Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-7673575-20170304211411/@comment-26232441-20171112112000

I thought Yhwach was rather like Dark Falz. A physical manifestation of Soul King's hatred.

I've seen it said elsewhere that death didn't exist at one point, and that Yhwach wanted to bring existence back to that state. But here on this wiki it states that "death has always existed". So we've got to wonder how different things were before Soul King was enslaved. Could the Soul King have always existed, if Yhwach was capable of that merger?

And in the end, why did Yhwach have to kill Ichigo? Was it about the last remnants of Quincy power? Or would he have been able to subsume Uryu with that? The game still probably should have been over before that (the plot does get pretty nebulous there). But even ignoring that, he dicked around wayyy too much. I guess having Gremmy as one of his constituents must have affected him that way...

Before I'm done, I kind of feel like Hougyoku has to be mentioned. It is nearly indestructible, has a will of its own, and rendered Aizen immortal. I think it must have something to do with the Soul King. Maybe the legs were involved?