Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27392440-20160228190306/@comment-27565137-20160301024652

I wouldn't call what Yhwach can do, a healing touch. He gives people a piece of his soul. That piece in turn fixes the greatest problem one has. But in turn at first people that got that piece of his soul had their lifespans greatly diminished.

Because Yhwach would claim the piece of his soul back, killing the person in the process. All so he could maintain his senses and body working normally.

And with the Quincies it wasn't that much different. The only difference I suppose was that he started to choose people with high spiritual power capacity, so he could unlock it. And that's how Quincies came to be. But even then Yhwach was not stupid. I bet that weakness that Quincies have toward anything Hollow was most likely given by him, to make Hollows a threat to Quincies, they would in turn hunt down the hollows and many would get killed in the process. Giving Yhwach a fresh supply of fragments of the souls of the Quincies in order for him to remain himself.

Has for hollows. Wether the poison that hollow power extends to Yhwach is uncertain. He did used hollows in his army, so maybe to some extent he could, I wouldn't say purify them, but maybe he could brainwash them and maybe even manipulate their very nature somehow.

And I say he didn't seem to purify them because when Ichigo faced that lackey sent by Yhwach, to test and see if Ichigo bankai could be stolen or not. Ichigo initially mistaken him for a Arrancar, seeing he still had a fragment of his mask. Even later on when Yhwach blew that other guy arm off, that was also a Arrancar. And although the remnants of his mask were small they were still there. So if Yhwach was able to purified hollows, then they shouldn't have any masks whatsoever. But they still did. Also we only got two examples. From what we've seen the sternritters are mainly Quincies that Yhwach created himself. And not hollows turned quincies. Maybe the soldat are hollows but both the sternritters and the elite none of them were hollows.

Also like Urahara pointed out when he created those pills to recover the bankais that had been stolen, it only took a small fraction of hollow reiatsu to cancel the technique that allowed Quincies to steal bankais. If Yhwach was able to purify or even use hollows in his main army, then one would assume that at least this new generation of Quincies were at least immune to hollow reiatsu. But they weren't.

I believe Yhwach hold over the hollows was very limited. If not then he'd have an army tens of times greater than he did. Most likely he only uses them as foot soldiers and nothing more. And I don't believe h purifies them. He most likely brainwashes them, maybe adds a little of quincy reiatsu into them so they could use the quincy necklaces. But that's about it.