

I just don't get it. How can there be a quincy population if they were all
wiped
out?[![QUINCYARESUPPOSEDTOBEDEAD](https://i.stack.imgur.com/1GKVg.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/1GKVg.png)


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How come there are still Quincies if the whole race was wiped out?


because the entire race being wiped out was an exaggeration.

first off we know at the start of the series there were some Quincy still
around such as as Uryu was being trained by his grand father Soken while
Uryu's father was "retired" from being a Quincy so it's clear that they hadn't
been all wiped out, more so we later learn that

> Ichigo's mother Masaki is a Quincy

so the survivors from when they were "wiped out" was not limited to a single
family

in the 1000 Year Blood War Arc we find out that hundreds of years before the
Quincy was wiped out there was another conflict between the Quincy and the
Soul Reapers in which the Quincy Progenitor, Yhwach, lost his powers after
this battle and didn't resurrect for 990 years (900 years for his body to
revive and 90 years to regain intellect) +9 more years for him regaining his
former powers.

> About 1,000 years ago, under unknown circumstances, Genryūsai Shigekuni
> Yamamoto failed to kill him. Sometime around or during the course of this
> event, Yhwach witnessed the capabilities of Yamamoto's Bankai, Zanka no
> Tachi. After his battle with Yamamoto, Yhwach supposedly lost his powers.
> Quincy folklore spoke of him as "The Sealed King": after 900 years of being
> sealed, he would regain his pulse; after another 90, he would regain his
> intellect; and after 9 more years, he would absorb the power of every
> "impure" Quincy to make their abilities his own.

Source: [Yhwach > History (4th
Paragraph)](http://bleach.wikia.com/wiki/Yhwach#History)

after Yhwach's defeat the remainder of the Quincy who followed him went into
hiding in the Seireitei and used the Reishi to create a invisible space where
they hid waiting for Yhwach's return, these Quincy were called the
Wandenreich.

Since the Wandenreich was hidden from the Soul Reaperd and keeping a low
profile, they weren't apart of the group that threatened the balance almost
800 years later which lead the Soul Reapers to "wipe them out". so even if it
was a full genocide by the Soul Reapers there was always going to be Quincy
left in the Wandenreich.

also Yhwach has the power to share his soul which is then used to cultivate
the Quincy powers in that person before he takes back the the part of his soul
he shared, so as long as Yhwach exists the Quincy can be reborn


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All the Quincies that were known of were wiped. It's kind of like in the book
"The Knife of Never Letting Go", the humans think all the Spackle are wiped,
but only the Mayor (in this case, Old Man Yama) knew that they were very much
still alive. Hope this answers your question.


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