[Solace]

Originally Posted by Avvesione

Spoiler:

No, the Fourth Wave is the torso in the body plan. What we saw on Saten was just one part of it on his biceps (the side). Also, when he names all the Stigmata, he only names 11 total:

Zero (the brain of all the fragments)
Fourth Wave
Rainmaker (how fitting Rain Maker is the pelvis!)
Magnetic World
Bremuda Asport (is there a better translation for this, btw?)
Ice
Flame
Psychokinesis
Graviton
Agnishwattas
Doppelganger

Spoiler for Stigmata speculation.:

Hmm. I'm noticing something.

1. All Adams are supposed to have this. Blade doesn't because he gave part of his brain away.
2. Still alive
3. Dead.
4. Alive...nom nom.
5. Alive, cloned.
6. ? Don't remember who had this one. Strom?
7. Alive, cloned.
8. Alive...nom nom.
9. Alive...nom nom.
10. Dead...but alive when Arclight had the stigmata. Also, technically cloned.
11. All Adams are supposed to have this. Blade blah blah blah.

So....if "being dead" is not the requirement for an Adam learning your Stigmata, why kill Set and Solva? I presume they were killed in action, then fed to Adam so he could learn them by digestion instead of memory. Killed in action just seems too strange, considering their rather brutal end. Not that people always die pleasantly in Needless, but it just seems so odd to do that to them especially in light of cloning and the seeming plot armor the recurring hero characters had. What purpose was there in pushing them out of the picture beyond shock value? And I'm still wondering why Uten and Kafka haven't shown up since then.

And following that line of thought, what stops Blade from learning these Stigmata now that he's seen most of them? It does seem odd that Arclight and now Saten have them, but Blade cannot. This somewhat points to the possibility that it is a built in thing, like Arclight's body defects, but why create Blade then? What is Blade's purpose as a clone?

Also, this points to a reason why he couldn't learn Cruz's power - it's a "missing link" level Stigmata that requires learning how it actually works instead of just copying it, like the Waves and Agnis.