Board Thread:The Last Sovereign Discussion/@comment-39332473-20190808194309/@comment-34600037-20191216185320

Maldon k wrote: Here's my take on all that.

The person behind the chosen is someone from Aram (and most likely the captor of ivala), has significant political capital in there, and is a tower walker. that's basic enough, but I think this person is not a high priestess, a character we know or aramite royalty, but someone like simon or entila, a shadow puppeteer, but that hasn't succeded and after tanurak and Ivala meet, is starting to get frustrated and will act in an aggresive way that will trigger the great war.

And about the lustlord and the chosen.

The chosen have undeniable power, even if they're made as a way to deplete it as you say, so when a random chosen gets to rodak and fights the lustlord, the lustlord studies this chosen and understands what it is, and copies the process to power up his orcs.

but how does this work? This is going to be a big jump, but maybe he has a divine shard somewhere, and he uses it the same way the captor uses ivala to make chosen I like that idea of a shadow puppeteer, Maldon k. I wouldn't mind that sort of twist, although personally I am hoping that we'll run into that by investigating the more obvious suspects, like the King of Aram and the two High Priestesses, then start finding clues that there is more going on than it seems, and only late find the real mastermind pulling the strings.

As for the Lustlord hiding a divine shard somewhere? Ehh, I find that unlikely. That shard would come into conflict with his soul shard and I highly doubt he could trust somebody else to hold onto the divine shard for him and not challenge his rule - or at least, the Lustlord wouldn't cooperate with someone like that, who could betray him at an opportune moment, when he himself is such a model opportunist. I'm saying he has a divine shard not as, he HAS one, but he has one in the sane way we do, in some room in the tower safely kept away, and then he uses some form of tower magic to enchant the orcs, and if it really needs to be used by someone who has fused with one, I don't see why he couldn't put it on a mindbroken girl or a mage that's really fanatical about him (he IS worshiped after all), but whatever, I did say it was a big jump.