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Raphael is also a canonical wielder of Soul Edge, even if he basically took on Siegfried's style while doing it. Raphael being cut to remove the possibility of that future is slightly alarming. Raphael was an interesting Soul Edge host, too, because he let the sword do what it wanted while he retained free will, to some degree, because instead of just massacring the countryside to get souls, he used political power and manipulation to control people to have souls delivered to him. It's just a shame that SoulCalibur V's story mode wasn't deep enough and multi-faceted, as SoulCalibur VI's seems to be, so we couldn't really see things from Raphmare's point of view.Honestly I wanna say it's for "cool factor", but there have only been three canonical wielders of Soul Edge (barring Algol): Cervantes, Siegfried, and Pyrrha. Siegfried and Pyrrha were at the very least well-intentioned, if misguided, individuals, while Cervantes was a pirate that was regularly pillaging towns across the coast of Spain. Cervantes looked terrifying under the influence of Soul Edge, so I can only assume that that's because he willingly allowed the sword to overcome him.