Still thinking thoughts...
Today, it's about the similarity between Kishiar's vessel problem and the cracks.
Kishiar has 4 powers: divine powers, magic, sword aura and the awakener powers. It's weird to me that someone with vessel problems with magic and divine powers still decided to fill even more his "bowl" with aura.
But still, it's said in the story somewhere, that between him and Keilusa, there had to be a choice made to decide who would be the next emperor and it seems the position was given to Keilusa when it originally belonged to Kishiar and Kishiar was made Duke of Paletta. So, at some point, it seems Kishiar was healthier than Keilusa.
And Keilusa fractured his vessel when he was an adult. So it's possible that the late emperor and the empress dowager had to choose because the health issues of the brothers were similar. So maybe Kishiar mastered sword aura before developing serious vessel problems. Or maybe he decided to add it to his bowl as a mean to better balance his other powers. Especially since (this part is from memory so I can be wrong) he said magic in particular takes a toll on him and divine powers are the powers that suit him the least...
Anyway, Kishiar has 4 powers and he has a recurring period he calls a "cycle" where he needs to rest because his powers are unbalanced and he needs to wait it out or forcibly balance them... by cutting himself for example (the chapters where he visits Yuder's room for the first time).
We also know the world is a somewhat conscious being, that "breathes" (cf. Luma's notes recollection of discussions with non human creatures) and that shed blood by cutting off limbs when "looking for salvation".
The world seems to add a new power everytime it needs to save itself and it's like each version has an improvement compared to the last (divine power "only" heals and consumes one's own vitality => magic depends on the environment and circumstances of individuals (see the archmage blessing) and consumes surrounding magical powers but hinders one's fertility => awakeners power depends on the individual's own potential, despair to change things and decisions + upgrade with imprinting and secondary genders ^^). Maybe to "replace" the previous depleted one? Or to make itself bleed? The spirit said to Luma "those like you born from blood the world shed will likely continue appearing as long as the world's breath does not cease"... does the world (it can be considered a god) make a power to make itself bleed and the people that awaken from it are supposed to stabilize the world aka fight "all evil things" and drive them "outside", like according to the Black Moon Scriptures?
"According to the Scripture of the Black Moon, the God sacrificed themself to create the moon as a door so that all evil things driven out of the world to protect it could never enter again. Every time demons outside try to enter by breaking and gnawing at the door, the moon becomes increasingly thin and fragments tear the sky, but still the God's power ultimately protects humans so it eternally repeats restoration."
Anyway... i find it interesting ^^
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