Talk:Death Knight/@comment-117.0.15.144-20150831103205/@comment-27557332-20160123232702

Honestly, I don't think any of the Death Knights as they are will be able to learn Martial Arts. If they were made from NW corpses or not. Death Knights appear to be straight out of Yggdrasil, plain and simple... components don't matter.

This concept is a bit modular, but think about it like this: Every creature or person in the NW is a container, like a glass or bottle. NW spells, skills, abilities are like oil... the more power you get, the fuller the container gets. Yggdrasil spells, skills, abilities are like water... it fills the same container, but has a hard time mixing together. This makes it inefficient, so people tend not to combine the two. The problem that Ainz and the NPCs, including the DKs which are created by a Yggdrasil originated process, have is they have filters built-in. They can try and learn NW specific stuff all they want, but something blocks it.

The purple potion Nfirea made is a excellent example of this process. He used Yggdrasil materials in a NW process. It didn't show any difference between Yggdrasil only or NW only types... but it was a successful combination of the two. Take that one step further, we know Yggdrasil techniques and such can be imprinted into the NW. Tier magic and the existence of naturally spawning Yggdrasil creatures such as DKs support this. Trying to teach the DKs NW Martial Arts is similar to what was done with the potion, but it's not the same... the order is in reverse. Which is why I'm thinking there's some sort of 'filter' in place that we're not being made aware of.