So, in puzzle 7 (the cave under the rubble) it says that there has been a balance of magic and nature for eons. “Working together, these two groups have accomplished many wonders, the greatest of which were the Magic Fish and Magic Plants of Isola. It is feared that should this balance ever be betrayed, all of their work and peace could become undone.” Well, in PT and FT, the plants and fish have gone missing. I think that shows that at some point in Isola’s history, the work of the naturalists and the magicians will become undone and peace will be lost.

Have you gotten the last puzzle yet? It answers your question about the peace being undone.

Nope. But I probably will soon. I only need 3 more puzzles completed before I'm done.

Great! I think you'll like the story.

I came up with a cool thoery! The parents of the kids in VV2..they were naturalists! That's why they hid the pieces of the gong - because it was magical! I don't know if I can believe the VV1 villagers were magicians though. I mean, there is magic in each of the stories...

I take it from the post that you finished the last puzzle?

I'll point out that the VV3 villagers came from the VV2 settlement, and the VV2 settlement was founded by villagers from VV1's settlement, and all three exist at the same time on this island.

The previous inhabitants who built the secret city have obviously been buried long enough for their works of stone and rock to fall into ruins and disrepair. I don't think any of these villages were part of the magic or nature tribes described by the story.

Yep. The VV1 villagers emigrated to Isola when their own home was destroyed by a volcano.

The five kids found in VV2 are still a mystery, though; are they the remnants of the original inhabitants? Where did the adults go?

Exactly! Listen, what you are thinking of, Lurkily, is the Isola that we know, not the Isola that ghosts in the Sun Dial room knew before their city was destroyed. They don't actually say what happened to the villagers of their city. Isn't it possible that the naturalists fled to the west shore and took up residence there but at some point in time discovered that magic was taking place and left only the five kids behind?

I thought they were children lost from the VV1 village, that were found by the adults; perhaps I'm wrong though, I can't remember where I heard it. It's entirely possible that my own theory got mixed up with my memories. They left children behind, very likely to die? Hello?

The point I'm making is that the time it takes for painted walls not exposed to the weather to fade and crack, (The painting in the cave,) for whatever artifice surrounded the cave to fall into rubble(the rubble surrounding the cave), for stone statues and structures to fall apart, (The statue and the bath) and for nature to begin reclaiming human works,(The roster,) is a lot longer than even the VV1 tribe is likely to have existed; that secret city is OLD. Without using any information from the forums, my VV1 village finished the puzzles in 90 years on my first game, and VV2 in 80-some-odd. (It helped recognizing the recipe for the stew, hidden under the vines, quickly.)

Rounding that off to 200 years, and taking a tropical climate into consideration, I just don't think it's old enough. I mean, look at some of the monuments that are around from the first colonies that landed in what is now the USA; and the US of America is only about 200 years old; only 200 years old, and yet runestones from when the Vikings landed in America, thousands of years before, are still intact and mostly legible.

Any more theories I find them interesting.