Board Thread:The Last Sovereign Discussion/@comment-87.58.238.209-20200222173850/@comment-27713488-20200226114109

I'm deprioritizing the succubi because they can draw from that shard. If I have to change that plan, obviously Riala is first in line. After that, I guess Yarra > Qum > Iris > Nalili, that being the order in which I value their skills long-term.

Looking at remaining life expectancy for the rest of them, the order probably looks like Hilstara, Balia, Orilise, Lynine, Uyae, Altina. (I'm not clear on whether Zirantians or elves naturally live longer, so assuming they're similar.)

Instead, I'm assuming we can get everyone a shard in time, even if we have to slice up the Mother to do it, but preparing for the possibility that we can't. Thus I'm focusing on the long-term value of each woman to our plans for the world. With these six plus the ones who don't need a shard, I think we can build a better world: Riala, Robin, Hilstara, Megail, Orilise, Wynn.

After that the priority list looks something like this: Qum, Yarra, Sarai, Lynine, Carina, Iris, Balia, Altina, Uyae, Dari, Janine, Nalili, Varia, Trin.

Trin would be somewhere in the middle of the list, but I'm a bit worried about giving Trin a shard. Tertia seemed to imply that goddesses have a way of always getting out from under Incubus Kings in the end, and surely some Incubus King has tried magical contracts before. I don't trust Trin to stay loyal forever in our increasingly stable and harmonious world, even if Simon might. I might reconsider, however, if the Tower is going to spontaneously manifest an avatar of chaos if we don't consciously fill that role with Trin. (This may have already happened with the little chaos not-girl we saw in the war, but we may need to remove her.)