Talk:Silver-Eyed Warrior/@comment-28683979-20190605013815/@comment-35434444-20190605105144

The first time I watched it, I thought it was just a coincidence that the children had silver-ish eyes, but the more I reflect on it, the more sense it makes for the narrative to point out what was going on with that power over the course of history.

Ozma's incarnation at that time very clearly has amber eyes, but his wife's eyes look blue-ish, but that might just be me.

If we assume they're silver, then the power seems to be a dominant trait since both children inherited it. If not, then we're presented with the more interesting possibility that the power is recessive or that silver bloodlines can generate themselves spontaneously.

The first possbility would make it much harder for Salem to stamp the trait out because it could go several generations without expressing itself and would account for it's scarcity.

The latter possibility sounds completely fantastic and impossible, but I posit it because Maria speculates that the silve power is of supernatural divine origin. In other words, the silver eyed warriors are the sanctioned incarnations of the gods on Remnant, or better yet the expression of the divinity mankind acheived for itself by it's seperation from the gods.

In the kabalistic tradition, god withdraws himself in order to create a space outside himself for the world to exist in. So in the same way, the gods may have intentionally sparked Salem's descent into madness and withdrawn from Remnant so that man could develop independantly. (Of course, the mortal divinity and the godly divinity are secretly identical regardless.)

Either way, I think the manner in which the silver-eyed power is transmitted should be mysterious and unpredictable in order to reflect it's divine nature; showing up right where it's needed, proliferating as though it needs to be directly passed on, and then vanishing for hundreds of years at a stretch without a trace.