Board Thread:The Last Sovereign Discussion/@comment-31113156-20170305021455/@comment-28788537-20170305104240

What Carina said about the Mother's power was, "It's holy magic. Just like... no, almost like Ivala, but different..." and "But Ivala's power feels gentle, this is... angry." It might be close enought to pass as Ivala to someone who isn't examining it too closely.

As you mentioned, during the prologue Xestris said, It seems the Church of Ivala has a divine channel making humans into Chosen warriors who-" We also know that the Mystery Divine Being is a prisoner. If she is Ivala, it is possible that humans in the past imprisioned her so that they could siphon her power for their own use. The question would then be: who? If some current humans are aware of this, who are they? It doesn't seem to be the High Priestesses. It is possible that Xestris was just misinformed, but, if the "her eye grows ever more powerful" line refers to her, she probably has a better insight than most.

It also seems very likely that the Chosen have been used as an instrument to guide Simon in the past, and the most likely culprit is the Mystery Divine Being. That doesn't necessarily mean she is creating them, though. If a sufficiently powerful being can appear as a divinity to a person and impersonate someone else, the Mystery Divine Being could probably impersonate whoever is creating the Chosen to them to guide some of them into Simon's path.

As for the Chosen, I do think the removal was intentional in order to prevent the examination of the Chosen's essence. Beyond that, I'm not sure we're disagreeing. Whatever was taken had basically burned away what was there before, so the Chosen couldn't live without it. Maybe I'm not understanding, and maybe it's just a matter of semantics.

Anyway, my speculation is in flux. Sierra Lee has left a lot of interesting puzzle pieces. Some might be red herrings, but I'm trying to get them all to fit together.