[Fortunate for all of us, really. Partially because he won't exactly want to answer for himself unless he absolutely has to, and partially because that would require me to actually try to explain the most nonsensical parts of Vesperia's plot.]

Swordmaster Drake never did agree with that notion for some reason - he was her teacher with regards to blades - but he was always an odd fellow. Entirely too bound up in tradition like the rest of the Empire, if I had to guess - simply because we've done something a specific way for a thousand years doesn't mean it should be how we keep doing it.