Quote Originally Posted by Volsung View Post
Interesting idea. If the sword is what is providing the worship.

Wouldn't matter if the sword was created. If it was sentient, and had a strong desire for a strong master (or maybe it's original owner/maker) it could use a person's aether to summon.
If it were the original owner/maker than it definitely wouldn't summon Odin all the time, since it was pretty much confirmed he wasn't the original owner. However, it is an interesting idea that the sword is providing the worship.

If the sword is sentient (like a zodiac weapon) than, in theory, it should be possible for the sword to provide the worship (which would make for an interesting set of Trials for a new Zodiac quest line, now that I think on it. if all of the original weapons summoned their original owners for you to fight. How cool would that be?). Odin would still be the Primal, since he's being summoned using a mortal medium. It would point at the sword being an object, rather than a primal itself, though. I'm friendly to this idea, personally.. only, it would mean that if Zantetsuken is ever destroyed, Odin would cease to exist as a Primal entirely... which would kinda suck (though I'm sure the realm would be thankful).

The only problem (if you can call it that) with the sentient sword idea is that, despite the Dark Divinity quest heavily implying that the sword is the source of Odin's continued revivals, it has never, not once, shown any sign of sentience. In both the Trial and the FATE, Odin does all the talking. The sword appears to be just a sword. That doesn't mean it's not sentient, mind you. Our Zodiac weapons supposedly achieved consciousness, but they never spoke to us either... much to my disappointment.