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Single Author Theory

The Single Author Theory is a reactionary school of thought that maintains that contrary to the elaborate conspiracy theories of the Fans for a True Tycho Brahe Epic (FfaTTBE), the Epic Legends Of The Hierarchs: The Elemenstor Saga was penned in its entirety by Tycho Brahe. Although several strange circumstances do surround the series, including the variation of stylistic tendencies in the writing and thematic differences that are only loosely tied together, especially towards the end of the Saga, Single Author Theorists claim that this alone does not demonstrate that the entire series was not written by a single man. They also point to the extremely erratic and often incoherent Book 13 of the series, the drinking and pill binge of 1997, and other apparent unspeakable events in Tycho's life as evidence of the author's eventual mental breakdown.

Rather than taking the approach of the FfaTTBE, Single Author Theorists speculate that Tycho likely suffered from several mental disorders, including potentially attention deficit disorder, manic-depressiveness, schizophrenia, augmented of course by his alleged drinking habit. Any or all of these conditions, Single Author Theorists claim, could well explain both the strange pattern of the books and the willingness of the author to support ill-advised marketing schemes, including the widely-despised Wizbits side-story.

Although there is no single unified approach taken by Single Author Theorists, all tend to embrace some aspect of the theory. The general consensus is that although Tycho Brahe was a beloved and masterful author responsible for one of the greatest fantasy epics of all time, like all true geniuses he was also a deeply disturbed man. Whatever unimaginable demons lurk within the complex mind of Tycho Brahe, both Single Author Theorists and the FfaTTBE do agree on one thing: the Elemenstors Saga could not have been possible without his unique inspiration.