Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the talking with ancestors thing a new phenomenon? So it's probably a cycle that ends and begins every 7th generation.
It wasn't. This is literally how the story went in the Web Novel, or at least I think it did. The website I was going to read it on had a translator's note of them complaining about how the characters felt and things done in the story, etc. They were glad to have finally finished translating it...
I want him to steal a talent from her because he hasn't used it for years at this point. His kit certainly isn't lacking, but it seems like a waste to go up against someone that is essentially a better version of him and not take at least one talent for himself. I know he won't though, because...