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?

[RyuDragnier]

I had wondered that myself. Where is the Source's reflection of Ran'jit?

If we're going by people who do not look similar to their other selves...I'd suspect it'd be Raubahn. He fits the pre-requisites of being a powerful fighter and has fought countless battles, and we've never fought him when he was at full strength (since he lost one arm). Said battle resulted in us barely overpowering him, despite him having only a single arm at that time. If there's anybody I'd say comes close to that level of power on the Source, it's definitely Raubahn.

[Iscah]

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.

The only recognisable counterparts we've met (aside of Ardbert) are also all "utility NPCs" and one step above being a joke character. They don't even try to separate Mowen's shop from Rowena's at a gameplay level - it all just gets filed under "Rowena's collectibles" and they somehow pay you identical currency.

I wouldn't expect to find a counterpart Ran'jit any more than any other character.

The true source of Ran'jit's power is definitely his eyebrows. By having those, he has proven to us that SE is indeed capable of giving us Highlander models with eyebrows. Cat's out of the bag.

If you look up his character data, he's not a Highlander - in fact it seems he's not an 'anything', just a custom model that integrates bits of Highlander NPC design. (I think he looks like he-the-person could be Highlander x Xaela.)

They've always had the ability to do a lot more with unique NPC faces than they can with giving extra modular customisation to players.