Board Thread:Theories Discussion/@comment-66.169.41.184-20150918044027

I came across Miriam and Allen talking in the earlier part of the book, with Allen worrying that people would recognize him as the prince, and Miriam assuring him that Elluka had it handled, saying, quote:

"But Elluka convinced all of them [the original people suspicious of the resemblance], apparently just by saying that, in this world, there are people who look identical, and they come in groups of three."

This didn't really pop out to me the first time I read this, back in 9th grade. I was like: "Okay, Elluka came up with an excuse so people would stop snooping around Allen and Rilianne's similarities, and probably if someone pointed out Ney's similarity to them, to explain that away too."

But you just have to think, with all of this new stuff that's been released about Elluka since then, right?

She's totally right: There have been a couple of 'sets of three' that Elluka has witnessed in her lifetime. First of all, the aforementioned Ney, Riliane, and Allen. Then, from the original Elluka's lifetime; Seth, Pale, and Kirill. Something she also commented on (in Gloom of Held, I believe) was the similarities between two 'groups of three' that have spanned over her life by this point [about 400-ish years, I think?]: Eve, Mikulia, and Platonic, then Adam, Kachess, and Carlos. She inquired why, if Adam and Eve never had any biological children, how did these random people end up looking like them centuries later? This was before her 'groups of three' comment she made in CoY.

But Butler, where are you going with this?

Elluka is the incarnation of Levia-Behemo. The two gods that created humanity. Mothy didn't pull that out of thin air. Please tell me I'm not the only one who sees the irony in Elluka of all characters saying this? 