Talk:Alphid Zahard/@comment-26484417-20160410211307

This Zahard Princess represents a bit of a pickle; we know that she isn't from the Arie family (i.e., there are / were only Hagipherione and Horn), and yet her 13 Month Series is a sword. Do you think she uses the Luminous June as a decoration or a night light (as suggested below), that she also received the privilege of Zahard Royal Guards to learn the Arie swordsmanship, or that she has her own viable swordsmanship style?

There have already been some suggestions that, while Arie swordsmanship is the most common and the most famous Shinsoo swordsmanship (i.e., viable in dense Shinsoo) in the Tower, they may not be the only style that facilitates efficient sword use in dense Shinsoo. The problem is that the alternatives are excessively rare, and those that can compete with Arie swordsmanship—if any—are probably rare even among those alternatives.