Board Thread:The Last Sovereign Discussion/@comment-39332473-20190808194309/@comment-77.111.246.64-20190916154509

While I suggested Hester as a possible captor earlier, there are a few things to consider in this theory:

I took the interlude discussion with Mythin as two separate issues: they had to cut it short because of Xestris' monitoring the tower - based on chapter 4 we can say that her monitoring IS very good (and likely getting better). It is likely that Ivala and Mythin did not want to be found by Anak. Based on recent evidence, Ivala is not too keen on the current state of affairs either, so she is trying to upset the balance via Simon. So the monitoring need not be the captors - Ivala has several issues to deal with.

One thing that bothered me is the whole switch from plural "Captors" in the previous interlude to the singluar "captor" in the last one. One way to resolve this is to have singluar captor who is aware of the situation and using Ivala for their purposes, and a number of other people who might or might not be aware with what they are dealing with exactly, but possibly operating without main captor's knowledge.

This would be similar to the Unforge - main purpose was to make unpeople under the Church for specific purpose of winning war against IK. However you have secondary fractions who can utilize it without explicit knowledge and permission from the Church.