Talk:Enryu's Thorn/@comment-26484417-20151128150103/@comment-26854521-20151128185523

I think it's pretty absurd to assume that this is their original form or this particular guardian's entire body

it's like a needle ..

I was under the assumption that whenever a regular climbs a floor they usually make a contract with the floor guardian. That would mean many many people would have actually seen the guardian before, at the very least everyone who became a ranker before Enryu killed it and there are probably enough people in FUG old enough to have seen it.

Now to the origin of the thorn. We have good reasons to assume that the one who got the thorn was Gustang. We don't know if he was the first to find and name and in the end spread its rumours around, but I don't think anyone else had removed it from there before he got his hands on it. Now we also do know that Gustang took guardian tests while climbing the tower with his group of 'friends', but we know from the 2nd floor with Baam that it might just have been one person getting to talk to the guardian and receiving the instructions so we can't really know if he had ever seen him but he probably knows a lot more than your average pleb  regular. (this is in case people don't actually get to see the guardians themselves, maybe Baam was an exception and they usually don't talk to you, maybe there is someone else who can give out power/contracts on their behalf or something)

The thorn might also be somehting like a gravestone, or maybe it is a cointainer that still holds some of the guardian's essence or spirit inside of it, after all it's pretty much all speculation.