Talk:Kayn/@comment-27722295-20180715092820/@comment-28977071-20180716033728

Mhmm, a highly speculative topic, but let's play :)

Imo could be inspired by Kinkou technique, but still definitely utilizes Shadow magic. My reason for it being the execution condition that fits the ability name and the spirit of Shadow arts. None of true Kinkou members has a similar feature scaling with.

..hence I believe that (1) is the most promising case. (3) also sounds possible but given the fact that the weapon is original belonging, any of its potential powers'd still prolly be just powers coming from an ascension, ergo Darkin powers (unless it's some sort of artifact acquired before ascension..). However, in such case it'd make less sense for buff to differ from  after transformation so there go my doubts about (3). Any power directly coming from the weapon should be that of Darkin/Ascended origin unless the weapon itself was some sort of artifact from even older ages.

Regarding Darkin powers, I believe that's mostly it, the magnitude. Your point about "Umbral" made me doubt about the though. As said in the lore, the moon is an antagonistic element for the Ascended, not the darkness. And shadow is just a second face of sunshine. There is no shadow without sunlight (kk, moonlight is just a reflected sunlight and one can have a shadow from any source of light, ..). So maybe you're just asking a question that doesn't make sense. I mean, if Darkin brought haemomancy to people and, given the fact how shadow is inseparably bound with light, maybe the same thing happened with shadow magic.

..but once again, these are all just speculations for me. I'm that kind of lore-fan that lets the author be the god of their world, be it an evil god or whatever. Whenever Rito wants to reshape their fantasies, it's their choice and I accept their right to do so. As for me, these kinds of speculations sorta try to usurp the sceptre of story-teller from their hands..