Talk:Saint/@comment-11571396-20130713231939/@comment-5109261-20141126063058

Sorry for reviving this like a year later, but I'm curious if your theory still holds true considering what we currently know about Arisa's Saint status (that she may not have been one). You said that "thanks to the Idol Theory, their body more or less replicate the body of the Son of God, like 20% of it" and this results in their bodies automatically being a container of holy power, but don't idols require mana to duplicate the original source's capabilities (as in the case of spiritual items and magical weapons)? In that case wouldn't a Saint need to expend mana to activate their abilities? Also, I don't recall Saints being containers of Telesma (and William was even crippled when channeling it); did I forget something mentioned about Saints in an earlier chapter?

Even if that doesn't hold true and they need to expend mana, considering that most of a Saint's powers are internal (except optionally using their greater mana capacity to become superior magicians), will an AIM field (which is expressed externally) even affect their powers as long as they do not cast magic? We know that passive AIM fields do not harm magicians when they are not casting a spell (as with Tsuchimikado).