Instead of boiling lava raining down on our kingdom it rains rocks filled eed? That's not normal! Now it looks to be more difficult to determine the statues purpose. Sure, this holds up, until the volcano explodes. The statue’s working looks to be simple enough, activated it slows down the volcanic eruption, thus keeping the island safe. It goes hand in hand with the final component of a skull island: the volcano. And when examining it's function better, it looks like it is both the most powerfull statue they've created and their most fragile work yet. The hourglass statue seems to be a weird exception.
However, those statues all helped their empire flourish in some way(buffing farms, structures, archers, etc). We already know that the builders had a thing for magic, building statues all over the place. Secondly, there's the hourglass statue and the volcano. Whether these skulls were already there or created by the greed is a thing I don't know(well I sort of do, but that would derail the entire topic of this post so I'll leave that for another time). However, we've never seen anything as complicated as the skull portals before. Of course there are the small portals, which are also creations of the greed. We've seen that the greed have at least some form of intelligence, they wear wooden masks and even have the brains to put armor on their breeders. Firstly there are the skulls that decorate the cliff portals. We all know how the challenge works, so I'll just talk about the three most noteworthy things. So basically, I think any skull island is the island from which greed start taking over a set group of islands. The greed are the strongest here, implying that they've been on these islands the longest (since greed get more powerfull over time). This leads me to believe that the skull islands are the central greed bases of an island group. As seen in the new lands map, there are always 5 islands+one skull island. What's more, these nations are also present in the challenge islands. Wait, did I just say ONE of the skull islands? Well yes, you see, we now know that multiple nations are trying to retake the land of the builders(at this point in the timeline it's just europe and shogun). However remember that the two crowns updates take place in chronological order? That's right, I think that after monarchs conquer the normal islands they send out their most powerfull monarchs to conquer one of the skull islands(remember, we start all challenge islands with a better mount, implying that at least some islands have been conquered already). In two crowns we once again play on an island group of 5 normal islands, although skull island is nowhere to be seen. There are 5 normal islands and skull island. Now onto the first theory: in new lands we have a map of the local island group. The statue on new lands' skull island pushes back the winter in gameplay, but I think in canon it fends of something else(more on that in this post) So in the canon, monarchs leave the island when the winter becomes to harsh.
The winter in new lands isn't actually endless, mechanic wise the purpose of winter is to force players of the island. In that post I made the following assumptions/statements: I'll summarize it quickly, but I recommend reading part 1 for a better explanation. In the first lore post I made I briefly touched on skull island. So to start things off we'll have to take a look back at the first iteration of skull island all the way back in kingdom new lands. Now there is a lot of exciting stuff to talk about, so let’s get going! This post will talk about Skull island and Plague island because man, do they have some biggest lore implications yet. The new trade routes will be covered later as again: chronological order. So the next stop is logically the first three challenge islands that were introduced to the game: Dire island, Skull island and plague island. As I said in that post, I believe that the major updates take place in chronological order. Welcome back to my third post in this Kingdom lore series! Last time I’ve started covering two crowns, beginning with the base game+shogun and what that might mean as a whole. If you haven’t read the previous parts, I recommend it to get a better understanding of this post: That said, I believe these to still be a fun read, wether you believe the devs intended a story for these games or not. That said, these posts are mostly here for those who are wondering ‘’If there was a story, what would it be?’’ These post are just for fun and mostly my own headcanon(which I did create with the ‘’evidence’’ that I go over in these posts). Disclaimer: I know the devs probably didn’t intent there to be any lore in this game.
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