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It seems there is an unusual amount of lore actually referenced by the chess statues.

The Bishop, Rook and Knight are all personified as clockworks which justifies the existence of the statues.

The Queen, King and Pawn however do not have a clockwork representation, because they are already embodied.

 

Maxwell is of course the incarnation of the King, and he is even referenced directly as one.

Charlie is referenced to be the Queen. Wilson says "Hmm... Looks Familiar" when examining the statue, which is ironic considering that he is the only one who has directly seen Charlie other then Maxwell. Maxwell comments that "Must everything be about my shortcomings" which could be interpreted as him referencing when he was dethroned and replaced. Finally, Wickerbottom mentions how strategically useful the Queen piece is, which is ironic considering that Charlie has been far more useful to Them then Maxwell was. Which parallels to how much more the Queen piece can move compared to the King.

And the rest of the survivors are Pawns. Wilson and Wendy make casual references to the idea however it directly parallels with the plot. More importantly Wickerbottom comments that "Pawns that journey to the seat of power can be quite dangerous" which symbolizes the fact that Wilson, a pawn, was able to cross the board and ascend to temporary king in place of Maxwell. Which is a likely reference to the Promotion rule in Chess, which in simplified Checkers directly involves a Pawn becoming a King.

 

The concept also back-dates to the Ancients who had a King, a Queen, and of course Pawns. Which may be a pattern repeating itself on purpose for whatever reason. The main problem still is that it makes no sense how They knew enough about machinery and Chess to teach the Ancients how to build the Clockworks in the first place. Which raises the question of how They learned about machinery and Chess to begin with.

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Well the Thucians were around for a very long time so they could of built machines and the The trailer for Wilson where Maxwell tells wilson he can show him a great number of things all that shows in just a slew of matchimatic formulas and charts. Some do say that Magic is just Science we can't understand yet but other then that I got nothing.

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2 minutes ago, Donke60 said:

Well the Thucians were around for a very long time so they could of built machines and the The trailer for Wilson where Maxwell tells wilson he can show him a great number of things all that shows in just a slew of matchimatic formulas and charts. Some do say that Magic is just Science we can't understand yet but other then that I got nothing.

Donke raises a point. THEM pre-exist before the thulians. So perhaps THEM think fourth dimensionally?

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Also it seems that the Anicents were very fast in there pursuit of knowledge and in a world where Magic exists why not do everthing besides it looks like the Clockworks were the very last things the Anicents built given how they still function to stave off the Shadows/Darkness. And when you can't use magic use machines

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28 minutes ago, minespatch said:

Donke raises a point. THEM pre-exist before the thulians. So perhaps THEM think fourth dimensionally?

They are likely human considering the neglected theory about the Watcher being Their leader, and the Watcher looks distinctly human just like their arms. So it would explain how They know about Chess and mechanics.

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2 hours ago, The Curator said:

And the rest of the survivors are Pawns. Wilson and Wendy make casual references to the idea however it directly parallels with the plot. More importantly Wickerbottom comments that "Pawns that journey to the seat of power can be quite dangerous"

and just to back this up more

~Webber~ "Pawns are just as important as the rest of the pieces."

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12 hours ago, Bunions said:

Seeing as we cannot attribute the invention to any one person or group of people - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_chess (as a loose source) who is to say that *Them* did not introduce the game to humanity itself?

Makes me think of those History channel documentaries about how Aliens introduced things to humanity. It could work.

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On 07/05/2017 at 3:38 PM, The Curator said:

Which raises the question of how They learned about machinery and Chess to begin with.

Maybe it's something like: Maxwell teach Them human stuff and Them teach Maxwell magic stuff?

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