Board Thread:The Last Sovereign Discussion/@comment-27713488-20180327004110/@comment-29984007-20180507163228

DukeLeto7 wrote: I feel like the thrust of these speculations keeps running afoul of the opposite of Occam's Razor, and we're conflating characters beyond necessity.

I don't think that Ginasta's ID as the 2nd unknown Arclentian Tower Walker is "bulletproof", because it doesn't explain why she's counted as Arclentian rather than Renthnorian. We have no reason to assume she had even been to Arclent prior to the Ardford summit, so she would have done some of her alleged exploration of the Tower to acquire the power to kill the Skullcrusher while still in Renthnor. (Presumably she made her way from Rodak to Ardford overland through Thenours and by sea, most likely spending some time in Erosia.) Moreover, this contradicts her prison conversation with Aka in which she says she has no idea where her power comes from, although not her last prison conversation with Simon where she uses the keywords "True Power". I can't really see Ginasta lying about not knowing how she got her power to deceive Aka.

We're also assuming that any given thing Xerces says ISN'T a lie, which is a pretty big conclusion.

I'm inclined to leave the 2nd unidentified Tower Walker slot open until we have more information.

As to the various speculation on the mystery girl, her mother, and various sciuridae... Oy, am I glad file hacking is disallowed from spec, now. fucking language barrier...

the concept should be "to this theory you can say anything, but isn't even close to being a 'bullet-proof' theory", so yep the theory had many holes and not enough foundation.

but the dialogue between ginasta and aka, the former say "I don't know why power comes so easily to me. Perhaps it is merely the gift life has given me." it's a shady line, but she don't talk about the source of the power, but why she is so strong. and a direct question of the source of the power she declines any explanation.

for the mischief I dismiss mestan because "There is one other... an entity that usually wanders the demon realm, but occasionally emerges on Renthnor. It is a being of... chaos. /... /I could also have said "mischief" - it is not a threat to balance, and nothing you need concern yourself with." we don't have any proof of mestan spotted in Renthnor, he working in aram for some time, if the meeting during megail route isn't a setup (and I don't think so) mean he spent years in aram, difficult think xerces cannot see it.

for the trustworthy of xerces speech I think the core and much of the info are accurate (perhaps don't precisely), in two points I believe he was lying. the first is the 'population' of the upper tower, if the demons dwell in the abyss the opposite of them lie in the upper level, intelligent demons are very rare, so it is highly probable some intelligent 'angels' could exist (goddess anyone?), the second is his role of sole guardian of balance, the fucklord stop any sexual act in erosia from a long time before the gathering, and long before he starts tampering in the demon realm and the tower. a whole kingdom condemned to extinction is a sizable unbalancing factor (because not only for the population dying, but after he desertified erosia will seek another country to annihilate)