User blog comment:Ghmorello/Chapter 925: The King And Queen Of Thanksgiving/@comment-24850639-20181126161025/@comment-24850639-20181127174408

I REALLY like your point about the continued presence of the Blackbeard Pirates in the story gradually building as we move further into the New World, I hadn't thought of it that way. Blackbeard himself has always taken a personal interest in Luffy, and thus its not surprising at all that we continue to learn more about the crew as we get closer to the end game. The Blackbeard Pirates are confirmed to have "10 Titanic Captains", but

A) Assuming you count Doc Q & Stronger as one entity, Blackbeard didn't have 10 people under him before the timeskip. He had 9.

B) Of those 9, 7 are confirmed to be Titanic Captains.

C) Of those 7, only 5 have been confirmed in the canon story. We found out about Sanjuan Wolf and Vasco Shot's statuses through the latest Vivre Card databook. Burgess was revealed upon his re-intro in Dressrosa, Shiryu and Lafitte upon their re-intro Post-Dressrosa, and of course we got Pizaro & Devon last chapter. Van Augur & Doc Q's statuses are unknonwn. It could just be coincidence, but those 2 happen to also be the weakest of the crew from a physical strength standpoint.

I can certainly agree that them making appearances in all future arcs to some kind of extent is definitely plausible. As for Moria's potential involvement in Wano, I was looking at it from a perspective of him not wanting to get wrecked by Kaido again, after presumably getting wrecked by Blackbeard's crew. But then again I suppose allying himself with a Yonko puts him in much better position to actually contend with Kaido again.