Board Thread:The Last Sovereign Discussion/@comment-27713488-20180327004110/@comment-31763506-20180516140310

That's all I got for now, hope it helps someone. And if I called it, someone, somwhere, owes me 50 £.

Well, welcome. It's always nice to have thoughtful people contributing. You might want to register an account because my broker on the London Exchange can't send Pound Stirling denominated micropayments to IP addresses.

Your identification of Zelica with the Goddess of Magic has a major hole in its logic, in that you are conflating what appears to be two distinct entities mentioned in the Ch 3. Interstitial scene on the top of the mountain, probably because you are working from memory and don't have the text in front of you.

Mithyn first says:

"But now, that monster who has Zelica... he knows exactly where the Tower is, he's just... waiting... (snip) He's shielding himself while he prepares whatever he's doing."

Then after the "Mystery Divine Being" or MDB (opinion among the Council of the Wise is divided on whether she's Ivala) asks:

"Have you spoken with our older sister?"

To which Mithyn responds:

"She doesn't care. When has she ever cared?"

So on the face of it, Zelica and the uncaring older sister seem to be separate entities. Betting odds are that "The Monster" is our friendly neighborhood archdruid the Anak, but you could make a case that Zelica = Sabitha and that the monster is the Fucklord. (There seems to be still another goddesses who is unaccounted for based on the first lines of the Mithyn/MDB exchange where Mithyn says she "can't stay long or..." and then MDB says "I know. Her eye grows ever more powerful." I personally think that sounds a lot more like the Ivala of Church.)

The Demon King hypothesis has the advantage of novelty... and seems suspiciously Diabloesque, but I don't think it's tenable because of the conversation between the Fucklord and Sabitha when the horrible creature climbing the Tower was first introduced. (We're assuming that the creature teased in the Ch 4 interstitial, the creature who psychically contacted Simon in the Tower, and the one mentioned by Xerces are all the same, but that's much less iffy...) Estaven and Sabitha were discussing female beings in the Tower, and settled on looking at one mortal who had gotten trapped there instead of being able to walk the Tower. That and the fact that it used the same faces as the undead harem members of the ancient Zirantian IK leads to the very strong presumption that the omnicidal climber is female, not male.

Since the only other evidence for the existence of male demon kings is perceived symmetry with the goddesses, Occam's Razor says we need more evidence that they actually exist before positing them.

The Harem list has been discussed in depth, but it seems that there's a degree of ad-hocedness to the ordering that defeats any attempt at predicting who goes in which slot. I'm inclined to think Combat slot #9 is Robin.