A week after Hendrickson's defeat, the Sins, along with Gilthunder, Howzer, and Slader, set out once again to search for the last remaining Sin: Escanor, the Lion's Sin of Pride. While on route to the town of Darnet, where Escanor was said to be si...
Okay, no one's trashed my other theory talks, so I guess they were okay. But still, I'd love some comments, please. Anyway, since no one's called me an idiot yet, here's another theory!!
What Started The First Holy War?
So, first things first: I'm calling it the First Holy War since we (the main characters) are in the middle of another one. So....yeah. In this, I'm going to be gathering all the information we know about the First Holy War and try to determine what started it.
Okay, so there's really not a lot to go on and most of it is in the later bits of the series.
The first tidbit we get about what caused the First Holy War was from Estarossa, in Chapter 176:
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So, here, we find out that Meliodas started the First Holy War. When I first read this, my jaw hit the floor. First, finding out that he killed two of the Ten Commandments (Meliodas is just not the type of person who would kill unless he had absolutely no choice). I wasn't really that surprised to find out that Meliodas was the leader of the Ten Commandments, I was already kind of expecting it, really. But still, the fact that he tipped the balance of power, just him, leaving. ONE PERSON! And finding out, of course, that he started the war.
So, all that was really interesting and awesome, but then I got confused when I read this:
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