User blog comment:Xilinoc/Ch. 607 - THE MASTER/@comment-1338810-20141127151226/@comment-1771627-20141127204105

What I understand from this is: Nimaiya looks the youngest of them (even though we know he was one of the first to go to the Royal palace), and he was the creator of zanpakutous, it seems like having a blade to use your powers is a common thing that Nimaiya started. What forbids a zanpakuto to be forged as a spoon? The thing here is to show how ancient the RG is, even older than the concept of zanpakuto as a sword.