Talk:Axis User/@comment-5109261-20130416023738/@comment-26854521-20160705211259

SIU never outright said what you say he did. And he didn't state or indicate that he abandoned or discarded anything. Axis are a mystery for the people in the Tower, and if they have a place in the TOG-story, then it's absolute end game. It is absolutely not the main focus of the story, not right now  and possibly ever, or at the very least not anytime soon.

I've said this many times before, but I guess one more time can't hurt. There is an actual issue with having something like Axis mentioned and having someone like Phanta being ranked at #1. If you know that Baam is our MC, then you'd assume that he is going to fight Phanta at the end of the plot. If you know that you have to be an Axis to fight another Axis, then you'd assume that he will awaken. If you assume that Baam will become and Axis at the end, then that will trivialize every single encounter in the plot. You'll always feel like these fights don't matter much, because he'll eventually come out on top anyway. Enhanced plot armor, really.

By saying that Phanta might not even appear in the story, he made it a lot harder to predict things. You don't have a clear ending in sight. You never really know if the last Boss is the last Boss until it really is over. Smart move, maybe only because he wanted people to stop making predictions or maybe SIU thought that he wouldn't ever get to the point in the plot anyway, due to health concerns or whatever, since I can't see something like Axis being anywhere in the plot for at least the first 10 years of the plot (3-4 more years from now on).