I brought this up in another thread, but it was somewhat off topic and that thread died anyway. As everything in this category, this is only speculation, but i think it has pretty strong backing.
Charlotte explained that the story of gaiseric was about 1000 years old. As skully tell us, something called a festival where a god hand is not initiated but reborn occurs every 1000 years. For it to occur every 1000 years, the one at the tower with mozgus and friends cannot have been the first one. Meaning something similar happend 1000 years ago, near or even on the date of the downfall of gaiseric's kindom. I know it's a popular belief that skully was gaiseric and was sacrificed by some wise man who was void (which i didn't see in the manga, i've only heard about it here, if someone could please give me a reference). But if the destruction of gaiseric's kindom was the initiation of an apostle and not the rebirth, that means that somewhere, at almost the same time, there was a festival going on, and it hasn't even been mentioned in the manga! That would be strange. Anyway, we know without a doubt, unless miura just plain forgot this detail (which i sorta doubt) that somewhere near the date of gaiseric's downfall, a preexisting god hand WAS reborn. The question is who was it, where was it, and what ever happened to them?
Charlotte explained that the story of gaiseric was about 1000 years old. As skully tell us, something called a festival where a god hand is not initiated but reborn occurs every 1000 years. For it to occur every 1000 years, the one at the tower with mozgus and friends cannot have been the first one. Meaning something similar happend 1000 years ago, near or even on the date of the downfall of gaiseric's kindom. I know it's a popular belief that skully was gaiseric and was sacrificed by some wise man who was void (which i didn't see in the manga, i've only heard about it here, if someone could please give me a reference). But if the destruction of gaiseric's kindom was the initiation of an apostle and not the rebirth, that means that somewhere, at almost the same time, there was a festival going on, and it hasn't even been mentioned in the manga! That would be strange. Anyway, we know without a doubt, unless miura just plain forgot this detail (which i sorta doubt) that somewhere near the date of gaiseric's downfall, a preexisting god hand WAS reborn. The question is who was it, where was it, and what ever happened to them?