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One thing I'm really confused about: We know before she turned 9, at the very least a year before she did, Mariam was an assassin. The assassination she attempted before she fell off the cliff was presumably targeted at Leonhart. He was described as wearing red clothes, having betrayed his country and murdered his brother. But the song also say they were of similar age. You telling me a kid probably 10 - 14 betrayed his country and killed his brother? Obviously kids as young as 10 - 14 are capable of murder but by "betraying his country" are we talking generally, like he disowned his country or like a chargeable offense of treason? Was he a child soldier? What's this about disguises? If was the general sort of betrayal why were people in disguises hunting him down? I feel like the ages are just getting completely jumbled up by this new timeline we're given...

As for that blurb about Arth, that carriage must be the one mentioned as Neomaria's "first job". Arth must have been a little younger than 20. He and Mariam have a 11 year age difference. (When Mariam was 9, Arth was 20.) And about the personality change, maybe it was trauma? I mean falling off a cliff in a carriage with your whole family dead will mess you up definitely, whether you actually received physical head trauma or not. Or maybe Arth had a twin, pulled a Cherubim (including the memory loss), and the twin is going by what is actually his dead twin's name.