the show was originally titled as Ninjago UNITED. Which would tie in with that completely. I think your theory is pretty close to true just considering that fact alone

My theory is that the Overlord returning in Crystalized so soon after his previous defeat in Rebooted (or Decoded if that’s still canon) destabilized the boundaries between the Realms.

My theory is complex: before the merge, all 16 realms existed, and in the middle of all these realms was a core that held them all together. Inside the core, all of the source dragons stayed, maintaining the balance in all 16 realms. All source dragons needed to be in the core for the balance to stay. I belive that someone broke the balance by using a dragon icon to summon a sorce dragon, which ruined the balance and caused the merge. I belive it was lord ras, as he summoned the source dragon to imperium, and i belive the dragom icon he used was the old bamboo staff Wu had and heres why: After S7, we never saw the staff again. The time twins and wu passed into the future, and I belive wus staff went so far into the future for lord ras to find it. This makes sense as the staff also lead to the tomb of the first spinjistu master, which establishes its importance already. Its a complex theory but would make sense if true

waiiittt... remember when ras said his goal was to reverse the merge... this is so that his master can start his attack!🤯🤯

I think this is 100 percent accurate, but I also think Wu was planning for this to happen WAY in the future. Like, centuries in the future. Hence why he didn’t tell anyone, because he didn’t think any of them would be alive by then. It doesn’t seem like this was ever something he intended the ninja to be involved in

The craziest thing on a rewatch of DR Season 2 was that line from Wu, “only unity can save us”. I was genuinely shocked when I heard that and it made a lot of things click.

Still waiting on those Source Oni to show up and be absolute giga badass villains.

I had the same theory as you did, Wu must have foreseen something truly horrifying if it pushed him to take such a desparate measure. Man, the more i think about this theory, the more i want Ras' Master to NOT be the strength source dragon as is the most common theory right now, i want him to be some sort of eldritch cthulu like being, something so incomprehensively evil that nothing would be too big of a risk to try and stop it.

Really great and interesting theory, this part 6:38 is very interesting and it could be the reason why Ras wants to reverse the Merge so that no one could have a chance of defeating his master. Great video crusty.

I thought we all already knew that master wu is the real villian of all time

I have a theory that Ras's master is the creator of the 16 realms, and that he was dethroned by the source dragons, and he was preparing a plan to win them back, and that it would be easier for him to do so with the realms separated. That's why Ras says that he knows about the truth of the universe. And I think Master Wu made a deal with one of the source dragons that he would sacrifice himself so that the realms could merge, considering that one of the source dragons is dead.

Great theory. Another one says that when the iron doom from s7 stops in time it's the event of the merge

I'd say Wu was able to merge the realms using his vague creation esc powers he's seen using multiple times throughout the show. Merging all the realms seems like a lot of power for him to have just always had, but remember Wu seemingly lost his physical form due to it. The amount of power he used to merge the realms essentially killed him, hence why he never used it up to that point.

This is pretty close to the theory I've had but I'd like to add a few additions. For an example if you look and the merge scenes the ones at the beginning of the merge are all orang like the background when ras talks to his master and if you look at the merge things in the sky they look more like there tearing rather than combining, but THEN when the sky is all pink and colorful you can see all the holes in the sly closed up. Hence what im saying is the thing wu said was to early was ras's master trying to destroy everything to be able to dominate the source dragons so to defend them wu merged all of the realms. And thats why ras wants to undo the merge so his master can finish what he was doing.

Theory: Ras' Master is the Overlord(I have no proof just a theory)

Really good theory that picks up on a lot of little details I missed out on. I wouldn't be surprised if you're right on the money. I know Wu's past mistakes causing present day problems is a common trope in the series, but I like the idea of a present day mistake causing such massive rippling consequences. I wonder if we'll meet more characters that once met Wu similar to how Bonzle has this entire history with him we didn't know about before

7:08 Alternatively, and while this interpritation is less likely, because Ras's master doesn't tie into it, I like it for being more morally ambiguous, Wu caused the Merge because after the events of _Crystalized_ he generally saw it as an effective way to make the realms stronger and more prepared to face global threats like the bound-to-eventually-return Overlord. The lack of a clearly defined worse alternate fate for the separated realms would make the negative consequences of the Merge all the more impactful. In fact, imagine, if Wu 1) messed up the process of the Merge all on his own and 2) put the realms in a greater danger than they would've been separated due to plunging them into chaos - that would be some hardcore moral ambiguity.

Honestly solid theory, I could totally see this being the case. Personally, I'd love it if they tied it into the Oni Temple's destruction, like maybe it blowing up was enough to destabilize the realm so much that Wu figured he needed to combien the others with Ninjago to help balance things out or something like that. Will they do that? Probably not lol, but I can dream

This is my little theory: I think what we think is the beginning of the merge is actually the realms getting destroyed by a similar event to the mergequake storm, Wu foresaw this in a vision and began researching the merge as a way to prevent this disaster from occurring. But it happened sooner than he thought it would, he knew only 1 thing could save them now: unity (the merge). With what he knew, he managed to prevent the destruction of all the realms by merging them, but it came at the cost of his own soul being split into 16/17 of those "Sprite" orbs we've been seeing around each monastery.

The title ‘Ninjago United’ makes a bit more sense now

This theory makes even more sense when Ras tells Arin he wants to reverse the Merge, allowing his master to conquer each realm one by one. Great video!

He probably caused by using his powers as he has the powers of creation and it probably has something to do with Garmadon as when the merge happens there are 2 colours, yellow and purple. The colours of Wu and Garmadon. I don’t know how exactly they did it but it has something to do with their two powers specifically. But hey that’s just a theory

Chat, I can't believe Crusty lied to us, how dare he release a video early 😔💔

My theory is Wu wanted to prevent the overlord from coming back so he thought unite the realms overlord won’t be back

Edit( I don’t think wu caused the merge or planned on causing it, he may have known it would happen but thought he would have more time to prepare and maybe find the dragon energy cores to properly tie the realms together without the quakes) I think maybe the coalescence or whatever wu called it prior it what the merge was happening. I think the realms were literally collapsing inward, and by causing the merge it prevented the fracturing realms from all being destroyed together. Instead the realms merged together leaving some pieces of themselves in the void the realms were likely going to be reduced to considering so many people got stuck there which would line up with all the people getting sucked into said void by the merge. Also as for how wu caused the merge perhaps he attempted to use his creation powers to fuse the collapsing realm pieces together, hence him not being sure if he could do it as he hadn’t done anything like it prior. Plus maybe Ra’s masters goal had been for all the realms to be destroyed so they could rebuild the world or some other evil villain motivation that would require the power of a source dragon.

I was not even surprised when i learnt master wu caused the merge... like, there are soooo many things he hasn't told them. haven't watched the video yet,but i think that maybe he somehow knew the merge was going to happen , and he couldn't stop it so he blames himself? idk just a theory 🤷

It also makes sense because in the flashback of the 2nd episode the ninja were flying into the centre of the meege before it exploded

Wow this is amazing theory, you are good ninjagotuber

If wu caused the merged, then that means that Garmadon can undo it. 9:08 I bet the only way to end a source dragon is with a dragon’s natural opposite: an oni, but not an ordinary oni, a source oni

This theory is really solid and pretty cool

This theory is well thought out, perhaps aswell ras’ master as an all knowing being gets news of wu preparing to merge the realms (maybe he has rivalry with FSM and thats how wu knows about him) and so he gives ras the means to capture a source dragon and offset the balance causing a premature merge, and it makes sense with wu out of the picture now ras and his master want to reset it

Hey Crusty783. I thought the exact same thing when Sensei Wu said “only unity can save us, separate we don’t stand a chance” but rather than Lord Ras’s master trying to take over all sixteen realms, he or she wants to pull them all inside out into a new parallel realm where Arin’s parents are located. Which is why Lord Ras didn’t tell Arin where they are and why he wants to reverse the merge. 😱

Something i love about Wu in dragons rising is that despite barely being there his character is now so much deeper and him causing the merge adds a whole other layer to him as a character but in a good way, great and well thought out theory by the way Crusty

If Ras’s main goal is really to reverse merge, even though it’s clearly it’s not and this can be backed up because he has been realm hopping way before the merge since he was in Imperium meaning that his plans were already in motion way before the merge started so how can you reverse something that hasn’t started yet? Also, if he did want to reverse the merge, why would he capture the source dragon of energy destabilizing the fabric of reality, and causing the merge to come early?

This video singlehandedly made deagons rising 10x better❤ respect

I can absolutely see your theory turning out to be true, cause most of the time, Wu does things for good reasons and being so afraid of a villain that all the realms need to be merged just to stop them would be a pretty good motivation imo

I think dragons rising is supposed to represent the original ninjago audience growing up. You meet new people in college and secondary/ high school but you also have to say goodbye to some like Jay and eventually you come back in contact with some people like cole

1:40 just to note: I don't think it was actually confirmed that this was 5 years ago. Considering that Arin and Sora were 11-12 when the merge happened and are confirmed to be 15 as of DRS1, I'd say it's been 3-4 years instead as of DRS1. That, and LEGO's official website says it's been a year since the merge.

But rememeber all, its just a theory, A NINJAGO THEORY!

The immense potential of this reveal is nuts.

Crusty, I love you for doing these videos!!! The theory is really good, I'm literally already sold it. Can't wait for more videos, you really are adding so much to the Ninjago experience.

I think it's likely that Wu caused the Merge because he found out that someone or something was gonna destroy the realms, likely by killing a Source Dragon, so in his mind, his choices were either let the realms be destroyed or cause the merge and give the 16 realms a chance, in which, he believed he had enough time to prepare, but for some reason, it happened earlier and was more chaotic than he anticipated.

alright, I have just started rewatching season 2 and I have a theory... Egalt mentions the last human him and Rontu trained multiple times throughout season 2 part 1, and before I (and others I've chatted with) assumed that this was probably Garmadon. But what if it's Wu they regret training? It would make sense in a few ways I reckon. For starters, it parellels nicely with Garmadon in Shatterspin. It could also explain why throughout the show, Wu uses his powers really sparingly, maybe this is because when he was younger and trying to become more powerful he ended up doing something terrible. Not the most solid evidence, but at least something to consider. But hey, that's just a theory

Honestly, I can't find any holes in this theory! Guess we'll just have to wait and see until season 3 drops!

I think that he saw in a vision or something that there's a great danger that will endanger all the 16 realms together at the same time, and with the realms separated it would be hard to travel between realms to face this huge danger, so he merged the realms to be more accessible and easier to protect But he managed to make it in a suitable time to make sure that no body would be hurt but it happened earlier, which lead to all next problems as people disappear and merge quakes... etc

I think that Wu is Ras' Master, maybe he saw that Ras' Master was him and that he mabye hates the source dragons, for what they have done to a person he loved (maybe his mother) and will revenge. He fond lord Ras as a Child in the Wyldness and trained Ras in how he can be strong, but he never learned Ras Spinjitzu. Mabye he saw during the training he gave to Ras that his student a elemental master is and that he the elemental power of Ras can use for his revenge plan. Maybe hehe wanted to use the ninja indirectly for his plan (in the beginning of the Ninjago series), but that later he could not use them for his plan. Mabye he was already using Morro for his revenge plan (with the cover that Morri would be the green ninja). Perhaps the merge was the first step in his plan.

I would LOVE for the writers to explain it this way. I wouldn't have thought about the merge theory better myself

I have a theory that ras master is also one of the source dragons The way his master talks to him looks pretty similar to the way lloyd talked to source dragons (when they show him how to reach rontu)😶

6:50 remmeber about the first codename of DR - Ninjago United

1:15 the fact that it says "spoiers" and not "spoilers" is kinda funny. Good video though!

This is a whole new low for Wu. He needs to start telling the ninja stuff immediately when he knows something bad is coming or an old enemy returns

Really cool video man, especially your theories, but I would like to bring my [Most likely not true] theory about Master Wu's Visions. Soo when You mentioned Wu using Spirit Smoke to forse [Idk how to write it] the future, my theory is that Fsm Most likely was a conduit to at least on of the source dragons [Or Dragon Cores] which gave him ability to see ,,possible" future, and that Wu being created/being his son was able to also forse the future, but since he is really old and Fsm Probably didn't have kids for a quiet long time after being a conduit, he needs to use somethingh like Spirit Smoke to enhace this power this much that he can actually see it. Also I have a theory That Since Overlord as the embodiment of Evil existet before Creation itself, and Since we know that Fsm embodiment of Light isn't all long existing, there needed to be a couter part to Overlord who for me is... United Source Dragon. Like Darkness is a counterpart to Golden Power, and what did we saw in The Tournament Temple City that was quickly unlocked by Roby?... 7 Headed GOLDEN Source Dragon, And I suppose that, by Fsm being ,,born" 7 headed Golden Source Dragon Split Up into 7 Source Dragons. Did 7 Headed Golden Source Dragon Created Fsm Soo they could be split up or was Fsm ,,Born" which caused 7 Headed Golden Source Dragon to split up, only time will tell [If my theory Is obviously correct]

There's a lot more that I could bring up, but put simply, the Ninjago: Reimagined short film "Golden Hour" is canon evidence that predates Dragons Rising. It aired a full year before Crystalized, follows the events of Hands of Time: Lost in Time, and also ties in to Sons of Garmadon. I believe there's also a theory that Ninjago's timeline being altered is an in-universe explanation for the character redesigns.

And that's why i think the forbidden 5 worked previously for ras master. They also wanted to dominate the realms one by one and they showed the can but they were stopped at time. And they're very strong, the types of villains ras master would choose

My only theory is that Riyu is a reincarnation of the 7th source dragon. I think thats confirmed if im not mistaken. Also I started to analyze Rasses motivs to reverse the merge from a meta point of view. (Also there is a bit of salt in the mix) Ras is a villain, and wants to reverse the merge. He wants ninjago to say like it was before, and doesn't want to see the world evolve or change. Arin as a tryhard ninja fan who prepesents the older fans of the show allies with Ras, becase Arin (aka: some fans) wants Ninjago to return to the status quota, and not changing anything, while failing to see the true potential of the merge. That Arin bit might come from my saltyness against Ninjago insta, couse some reason its cool to hate Dragons rising in there...

But Master Wu would never want to put Ninjago in danger. Why would he caused The Merge on purpose?

Wu also seems to have a broken psyche. When he was talking on the bounty during the merge, it seemed like he was already on to nonsense rambling, then when we see him in the tournament, he can only say one word at a time, as if it hurts for him to speak.

In the merge on the right it shows a source dragon and I think it shows that memories/past life

My initial theory was just that Wu would have caused the merge to prevent something worse, like how in marvel comics the beyonders collapsed the multiverse to save it from the enigma. So if this sort of theory were to be true I think it would be very cool.

That's an incredible theory ! Great video !

8:05 From what we were told about the story about the dragon cores, the merge is a natural event a force of nature something that is going to happen regardless and the reason why the merge happened early was that Ras captured the source dragon of energy, causing it to become premature.

Bro i think Arin's gonna be the new main protagonist and antagonist

I feel like wu should know that hiding stuff from the ninja isn’t a good idea

Excellent theory

9:20 could be both. One dead and one captured. Can't see either happening without consequences and one of them is confirmed to involve Ras. The source dragon did say freeing him would bear heavy consequences, so imprisoning him may have contributed. Alternatively, imprisoning him was an attempt to initiate the merge, and when it wasn't enough of a push, the other source dragon was killed

I’m calling it now, when we see Ras’ master for the first time it’s gonna be a top 5 Ninjago moment. The hype is real 🔥

My theory about the Merge, some people like Jay fell into an office, Kai fell into an island, but some people fell off a cliff and died

8:49 Also the source dragon of motion says that the death of that source dragon in question happened before the catching of the source dragon of energy meaning it was past tense, and it happened before the source dragon of energy was captured and before the merge was caused

This also explains why ras wants to reverse the merge, so they're all separated and he can do his evil things, meaning arin is probably help end the world 😭

Crusty here are some more clues about the merge. In season 1 of dragon rising lloyd went through master wu's scrolls and found out that the merge is somewhat related to source dragons and lord ras also captured a source dragon which we thought was impossible but in season 2 of dragon rising lloyd got a dragon icon from the motion source dragon and she said that lloyd can summon her to the mortal word but only once so lord ras must have gotten a dragon icon to capture the source dragon and we also see lord ras telling arin that he is trying to stop the merge so maybe this is all related or i am a idiot 😅

Ever wonder what they would call the Merged lands now? Since theyre all technically in a whole new realm/world? Like how Ninjago is called Ninjago, Cloud Kingdom is Cloud Kingdom, ect.

OMG, when I first watch S2 E11 I actually didn’t pick up that a previous Source Dragon was killed, I looked back and yeah I see that now. That’s wild to me, this is making me more intrigued than I was already. Who was that Source Dragon that was killed?

It was Master Wu all along! Wu: And I made Arin's parents disappeared too! (Sadly, that's all I know about the song)

I have been waiting for a theory about this, can't wait to watch it!

I mean at this point Wu causes more things to happen to ninjago then the actual villians almost every season

I would like it if we got a flash back in each season of the ninja’s last moments with Wu before the merge. I do feel like the merge was likely something he was told would occur many moons ago by the first spinjitzu master. I dunno if he would’ve caught a vision like in season 1 since that’s a real deep cut moment but I do like where your headed and he clearly caught wind of this some time sooner then expected

This theory makes some much sense. I used to believe master wu caused the merge on accident but this theory made it clear!

Honestly that was my impression of what the reveal meant right from the getgo.