Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24431758-20140313050841/@comment-39473128-20190515100120

I came to the same conclusion as Rudra1802. I suspect that Rachel is Baam's half sister and that Jahad raped Arlene after killing her child by V.

If Rachel was unloved by Arlene as a child and wanted to gain her affection by fulfilling for herself the dream her mother intended for her favoured child Baam of climbing the Tower, slaying Jahad and finding the key to the top of the Tower.

It would explain a lot -Rachel's jealousy of Baam, her ruthlessness in climbing the Tower, the abuse she seems to have suffered, her resentment about Baam climbing the Tower, her talk about destiny, her knowledge of Arlene, FUG and Jahad.

OTOH there are still plenty of questions to raise doubt about this. Why was Jahad's symbol in the Dark Place if it was outside the Tower? If Baam was a favoured child why was he shut up alone in the Dark Place?

If the idea of a rape is real then there are other possibilities. It could be the other way around and Rachel could be V's daughter and Baam Jahad's son. Rachel could feel that Baam is literally stealing her destiny while Baam was locked up in the Dark Place under the sign of Jahad because he was hated by his mother as the offspring of the King. Baam might be the one that Jahad intended to unite the 13 months in that scenario (presuming that is a plan of Jahad's and not a secret purpose left by Ashul Edwaru).

This one has the problem that on the Hudden Floor the real Jahad seemed to recognise Baam as the child he had killed long ago. It's possible that he was misled by the presence of the Thorn (or something) otherwise it is a big problem for that reading.

Alternatively Wangnan and Karaka (and any more siblings?) could be Jahad's children by Arlene that were born on the 43rd floor (Red Light District...?). We still don't know what the 'worst mistake the 10 families ever made' was.

I think the idea of a rape looks pretty good at the moment but there are still lots of questions that put it in doubt.