Hmm I thought only the Gorosei were given immortality(through Imu), but it seems even the holy knights have it.
But we know for a fact that regular celestial dragons don't. So does it mean that the only clueless ones are the normal celestial dragons ? And that holy knights and up actually know about Imu ? Guess it would explain how Garling was called to replace Saturn.
So it seems the battle oriented celestial dragons are the ones forming a group in order to protect their status as "gods", originally expecting the world to crumble without effort, but due to interference of guys like Clover, Vegapunk and Co, are now preparing to battle it out like Gunko stated
The families we know thus far
- Roswald and Donquixote family who were regular celestial dragons
- Figarland family who are more battle oriented from holy knights to potentially Gorosei
- Shepherd family similar to Figarland
And there are other families like Manmayer, Rimoshifu, etc
The battle oriented Celestial Dragons constituting Imu's army, potentially with immortality shared by him. So we can say that the Gorosei are just supposed to viewed as stronger Holy knights at this point lol, the strongest 5, serving Imu
On one side though, it makes it questionable to me why people like Garling aged through time if they were already immortal ? Or is the immortality thing something Imu usually only reserved for the Gorosei, but now decided to share it to his knights as well in preparation for the war to come ? Or maybe it's even possible that the immortality could be shared by hierarchy as well, meaning that Imu could share to Gorosei, who themselves could share to knights. It's the only thing that could make sense to me
And it makes it even more questionable in the way Oda will counter this immortality thing. Based on current knowledge, the only fruit known to grant immortality is Law's fruit, which I assume could allow to do the reversal as well, but it'd have to be done to the origin, the one with immortality, which would be Imu in this case, that assuming he really is the one with immortality, sharing it to others.