Thread by @NFAdotcrypto

1/ @bearableguy123 is an enigma of the #XRPcommunity who has posted obscure riddles for the #XRParmy to solve for years. The following is a proposed solution to those riddles… and you’re not going to like it. 🧸

2/ It starts with revealing the identity of the king: King Ludwig II of Bavaria (1845 - 1886), known as “The Mad King.” 😠👑
 
Each king has the same blue/white color combo and distinctive pattern on their robes. This pattern can be seen crystal clear on Ludwig’s Coat of Arms.… https://t.co/IUy7pFSjGrtwitter.com/i/web/status/1…

3/ Backstory – At age 13, Ludwig was obsessed with the operas of Richard Wagner. In fact, when he took the throne in 1864, the first thing he did was invite Wagner to move in as “composer-inresidence,” which he accepted.
 
Ludwig immediately began generously funding Wagner’s… https://t.co/AbFw2355igtwitter.com/i/web/status/1…

4/ Now back to Ludwig’s obsession for theater and Richard Wagner. Ludwig loved immersing himself in Wagner’s plays. He even had his men secretly call him the name of his favorite character, “Parsifal,” from Wagner’s opera – titled Parsifal – about a young peasant farmer who joins… https://t.co/ObpSQb2NYJtwitter.com/i/web/status/1…

5/ Next, early in the play, Parsifal must defeat the all-powerful “Red knight.” When he wins this battle, Parsifal puts on the defeated knight’s red armor and becomes known as the red knight himself.
 
… The “Red Knight” Parsifal defeats is symbolized by the red character in… https://t.co/A7EHBMo8wltwitter.com/i/web/status/1…

6/ Now, I’m not sure why, but after reading the summary of Parsifal and seeing “Knights templar” and “the knights of the round table” mentioned, it clicked in my head that the character’s in BG’s poker riddle were also technically sitting at a “round table,” so I searched… https://t.co/LR4GQAM8Gttwitter.com/i/web/status/1…

7/ This opened up a new way of seeing these riddles for me. Were they simply scenes out of the mind of a “mad,” hallucinating king during his last days, having nothing to do with Ripple or future events? Why else would Ludwig’s characteristics and interests be highlighted in such… https://t.co/tFx23SNTWFtwitter.com/i/web/status/1…

8/ And here’s what Wagner’s Flying Dutchman Character looks like today… as performed at the Houston Grand Opera… look familiar?

9/ And that iceberg? It’s just a stage prop, a hunk of marble that the kings imaginary bear friend (who may actually be based on Richard Wagner), begins chiseling in BG’s next riddle:

10/ And what about that lone blue brick found in BG’s old twitter banner and in the wall of BG’s Poker riddle? … it’s literally the flag of Ludwig’s Kingdom, the Kingdom of Bavaria (1806 – 1918):

11/ And those books laying all over the place? Those are the “heaps of documents” consistently left unattended” around the castle by Ludwig’s father, King Max II:

12/ And the colors of the snake in that stone room? That’s the same unique color combo as the Bavarian Coat of Arms:

13/ At this point, I could go on and on with more micro connections, but I want to see what the #XRParmy digs up to either strengthen or weaken my main assumptions first.
 
But before I get to my proposed solution, recall again, the unusual circumstances of Ludwig’s death, and… https://t.co/OseaLkTYGwtwitter.com/i/web/status/1…

14/ Ludwig II was king in a time when kings were no longer needed. He escaped reality by devoting himself to music and culture far away from people, staging his own little fairytale world with pieces and props from Wagner’s operas…
 
SO… IF the identity of BG’s king is truly… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…