User blog comment:Avery D. North/Great Kingdom/@comment-24850639-20160307185503

I disagree with most of the people here, and think you're actually on to something, minus the One Piece being the island itself bit. I'd highly recommend:

A) The end of Ch. 818

B) Clover's speech and subsequent assassination

C) Whitebeard's last words

Whitebeard

People need to stop acting like Luffy doesn't give 2 shits about history. If someone that he cares about is even SLIGHTLY connected to that history, then it matters to Luffy. Who the hell else would Whitebeard be referring to in his speech, as this person who's going to take all those centuries of history on his back and challenge the world to a fight? Obviously our protagonist of the show. Furthermore, history means EVERYTHING to Nico Robin, so it indirectly matters to Luffy one way or another, especially as the poneglyphs she reads from here on out get much more serious about finding One Piece. Again referring to Whitebeard's last words, Sengoku became alarmed when he mentioned that One Piece was definitely a real thing, and Whitebeard pointed out how afraid the WG would be when someone finally finds it. If its just some treasure or trinket worth a lot of money that everyone seems to assume Luffy is gonna be all giddy about, why would the WG be afraid of people finding it? It HAS to have some kind of historical signifance that will reveal something they were trying to cover up. Have you people not considered that One Piece is actually going to be the thing to make Luffy finally go on the offensive against the WG, and right the wrongs of history? THAT HIS ROLE AS THE PROTAGONIST. Sure its all about the journey and the awesome people he meets along the way too, but Luffy's character is developing more and more as a champion of justice, and by the time the series is ending he'll be much more grown up than the 17-year old from Chapter 1.

Clover

Clover brought up the most important point of all this in my opinion: the people of the Great Kingdom KNEW something catastrophic was on the horizon. Therefore they took measures to make absolutely sure their message would never be forgotten. We knew the poneglyhs were a big part of that, but that was before we knew that they also made 4 that specifically take you to Raftel. So.......simple question: Why they hell would they go out of their way like that to lead people to an island that has NOTHING to do with them? Obviously there is something on Raftel extremely relevant to their history, and it damn sure isn't just some treasure to tickle a pirate's fancy.

818

It's mentioned that Kozuki Oden witnessed the "secrets of the world" at Raftel. Not only does that corroborate everything so far, but it also just about puts the WG dead to rights in terms of them hiding something they don't want people to find out. Whatever it is about the Void Century they're trying to cover up, its definitely there on Raftel. What bigger secret is there in the series right now than 100 years worth of history just covered up?

Good stuff man. I'm not really ready to elaborate yet on what I think One Piece actually is, but again you're on to something with this.