Talk:Order of the Guardians/@comment-24324030-20171013042222/@comment-32340720-20171015224020

Well... kwami=/=Miraculous. There's not a Miraculous for every kwami, considering there have likely been new abstract ideas since the Mage died, kwamis that didn't want anything to do with humans, one that never knew about the Mage. Also, we actually know of 18 Miraculouses, not 24. There's 11/12 of the Zodiac (missing the Rabbit) plus the seven Miraculouses in the top of the box. Also, we see Fu running away with the chest that only has indication of containing 19 Miraculouses, including the Rabbit whose characters (兔子) can be seen on the box (apparently- I'm having issues seeing it due to all the characters being blurry, but there are 12 gold buttons on the chest). Based on what he says, he either still has the Zodiac Miraculouses, or he knows exactly where they are, since he only cites two of the Miraculouses as lost, which are the two brooches.

There are probably 19 Miraculouses, 20 at the absolute most since one could hypothetically be accessed from the middle of the bottom of the box, but dozens of kwamis that represent abstract things. I would call it a folly to only have one or two people trained to protect the Miraculous. Training that many people guards against traitors (if you only have one or two people protecting it, one or both of them could be tempted to steal them or use them, but if you have a dozen of them at once, while there would be traitors, they couldn't act without being caught) and it indicates the job isn't very safe. I don't think the Order were supposed to use the Miraculouses, based on the little picture of young Master Fu being tempted by someone to use one of the 12 Zodiac Miraculouses. It also seems a folly to have a bunch of incredibly powerful devices. Even 19 seems a lot, but to have one for every single abstract idea? It's a nice idea for fanon, but a terrible idea in practice. It also waters down how special the Miraculouses are.