Board Thread:The Last Sovereign Discussion/@comment-27713488-20170707041037/@comment-31808207-20170818055609

@Nomixam

While that's true in some cases, I don't believe it's true in all cases. The most pointed example would be Carina--although she originally had a strong sense of Ivala, she never described it as hearing a voice. But perhaps more importantly, she can still use divine magic now, after having lost that sense of Ivala (e.g. when Simon heard her prayer during his route, he offered "Maybe you subconsciously applied divine magic to your prayers" as a potential explanation). Moreover. Sarai has never expressed any such "hearing voices." Given her debates with Simon over theism vs atheism, I think that would've come up.

Moreover, for those who do hear voices, there's no confirmation of whose. In the wake of Simon's conversation with the Mother, he was speculating with someone, maybe Sarai? that those who heard voices were receiving direction from those figures and thinking it was Ivala. Given that, if one of the "goddesses" were to incarnate, that would not necessarily stop people from hearing such voices from the others. As far as the soul issue, I think it all depends on what incarnating would actually represent, and also how one of the "goddesses" would feel. Simon compared his experience with the Mother to meeting a sufficiently powerful mage--that is to say, not inherently transcendant. Therefore, if incarnating involved storing their raw power elsewhere, it's not necessarily reasonable to believe that one of them would actually have a significantly different soul. Consider also that only Carina was actually almost able to sense Simon's soul shard early on, and that was deflected by a feeling of reassurance, despite that Sarai described it as antithetical to Ivala. If your average priestess can't sense -that-...