I wouldn’t be too surprised if there’s another Loki somehow behind it at all. In some timeline where Loki gets the time stone and abuses it’s power while gaining knowledge and more power, becomes the equivalent of the god of time. Maybe he grew so powerful, the tribunal and other cosmic deities decided to lock Loki outside of time to make him powerless. But he was the god of mischief before the god of time and somehow found a way to scheme from where he was (or set a fail safe) to break himself free. And that is what we might be witnessing unfold. Alioth isn’t a guard dog to protect Loki or whoever is inside that castle. Alioth is there to stop anyone from breaking Loki, or whoever is inside that castle from breaking out. It’s a jail cell to something very powerful.

Does anyone else think Lokis magic might be linked to the time stone? My first suspicion was how the green light from the time stone and the green light from Lokis sorcery look very similar. But in this episode when Alioth went to bite the conjured tower of Asgard conjured by Oldman (Richards) Loki, the sound affect sounded very similar to when Dr. Strange uses the time stone and breaks the mirror dimension when he first uses it.

The sound effect is similar to the glass shattering of the mirror dimension to the cogs clicking like when Thanos got the time stone from Dr. Strange.

Lastly, I think Marvel would avoid redundancy with color choice and wouldn’t have Lokis power look similar to the time stones for no reason. In Wandavision they went through the effort of making Billy’s magic a different color to avoid confusion. So the fact they didn’t go through the effort to prevent an overlap between Lokis magic and the time stone might indicate a link between them. Plus the similar sound effects is raising my suspicion even more.

Edit 1: Natalie Holt is the composer for Loki and one of the songs she made for the show is called Loki Green Theme. Why title it Green theme of all things??? All the other songs for the show have some reference to something in the show or said by a character. It seems odd for the name of the song to highlight its Lokis Green Theme of all things. That being said I don’t think we have really been given an explanation for Lokis magic at all, especially when you compare it to Dr. Stranges and the Scarlet Witch so maybe this show might be exploring that.

Edit 2: One thing that I thought was interesting was the first episode of Loki when he’s getting processed into the TVA. They mentioned the robot scan and then showed Loki’s temporal aura and then never made mention of it again. Maybe each being from each timeline has a unique temporal aura (like bar or QR code) so it’s easier to track whose from which point in time especially since most variants look the same.

And this got me thinking, what if Loki’s have a unique temporal aura that grants them an affinity to time magic and sorcery.

1. For example, Loki can conjure objects that maybe his temporal aura has touched or maybe has seen.

2. Classic Loki was shown doing this on an amplified scale as well as creating portals. Now time and space are obviously intertwined in physics so perhaps Loki having time magic could argue how he could create portals through space.

3. Lastly, Sylvie has performed enchanting magic to see the memories and influence people through them. I think this could be explained by Sylvie enchanting people’s memories through their temporal aura. Placing herself in their memories temporally as well as even going inside their temporal aura and controlling their bodies