My attempt to predict the ending of the album
Alright, buckle up, I'm about to perform some mental gymnastics and might just win the gold medal.
So from what we've seen of the album so far, we know Angus and Zargothrax team up to defeat evil Hootsman (Hoots-Virliath, if you will)
Using the information we've been given from Ultimate Sacrifice, On A Quest for Aberdeen (confirmed to be on the album but may differ from last year's single), and Die With A Sword In My Hand, we know that Earth still imploded thanks to Hoots' aforementioned sacrifice.
This means that Terrorvortex could still plausibly happen, but how? Let's get back to that in a sec.
We clearly see Zargothrax in 1993 rather than in the "terrible past" on the other side of the wormhole. We're still also unsure whether this is an alternate timeline or a direct continuation of Space 1992. It's a sequel, of course, but it could be a sequel in the same way Album 4 is a sequel to Album 1, or Angus V arrives right during/after the events of Apocalypse 1992.
Now, here's the theory. Assuming Angus XIII doesn't die before entering the Terrorvortex in this timeline, there's still the issue of Zargothrax being in 1993. It's still very much possible that this is indeed a split timeline, but not in the way you might think.
There's a potential bridge between 1993 and the Terrorvortex timeline we may not have considered. The Hootsman. Okay, okay, hear me out:
So we know that the 1993 Hootsman is possessed by Kor-Virliath, whilst Terrorvortex Hoots is THE "ONE AND ONLY TRUE GOD" of that universe, according to his own words.
What if I told you they could be the very same Hootsman? No, I'm not saying that Terrorvortex Hoots-God is evil and actually Kor-Virliath, though I wouldn't rule out that possibility either.
Instead, picture this: in the final battle of 1993, Angus V and Zargothrax manage to exorcise Hootsman of Kor-Virliath, albeit at great cost, being;
Zargothrax is the one to take in the evil of Kor-Virliath, somehow being corrupted or possessed, undoing everything he's been through in the album and resetting the status quo (sounds lame, I know, but I think it'd be funny, and here comes the good part)
Hootsman makes an Ultimate Sacrifice again, to redeem himself. The Terrorvortex may grow unstable without Kor-Virliath's influence and may threaten to consume the universe as some sort of supermassive black hole, and Hootsman plunges into the Terrorvortex to seal it for good, inadvertently taking Kor-Virliath's place and becoming the Hootsman we see in The Fires of Ancient Cosmic Destiny.
Is it crazy? Yeah, Does it sound fun? Also yeah. Should you take this seriously? No, I hope not.
