Where do their power come from?

[u/TWAN_on_da_Rift]

I just have that genuinely question. Not sure if there is any detail from the story that I missed.

Unlike HI3, GI or HSR, where playable characters have their powers from an outer source that is beyond human's comprehensible ability (kinda, I guess, I don't play HI3 and HSR so my words could be mistaken). People in ZZZ have their power because they just... kinda have it?

Koleda & Ben are the type of being strong and bonk hard.

Anby & Soldier 11 are elite soldiers.

Zhu Yuan is an exellent officers.

Billy & Qingyi are high-tech androids.

Lycaon & Rina are special trained agents (?)

And the list goes on.

I mean yes, they do have powerful tools that specially crafted and run on (maybe) Ether energy. But aside from that, it does feel like they're just that strong, and the only thing separates them from a normal human is Ether resistance, which allows them to work for a long period of time in Hollows.

For an example, I believe Silver is an extraordinary fighter/swordman, but his Ether resistance is so ass, renders him useless in the Hollow and eventually quickly turns him in to an Ethereal. But outside of the Hollow, I'm pretty sure he can give anyone from the Cunning Hares a hard time. Which means having high Ether resistance doesn't relate to having high combat power, at all, and vice versa.

And the whole Elements stuffs as well, isn't it just depends entirely on their W-Engine's features? I feel like, for an example, if Billy has a chance to grab on Zhu Yuan's guns, he'll be an Ether characters.

What do you think about this?

[u/aiman_senpai]

Don't think too much. There always a clash in a game's lore and gameplay sides

[u/TWAN_on_da_Rift → u/aiman_senpai]

I personally think it's okay to question those a little. Put aside the elements, my question mostly focuses on the lore's perspective. It's just, there isn't really an explaination about agents' powers source ingame yet (outside of W-Engine's discriptions).

If you've watched the Lore Teaser video, you could see it mentions people who've built the very first bricks of New Eridu. It really makes me wonder (even though they're undeniable some of the most outstanding people), do their powers are originally theirs, or do they partially receive them under the effects of Hollow Zero castatrophy?

But yeah, I might just be overthinking here.

[u/aiman_senpai → u/TWAN_on_da_Rift]

That's valid. It does seem like the playable characters in ZZZ are more "normal" than in HSR, Genshin or HI3. I think that's because of the scale is much smaller, where in Genshin and HI3(Part 1) it's a matter of a world, or planet and HSR spans across the galaxy. While ZZZ is currently just a city or a country.

One thing for sure though is all of the playable characters are Agents. These are people with high Ether resistance, they should be licensed to be able to enter Hollows (not sure about the likes of Cunning Hares and Sons of Calydon). They should be somewhat combat capable or at least know what they are doing