Who will get Statesman's powers? The player or Darrin Wade?Or FAST power with freedom from the Well?

So we all know Statesman is going to die, who will get his powers? Well, in the first part of the SSA the obelisk is shown to be able to transfer powers and its revealed its PERMANENT when the person dies. This leads to a few interesting things:

1) What if Darrin Wade knows about the Coming Storm? The entire problem as depicted by Mender Lazarus and Prometheus is that getting power too quickly from the Well results in being consumed and taken over by the Well. This can be sign with characters like Hero 1, Statesman, and Lord Recluse as the Well of Furies takes them over and speaks through them.

What if Darrin Wades plan was to become a type of Vigilante Hero? What if he is killing Statesman for the "Greater Good?"

Think of it this way, if he kills Statesman and obtains his powers, he will then become an Incarnate at FULL power and be COMPLETELY free of the Well. He will have no connection to it. This is what players in the story are currently suppose to be doing. Slowly gaining their power to be free of the Well.

In fact, Lord Recluse has been trying to find a way to be free of the Well. This could be the way of fast power via the Well without becoming a slave to it.

2) Looking at the cut scenes from the arc, Malaise, who is now dead, did ask "Will the next person be the one I was intended for?" Now, it could be interrupted that this was Sister Psyche and the entire entering the mind, or it could be inferred (and the way I did) was that person was the one that they would be stealing the powers from and that Malaise was intended to be the beneficiary of receiving these powers.

If Darrin Wade was lying or manipulating so that he could get the powers, so be it... but this leads to point 3

3) Villains are part of this arc too, I can't imagine a villain just standing there and going "Sure Wade you take all the powers of the most powerful person on the planet aside from Hamidon, I will stand back and watch" -- Now, it could be written that the villain player is made to be a fool and tricked and does not get the powers after being backstabbed...

Or what if WE the player base do get Statesman powers?

What if Statesman's Powers unlocked a NEW INCARNATE SLOT OR POWER?

Imagine this, in the case of villains they steal Statesman's powers which unlocks one of the new incarnate slots (Or possibly a new Incarnate Power, like STATESMAN's JUDGEMENT POWER that slam the fist thing) or imagine if during the Hero Arc Statesman dying breath he pushes the Hero into the obelisk to transfer his power to them? The Hero player becomes the next "Statesman."

How cool would that be?

4) We the players could become exactly what Prometheus and Mender Ramiel wants. We could become a pretty powerful Incarnate by taking Statesman's powers or in the case of Heroes accidentally receiving them. This could be the biggest asset in the Coming Storm.

Thoughts?

*shakes magic 8 ball*
Very doubtful

You making more guess's, couple days ago you posted another Post about telling us it was Back Ally Brawler who is going to die. You just making more Guess's and more Theories about what to come, You where wrong about brawler and I am sure you are wrong with Wade and what to come. Only people who no's the outcome is The Devs and that is all, we can only make guess's.

I like Ultimus's Theories. Makes ya think of where they are going with it and how close can ya get to being right.

I could definitely see completion of the Who Will Die part 7 unlocking a certain ability (or abilities) for existing Incarnate slots, via some version of the lore you suggested, especially since I expect that last part to require level 50. So, as you said, upon completion of the last part, you now have access to another Judgement tree. (Access, mind you, so the unlocking of judgement and crafting of powers still has to be done the same way.) I do not see them unlocking an entirely new slot that way though.

I also do not see them giving us a "fast track," slave to the well or not, after being so adamant about "becoming an incarnate will not be a fast process." Speaking purely from a business stand point, a fast track would not be logical because the goal is to keep the players playing.

I believe that his death will unlock an incarnate slot.

With the timing of his death, the end of the SSA and probable timeframe for the release of I22 and possibly I22.5, the "Death Incarnate" title for the Issue might have some link to Statesman too.
Although they said at the Player Summit that the title was linked to the new Incarnate Trial in I22 where Diabolique tries to tap into Mot's power to become death incarnate, and how Mot in general could be regarded as death incarnate because he's a god of death, they mightn't have wanted to mention any link to the death of Statesman, as that was still a secret at the time.

I'd sooner think Wade's involvement means the Power of Statesman (or whatever it's called) will somehow be applied to free or empower Rularuu. That suggests "new Shadow Shard stuff" to me, not "new player incarnate jazz." We'll have to wait and see.

Shadow Jazz Shard?

I don't see it unlocking an Incarnate slot, because we don't even know yet if you're going to have to be level 50 to run the next part of the SSA. Furthermore, since non-VIPs can pay points to access the SSA, having it unlock or open up something that they can't get because they're not VIPs is... well, it's a bit mean.

And yes, I'm aware that there are Incarnate item rewards for the parts of the SSA that have already been put into the game. But they're not the only rewards.

My current pet theory is that Darrin Wade is planning to use the power of the Well of Furies from Statesman to either break Rularuu out of his jail or...

Darrin Wade is the mysterious one directing the Well of Furies. He wants to force Rularuu to basically drink from the Well using Statesmans power so he can control Rularuu.

I just don't see Wade as wanting this power for himself.

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Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow City of Heroes is a game about freedom of expression and variety of experiences far more so than it is about representing any one theme, topic or genre.

So who will lead the Heroes and be the poster boy?

I know they already got rid of Lord Recluse on the front page banner!

*starts to hate all who posts threads with huge spoilers in them* Just saying!

I'm sure others have done this before, but I ran 'Darrin Wade' through the ol' anagram solver recently, and wow, what a list. One of the myriad of combinations was "drained raw", which seems kinda appropriate.