Board Thread:The Last Sovereign Discussion/@comment-27713488-20181103233945/@comment-32126381-20190512084617

Fluid-decanter wrote: Greedy grubby Grubbak. I will not fund his play democracy unless I absolutely must for good war outcomes, now that the 7th Tradesmasher bonus doesn't even count. Hopefully it continues to provide fungible bonuses and not unique ones.

Wendis being the hateful entity coming up the Tower from below was a twist to me; I had suspicions but not certainties. I felt we were primed not to expect it by establishing that Wynn's resurrection efforts were misguided. I am sympathetic to feelings that undoing death cheapens the whole setting, though; when I played Mother 3 I felt that when a certain character continued to speak to people in dreams and take an active role in the plot it really cheapened the impact. On the other hand, what happened to Wendis is pretty clearly a special case; most people don't die by getting entangled with a dying Incubus, and Wendis has no idea what happens normally, describing death as a "cliff over which no one can see."

The idea that the whole convenience of what happens to Simon is orchestrated is interesting. Maybe the real Lustlord is trying to resurrect himself? Bit out there, I know. While, it was a twist, and an partially unexpected, I didn't feel that it was cheap at all. Wendis presence has been all throughout the story in a way that feelt like she was more than Simon's Wife that weigh him down with her being dead. It always feelt that she was a very important piece of the puzzle, to the point that I the speculated that she could have been a version or avatar of the Mysterious Deity. Wendis was always meant to be part of the story as a character, one or another. But I never expected her to be an abomination. So while her being an abomination is actually great writing, and a even better twist, her presence as a character is not that surprising, because I always got the impression that she is vital to the story.

Also, the Shards are a "symptoms" of the problem, so it very may be that a Demon God is trying to resurrect itself, but again it feels deeper than that. The problem is more fundemental than that, and you have to take into account the conversation at the start or chapter 3 between the Mysterious Deity and her Sister, and they mentioned that "her" power was growing, including her Eye. So while the Lustlord having one last hurrah is possible, and probable, I think that the problems run deeper than just a Demon God.