Thread:Maddog98/@comment-4842541-20150606031801/@comment-4842541-20150913220906

Just thought up a little quirk for the Guardian Blade.

It as an anti-evil blade means that it is effective against evil. But then I figured what if the sword's anti-evil properties make it much more powerful than how Mark uses it, and then I thought about how about a little quirk in which the Guardian Blade isn't being used to its fullest power by any of Rekka's descendants.

And then the idea is for the sword to be able to be brought up to its full strength if the user has a pure heart, but has witnessed a tragedy that they give themselves up to. Basically a pure of heart that has fallen into despair.

None of Rekka's descendants will fall under this category, but Rekka himself does. He has a pure heart, that which cannot be matched by any of his descendants though Jack comes close. However the destruction of his village has led him to fall into a despair that he gave himself up to a long time ago, which means that if he uses the anti-evil sword, it becomes a sword of justice. A twisted justice. However his pure heart balances that twisted justice out, and it makes the sword stronger for it.

It goes like this, when Shadow made the sword, his despair that he feels within his heart was too great that the sword was a weapon of mass destruction. When Rekka's descendants use it, since it's the Guardian that inherits the sword, their heroic wills and courage allows them to use it to cut down evil.

In Shadow's case, he makes the sword too strong for his own good and in Rekka's descendants' cases they have a powerful weapon that could be even more powerful. When Rekka uses it, he uses techniques that surpass even Roy who specialized in using the Guardian Blade exclusively.

Figured that would make for a neat backstory for the Guardian Blade. Jack would come close to being able to use the sword like Rekka, but Jack never gave in to his despair the same way Rekka did, all because of Mark's resolve. Ultimately it might lead up to when Jack, Mark, and Layla all hold the sword, they bring out the hidden power but I don't know about that.

It also gave me a chance to think of Rekka's backstory, and I was thinking that Rekka would have faced the leviathan that Mark fights in the first book. The original idea is that the ancient dragons would've sealed the leviathan in its serpentine form so that the leviathan is weakened and is beaten, but now that I thought about it more, the leviathan spends the good chunk of the first book as a liquid mass, so I was thinking that while the dragons did give the leviathan its serpentine form as a sealed form, the leviathan would break that seal and terrorize the world during Rekka's era, right as the Guardian Shadow stopped fighting for the world. So it would be up to Rekka and his group to fend off the leviathan. And I was thinking because of how Rekka can use the Guardian Blade (then not named such as it wasn't the Guardian's sword yet) Rekka will use the sword to seal the leviathan in not only a serpentine form, but in a liquid form that would be sealed at the bottom of the ocean. And should've stayed that way if it wasn't for a cult awakening the leviathan and later offering sacrifices to let it get stronger.