[Chances are, you got here from a link from Spitter user @elevencrows, notorious Airlocked shitposter, conspiracy theorist, and aggravator of any and all debates involving one Izunia Lucis Caelum. If you didn't get here from there, chances are whatever friend linked you the video did.
The video is titleless; the accompanying Spit says only A new project I've been working on, which is, of course, less than helpful. @elevencrows has not responded to any attempts to seek clarification or further information; in fact, his timeline has been nothing but a handful of queued posts for the last week or so.
The video starts with a black screen, and a girl's voiceover, almost monotone - ]
One for sorrow, two for mirth
[A black screen cuts in with the spoken words in white text while the voiceover is going, but after every line, there's a pause, a beat in which something else can be seen.
A lantern swings into place, glowing blue (Armiger blue) and leaving a trail (a rather warp-like trail) through the darkness. From the way the lantern swings, it appears that someone is carrying it as they walk.]
Three for marriage, four for birth.
[The lantern swings, and illuminates in its path what seems to be an old wall of Airlocked promotional posters - one for each season - aged and faded well beyond their actual age.]
Five for the truth and six for lying
[The lantern-swinger comes to a halt. The lantern, still gently swaying, illuminates the shape of a door, branded with the InterGal7 logo.]
Seven for sickness, eight for dying.
[The lantern finally stills enough to be seen in detail - it looks very much like if you made the Ring of the Lucii into a lantern, black metal supporting the glowing blue core. The blue warp-energy trails upward from the center, like a flame.]
Nine for silver, ten for gold -
[The camera zooms out as the man lifts the lantern up to his face. Even in the flickering blue light, the resemblance to Ardyn in the man's height and build is obvious, as is the fact that his clothes are carefully tailored black.
The girl's voiceover does not finish the last line of the rhyme. Instead, the man lifts the lantern to his face, turning to look at the camera over his shoulder. His face is Ardyn's, too, save that his eyes glow with the same blue of the lantern, and there's a tattoo of a single crow in flight visible tucked between the collar of his coat and his jaw.
His voice, too, is Ardyn's - almost. There's something just a little different about the accent - those intimately familiar with the season will spend hours talking about how it sounds more like 'Ardyn Lucis Caelum,' the early-season Ardyn, than it does any other, but even that is still not quite right.]
Eleven for a secret that will never be told.
[And then in a flash - the full flash of something being sent back to the Armiger - the light goes out.
Over the resulting black, text appears across the screen, line by line, in glittering blue:
All truths are by death revealed And all truths shall be UNLOCKED By the first star's light
And then the screen blacks again, before a final line of text -
Are you ready?
No matter how InterGal7 tries to remove the video for copyright violation, it's already gone viral in the fandom, and repeat and replacement uploads are rampant. The conspiracy forums are calling it a trick by IG7 to drum up more publicity for Season 5 as often as they post about it being real.
One thing everyone can agree on, though: After posting what becomes known as the Unlocked trailer, @elevencrows goes mysteriously silent.]
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two can play at the dramatic trailers game IG7
The video is titleless; the accompanying Spit says only A new project I've been working on, which is, of course, less than helpful. @elevencrows has not responded to any attempts to seek clarification or further information; in fact, his timeline has been nothing but a handful of queued posts for the last week or so.
The video starts with a black screen, and a girl's voiceover, almost monotone - ]
One for sorrow, two for mirth
[A black screen cuts in with the spoken words in white text while the voiceover is going, but after every line, there's a pause, a beat in which something else can be seen.
A lantern swings into place, glowing blue (Armiger blue) and leaving a trail (a rather warp-like trail) through the darkness. From the way the lantern swings, it appears that someone is carrying it as they walk.]
Three for marriage, four for birth.
[The lantern swings, and illuminates in its path what seems to be an old wall of Airlocked promotional posters - one for each season - aged and faded well beyond their actual age.]
Five for the truth and six for lying
[The lantern-swinger comes to a halt. The lantern, still gently swaying, illuminates the shape of a door, branded with the InterGal7 logo.]
Seven for sickness, eight for dying.
[The lantern finally stills enough to be seen in detail - it looks very much like if you made the Ring of the Lucii into a lantern, black metal supporting the glowing blue core. The blue warp-energy trails upward from the center, like a flame.]
Nine for silver, ten for gold -
[The camera zooms out as the man lifts the lantern up to his face. Even in the flickering blue light, the resemblance to Ardyn in the man's height and build is obvious, as is the fact that his clothes are carefully tailored black.
The girl's voiceover does not finish the last line of the rhyme. Instead, the man lifts the lantern to his face, turning to look at the camera over his shoulder. His face is Ardyn's, too, save that his eyes glow with the same blue of the lantern, and there's a tattoo of a single crow in flight visible tucked between the collar of his coat and his jaw.
His voice, too, is Ardyn's - almost. There's something just a little different about the accent - those intimately familiar with the season will spend hours talking about how it sounds more like 'Ardyn Lucis Caelum,' the early-season Ardyn, than it does any other, but even that is still not quite right.]
Eleven for a secret that will never be told.
[And then in a flash - the full flash of something being sent back to the Armiger - the light goes out.
Over the resulting black, text appears across the screen, line by line, in glittering blue:
All truths are by death revealed
And all truths shall be
UNLOCKED
By the first star's light
And then the screen blacks again, before a final line of text -
Are you ready?
No matter how InterGal7 tries to remove the video for copyright violation, it's already gone viral in the fandom, and repeat and replacement uploads are rampant. The conspiracy forums are calling it a trick by IG7 to drum up more publicity for Season 5 as often as they post about it being real.
One thing everyone can agree on, though: After posting what becomes known as the Unlocked trailer, @elevencrows goes mysteriously silent.]