maybe if leknaat also showed herself when jowy and his so called "108 SOD's" and blabbed her long speech about... jk!

i think there can be only one gathering of the SOD at a certain time.

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I think it is definitly possible, but just hasn't happened yet. It would be CRAZY if two armies gathered in one war, both governed by 108 star principle. They would both be destined to win. But, wichever side you chose would win.

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Impossible. I think each Star has a Destiny. Once that Destiny is fulfilled (creation of the Island Nations, etc.) they stop being a star. What I wonder is if there always have to be 108 stars SOMEWHERE or if there are periods when NO stars are active.

If anything I could see a Suikoden wheren your 108 stars are split down the middle, but nothing more than that.

Maybe one side is destined to lose, but they don't know? It's impossible for us to really understand Destiny, I mean, everything that happens is destined(if you believe in destiny), even if you thought you would have changed it.. it's destiny that you have changed it. So still, destiny.

So why shouldn't it be destiny for , for Example Jowy, to lose and in the End to complete the Rune of Beginning?


Still, I don't think that there can be two sets of SoD's fighting against each other. But I cannot really reason why not.

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Maybe their the SoDs' destinies are not to win or lose, but to have an influence in the events around them, moreso than the average individual. When a major conflict arises in the Suikoden world, 108 individuals will determine, through their actions, how the conflict plays out.
And for the idea, that there could be multiple sets of 108 Stars of Destiny is intriguing, but I personally doubt it (but it still could be true) because in Suikoden 3, the 4 villains (Luc, Sarah, Yuber and Albert) were considered Stars of Destiny even though they fought against the other 104 Stars.
And for the duration of being a Star of Destiny, I think it is less a status that you are or are not, but more of how you are regarded by whatever force that labels people Stars of Destiny. I do not think people are simply Stars of Destiny only during times of war and that their status fades in peace time, but it is only relevant during major conflicts.

A few months ago I would have said 1.

After playings Tierkreis I'd have to say up to one for each world in the Infinity.

I like this. It makes sense.

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I had this theory a few years ago, that everyone in the Suikoden world is born under a particular star, but at the same time is bound to fates of different tenkais. With that in mind, I wouldn't consider it a temporary status. For instance, Nash was involved in the Dunan Liberation War and must have been a star at the time, but not one to be collected by Riou. Did he become a SoD 15 years after or was he a star from birth? Who knows, maybe each and every NPC in the series is waiting for one's own tenkai, though some are not given the opportunity to be befriended by one.

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I think it's more accurate to say that there is only one set of 108 stars in one place and time. So long as the second set of stars has no overlapping with the first, I don't see a reason why there couldn't be another set of 108 stars fighting in a completely separate location, like say on the as-of-yet-unseen western continent, as one of the conflicts portray already in a suikoden was taking place.

It would be unusual I think, as you suggest that there is yin and yang set of stars, the idea being that there is an anti-stars of destiny to each set of stars of destiny. For one thing, the idea is only really plausible in suikoden 2 or 5, but even then it couldn't be the same kind of group, since in either case the evil stars obviously lose to the actual stars of destiny.

It would be a different question I think to ask whether a single person could be in two different sets of stars simultaneously, and one where the answer appears to be no, since it's unlikely that a single person could devote themselves to two great causes at the same time.

Poor Kyril. He probably wanted to lead the next 108, but Leknaat was like "I just got done with the last stars of destiny the other day and I just brewed some tea. What do I look like, Santa Claus? You send me a letter, and poof, you got 108 stars under your tree? Look, kid, you got spunk, I admire that, but my union contract says I can only teleport into people's bedrooms to tell them something interesting like 5 times a year so unless you see a Scab Rune attached to my arm, you're on your own."

I mean, they might have 108 stars in different areas at once I suppose. It's probably not something Konami has bothered to think about. Like, would Superman's baby kick it's way out of Lois Lane type stuff. Multiple sets of 108 stars would explain why Leknaat never has time to hang around very long (or it could just take her a long time to find the castle given she's blind n' all)

Plus if you had say Suikoden 2 taking place at the same time as Suikoden VI then you'd probably mostly have new Stars of Destiny and not a lot of recurring characters you've seen in other games . . .maybe

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