Board Thread:The Last Sovereign Discussion/@comment-27713488-20181103233945/@comment-27713488-20190202024550

He's certainly been quiet for a while. Arakhne wrote: As for timing, the conclusion of Chapter 4 makes for good drama. Simon is at the height of his power, his kingdom stable, the world a better place for non-human species, his first wife has a cool new body, he just vanquished Estaven... And then the Anak kills him by surprise (perhaps with the help of the useful pawn the Lustlord is), striking with his full power when Simon and his allies are exhausted from his fresh fight with another Incubus King. Because, come on, Xerces pretty much already announced that the only reason he lets us running around is because the danger of the Fucklord must be dealt with first. It's an interesting theory, but I have doubts about it. For one, it's been set up that even with the Fucklord dead, Wendis can swim around for a while giving Anak something to worry about. However, killing Simon may alienate a part of the fanbase. Not necessarily a huge part, but it has been proven over and over how much damage a few dedicated haters can do to a creator. So I'm not sure this is a risk Sierra is willing to take. I think this ship sailed with Robin x Simon, plus SL is on record as saying most of the plot was planned from the beginning.

Of course, this problem can be work around, for example by having Simon missing for a long time (sealed somewhere for example) and the adventure continuing as if he was technically dead, but without the problem of having to actually kill him. But that's already been done in Chapter 2, so this doesn't sound likely. Well, Chapter 2 also had a big political section, and then we had Gawnfall. And early Chapter 3 had a war event, which didn't stop us from having a bigger war event later.

tl;dr: Valar morghulis. Eh, that's just an excuse Martin uses for not finishing Game of Thrones before he kicks the bucket. :P