Quote Originally Posted by Kish View Post
If this was the case, there would be no reason for the fiends not to have made their deal with Kubota, or a random first-level commoner.
The important part of the deal was that they can manifest for only as long as their "partner" holds the splices. I don't think either Kubota of lv.1 commoner would have enough willpower to contain souls of three epic arcane casters for more than a few bits of a second. That's why the IFCC needed a powerful mage, and one that was willing to actually accept such a deal.