- Jun 23, 2017
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Valravn, unless crows are capable of possessing infection-resistant genes, and he in particular did, should be an Infected.Valravn should be able to evolve. He was turned like a superhuman does (superaven?), but there is what I understand as a "strategic silence" when the game references his power.... I do think however that is wrong to categorize him as a "monster". He is something unique (at least till proven otherwise).
Even if he would be an exceptionally powerful one, as Apostle-Spawn. From an early Dead-End, we can assume that the power level of your monster parent is likely relevant to the power-level of a monsterfied spawn, because Alexis theorized MC was infected by an S-Class. (Note that S-Classes are always unique monsters- not entire species.) Though Infected tend to simply become another monster as the same type as their parent- what would that even mean for Apostle-spawn? But I digress.
Valravn is a monster. Not Superraven, alas, according to several points in his monster report, though he does seem to have had relatively high intelligence from near to the start, taking his Knight form after the very first time he consumed a heart as a monster.
What is of note, however, is that he is not an Infected. He is a Variant.
A Variant is usually the result of a Superhuman who fails their evolution.
Again, this does not mean Valravn is/was a Superraven. There is a line addressing this in-game.
Whether Valravn has obtained a pseudo-evolution, some other form of power boost, whether his heart-eating has changed and empowered him, or even if Apostle-Spawn monsters are Variants by default, is unknown to us at this time, unfortunately.