Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-27460754-20160124200151/@comment-25941257-20160125112651

Nice scenario about Xerces. It seems plausible. To me is the most mysterious of the IK, because his role is a bit ambigous. I don't really have a clear idea about how he fits in the whole schema and still undecided if he is a Bad guy or just a Neutral one. We know that he doesn't trust Esthera at all, but what he thinks of the others? (Apart that he doesn't ). In that sense, we don't really learn that much about him in The Gathering.

Let me share mine. In the reunion during the Gathering between Xertres and Esthera, he says:

I bear you no ill will...

and the Empress answers with: In your case, that it's not a guarantee.

And now my spoiler:

The Anak's race (we know that he is Zirantian, although they don't call themselves that) is as incompatible with the Souls fragments as the Succubi one (the Luslord calls Esthera an usurper, and apparently it was impossible for a succubus to be an IK). When he got the fragment, something in him become feral and he is no longer in possession of all his senses at all the times. But he is still the (competent) ruler of his people and that means logically indicates that they will follow him, even if he was in a maniacal phase, in a war. These supposed episodes would occur with a very low frequency and that would explain Esthera words to Yarra about Xerces being a complex puzzle that we shouldn't play any role in Yarra's (and her master) reflections for the time being.