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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WizarDru" data-source="post: 1491216" data-attributes="member: 151">To my knowledge, No.  This series is cut-from-while-cloth, envisioned by Gonzo studios as an anime from day one, using some of the CGI techniques for which they've become so popular.    Yeah, it can be a real double-edged sword.  Particularly when some series NEVER answer what we, the western audience, consider to be vital questions.  RahXephon, for example, left some things open or ambigious, which the Japanese audience likes, but drives U.S. audiences nuts.  First, grain of salt time.  I'm no expert on the show, I've just watched all three DVDs, so far.  I watch with subtitles, so that may give me a different perspective, at times. 1.) There are several countries at work, here.  Alex and the Silvana owe their allegience to the Emperor of [cough]forgotthename[cough].  However, it's clear that he doesn't trust the emperor, and in action shows his allegience to the queen, who is apparently waging a war of intrigue.  There are at least two other countries involved, one of which is where Klaus and Silvie are from.   Actually, it's a little different from that.  Alex already has the Exile.  It's the young girl that Klaus and Silvie rescued.  SHE's the exile, and she's the cargo everyone wants.  Locked inside her is a power, apparently, that might hold the key to the Grand Stream, the powerful wind tunnel in the high sky that no one can penetrate (except for Klaus father, who apparently once did it). The item that was bid on was supposed to be the key to the Exile, a portal of sorts.  It wasn't, that was a trick, and Alex knew it (he was playing a dangerous game with the guild, there).  The man who was carting it around was the actual key.  He knew one of the four key phrases to activate the girl's power (which we see activated later).   Each one of the four guild families guards one of the phrases.  It sounds like if you use the whole four lines of the poem, the girl's power will unlock some sort of portal...but we haven't seen for sure. How's that for a start?  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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