Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-28547930-20160525050019/@comment-29825745-20160901133408

&quot;I Want a Stand&quot; by me wrote: Seeing as there are so many players in the Greed Island, virtually every competitor and most of the working staff above level 100 in Heaven's Arena can use some Nen, quite a few individuals who deals in underground (assassins, mafia and some of those from Meteror City) can utilise Nen, and the amount of genius who use and/or developed Nen abilities completely without external help; it's not that much of a secret.

It seems while most people don't know/are not aware of most of the complex mechanisms of Nen, however the general concept and the bare basic applications of it seems to be something many people are familar with, or at least unconsciously so.

The best approach to explain why Nen in HxH is somehow "well spread yet not at all", is probably that instead of not researching Nen, the governments and scientists alike have already done so but are forbidden to release the full detailed mechanism of Nen into the public for fear of security issues. However people have begun to realise its existence on their own, though most don't know that much about it, and they also prefer to keep it to themselves, treating it as some kind of unique traits that belong to them and/or a very small group of individuals. The people who do develop their own nen abilities without anybody's help also tend to abuse it so they either go down the underground route, go take Hunter's Exam or become just some random guy people dub as "superhuman", "magician" or idk, "fake and gay/hoax". That, and last but not least, the majority of them probably don't really care about whether Nen is really a thing or not.

Yeah, that was also what I was thinking. It is possible that Nen is in HxH something that is sooooomewhat known by everybody in the sense that everybody knows that Hunters aren't your average soldier and that some fighters do surpass human limits (Even though this universe allows "Human Limits" to be "Moving a 2048-ton gate"), but nobody really knows the six types and the way this actually WORKS, even if it's also possible that everybody knows the superhumans and more interested people know one or two things about Nen. It is also very probable that visitors of the Heaven's Arena know very well what Nen is, just not exactly how those 200+ floor guys do it.