The roc was just as powerful as he was, in fact a bit more, but Kora's feather, he now learned was called the heart feather, identified him as the mate of a much higher bloodline to her.
Her disturbing similarity to Kora was not an accident, the roc in front of him was one of Dierdra's distant descendents!
He learned an eye opening fact that Divine Beasts sometimes forced their weak descendents to move to lower realms and face the trials of trying to rise back up on their own. Some succeeded but many simply stayed and spread their family around.
Without knowing how old Skinwalker's Inheritance was, he had no way of knowing how many generations separated his current acquaintance and Kora.
He was also not sure if Kora would be counted as she had originally died in the original turn of events. The current Kora was a miracle of a Divine Inheritance and his interference in the sequence of events as they had been imprinted on it.
