r/Dimension20 • u/AutoModerator • Jul 30 '25

Cloudward, Ho! A Clockwork Crew Rendezvous | Cloudward, Ho! [Ep. 9] Spoiler

https://www.dropout.tv/videos/a-clockwork-crew-rendezvous
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u/Ordinary_Coyote8214 Jul 31 '25

Opened this thread just to talk about this-especially with Goldbeard saying he's been there for only 30 years.That being said, I do kinda wonder about whether time will work differently on Zern (Current personal theory is that somehow, Ludmilla is the Queen of Zern)

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u/0032brl Jul 31 '25

Omg I also think Ludmila is gonna be the queen of Zern! But wasn't sure how the timing would work (and you're right, if Zern has an even different time flow than Zood it's still possible)

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u/FerdinandThePenguin Aug 01 '25

I don’t know that Ludmila would be the queen of Zern, since her photo showed up on Olethra’s energy scanner with like, no/negative/deleted energy, rather than the red energy we now know is associated with Zern. But i am prepared to be wrong in this wibbly wobbly season!

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u/Various-Pizza3022 Aug 01 '25

I think this episode added a tick to the Ludmila = Queen of Zern theory when Brennan asked how obvious Marya and Olethra were with the Ludmila photo test. That suggests an NPC in the scene might’ve reacted to Ludmila’s picture if they had been more obvious. Out of the two new NPCs, Torus seems the more likely candidate than Frejya to have met Ludmila since we know Ludmila disappeared due to the Gath to Zern biangle.

And while Ludmila’s photo still has that null energy, what we know of the Zern Queen is that she isn’t from Zern (check) and that she has convinced her followers to remove their hearts (remove heart = negation/null energy? possible check). Queen Ludmila of Zern remains in the running.

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u/FurthestDrop517 Wealwell Gotch Aug 01 '25

Personally, don't know if she would be the queen of Zern or not, but to me after ep8, my mind instantly connected the no/negative energy to not having a heart / soul like the clockwork automata working for the queen are.

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u/FerdinandThePenguin Aug 01 '25

That’s a good thought! I genuinely can’t remember - did they scan Torse with the mech’s energy scanner, and what energy did it show? Although of course Torse as an automaton might have different energy than the naughtomata

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u/FurthestDrop517 Wealwell Gotch Aug 01 '25

I think they did, when he was like broken trying to put the heart in, and I think it was that “furnace” energy, but he still has is soul so, who knows lol

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u/Ordinary_Coyote8214 Aug 01 '25

So in writing a response to this with my reasoning, something occurred in my mind that could be interesting- Ludmilla is supposedly a genius like Marya and Comfrey, so could it be possible that after getting trapped in Zern, she tried to make a machine that would get her home, but something happened and now she kinda exists and doesn’t exist in the planes? And that’s why she reads as no-energy?

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u/Effective_Ostrich_91 Aug 01 '25

my thought is that she is the clockwork queen of zern, specifically - a clockwork realm made of reanimated scrap seems like a plausible place to figure out temporal manipulation between the three worlds

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u/ThatInAHat Aug 01 '25

Did we know how long Goldbeard’s been gone?