Just got hit with an idea. What if the reason why the rifts opened up and pulled Jury, Finnican and everyone got pulled back in time was because they were normal animals who should have been dead, but were brought back through unnatural/other worldly means, such as being brought back by the key in most of their cases? In fact, maybe the rifts were reaching out for everyone who should've been dead to bring them back to where they 'belonged' (the void), like with what will happen for everyone having connections to the Ethyrium at the end of ROA, but Rose and Fayru, being Guides, 'grabbed hold' of their friends and family and brought them to the past instead? Although exceptions would be Drellan and Pike, who got brought back by the key but didn't get taken by the rifts when everyone else did. And Kurai, who didn't die but got taken anyway... Maybe for Pike, 'fate' saw he would die anyway so it left him alone. Or maybe something protected him from getting taken. Maybe he and Drellan were both protected?
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- I want to say by Annabelle('s spirit). I want her to be a major thing that's happening in the background that'll be significant for plot, but I'm not exactly sure what that significance would be. So far I've been imagining her as a being practicing control over rifts or something like that. Like maybe she was the one who brought Jury back to life since Jury wasn't technically brought back by the key? And Jury could have some major role related to that? And maybe Annabelle is the reason why Raiven got sent 3 years into the future, if you guys didn't already have a reason for that? I don't know, I'm just throwing ideas out XP