Board Thread:The Last Sovereign Discussion/@comment-31113156-20170305021455/@comment-27886747-20170305095238

Augustus Commodus wrote: I generally agree with the cause of death of the Chosen. The whatever the divine being gave him was withdrawn, and since Chosen have so little essence of their own, it killed him, much like the orc with Simon's essence.

I think that whatever the Chosens' "gift" is, it's so entwined with their soul/lifeforce that it can't be withdrawn without ripping them apart. Or the gift-giver just doesn't care enough for the Chosen to be careful when withdrawing it. Or (most probably) that particular Chosen's fate was an activation of a failsafe to prevent prying into his essence.

I also think it isn't Ivala imbuing them with power, but another divine being pretending to be Ivala.

That's possible, though my pet hypothesis is that it's the Church or some third party behind the Church that's somehow siphoning Ivala's power into the Chosen. Remember what Xestris said in the Prologue cutscenes.

My guess, at this point, is the Mother. Maybe it's part of some plan to exterminate all the non-elven races. Am I right?

Very unlikely. Anyone commanding the Chosen would be very familiar with Simon by now, and the Mother's reaction to him was "WTF? Who are you?". Plus, the Chosen's power feels "Ivalan" to those in the Church attuned to divine magic - I think Carina mentioned that the Mother's Guard magic feels divine, but it's different from Ivala's. (Though I might be confusing this with the conversation about the Mother's apparition.) (Hm, "the Mother's apparition"...)