Board Thread:The Last Sovereign Discussion/@comment-39332473-20190808194309/@comment-44625412-20191209180252

Fluid-decanter wrote: Shining Swords might simply be good at channeling divine magic offensively for people who already have the ability to use it in that way. This would mean that others could "use" Shining Swords, but only in the sense that, say, Robin could use a battleaxe. Maybe that's the case, but my main point in dispute of that is that Simon is able to use any melee weapon in the game so far that we've seen, except for this one. If Shining Swords were simply good at channeling divine energy, way back when Simon had the Chosen Imitation skill, wouldn't he have tried using one? Well, maybe it doesn't play well with the IK shard, like how he can't use anti-sex weapons. But that might actually be a point in favor of my theory—Riala mentions how the divine and IK shards feel like opposites, and though they could work together, the initial reaction feels negative. If Shining Swords were a tiny piece of a divine shard, then without working to 'make there be nice sparklies' or whatever Qum says when they first analyze the shard, Simon wouldn't be able to use it. And our only other sword-users are Nalili, discounted for being a succubus, and Varia, whose soul has been extensively meddled with by IK magic.

Fluid-decanter wrote: ಠ_ಠ Either this is a mistake or you're positing that Tanurak is the Lustlord or something, which could be interesting ​​ No, that was a grammatical error. What I meant to say was that Ivala was informing her church of Tanurak's return.