Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-31371445-20170222233857/@comment-27136653-20180908133905

@MysteriousMalice

"And here's the thing: it's never ONCE referenced or correlated with SOUL Power, merely stated as something extracted from the SOUL."

I'm sorry, but it is. It's both stated AND correlated.

The statement:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6gS2LPXdIc5TjRuc3lIQ0x2WkE/view

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6gS2LPXdIc5OWVTaGU5Qnc2N0k/view

According to the first plaque, human souls have a power called "soul strength". Next, on the following plaque, the term "soul power" is used as a synonym for soul strength. And finally, it is described what this power does. This description matches the definition of Determination.

So either we have two types of soul power in the game, or I'm simply right.

And the correlation:

(1) Humans have lots of DT, monsters don't.

(2) The barrier is held together by "soul power" and requires 7 human souls, or 6 human souls and (guesstimate) thousands of monster souls. Therefore, one can assume that ~1000M = 1H. And if that is true, then 1M = H/~1000 is also true, ergo, that monsters have very little soul power, whereas humans have plenty of it.

(3) Meaning that humans have both plenty of DT, as well as soul power, and monsters have very little of both. Ergo, that soul power and DT are very similar to each other in terms of their intensity and distribution along the souls of living creatures.

For this correlation, any single piece of evidence that soul power is NOT capable of doing the things that DT is would be enough to shatter this assumption. But I have never found any such piece of evidence anywhere in the game. It's simply never denied that soul power could be DT.

And so, this correlation, along with the above statement from the plaques, I'd say the evidence is more than conclusive.