captain-vulture:

So something interesting I’ve noticed in s6ep5 that Allura pointed out when Haggar made the wormhole for Team Sincline and the clone to pass through –

Allura mentions Haggar must’ve gained the ability somehow. Which is interesting to think bout, cause we’ve only seen Haggar wormhole around after she’s gone through Oriande, and learned its secrets. Before then, she just hyperspace jumped like the rest of the empire, as we saw in her escape in s4ep6. From this, it can be determined that it was going through Oriande that granted her the ability, and wormholing is something only limited to sacred Alteans.

But if this ability is granted only to people who know the knowledge of Oriande, how is it that Allura was able to pilot the castle for more than half her life? Well consider how it’s likely that Alfor went to Oriande before Allura was born. In s3ep7, Coran mentions that while Honerva was researching the rift, Alfor himself was doing research himself on the comet.

It’s likely that this time was when he went to Oriande, perhaps as a way to gain more knowledge or power to learn about the science of the comet. Not long after this, Allura was born and Zarkon and Honerva married.

And it’s to note that by this time Voltron was constructed already, as after this conversation, the rift creatures attacked and Alfor took Zarkon and the other OG paladins to his lab to present it to them. Voltron most likely took at least a year to construct, if not years considering that Alfor was working with the ore for a while. It’s likely that he visited Oriande long before Allura was born. And when she was she inherited the blessing that they granted him there.

The final piece of evidence is that when Allura visits Oriande they tell her that she already has the secret –

which again, would make sense if she inherited it from her father. The reason why she was able to make wormholes all the this was cause again, she had the power to, which Alfor had before her.

This tells us a number of things. One, the blessings of Oriande are a physical manifestation, not just pure knowledge and abstract. It makes sense, as I pointed out before, to get into Oriande, you must first pass trails of knowledge. Which means, you actually have to know stuff on your own, and be capable of accepting it at all costs. Going to Oriande doesn’t make you knowledgeable, you have to be that already, it just grants you the power to do more with that knowledge you have. Two, it tells us that it’s not just Alfor that went to Oriande, but as I said before, his whole lineage given the castle of lions was made by Coran’s grandfather and in order to pilot that, you need the secrets.

It’s actually quite fascinating and I hope the later seasons explore that more in depth