Decoding the Lost Cities: Recent Episodes
Eva
A fan made podcast by Eva, putting out (mostly) serious theories about Shannon Messenger’s series Keeper of the Lost Cities. Updates as frequently as possible.
I was bored over these school holidays, so I decided to just record a bunch of things that don’t make sense about the Percy Jackson series. I do actually know the answers to some of these now, but at the time I was very confused.
So I invited another one of my bookworm friends to join me in a recording. This is the result. We tried talking about Percy Jackson, but ended up kinda just… talking, and while the conversation is definitely Percy Jackson related, it’s not exactly… sensible. Also, Anchor updated, so sorry if the music at the start is bad!
Another keeper theory is here, finally! It’s about the one dead councillor, Councillor Kenric. But what if he survived the fire in the third book? Well, I think he did. The first part of this episode is a rather long rant about Jensi. Before that starts, there is a warning and a time to scroll to. I did try to get fanfiction, but it so cringy I decided against it. Enjoy the episode!
The start of this episode is a small apology to those people who had a comment deleted from an episode a few days ago, and a reason why. Then, I get into a rather complicated explanation of The Link, which is something I write into a lot of fanfics with no reasoning behind it. I am planning to read some fanfics of mine next episode, and so in anticipation of the Link popping up some time during that, I wrote a script for two days to partially prepare my listeners for the chaos that is my writing. Hope you enjoy, and if you follow the plot throughout this entire thing, you are either crazy (like me) or very talented. Or both! (:
Johannah and I talk about Elwin, and the Sophie-father theory, before delving into Stellarlune and Keefe. That’s probably the best I can do for a description, because that’s literally what happens. There’s much better audio quality and a lot of random topics. :)
I HAVE MORE THEORIES!!! I recently read a few chapters of the Stellarlune book, and it got me thinking about Keeper of the Lost Cities again. I went and flipped through the other books, and now I’m convinced I know what Elysian is, and a few other things about the ending of Stellarlune (or possibly the start of book ten, I haven’t read that far). This episode is mainly so everyone can laugh at how wrong I am, including all my friends. So ignore the strange audio quality that I always seem to have (please!) and listen to me fail at this!
This is three minutes long, because I’m just ‘explaining’ why I have restrained myself from reading the ninth Keeper of the Lost Cities book, which I got yesterday. There’s slightly good audio quality and a lot of unintelligible noises of a bookworm. :)
So… Samuel and I have been having this argument for a while. Percy Jackson versus Emperor Palpatine- who’s the winner? Only now did we conclude it. It’s basically us just having a very heated discussion, and headphone users, I am very sorry for the noise. 🔱
I’m getting lazy with the titles, sorry. Anyway, so, I write a lot of fan fiction, and this is basically a very vague guide to howl I make my OCs. It’s probably not very good advice, but sometimes characters can be hard to create. 😊
So. For the first part of this episode, my sister pushed me into a little bit of fanfic-blurb reading, which is for the books Keeper of the Lost Cities, Hunger Games and Percy Jackson. Then, we kinda just talk about villains and other completely random things, like the name of this podcast. Also, just a warning, this episode is about an hour long. I got waaaay to exited. If you make it to the end, you have more patience than I do. Thanks for listening!
This is a little about the change from a Keeper of the Lost Cities only podcast to a multifandom one, and the new name for the podcast. The name change will happen on 5th September, so watch out for that! :)
So… I’ve changed the podcast description a little bit. It is now a MULTIFANDOM podcast, because only talking about Keeper of the Lost Cities was a little restrictive. Anyway, sorry about that, but the next episode will be an elaboration on that. Anyway, for all you Harry Potter fans, today is a good day for you! (There are other fandoms about halfway through, sorry!) So grab your trunk, and let’s get to the platform because today is SEPTEMBER 1ST!
I’m not gonna tell ya! Just know it has something to do with the Shires of Solace and google earth…
Me and my brother have been writing Kotlc stories and we’re reading them out. Samuel’s is long and mine’s longer. I have tons more but this episodes too long. 👍🏻
We’re abandoning the season theme. Now it’s covers, because I didn’t have anymore backstory theories to tell. Me and Johannah compare the covers we know to the alternative from another country. It’s a bit of fun and we were both bored. Also I couldn’t find anything else for the cover except that, I am not a Fitzphie shipper.
Exactly what it sounds like. Basically me and my siblings obsess over the cover and title of STELLARLUNE, keeper book 9. Looks like I have another word to teach my autocorrect!
The past of the lost cities is very debatable. What pushed Gisela for the Lodestar Initiative? Why are there 12 Councillors? And why are the Black Swan and the Neverseen really all that different? I mean, if they joined together they could be called the NEVERSWAN, which is obviously better. Well, the Neverseen came second. Time to find out why…
Christmas just passed, so we’re doing what the KOTLC characters would get each other! My mum also puts in her Sophie dad theory, and we talk about elvin Christmas.
Theories for book 9. That’s all this really is. Besides, I do get a little distracted with the Hekses. But mostly, book 9.
Finally, we can talk about titles. And I say we, because The Hydrokinetic is finally here! We get a little off topic, but we have a few good theories for the book 9 title.
These are my kotlc book 9 cover theories! Nothing very good, but I have an idea of what it could be…
If you don’t want to hear the name meanings of the characters, don’t listen. That’s all this episode is, and it gets really weird with the Vackers…
Wraith is not a very recognisable person. You never see him! But this is the most I know about him, right here.
Forkle mentioned that he has five identities once. Of course I’m going to focus on that, because we only know four of them. So this episode is the fifth.
Trix, the neverseen’s guster, who shows up once off page. This should be easy. We’ll find out who he really is…
Umber is the neverseen’s shade, that’s no secret. ⚠️: Flashback and Legacy spoilers. We need them to find out who Umber is…
Ok, sorry, I changed the episode. I couldn’t do the quiz, and this is a bit long. But it is still a kinda interesting episode, and it’s about Shannon’s deleted KOTLC scenes…
Ok, this hasn’t changed, I still think Sophie’s dad is a certain physician, but I have more proof this time!
Warning, I get a liiiiiiitle off topic in this episode, but I am talking about the theory that Teirgan is Sophie’s biological dad.
Hint: not her dad. I only did this because he has some extent of involvement in project moonlark. Well, this is what that is…
Now, for the season you’ve all been waiting for… (or I assume you have, since the Elwin theory is the second most watched episode.) Who dramatic pause is Sophie’s biological father?
Not giving away who this is, but it’s a big shock, if you didn’t already have this theory. And Glimmer is…
You’ll find a lot of name puns here. What did you expect, from a character with a name pronounced MY SONG!?! Today, I will talk about why one of the most popular theories for Glimmer is wrong…
This is the first episode in my new format. I’m talking about Wylie’s mother, Cyrah. (See-rah, for anyone who can’t pronounce that. It’s in Unlocked.) Is she Glimmer, or not?
This half episode is very short. It’s basically me reciting what I’m doing from now on, in a very unscripted way.
Me and Samuel debate about why Mr. Forkle can heal minds, then I satisfy his concerns about Cyrah Endal being alive. Fun!
Amy Foster. She’s Sophie’s human sister. Or is she? No, seriously, is she? She is the moonlark’s sister, but is it through a certain project, or adoption? Is she related (dramatic pause) to Edaline Ruwen? Today, we find out…
Who does Sophie need to put on her matchmaking file? She could have asked in book 2, instead of asking for something she’d find out later anyway. But no matter. Now, we know…
Before, I said that there was a leak from the Council to the Neverseen. This time, we dive into that theory in more depth, and it’s not who you’d expect…
There are loooots of theories about Lady Gisela’s second ability. Today, I’m going to uncover which of them is true…
I wrote 4 pages on who the real bad guys are. If you want to hear me ramble on about why the Neverseen are good, click play. Otherwise, this will be veeeeeery boring.
In a double episode, me and my siblings discuss Councillor Terik, then talk about all the different abilities. And there’s a surprise at the end!
I am alone again, so this is just a bunch of theories about Mr. Forkle, most from Legacy.
Wylie was said to be an orphan, but are either of his parents dead? Listen to our debate over why Wylie’s mother, Cyrah Endal, is really still alive…