I've reached a few conclusions on how the story will play out and am under the assumption that the concept art is real and I am disappointed (the art is amazing by the way, too bad none of it is big enough to be my desktop wallpaper). I think the art is real because it matches with rumors I've been hearing for a long time, like an AT-AT on a desert planet, Vader's helmet (just in general) and an upgraded stormtrooper variant with chrome armor.
The first conclusion may be the least obvious one, the guy in the Dark Knight labelled pic is Luke Skywalker and is separate from "the Grave Robber". I've come to this conclusion because you can see skin around one of the Dark Knight's eyes due to a hole in Vader's helm (I swear that is Vader's helmet on his face), while you cannot with the Grave Robber in either picture, however this could be because it is concept art or because the Grave Robber was wearing a different mask and it isn't cybernetics like I assume. This has lead me to think that perhaps Episode VII is about Luke Skywalker (the Dark Knight) and the Grave Robber racing to find/ or fighting over (because Luke might have had it since Episode VI) Vader's helmet due to its potential as a symbol.
Perhaps Luke has actually made his own Order, but not necessarily a Jedi one, perhaps this hypothetical Order walks in the light, but walk a very short distance from crossing over to the dark side (I suggest this because the figure is wearing robes similar to Jedi ones). What if Luke wears Vader's helmet as way of delivering a message to his students and/or as a reminder of how far one can fall and what good can still linger in them? Maybe the Graver Robber ends up holding the helmet because he has killed Luke and thus ended the Skywalker bloodline?
A separate theory is that maybe Luke is wearing Vader's helmet and is going around doing good deeds trying to atone for Vader?
Another theory is that the Dark Knight could be a dark side Luke and the Grave Robber could be his (Sith or Sith knock-off) apprentice or vice-versa.
The obvious theory is that the Grave Robber is Luke Skywalker, the thing that draws me to say that is the Cybernetic right hand, it is the same hand that Luke got chopped off in The Empire Strikes Back, maybe the false skin overlay of it has peeled off over time or was damaged. Actually, maybe Luke got badly hurt and was assumed dead, but he thought that his friends left him for dead and that caused him to go dark side (which would explain the Graver Robbers face and the skin missing from the cybernetic hand)?
When it comes to Vader's helmet, I can't imagine anyone going after other than Luke, I mean yes, Vader effected a lot of lives, but the 30 year gap is what currently kills my ability to believe it being anyone other than Luke or maybe a secret apprentice, but that is unlikely because Vader wanted Luke for that purpose. For someone to come in and get Vader's mask after 30 years? There has to be a personal connection between Vader and that individual, now whether it is admiration or hate, that could go either way, but I'm leaning towards admiration since I believe I see someone wearing the mask in one of those pictures.
All I know is that I am going to be upset if Luke goes full dark side because I will see it as a cheap thing that they did for shock value. The Emperor and Vader were the most reasonable things that could make Luke turn dark side and they are gone, not to mention that it would cheapen the message of the Original Trilogy, really what is currently the whole saga.
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