User blog comment:Majestic Soaring Cloud/Ichigo's destiny/@comment-11976012-20130711172216/@comment-3230060-20130711201108

I was thinking something along these lines as well. Protecting the "Soul King" is what the imperial guard is for. The "Soul King" may be the balance itself. Not a physical manafestion, but an abstract...idea maybe.

And it makes absoulte since to me, that Ichi would sacrfice himself for all his friends and family, and SS to restore this "Sould King". If this is the case, i envision Uryu having something to do with the finale in which one of them must make the scrafice. I see it getting interesting between the 2 of them.