Board Thread:The Last Sovereign Discussion/@comment-27713488-20181103233945/@comment-2001:D08:D9:B24D:7909:1125:8C31:CBEB-20190709104816

I have several speculations to share, if they're worthy.

1) The unknown mastermind seems to have control over Aram, and was planning to take over Yhilin when Simon and his group accidentally(?) severely upsetted their plans. The noble cultists, High Priestess Andra, the slave collars, the switching of Queen Janine that should've succeeded, the Chosen, the altered Unwoman and Unmen etc are all just part of the setup. Their influence doesn't just stop there, and they seem to start from the Church. The mastermind seems to be divine of nature, judging from how susceptible the Chosen is to lust and the creation of Unmen and Unwomen, and then the attempts to create mindless Unhuman, Unmen and Unwomen. They seem to be trying to marry these Unhuman and the Chosen together as well.

The Chosen project is also incredibly sinister seeing as the mastermind only chooses "little shits" to inherit her power. No one cares if the Chosen dies or suffers because of how they act, and yet they should because this master is killing off all the young potentials who may have started off wanting to do good but was somehow twisted into "little shit" personalities. It's also possible that they were targetted because their young minds are more susceptible and defenseless. Kalant is a good example of this. Given enough time, it's entirely possible for this mastermind to manipulate/kill off the heroes of the young before they had a chance to grow, while the heroes of the older generation all die off. It even seems like this mastermind is paying special attention to those who have the potential to influence events like Simon, using the Chosen to lead him on his pointless attempts to stop the Incubus King with the Chosen for years. It's eerie to think how deep this mastermind's talons have sunk; a testament to Ginasta's fears.

Curiously enough, no Chosen has (at least it seems so far) ever been female, or from another race. Does this mean that whoever this mastermind is unable to affect female? How does that even work? Or maybe they have a different plan for them?

It's also possible that this mastermind is a dangerous demon like Wendis, the difference being this one is possibly weak enough to escape notice at the beginning, smart enough to lay low until they accumulate their power, and almost never show their faces as they pull strings from behind the scenes. It could even be a shard, a very, very big shard, a shard that grew a sentient mind somehow, which isn't entirely impossible considering that a soul shard that is absorbed and used without consideration like most shard bearers except Simon can alter one's personality drastically.

A crazier theory would be that the mastermind is the former master of the Doom King Castle. The enemies there are all lust or mana suckers, and Qum mentioned that the owner of the castle is incredibly lonely, which seems to suggest that it was occupied by a shard bearer who can't generate sex on their own and has to consume lust/mana from others artificially. Perhaps they absorbed a divine shard later on and stabilized, but grew to hate lust magic so much they tried to eradicate it in some form? Could be possible. At any rate the powers of the old seemed to be stupidly powerful, as with most fantasies.

Some smaller speculations below:

2) Ginasta would probably join the Order of Silence if she doesn't associate with Simon in the end (I'm assuming that it's possible to 'lose' her if RP with her isn't high enough).

3) It's looking like The Last Sovereign is going to end with Simon's group beating this ultimate tyrant mastermind, and then going underground and maintain peace from behind the scenes. More specifically, the goal is to prevent something like this ultimate tyrant from ever happening again.

4) The title "The Last Sovereign" refers to this ultimate tyrant being taken down by Simon's group. Of course, the more obvious theory is that it refers to Simon being the last IK, but that's no fun.

5) Qum is a deity, or part of a deity. Going by my earlier theory, Simon gained autonomy and the power to resist the sinister influence on him the moment he gained the soul shard, but even if he possess an unnatural amount of control it seems strange that he was the only one who didn't get sucked into the madness, and the one who thought of changing it to fit him and not the other way around, barring Xestris maybe. The people around him are the ones who kept him on the straight and narrow, but maybe it could be a bit more literal than that. Not saying that Qum did it consciously, Or she can just be a very weird savant lol.