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Guedjroy wrote: Or it could have just been a turn of phrase to generate hype. It doesn't really shine a light on how much they had planned out at that point.

The truth is, we'll never exactly know how much they had planned out, and how early. I think we need to follow Occam's razor and just accept the status quo assertion (until it's verified otherwise) that Monty didn't have a plan for anything post-beacon.

Except that, with Monty’s quote, we actually have more evidence they did plan beyond it. Is it a whole lot, or even the best? No, it isn’t. But its more then the ‘Monty didn’t plan beyond volume 3’ argument has.

Heck, its actually pretty odd if Monty didn’t plan beyond volume 4. Salem, for example, was one of the earliest characters created for the show. I highly doubt that they didn’t have a backstory in mind for her.