Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-24993958-20170114144645/@comment-4010415-20170114224825

I'm still pretty certain the sword the king used isn't Crocea Mors. The yellow on it is just a shine to make it look like a shiny metal object and to give it some depth instead of having it be just one flat color. The sword is in Vacuo's color scheme, so if anything, it's connected to Vacuo, not the Arc family. I really think it's entirely possible that the sword the king used was Vacuo's Relic, possibly the Relic of Destruction.

The reason historians are baffled by how the king could've achieved such a high kill count is because historians don't know about the Relics. They don't understand how one man armed with a sword and a scepter could've caused so many deaths, so they chalk it up to the strange weather and the opposing armies not being used to fighting in a desert.