What exactly is the legendary treasure One Piece ? Have there been any references to its nature: such as jewels, wishes, devil fruits etc.?


I am confused what exactly is the treasure One Piece. Is it some sort of
jewels, blessings, legendary Devil Fruits or something like that? Or is it
really just ONE PIECE OF SOMETHING?




Obviously, the nature of the treasure is so far unknown. The only actual
information based on some quote attributed to Oda himself is that it should
**NOT** be something like "friendship" or "the journey".

> Oda(2019): One Piece is not a _bond of Straw Hats_. I hate that kind of
> thing. When I was a kid, I was not happy with the ending of The Wizard of
> Oz, that the adventure is itself a treasure. That story was unacceptable.
> Luffy has a great journey, so give him a proper treasure.

source: <https://twitter.com/sandman_AP/status/1653374993328394246>

That said, I don't trust much of that other being a red herring since **imho**
Oda shoved to love quite a bit throwing misleading elements at the fans. For
example, nothing in the above message implies that it is a) anything actually
valuable, b) anything that can be moved from the island, c) in a way anything
physical (for example, would "the Dawn and freedom from the lies of the
Dragons" be considered a treasure? Remember that the Straw Hats consider
things like tangerines, an old flag, a sword and a promise to a dead girl, an
straw hat, some burnt plans etc as treasures), d) anything that is STILL there
(Roger said he was not the one Joy Boy was waiting for. But some think Joy Boy
left **that** fruit there, and the reason Roger didn't took it was his
terminal illness. This would also mean that Shanks was fully aware of what
that fruit really was, and attacked the ship carrying it on purpose, not just
as a random coincidence) .

It is also worth noticing that when Roger reached Laugh Tale, something was
already there. And that is the reason the name Laugh Tale was chosen in the
first place.

[![Scan of the "He laughed" scene after Roger reached Laugh
Tale](https://i.stack.imgur.com/iUZa5.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/iUZa5.png)

Yet, "One Piece" is the name give to what people believe to be Roger's
treasure. Something that **they** believe was left there.

[![Origin of the One Piece
name](https://i.stack.imgur.com/uvxgi.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/uvxgi.jpg)

Notice Roger's reaction: "And they have no idea".  
"No idea" about what? About the fact that he didn't leave anything there and
the only treasure is what Joy Boy already left? About the fact that the
treasure has no monetary value at all, being instead something like
"knowledge" or "a way to bring on the Dawn"? The real throne to the world and
the proof the Dragons are in fact usurpers from another land?

Consider this: Buggy was with Roger's crew. Conveniently, he had some
"illness" that prevented him to go on Laugh Tale.

[![Buggy getting ill before Roger's crew departs to Laugh
Tale](https://i.stack.imgur.com/tKSAl.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/tKSAl.png)

The nature of this illness hasn't been further elaborated (some fan
translations of the page call it "Can't Go to this Island", the same name
Usopp uses as an excuse multiple times, but that is not correct). Anyway, it
seems like a way to distract the watcher from a specific question:
"considering that Buggy is depicted as someone who loves treasures why did he
never try to find a way to get the One Piece for himself if it was so precious
and he already knew its location? Why he didn't ask Shank to bring back even a
single coin? Why aiming for a different treasure altogether if he knew what
Roger left there?"

Also... Why the World Government should be afraid about something finding a
very large sum of money? Whitebeard seemed to imply that finding the One Piece
would trigger some world-level crisis and Sengoku reaction seems to confirm
that. What do they really fear? Some large treasure called One Piece or
something else left there before? Is the One Piece a treasure at all? It is
pretty evident Roger planted the idea of a treasure as a deliberate way to get
people trying to reach that same final line so that they would find something
else there, but it is not clear if there is an actual treasure too or just
that "something else". He just seemed to want for someone else to reach that
point in the journey.

And perhaps, do something there he couldn't or didn't want to do at the time.

[![Rayleigh implying the Straw Hats may find a different answer on the last
island](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ipwLA.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ipwLA.png)

It is also worth noticing that there have been some hints about Luffy
destroying Fish-Man island. The world of One Piece is spit in 4 quadrants so
right now it is basically Four Pieces. Something huge happened in the past,
and the Throne is found on the Red Line, and Fish-Man island is somewhere
under that.  
Was the answer under our nose all along? Is "One Piece" nothing else that the
world once again awakened and restored to the one single land it once was? Is
that why the "All Blue" is so rarely mentioned in the plot and the reason no
one could find it? Because it no longer exist?

PS: At least we should be pretty confident it is not a giant pearl...

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/euCkv.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/euCkv.png)

