The first nine work,
I think it's more like Meliodas leaving the commandements during the old war then an other guy took his placeI would like to know if mel was a commandment up until the sealing...then how did estarossa or any other present member become one of the ten?...
As his replacement i should clarify....
Definitely.
That would be... Amazing.
Because the author chose the name because it sounded cool most likely. You do realize that the Ten Commandments, as in from the Abrahamic religions, don't exist in their world right? The Demon King didn't base the group off of that. The author did and he's using them as a motif for each of their commandment, but in story that's not the inspiration for it.
And that is exactly why I clearly stated "for the average Commandment who does not rely on magic entirely".
Magic is very important for everyone, even if they are physical fighters just imagine how the Sins would be if they were unable to use Magics, it changes a lot of things.
If you dont have other abilities maybe yes but for example Meliodas doesn't need his magic abilities(countering abilities) because he has power of darkness and hmm it looks like only Meliodas is able to use power of darkness. Commandments are always at their peak, their power is activated but Meliodas is different. His power is divided on stages.
I think he kinda shares the same stages with at least Estarossa and Zeldris. Although they always have the mark on their face (I assume it's because they assume they are demon, and Meliodas is somehow "hiding" it because he's good). I'm assuming Nabaka will show all of Meliodas power in the arc, just to get him a power-up in th next one.
He was holding back in the past for sure because he is always holding back his power. He couldn't use his real power(power of darkness) because it would make him go on rampage. So if he can remember clearly what happened between him and Zeldris so it means that he never lose himself in wrath and it means that his basic form and his form with mark were enough to fight with demons in ancient war. Now he will be able to use his real power because he can control his wrath and wrath is connected to his power of darkness. We have to analyse everything what happened even if it wasnt stated clearly. Just look what he did to Galan. He crushed him with only raw strength, without his magic skill(well, he needs his magic power to counter other magic powers so here it wasnt needed) and only in his base form while Galan was at his peak. So how enormous magic Galan had to have to be able to be equal to base Meliodas? 10K? 20k? Even if he had 50k magic it wouldnt matter because Meliodas can counter it and crush him with only raw strength and it still would be in his base form. Accursed demon means something and for me it means that Meliodas is special among demons because he can control pure darkness which can consume everything.
Darkness abilities count as magics, it's not a physical stat.
Well we're not 100% he fought Zeldris 1 vs. 1, we just know he contributed of the Demon clan's sealing. I know he crushed Galan, but he wasn't expecting Meliodas to come back 100x stronger, by the time he got the 1st hit it was already too late for him since Meliodas clearly had the advantage. I'm sure if Galan was aware he wouldn't have been crushed this easily. I still doubt Meliodas was holding his power 3000 years ago because it was an enormous war. Maybe he used all his rage and the demon's were weaker enough to be sealed. I'm sure if they could have erased them they would have done it, so maybe they couldn't kill them.
Not necessarily. We saw the commandments use the darkness thing to fly around and summon demons even when their power was virtually at 0. At least for the basic form of the darkness thing no magic is required. Perhaps it makes sense to consider the black mark as a limb which the demons can manipulate freely. And it wouldn't be weird that there are specific or more advanced darkness techniques which also require magic.
The big question here, IMO, would be whether the demons could heal and recover from injuries while inside the seal. If they were in some form of stasis then it would make sense that they would awaken pretty much exactly as they were before being sealed safe for their magic because the seal itself erased it. With that logic then we could make the case that the demons before being sealed were perhaps at least not significantly injured or anything from battle. However this is a weird scenario. Anyways, the only way this could happen is that the commandments were lured somewhere, a trap, and they feel for it and where sealed. Its plausible there was some fighting but not serious enough so as to allow them to pretty much be at top physical condition after being sealed.
He's likely talking about Meliodas' darkness technique which obliterated Danafor, not the black-jet marks.