The Location of the 752 Is Revealed
A lot of the sequence’ first season has revolved across the hunt for the mysterious 752, an object that comprises centuries of the Talamasca’s analysis and information in regards to the immortals and different supernatural creatures that populate the world. (The title “752” refers back to the date of the group’s founding.) Within the wake of the destruction of the Talamasca’s Amsterdam library, it’s now the one location of key information — together with the identities of vampires and different supernatural beings world wide — and, as such, is a fairly fascinating little bit of leverage for nearly everybody on the sequence’ canvas, whether or not human or vampire.
The finale’s huge twist, after all, is that the 752 isn’t an object in any respect — it’s an individual. Doris, the lady who’s stored popping up repeatedly at key moments to assist Man out of assorted jams, isn’t truly a witch as many people had presumed. She’s Helen’s twin sister, initially named Emma, whose supernatural present is a form of superpowered eidetic reminiscence that enables her to completely recall…nicely, actually, every little thing. Any e-book she’s learn, any particular person she’s met, any piece of data she’s been given, even the climate she skilled on a given day, all seem to primarily dwell without end inside her head. Became a vampire on the Talamasca’s orders, she’s been compelled to develop into a residing (nicely… technically undead) repository for everything of their information and historical past.
“We didn’t know from the very, very leap, however we knew nicely earlier than we began writing the season,” showrunner Matt Lafferty instructed Den of Geek when requested in regards to the determination to make the 752 an individual slightly than a bodily object. “It was one thing that emerged over the early days of the writers’ room, and it simply appeared proper. If the Talamasca is a corporation that watches and is all the time there and is all the time gathering data, what wouldn’t it imply to place that type of information inside a residing being?”
The late-in-season revelation does shake up lots of our assumptions, as viewers, about what we’ve spent the earlier six episodes watching, each when it comes to our understanding of how the Talamasca operates and what may occur to Doris ought to her secret develop into widespread information amongst the present’s varied competing factions.
“It simply felt proper for our story and, clearly, it creates actual stakes,” Lafferty mentioned. “In case you’re attempting to search for a e-book — a e-book can’t get harm. A e-book may get burned, or it’d disappear, and that could be a sure unhappiness. However the peril that an precise being is in in the event that they’re the one which’s being wanted simply felt like a brand new and fascinating thought to us and one thing that would solely dwell in a world like this.”
Man Comes Into His Personal
Man initially serves as our entry level into the world of the Talamasca, a younger regulation college graduate struggling to manage his mind-reading talents who learns that just about every little thing he’s all the time assumed to be true about his life and the world round him is a lie. Not solely are supernatural beings like vampires actual, however his whole existence has primarily been manipulated by the Talamasca, from his placement with a foster household to his regulation college admission.
