Board Thread:4. General Discussion/@comment-124.83.16.225-20160127164816/@comment-4784862-20160210200734

124.83.16.225 wrote:

Rou's orbs are from performing Synthesis on his body and some orbs he found in the aftermath of the battle against the Empire. They became a part of his body and naturally evolved with him afterward. Or and Argent also inherited the orbs, along with some of Rou's jobs.

The "Demise" part of Rou's blessing gave him access to incredibly powerful magic which, yeah, he barely uses. The "Origin" part gave him incredible memory, which may be how he remembers so much stuff. As for the Savior, the "Birth" part of her blessing may have given her access to all the buffs and healing spells she had as well as the ability to create new spells while the "Wisdom" part was what made her automatically proficient in combat and magic usage. Those orbs did indeed exist on his body, but we don't know if they had any sort of noticable effect since he never mentioned them.

However, he got orbs "by default" when he became an Apostle Lord. From what I can tell, the Orbs are a characteristic of Lord species in general, which...as you've said in replies after this quote, contain the abilities related to their species (Sato's blood control, Sei's magic increase, Netsuki's Flame sword, etc.).

It's possible that his synthesizing those orbs into his body might've spurred him towards becoming an Apostle Lord, but that's rather hard to say.

As for the second part of the quote, didn't he also mention early on when he was reading magic books and whatnot that he was able to use ALL systems of magic? This was when he mentioned that Sei was able to learn other systems of magic (Abyss and one other iirc), but her specialty was fire...and her limits with those other systems were quite low. I'm pretty sure he mentioned that his divine blessing made this point moot as he could use all systems of magic to their full potential thanks to it...

As for what Orthanos mentioned about Rou's orbs not having any powers and being buffs. There's no actual indication from what I've seen that Rou's are "formless masses of power that he can manipulate" The only time we've seen him use his orbs, as an Apostle Lord, he ended up wearing a really sturdy set of body armor.

I think it's more likely that his orbs create this armor when he unleashes them, greatly increasing his stats (offense, defense, etc.). It's kind of hard to say for sure, but I don't think that they're "formless" and he can manipulate them however he wants.

He mentions when he evolves into his Overlord species that he must've done the cocoon thing before he passed out, but I think the more likely outcome is that this might have been a requirement for him to become a Living God species. It might require some sort of "environment" for the evolution to happen, and his orbs created that environment instinctively, while also protecting him.

Who knows, though, heh.