User blog comment:Fallenbladr/The Soul King's True Purpose/@comment-26420452-20140123072831/@comment-26420452-20140123220820

@Tekkphreke

We don't know what the Soul King's importance is and where the Shinigami came from. It may be true, but we cannot assume the Soul King created the Shinigami.

Also, this is not a real-life war and generals do get in the battlefront.(Yamamoto vs Yhwach)