Board Thread:The Last Sovereign Discussion/@comment-39332473-20190808194309/@comment-39120971-20191214150740

Thanks Numbus26, I was thinking about Kalant and the other Chosen we meet too. There's still a couple things I don't understand, or a few holes in my theory, and that's not even counting any future evidence that may disprove it. But with the information we've got now, one issue I wanted to fix is, well...

We get a Shining Sword after defeating Ginasta, don't we? A Shining Sword she presumably used. But she has plenty of her own divine powers anyway, and she keeps them even after we take away that Shining Sword from her. She can even use her powers after the Fucklord captures her and turns her against Simon, to stress the point further.

When it comes to Ginasta, I can only agree with the people who said that she's a tower mechanism, whatever that means in practice - that her power comes from the Tower itself, and she doesn't really need a Shining Sword, for anything. But she can pick up and use it if she wants to, there's nothing stopping her. Although I don't believe it grants her any extra power, it just works as any other sword she could wield instead. Perhaps she doesn't get infected by Ivala's power like the other Chosen because she is the tower mechanism and thus immune to the effects of that tower magic?

I suspect the Shining Swords are somehow linked to a specific Chosen, selected when they first receive one, and other Chosen can't just pick up and use the Shining Swords of others. Ginasta only wielded it like any other sword, but Simon, Aka, Hilstara or anyone else doesn't get infected by divine power just from touching it, right? In other words, the link before these weapons and the Chosen who wield them is very personal... maybe that's why that one Chosen died? That death is particularly mysterious, if you ask me, it's almost like someone connected with the Chosen Hatchery didn't want Simon and his gang to figure out the truth, and thus silenced him for good... I'm not confident with this one but this is my stance until I can figure out something better, at least. >.>