Board Thread:Theories and Rumors/@comment-36492994-20190218015738/@comment-38497689-20190219001328

If you translate many of the writing off building within Ninjago city, you can make out that the word 'first' is nearly identical to the word 'popular'. Although we don't know the full alphabet/language based on what we know about the buildings themselves it becomes possible to make out what each word (or collection of symbols) would likely mean. Based on this knowledge it is more than possible that he may have learned spinjitzu from an widely unkown entity and as a result he simply became the face of the art or the first 'true' master.