Talk:Adori Zahard/@comment-26656354-20150728091815/@comment-26484417-20151231010718

Oh I was aware that such belief exists, that wasn't the issue. I was just unsure why you suggest that SIU aligned the ToG story with this belief as there is no such indication to my knowledge.

You're right, "thousands of years old" is a very vague statement. Generally speaking, this denomination would fit any age between 2000 and 1 000 000. It doesn't exactly suggest the higher values, but that is really all about feeling... Much like the case with the shifts of the Three Lords... And both of these feelings are based on the English version of these statements, maybe they give off entirely different feeling in the original.

However, we know that she had to climb when the Ranking system existed because of this line: "Even before she became a Ranker, she quite easily defeated a high-level Ranker." This means there must have been Rankers by the time she climbed, which means she was climbing after the Zahard Empire and Administration were established. How long after the establishment is open for discussion, but there is no real reason to believe that Zahard Administration was established much earlier than the 10 Great Families... After all, I believe these were established even before Zahard Administration. The 10 Great Warriors could have and probably did have children and started their individual families already while climbing... So once the Zahard Empire was established, all they needed was the division of floors and influence.

It's alright, my argument about Adori could be summarised as this: Given the information SIU provided, we know that for whatever reason Adori keeps her private life very private. At this point, it's just as possible that she comes from one of the Great Families as that she doesn't. And, in my opinion, this mystery is one of her greatest charms. =)