I'm so confused why on earth they would make an oceanic animal based Rider and not have any connection to water. At least you could say Sabela's bug theme had a connection to smoke because of beekeeping or some other super loose connection like that.

Alright, I absolutely love this design, seriously, Saber's Riders have had some rally great designs and I'm all for it. For the name Durandal, I get it sort of, since popular legends depict Durandal (the sword) as being made from Durandana (Hektor's spear), and since it's a trident, it sort of fits the bill.

For his element, I'm not too sure, some people here are speculating a time or magnet theme, but for me, I'm somewhat leaning towards ice, since that's an element I'm surprised they haven't implemented yet.

So that leaves the guy with the corrupted King Of Arthur (Who might be Mordred?) as our main antagonist, possibly Master Logos, or one of the other Meggido or Desast, whatever he's doing.

Ice is not too far from water. Plus, Blades' new form is named Ice Beast Senki.

I mean, between the references to time and the WRB's Title being Ocean History, I think it might be time.

Trying to make sense of the books and themes was our first mistake.

Honestly I'm just glad the Animal Wonder Ride Books are getting more representation and almost have as many as the God Beast Books now.

Cause like, before Sabela and Durandal we only had the three that were for our three main Riders. So now we have five!

Which isn't too bad since we have 6 God Beast Books so things sorta even out on their end now.

You know what, you right. This just means we're getting Cronus 2.0 in Saber. And me not realizing ice is basically water, just shows how attached to Bionicle I probably am.

Agreed. Lions aren't aquatic, there's no lightning in Aladdin, and when the Swordsman of Sound uses Hansel & Gretel as his main book even though he also has Band of Bremen which is way more sound-related, I think it's pretty clear the books aren't connected to the seiken's elements except by coincidence.

Anyway it's neat that both these siblings use books that are based on collections of animals instead of just a single species.

Ninjago also has those two seperately on the same team.

To be fair on Alangina, Genies/Djinn are often linked to Lightning and fire, so that one does make sense. Your point still stands, of course - Slash is particularly jarring because of Bremen, but Genbu’s element is water, and Lions and water have no relation whatsoever.