Board Thread:The Last Sovereign Discussion/@comment-27713488-20181103233945/@comment-31763506-20190730224328

Musings on musings and counter-musings:

Watsonian explanation of Dari's Extra-Sexual Perception: It's been emphasized before that sexual magic is based in part on personal connections, see Orcent and Simon communing to find Ulrissa, so the notion that there's a Simon-centric network of sexual magic links amongst the harem members isn't that farfetched.

Doylist explanation: SL wanted a bonus to the Ghenalese battlefield calculations contingent on Dari being in the harem, and it would have been more implausible to have Dari's memory of her childhood rot13 be contingent on Incubanging. So she created a reason for her not to be on the battlefield but arriving there on cue.

Honestly, I think it's more plausible that the Sage was doing something that would have messed up the balance long term than that he cut himself shaving while falling down the stairs. Say for example that he would have begun pooling Tower magic research with Ghenalon's new ally as soon as hostilities ceased.

I also understood that the Sage was weak enough for Xerces to shiv him with the pointy shards of broken glass artwork because the expulsion of Tanurak took the wind out of him.

We don't know enough about Xestris and Xerces' working relationship to speculate on how she feels about his actions or what he does or doesn't tell her.

Ya know, I may be letting the spice addle my brain again, but I'm now having a vision of the party investigating the Sage's death... CSI: Ghenalese Tower.

Orcent can be kneeling and examining the body with a magnifying glass while puffing on a pipe and wearing a deerstalker. Robin can be helping Riala draw a chalk outline of the body while Wynn analyzes the magical residue of the crime scene. Hilstara stands on the edge of the platform telling passing demons to "move along, nothing to see here...". Then Aka finds samples of petroselinum crispum, rosmarinus officinalis and thymus herba-barona sprinkled all over the corpse. At which point Simon says, "Well, that settles it, we'll need to go look for the killer at Scarborough Fair.". "How can you be sure?", asks Iris. Then Simon puts on his sunglasses and points at the four clues in turn: "Parsley, SAGE, Rosemary and Thyme...". YEEEEAAAAAAAAHH!!!!