For over 26 years, Eiichiro Oda has been planting seeds. Seeds that most fans dismissed as throwaway details, casual foreshadowing, or just pure chaos. But now, in the Final Saga, those seeds have bloomed into something no one saw coming: Three Devil Fruits belonging to gods, each representing a different facet of the series’ ultimate confrontation.
If you’ve been sleeping on One Piece’s Elbaf arc, it’s time to wake up. Oda just pulled off the most ambitious mythological setup in manga history — and the implications are staggering.
The Three God Fruits: A Divine Power Triangle
Let’s start with what we know for certain. One Piece’s world has introduced what fans are calling the “God Trinity” — three Devil Fruits explicitly tied to divine beings from mythology:
- Hito Hito no Mi, Model: Nika (Luffy) — The Sun God, representing freedom and liberation
- Akuma no Mi (Imu) — The Devil Fruit of the hidden world ruler, representing absolute control
- Nidhoggr Fruit (Loki) — The Serpent God from Norse mythology, destined to devour the world
This isn’t coincidence. Oda has never been random. Every single Devil Fruit in the Final Saga has narrative purpose. And the fact that these three map onto liberation, tyranny, and destruction tells us exactly where the story is heading.
Imu’s Akuma no Mi: 8 Years of Mystery, Finally Answered
Eight years. That’s how long fans have been speculating about Imu since their first shadowy appearance. We knew Imu was the true ruler of the World Government. We knew they sat on the Empty Throne. We knew the Five Elders bowed to them.
But the Devil Fruit? That was the final wall. Now it’s been breached. Imu’s Akuma no Mi is being positioned as the most powerful Devil Fruit in the entire series — the “last and most powerful” one, according to multiple sources tracking the manga’s latest chapters.
Here’s what makes this terrifying: Imu’s fruit doesn’t just grant power. It appears to grant a form of immortality. And that’s critical, because it connects directly to the Holy Knights of God — Imu’s personal enforcers, who may share this immortality through some mechanism Oda hasn’t fully revealed yet.
The Holy Knights: Imu’s Immortal Army
Speaking of the Holy Knights — these aren’t your average antagonists. They report directly to Imu, outrank even the Five Elders in terms of loyalty chain, and they’ve been shockingly powerful in the Elbaf arc.
Figarland Garling, their leader, is a monster in combat. But here’s where things get absolutely wild:
One of the Holy Knights appears to be an “Evil Shanks” clone or counterpart.
Yes. You read that right. The anime has already shown a version of Shanks fighting alongside the God’s Knights, and fans are losing their minds trying to figure out if this is a clone, a twin, a Devil Fruit copy, or something far more sinister. When Shanks himself appeared before the Five Elders in Mariejois, his familiarity with them was unsettling. Are we looking at two Shanks? Is one of them a planted agent? Or is this connected to the same immortality power that Imu possesses?
The theory gaining the most traction: The World Government can create or replicate powerful individuals using a forbidden method tied to Imu’s Devil Fruit. If true, this changes everything we thought we knew about how power works in One Piece.
Loki and Nidhoggr: The Third God Awakens
While everyone’s focused on Imu, don’t sleep on Loki. The Prince of Elbaf’s Devil Fruit — based on Nidhoggr, the serpent from Norse mythology that gnaws at the roots of Yggdrasil (the World Tree) — is one of the most thematically loaded fruits Oda has ever created.
In Norse myth, Nidhoggr is the creature that will devour the world at Ragnarok. Oda didn’t pick this reference by accident. Loki’s role in the Final Saga likely isn’t just as an antagonist in Elbaf — it’s as a key player in the endgame where the world literally comes apart.
Loki’s fruit has officially been revealed in the manga, and its form is absolutely terrifying. This isn’t just another powerful Devil Fruit. With his deep ties to the Rocks Pirates era and the history of the Void Century through giants’ perspective, Loki is a walking time bomb of revelations.
How the God Trinity Connects to Joy Boy and the Void Century
Here’s where the theory gets truly explosive:
The Void Century wasn’t just a war. It was a battle between gods.
Joy Boy — the first wielder of the Nika fruit — fought against whoever wielded the Akuma no Mi during the Void Century. The outcome determined the shape of the world for 800 years. And the Nidhoggr fruit? It may have been the wild card — the force that both sides feared, the devourer that could end the conflict by destroying everything.
The Ancient Weapons — Pluton, Poseidon, and Uranus — are likely not just weapons. They’re keys to unsealing or sealing away these god-level powers. This is why the World Government has obsessed over them for centuries.
And this brings us to the most chilling prediction of all: Luffy (Nika) vs. Imu (Akuma) vs. the World Itself (Nidhoggr’s role). The final war won’t just be pirates vs. the World Government. It will be a three-way apocalyptic battle where the world itself is at stake.
What This Means for the Final War
Eiichiro Oda has confirmed that One Piece is approaching its end. With the anime now on a reduced schedule to prioritize quality, and the manga deep in the Final Saga’s Elbaf arc, we’re in the endgame now.
The God Trinity theory suggests the final war will have three phases:
- Phase 1: Luffy and the Straw Hats break the Holy Knights and expose Imu to the world
- Phase 2: Loki/Nidhoggr’s true power is unleashed, forcing an uneasy alliance against a greater threat
- Phase 3: Luffy’s awakened Nika vs. Imu’s Akuma no Mi — Sun God vs. Devil, Freedom vs. Control, the final battle for the soul of the world
The One Piece treasure itself may not even be gold or weapons. It might be the truth about the God Trinity — proof that the World Government was founded on suppressing the Sun God Nika and empowering the Akuma no Mi. Luffy finding the One Piece means exposing this truth to every person in the world.
The Bottom Line
Oda has spent 26 years building toward this. The God Trinity isn’t just a fan theory anymore — it’s being confirmed chapter by chapter. Three divine Devil Fruits, three existential threats, three possible futures for the world.
Luffy’s Nika represents everything One Piece has always been about: freedom, joy, and the refusal to be controlled. Imu’s Akuma no Mi represents the opposite: absolute authority, hidden from history, ruling through fear and erasure. And Loki’s Nidhoggr? That’s the wild card — the end of everything if neither side wins.
What do you think — is the God Trinity the key to One Piece’s ending, or is Oda planning an even bigger twist? Drop your theories in the comments!
