Category Archives: Theories

All theories. Any theories that are not in the Submitted Theories category were written by the site’s authors.

[Submitted Theory] Who Is Standing Behind Rean?

Annotations regarding this theory being broken are below the cut.

Once again, we feature another theory from bronze frog from Gamefaqs!


That one promotional image that everyone has seen, talked about and made meme magic out of. You know the one.

We’ve all talked about how Rean looks, what he’s wearing, and especially whatever is that image behind him. And that’s the focus of today’s theory!

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Class VII – Graduating from Cold Steel II to Cold Steel III

Let’s talk about the characters of Class VII, and what is expected to happen to them, post-Cold Steel II.

More details are, of course, behind the cut, because of spoilers. Not only for CS2, though, I’ll make minor mentions of some information revealed in the NG+ quest, as well. (Though I won’t talk about THAT reveal.)

I’m also doing my best to do minimal references to things outside of the English released Trails games, so people who have not played them can read and participate in any discussion brought about by this post. There will be one instance where I bring up 3rd, but it will be based on something from Translation Tuesday.

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Hello, Mr. Nielsen! Who The Heck Are You?

Suspicious characters are suspicious. Suspicious journalists are something else entirely. He first appeared briefly in 3rd, and has since made another appearance that didn’t help his situation in being suspicious!

I’ve been extremely suspicious of this journalist since his first appearance in 3rd- but I’m glad to know that I’m not alone. In fact, I’m quite pleased to know that I’m not the only one who has made, and believes some of the things stated on a Japanese wiki. So instead of compiling everything I see, much of this will be translated from here, (Guan has translated it here) though I will also interject many personal anecdotes in this as well.

Note, there are MAJOR Ao no Kiseki spoilers in this post!

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