Board Thread:The Last Sovereign Discussion/@comment-25941257-20170924103337/@comment-294840-20170929070931

LordCyberForte wrote: I think people are a little too eager to say Qum is something other than Qum when the pink hair thing is literally the only reason we have to think she's anything out of the ordinary. Several issues I see with that particular theory:

- Her power progression isn't meaningfully different than that of other characters. Chosen get that massive exp boost, rememberr; Ginasta also implied something similar when she said she knew other people who worked just as hard as she did and yet didn't end up nearly as powerful.

- On the name thing, let's look at who we're talking about. The person who literally only ever refers to Simon and Yarra by their actual names (not counting "Angry Janine" =P). Beyond the fact that her real name is a homophone for Cumdump (explicitly chosen by other succubi to be such, in fact), I see nothing weird about the fact that she had trouble remembering it.

- We actually don't know if Qum's magic senses would interact with a superreal phenomenon. I don't remember her having a particularly strong reaction to the ripples in Ardford. I think that her visualization of magic is just her way of interacting with it, not anything super fishy.

- Qum's power is purely sexual in nature. Note that all her heals have the sexual element, as illustrated by Vhala being immune to them.

While it's not impossible that Qum might prove to have some larger significance... I think people are wont to overthink her. She's a savant, not classically intelligent but very good within her element.

Just for fun, some idle speculation of my own for people to poke holes in. If we assume for a moment that the theory of the Mysterious Divine Being = Wendis is true and TLS god(esse)s can incarnate themselves... What if Ginasta is -is- a goddess? Possibly unknowingly so. The idea of an athiest goddess greatly amuses me. And while others have pointed out that divine beings refer to having been enslaved as a reason for her not having a "divine" shard, I'll point out we have no idea the why or how of that. It's entirely possible and even probable that normal IK enslaving powers do nothing to them. Well the Dwarves DO say Tertia disappeared from the world. Perhaps at least part of her soul is in Ginasta?