Question No Protector?

[ShenGao]

This has bothered me for a while.

We know that Elizabeths blood is neccessary for bringing the demon clan back, what Hendrickson accomplished, but why doesn't she have a protector? The whole time during her life there was never a goddess, giant, fairy or someone else strong from one of these clans/kingdoms who would protect her, someone who could protect her from Hendrickson and his plans or someone else who would want to ressurect the demon clan. Furthermore she travelled with Meliodas, a demon who has the 2nd key to bringing the demon clan back and a demon who the goddess clan wants to see dead.

I can't imagine that it would make any sense to let both of the keys be by Meliodas side, at least from the perspective of the goddess clan. I can understand if the goddess clan couldn't get their hands on the sword of Meliodas, but if they or the giant clan are not wipped out to a ridiculous small number i can't understand how neither of them would have a protector ordered to guard Elizabeth. Someone who could have stopped all the chaos Hendrickson made, someone who would have known Meliodas and his past and could warn Elizabeth from him.
I mean someone like a guard for a king of the goddess clan or a strong warrior from the giants, even Helbram showed how strong a fairy can get.

So did they just think nothing would happen to her, didn't they know that Elizabeths blood is a key, are they really almost completly wipped out or is the goddess clan not one of the good side and have there own plans for which they want to see Meliodas dead and the other clans do trust him?

 

[HereNThere]

Technically, with her being a princess, the Holy Knights were supposed to be her protectors. Plus, they are humans. With the exception of the Sins, clans seem to mostly keep to themselves. No one knew that Hendricksen or Dreyfus were being influence by a malevolent force. For a majority of the knights, they still thought they were being ordered by the King with Hendy and Drefus being his proxies.

Also, given what we've seen of the Goddess Clan, they can't influence anything as of now. The only person we've seen them speaking to was Ban, but that's only because he found that Horn. Even then, it's possible they only spoke to him because they wanted him to kill Mel. Speaking of which, they didn't even care what Hendricksen was doing or even mention Elizabeth's well being. They were only focused on Meliodas. Nevermind the fact that he was fighting to prevent the resurrection of the demons.

Anyway, they are currently relegated to just observers, but it doesn't seem like they care about Elizabeth either way.

 

[Liestue]

Probably because she's not a unique snowflake and that there are more apostles like her in hiding, maybe. They couldn't care less of what she does since it doesn't affect the goddess clan in any way. As for protection, you can take everything the above poster says, including the fact that maybe some weren't aware that an apostle's blood was part of the seal. And that no one knew she was an apostle except a few people. Baltra keeping her in the castle and hiding her secret was enough security for them at least. Her being with Mel as some sort of key isn't something to be suspicious about. She went looking for the sins and by chance stumbled on Mel. We can say Baltra may have predicted this and let her off alone since Mel and the sins are enough to protect her.

 

[kkck]

Well, we can make the case that elizabeth had the best protection the world had to offer. At least before the demons set a new standard for power meliodas was the standard for powerful. Only the sins could kinda match up to his power. Barring that every single human we saw was less than fodder to meliodas, even with a weapon inferior to a sacred treasure he could easily best any human we saw. He is simply that good. Of course, things did go south when vivian kidnapped elizabeth but up to that point she could not hope for better protection. She was basically surrounded by people capable of foderizing GHK class fighters. Diane did loose against dreyfus but even then there is the consideration that she started the fight trapped which made it easy for them to deal damage and even then she was up against 4 GHK class people.

 

[ShenGao]

@Liestue: It should concern the goddess and other clans, because having her blood is like having 50% of the key to ressurect the demon clan, a clan so strong that all the other ones had to unite to defeat them. I don't think anyone would want to see them free again.

@kkck: That Meliodas and the 7DS are/were the best protection for Elizabeth is out of question. But what i wanted to know is why there is no one else. Someone from the goddess clan wants to see Meliodas dead so i can't imagine they thought of him as a good person who would fight against the demon clan. That he protects her is also just a coincidence, Meliodas didn't search for her the past 10 years so he couldn't really care about her. He even wanted to leave her behind and travel with the rest. It seems like he doesn't take that whole thing with her beeing a key serious too, just like the other clans who didn't leave a protector behind.

There could also be other threats than just people like Hendrickson who where manipulated by Dreyfus. Someone of HK class level of another country who wants to revieve the demon clan. What if such a person would exist in the story and who would know about Elizabeth just like Dreyfus knew, what if he could get his fingers on Elizabeth and defeat the weakened Meliodas? There would be nothing to stop such a person who has the same goal as Dreyfus and all what the other clans fought for 3000 years ago would be reduced to nothingness, just like it is now in the story, and all of this because no one of the clans left one strong member of them back to be a protector. Someone who can fight against war fighting demons, who was choosen to be the protector, someone who could not be defeated by a human no matter what stength that human has, a someone who only has one order: to never let the demon clan be resurrected again by protecting 1 of 2 neccessary keys.

 

[Holt]

I think her protector is meant to be Mel. It could be the reason why they are drawn to each other (including her 'past' self). I think that's the best protection Liz could have gotten. The other clans that participated in the war suffered serious blows as Dreyfus said and there is hardly anyone more suitable than Mel.

 

[kkck]

@Liestue: It should concern the goddess and other clans, because having her blood is like having 50% of the key to ressurect the demon clan, a clan so strong that all the other ones had to unite to defeat them. I don't think anyone would want to see them free again.

@kkck: That Meliodas and the 7DS are/were the best protection for Elizabeth is out of question. But what i wanted to know is why there is no one else. Someone from the goddess clan wants to see Meliodas dead so i can't imagine they thought of him as a good person who would fight against the demon clan. That he protects her is also just a coincidence, Meliodas didn't search for her the past 10 years so he couldn't really care about her. He even wanted to leave her behind and travel with the rest. It seems like he doesn't take that whole thing with her beeing a key serious too, just like the other clans who didn't leave a protector behind.

There could also be other threats than just people like Hendrickson who where manipulated by Dreyfus. Someone of HK class level of another country who wants to revieve the demon clan. What if such a person would exist in the story and who would know about Elizabeth just like Dreyfus knew, what if he could get his fingers on Elizabeth and defeat the weakened Meliodas? There would be nothing to stop such a person who has the same goal as Dreyfus and all what the other clans fought for 3000 years ago would be reduced to nothingness, just like it is now in the story, and all of this because no one of the clans left one strong member of them back to be a protector. Someone who can fight against war fighting demons, who was choosen to be the protector, someone who could not be defeated by a human no matter what stength that human has, a someone who only has one order: to never let the demon clan be resurrected again by protecting 1 of 2 neccessary keys.

Well, but who else? At least going by what the person who spoke with ban said it does not seem like the goddess clan has bodies or power. So there is literally nothing they can do in this regard. I am also not sure that meliodas protecting her is a coincidence. By what we know its pretty clear the two of them have been together probably across lifetimes. And its questionable altogether that they would even want meliodas near her. Also, meliodas was not just leaving elizabeth behind. He was leaving her in the capital with the most powerful military in the world. And he certainly knew elizabeth was in the kingdom during the past 10 years too, he even met her during the edinburg vampires event.