Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-27460754-20160402002043/@comment-27886747-20161026143925

Scol91 wrote: I managed to survive 20 turns though, and beat her 2v1 . I don't think game mechanics are in line with lore-wise strength but It didn't looked like Skullcrasher survived even 1 turn. :)

Perhaps he didn't have any potions at hand? :)

Hmm, I don't remember anything in the game that suggested Xerces might have inclination towards evil or aspiring for godhood (aside from studying theology). Have I missed something?

He's an Incubus King, implied to be one of the most dangerous of the lot exactly because of his restraint, and he is "studying theology". Do you think it's because he gets an erection from persuasively argued exegesis? :)

According to one of the versions, the shards are of divine origin - pieces of the Lustlord's soul, which ties in with Ivalan theology that claims Ivala took down the Lustlord and shattered his soul. Xerces is first portrayed in the cutscenes after the Prologue - he is looking at some kind of a female figure in a tree, and Xestris reports to him that "theon harvesting" is going on according to plan, "theon" sounding suspiciously like some kind of divine essence elementary particle. Menwhile, it turns out that the goddess of nature is missing. In another cutscene later on, Mithyn and Possibly-Ivala are discussing a captured divine being and some "monster" with sinister plans. So yeah, there are a lot of dots that suggest certain shapes when connected...