Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-31188206-20170201130302/@comment-26484417-20170204011138

Lord Asriel Sew wrote: Nope, it's not the same thing. Jahad has a way to control Jahad's Princesses, while he does not with the "Princes". If by "control" you mean rules and promise of punishment for disobeying, then that could have been equally applied to Princes. If you mean anything else, then you're just imagining things.

As a matter of fact, there are two "known" Princes (Karaka and Wangnan) who survived the purge, and there are two known Princesses (Garam and Yuri) who defied Zahard's rules and are still at large--one of them isn't even persecuted for her trespasses... yet. Then there is Repellista who likely has better control over her fellow Princesses than Zahard himself, and who is also breaking Zahard's rules without anyone noticing since she has "helped the enemy of Zahard" a number of times--albeit indirectly. Then there is Enne who is sealed instead of being dead for some reason, and let's not forget the case that is Anak Jr. All in all, the numbers suggest that Zahard has worse control over Princesses than he had over Princes.

Lord Asriel Sew wrote: ... rest ... Hwa Ryun's remark about "worst mistake" could mean a lot of things. One plausible explanation is that the mistake wasn't creation of Princes, but failure to eradicate all of them. Another is that it was distribution of rings to them, because--unlike Princesses who were all greatly empowered by his boost an therefore able to defend the 13MS--some Princes were too weak to properly safeguard their ring. It could indeed be that the "worst mistake" was letting them be born, obviously, but you get the point by now.

As for the remainder of the theory, I see a lot of problems. For one, it's contradicting itself, because Princesses are also blood-related to Zahard. As a matter of fact, when it comes to blood-relation this part, we don't know enough about Princes to say whether they were directly fathered by Zahard (i.e., possibly closer to Zahard), were infused with Zahard's blood like Princesses, or were actually born to Princesses (i.e., even further removed from Zahard). After all, something must have lead Zahard to introduce the "no children" rule, so it's quite possible that the first Princesses weren't bound by the same rule-set we know today.

By the way, you brought up the Kronos myth, but there is currently no real suggestion--much less evidence--that Zahard's circumstances have anything in common with this particular myth. In fact, it feels like your approach is a bit reversed, and you're instead trying to interpret the information and hints by force in a way that the resulting theory fits the analogy. In any case, Kronus wasn't biased toward one gender and gulped down both his sons and daughters.