Talk:Irregular/@comment-82.52.84.132-20161107162821/@comment-26484417-20161107170339

Well, for the first part, I can put your mind at ease: SIU confirmed that Baam's cave is outside the Tower, not in the Outer Tower. There are many threads that discuss the significance of what appears to be Zahard's symbol in Baam's cave, but it's difficult to divine anything from that symbol when we know basically nothing about so many related things. For instance, we don't know whether this symbol has always been Zahard's symbol, or whether he merely claimed it when he crowned himself the King of the Tower.

As for the second part, yes, it means that Irregulars are very special even by the outsiders' standards, but that doesn't necessarily make them Axes. For one thing, the paradigm is that they haven't really opened the doors themselves as much as that the Tower itself opened its doors for them; after all, Alumik Edrok explained that "the Tower doesn't open its gates for just anybody"1 which implies that (1) the Tower is sentient on some level, and (2) the decision to let someone in rests ultimately with the Tower itself--with possible exception of Axis. This notion is counter-indicated by the term "unchosen Irregulars", but--from what we know--Irregulars are actually the only ones who have been chosen to climb the Tower as it was intended by the Tower itself, while the "chosen Regulars" have been merely chosen by Headon to climb the Zahard Empire's version of the Tower.