Talk:Sapientia/@comment-189.217.72.88-20141129160834/@comment-1661895-20141129190855

It's highly unlikely that Sapientia was killed in the Witch Hunts. After all, a single explosion isn't enough to kill an angel of that power. The collision of Sapientia and Resplendence caused the explosion, not because Sapientia died. I mean, Iustitia is caught up in an explosion at much closer range after Bayonetta overloads the Umbran Armor and yet it also survives to appear in the original Bayonetta.

The nature of the supernatural beings in the Bayonetta universe can be interpreted by them not really being killed when they are defeated in battle. Their forms are summoned to the human world, but they are not truly destroyed because of their supernatural status. The multiple instances of Courage and Temperance that appear near the end of the first game implies this despite them being of a similar scope to the Virtues, Gomorrah returns after being defeated twice over the course of both games and Labolas and Hydra are both destroyed by Loptr after being summoned and yet can still be called as part of Umbran Climax afterwards.

Even if Sapientia was destroyed colliding with Resplendence, that wouldn't mean that it is gone forever. Its prescence in the human world would be, but there is nothing to suggest it couldn't come back.