Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-19267090-20141125000403/@comment-25195920-20141208170816

Actually, in this world it is true that to a true master of a weapon, the weapon does not feel like a seperate part of them, but an extension of their body. I'd have to dig up my copy of Flashing Steel, but the Japanese Samurai actually had a phrase that almost literally meant, "sword and body as one." This would be a necessary step for a true Huntsman/Huntress simply because against a Grimm all you really got is yourself and your weapon so naturally it is best if your weapon doesn't feel like a stranger. As fo their weapons containing their souls, if you consider Aura a manifestation of the soul in Remnant then that actually could be accurate. Remember, on top of using their aura as a shield they also channel it through their weapons as stated by Pyrrha in Volume 1. So technically, their weapons do contain their souls.