Board Thread:The Last Sovereign Discussion/@comment-27713488-20161204112754/@comment-31113156-20170128123523

Fluid-decanter wrote: I feel that Simon's whole rise being predetermined turns him from a strong and capable lead into a pawn. So for this meta reason, I doubt it's the case. Think of is this way; the road ahead might be pathed and straight, but you still need to move your own two feet to cross it, and the strenght to do so. Having your trials be set and predetermined doesn't change the strenght and ability it requires to pass it, in fact Simon's abilities as a strong protagonist is the very thing that allows him to walk the path in front of him, predetermined as it might be.

Similarly, Allalon might have seen this "truth" (he seems to complain a lot about everything beeing predetermined and meaningless) and this cost him the strenght to carry on along the road ahead of him, it might not even be wrong to speculate that Allalon once was what Simon is now (referring to him as a pawn in a bigger play, not him being an incubus king) but the apathy resulting from him learning the truth has rendered him worthless.