User blog comment:Xilinoc/Ch. 609 - "A"/@comment-5303512-20141211180138/@comment-24153155-20141212003458

Hmm... I was just thinking that the adaptive evolution and the "limited omniscience" is the answer to what makes Yhwach different in power from Ichibei. When you think about it, they seem well-matched, but go about differently when it comes to their powers. Yhwach can give his peeps a letter and a power. As of now, it is still unclear how these powers came to be; I kinda like to think of it as "limited omniscience". To me it kinda felt that the people Yhwach chose to be Sternritter all suffered from "clouded hearts": their powers were based on fear, desperation, love issues, etc, etc. To me, Ichibei seems to be more of the adaptive evolution type, as he seems to approach things from their "true hearts". Both cases are hard to defeat.