Board Thread:The Last Sovereign Discussion/@comment-27713488-20170707041037/@comment-27861768-20170724120528

Lostone2 wrote:

Ripett wrote: Replaying the 28.x and rereading all the conversations Simon had with Hester made me wonder if Hester is suspecting Simon of being a Doom King... and what she intend to do about it. I can see that scenario easily as she is a very, very clever woman wise beyond her years (and she is quite old!). But if she already knows, I think that she will do: nothing. Nothing at all until the moment when: a) she has determined that the DK is a real menace and b) the Church is ready to take him out.

Somewhat related to that, do you think that back at the Ardford Summit, she was already informed that others IKs where roaming in the world? The Ghenalese ambassador should know that info all along... Like you said, Hester is very clever so she might try to figure out who else knows about Simon being DK before taking any action... which should lead her to both Sarai and Vhala! And while another High Priestess would at that point throw a fit (just imagine Andra figuring it out!) Hester is more likely to try and talk to them to find out why they choose to support Simon. Only after doing that, she might decide to take some action... or no action at all.

As for Ghenalese ambassador... he almost certainly knew about them (hard not to when two of your neighbouring countries are rulled by them) but that does not mean he'd be willing to volunteer that information. I'm trying to figure out if "leaking" that info before the Summit would be beneficial to him or not... but considering his default vote is "yes" for war and "no" for everything else he might felt that revealing existance of multiple IK's would be against his interests.