Ran'jit's strength makes no sense

[Absimiliard]

Personally, I'm satisfied with Ran'jit's explanation. He's a thoroughly seasoned warrior utilizing an esoteric fighting style unfamiliar to us. It begs the question as to why we've not run into similar seasoned warriors on the Source (None interested in facing us? Not even for coin, hired by the Garleans?), but it makes sense that a century of experience could give him an unexpected edge. Zenos's overwhelming strength is a bit less palatable. He's pretty much that strong just because of natural talent, honed by sociopathy and narcissism.

I had wondered that myself. Where is the Source's reflection of Ran'jit? Most of the recognizable alternate selves we've seen of people so far were actually pretty similar to their Source counterparts, so one would think we would know if we'd run into (or run afoul of) him. Then again, the Source had no Sin Eaters to fight. Perhaps he only achieved such great mastery of his style due to fighting countless battles against blatantly inhuman foes, in which case it would make sense for his counterpart on the Source to never attain the vast strength and longevity. It seems equally possible that his unique martial art did not exist at all on the Source. Were this the case, well, its version of Ran'jit could have been an extremely unremarkable man that is long since gone.

And Zenos... yeah. Zenos is blandness in motion. I'm really hoping they at least come out with some excuse about how he was the product of some horrible science experiment or something. He already comes off like an expy of Sephiroth in some ways. Might as well just go whole hog at this point, no?