@suzubelle I imagine it's so when some pesky hero/god/apocalyptic beast shatters one with a special move, the one remaining can be used as it should have all along and with greater power. You know, if it wasn't just a design choice because it looks cool.
This commander? Demon lord? Is more like an chivalrous battle-loving warrior than a murderous psychopath. There isn't too big of a gap between the two, but the guy definitely has more morals than those he commands.
Chivalry is dead, and we have killed it.
This is naught but a pretense to a game of death and the gambles of flesh...
Blood for the blood god, skulls for the skull throne.