(sorry for not pulling up my sources, it’s late and I wanna get to bed)
Relatively early on in the Q&A, they said you have to be “special in the same way the player is” to use spirit energy without a spirit weapon. And in a discord message in patreon chat, Vetex said only legacies, people with god blood, can use spirit energy without a spirit weapon. So yup, that does it.
I mean, it was already obvious for… so many reasons. “Divine” Spirit Energy (also being blood colors), spirit weapon patrimony, Poseidon literally calling us a legacy, etc. But this is the final nail in the very cool coffin.
OH! Final thing before I sleep, this also confirms Theos has god blood, since he was also said to be special in the same way as the AO player. He really lives up to his name.
Spirit energy wasn’t added until AO, after Theos. And you might wanna note that he had a magical staff with no explanation at the time, which is now exactly what spirit weapons are.
Just because Legacies can use spirit energy without a spirit weapon doesn’t mean they have to. Theos probably just didn’t know he could do it or never bothered learning or training it. Or it’s as Stock said and he’s going to be retconned into a spirit energy user.
Small correction, that staff was arcanium, which would make it impossible for it to be a spirit weapon, since arcanium wasn’t invented until long after spirit weapons stopped being created.
Do Arcanium staves exist? Exclusing the kind of staff that you just hit people with like we currently have in the game. I mean as in like, a giant wand, would that even work?
Actually, wasn’t there other arcanium (magic) staff items in AA? I know they’re in AR.
And there’s that plan to have magic casting accessories like tomes, I just figured that was split between arcanium weapons and spirit weapons.
My theory is that Silas and Theos have an ability to specifically combat curse users think about it even though Theo’s was just a normal human he could take on Acheron who had one of the most broken curses well technically blessing and he had a lot of curses in his arsenal and in the qna they say Silas won’t become extremely strong like Wotan and Warren so my theory is this ability allows someone to weaken curse users in some way I think it might be a way to magically pollute one’s attack as that is the weakness of curse users. Btw it’s pretty obvious Silas is a legacy but it might be possible they have 2 special powers which are legacy and curse hindering
