Board Thread:The Last Sovereign Discussion/@comment-39332473-20190808194309/@comment-2001:67C:2660:425:E:0:0:BF3-20200119223731

Anak was likely around for a while before he absorbed his shard. He was a Tower walker before he became an IK, so he could have technically existed even before previous cycle.

We know that current LL got a shard from another large shard bearer after fight with an abomination. This was sufficiently recent that Esthera can recount it. It likely happened during the current cycle (Esthera said that the fight with abomination had multiple IKs, last cycle had practically one LL). This would make Anak much older than the current LL.

Ginasta was right, IKs are really not important in the grand scheme of things, and their lifespans are quite short on the cosmic scale.