It made perfect sense that Heimdall was the bearer of the soulstone
The location of the Soul Stone remained a mystery until the release of Infinity War, but the fandom had several theories, and the one I believed in was that Heimdall possessed it.
Starting with his powers, which include monitoring people and their intentions, which fits the concept of the stone, the stone's color is the same as his eyes and armor.
But what most reinforced this theory was what was seen in Age of Ultron, when the Avengers were having visions due to Wanda, which were supposedly visions of what would happen in Infinity War (for example, Tony seeing the Avengers defeated). Thor then encounters a Heimdall with white eyes acting very strangely (where everything seemed to indicate that it was because Thanos took the stone from him and he lost his soul).
Starting with his powers, which include monitoring people and their intentions, which fits the concept of the stone, the stone's color is the same as his eyes and armor.
But what most reinforced this theory was what was seen in Age of Ultron, when the Avengers were having visions due to Wanda, which were supposedly visions of what would happen in Infinity War (for example, Tony seeing the Avengers defeated). Thor then encounters a Heimdall with white eyes acting very strangely (where everything seemed to indicate that it was because Thanos took the stone from him and he lost his soul).
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So he stores one in his famous vault, where everyone would expect him to hide something that powerful. The other hidden in plain sight, in the first person visitors meet when arriving in Asgard.
It made so much sense
Which i'm assuming is why his character ends up not having it in Thor Ragnarok.
It makes more sense for the theory to be bent to say that Heimdall has and uses the Soul Stone but only he and Odin know about it. They’re not worried about that being in the same vicinity as the Space Stone because nobody knows one of them exists (whereas everyone knows about the Reality Stone now).
I don't think anyone's saying the stones can't be near each other for awhile, obviously that's true as they often are to no detriment, but shouldn't be stored together long term.
Every other stone has been really consistent in that it can only be used when you’re physically wielding it, and it can only do something related to the element it’s named after. It would be weird for the Soul Stone to suddenly break that trend and go back to less consistency — particularly when it wouldn’t serve anything in the story. It’s compelling when Vision or Doctor Strange lose their stones. It’s not compelling if Heimdall just knows where it is.
We know:
* He had the Space Stone / Tesseract and knew where the Reality Stone / Aether was,
* He had a fake Infinity Gauntlet,
* The dwarves of Nidavellir knew how to make a real one, and
* Hela knew enough to recognize the Infinity Gauntlet in Asgard as a fake.
"He tried to collect them" is something you can infer from those facts, but so is "someone else tried to collect them and he and Hela stopped them," or even "he thought it was in Asgard's best interest to bluff about having a desire to collect them."
If someone *was* trying to collect them, there's no telling how far they got along that path before scattering them again. It's possible they never figured out where the Time Stone was before abandoning the effort or being stopped.
Also I do not remember Thor the dark world enough but Jane was also on earth with the reality stone in her for a while?
But I guess the scenes with Howard Stark and Tony Stark was more important.
Just throw it and let it flow, probably much harder to find than anywhere else.
But... Heimdall literally explains to Thor that "we are all dead, can you not see that?!", hence why he looked so off.
For those who aren't as familiar, it states that during Odin and Hela's quest to conquer the realms, they stumbled across the idea to use the stones for true power. They got their hands on a few of the stones, ending with Odin sacrificing Hela's mother on Vormir to get the Soul stone. But when he did that, he realized getting them all and conquering more worlds was a bad idea and cancelled his plans.
I like the idea that, if this theory is true, Odin kind of used the Soul stone to give Heimdall his powers before he gave the stone back. That's why his powers are the same color and so similar to what you'd assume someone with the Soul stone would be able to do. Obviously this is a lot of speculation, but I think it's a fun idea.
An interesting alternative would be Odin uses the time stone and sees the horrors that come from their conquest and changes his mind and then is responsible for setting up the challenge on Vormir and giving the time stone to the Sorcerer Supreme on Earth.
But I also think the time stone idea is really cool. I like the idea that maybe he used it, saw its power, and gave it to the wizard Agamoto?
As a result, the stone took *his bloodlust* instead of a child, and thus we got the changed Odin we see from Thor's POV.
It's just sheer irony that this made him completely incompatible with Hela, who was forged in his Warlord Image.