Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1351982-20130515183016/@comment-5551986-20130614101056

Braccas wrote: Skitzo1 wrote: Thats a good theory!

Then again, if you call your cause "the righteous" one. What makes you evil enough to condemn an ENTIRE race to extinction. It wouldn't help SS if they just wiped them out, it would make them look like the more malicious race of the two, it would make them feel that way too.

Its like in the Crusades, the Holy Crusaders claimed their cause to be the righteous one, when they killed thousands upon thousands of muslims of the Jihad. For what? At the end of the day they may "seem" like heretics, evildoers, but they are still human, it doesn't help to try to prove your cause to be the more "good" one, if you kill everything in your path.

Yeah, if you see Yamamoto turn around when Royd is apologizing, and with the ensuing conversation with Yhwach after, it would seem that Yamamoto may have let Yhwach live as atonement, when Yamamoto started the war. If thats the case, its a shame Yhwach is too ruthless to have let Yamamoto live.

I'm not sure if this is canon or not but previously(like REALLY long ago) it was stated that quincies were wiped out because they were upsetting the natural order (souls are to be reborn not wiped out of existence). So the question of looking like the 'malicious race' or 'heretics' doesn't come into picture at all, it was simply orders handed down from SK/Central 46. And that may be why Yama let Ywatch live. Because he is human and cannot go along with any order just like that. (please don't start debating ethics or morality. I suck at those topics)

And sorry about the late reply. Don't often get the comp.

The Quincies did want revenge on hollows, but how were they to know the ramifications of their actions. They may have just distrusted the Shinigami. Or, the whole "they kill hollows and not release them like zanpakuto do" could have just been propaganda.