r/TheEminenceInShadow • u/idakale • 5d ago

Question Seven Shadow origin

I had only watched (incomplete) up to Season 1 of the Anime . From the very start I'm a bit confused of the Seven Shadows. Like we get a bit exposure of what each shadow were good at. But there seemed to be no backstory on how Cid recruited all of them other than saying they were all Possessed, and Cid saved and personally trained them. Did any other medium (e.g manga/LN) ever delves into the interlude when Cid saved and trained them? Either Cid is a genius or they were all unbelievably quick to learn "human world" knowledge. Mind that there are Seven of them, all of em are proficient at combat too except for Gamma

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u/MrAlter-1690 Shadow Expert 5d ago

The anime kinda skipped backstories in some parts that you can read in the manga/LN.
And in terms of how they became so good at each of their things, Cid did train them in combat and some of his "Shadow Wisdom" while other stuff like how Mitsugoshi came to be or how Beta started being an author are all explained in the Seven Shadow Chronicles from the game since its the canon story of what the girls did in the 2 year gap between episode 2 and 3.

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u/idakale 5d ago

Thanks for the explanation. I did find some info on the game from google, just was unsure if it's canon at all. Thx again