I've figured it out.
The statue is the darkest faeiry incarcerated by fyora.
But the darkest faerie is all magical, and has a firm grip on timespace, aswell as having given dr. sloth a copy of Pootie Tang, so she went back in time, wrote up a treasure map, and then the crew found it, and since the darkest faeiry is sneaky, she told them it would give them untold riches.
So now they go about trying to find it.
Until they are mauled by Darigan, as they are illiterate, and think the treasure is the orb, when really it's a statue in marraqua, and so they take the orb, [coincidentally, one of them is skarl, he's pretty greedy you know. keeping all those usukis to himself...] but Darigan blasts them up, and then king altador appears, and then helps Darigan to win the orb back [he think the idiots missread the darkest faerie's map, and wants to stop them from getting the real treasure, by burning the map]
so we have the merridell war, and darigan won.
then king altador goes to try and burn the map, but is unable to find it. the cyodrake's gaze has already set sail, with the help of the darkest faerie's magic being channeled through the grey faerie [why do you think she lost all her powers?] and so they sail the seventyeight seas looking for it.
Peace then reigns for a bit, until Kass decides to go for the orb [I don't think darigan was able to get it back. that or it broke] and so starts the everyonevskass war. Then there really is peace between the two.
OH, and the darkest faeiry tried to attack king altador, but instead missed, hitting darigan instead. Which is why even with the orb, they'll be horribly mutated for the rest of eternity.
So, skarl sent out a crew of his best men to go continue the search.
During the war, and I'm pretty sure before hand, anyone who was curious enough would have noticed that marrqua cleared up a good bit from it's orginal wirlpool state. It said that some explorers are trying to get down to the bottom, but it doesn't say if anyone made it yet.
So the darkest faeiry was making sure that they could reach her.
So marraqua was reborn, and as you all know, it was pirates VS marraquans. Why did the darkest fairy want this? It attracted attention to the marraquan area, and indirectly attracted them to the statue.
After the marraquan plot [by the way, the darkest faerie controlled the pirates this time, which is why we didn't see ca'pn skull beard] we ended in peace time, but the cyodrake's gaze was too far away.
Kreludor was discovered around this time, but the darkest fairy was helping them [sloth's guys] try to spark a fight, to keep neopia's eyes away from marraqua. If you didn't know, sloth is married to the darkest fairy, and they're honeymooning in some ice cream cake.
Now while the ship is sailing around the middle of neopia [there was no back] we had the lost desert plot, where Quasala was discovered. How did it start? The cyodrake's gaze. If you looked closely, there was a boat on the river. Tada.
The darkest fairy noticed them, and when Jazan proposed, she possessed Amira to refuse, even though she is madly in love with him. [The darkest fairy was very jelous that he asked Amira, and not her.] She started all those puzzles, and tried to kill everyone as usual. In the end, she possessed that big ghosty guy too.
So then the Cyodrake's Gaze was off.
During that time, altador slowly woke up [see: wind waker's Hyrule] and the warp appeared in none other than faeiryland, making Fyora think that all these weird happening were part of someone else's plans, someone very daring to open up a portal in on of her towers!
So yada yada, we had the altador plot, and the altador cup, as history repeated, and the darkest faerie was re-encarcerated [it's confusing, I know] and stuffed into an urn in the hidden tower.
So now the darkest fairy is hoping the cyodrake's gaze will be able to find her [note: they needed to find something to get her out of there, which is why it took them so long to get to her] but hobban found out what was happening, and so took the map, jumped ship, and went to go marry his life-long love, edna, and they hid the map with the brain tree.
Now the cyodrake's gaze is trying to find him, get the map back, and get the "treasure" which is really the incarcerated darkest fairy, who will get them to bring her to the hidden tower [fyora has no idea that she incarcerated her twice, and so thinks they're simply looking for an old relic of meridell conquistas] so that she can call upon her other self, and be the darkest fairy again, and defeat fyora.
jmho.
Also, what's this haunted woods plot I hear about now?
Local dark fairy conspirator.