Board Thread:The Last Sovereign Discussion/@comment-27713488-20180114010136/@comment-31763506-20180313170646

OK then, yes it is totally consistent with random chance because all you've done is draw arbitrary lines around game content, and the size of the samples is minute. Why should Governing Yhilin I be grouped with BoY and not the Elven Forest? Why put Governing Yhilin II with Zirantia and not the Elven Forest? Either one wrecks the alleged pattern.

When did you start making the divisions, if it was before the release of BoY, doesn't it occur to you that you may have started drawing the lines to fit the pattern subconsciously? And it also looks like you had to add the distinction between "mandatory" and "optional" to get rid of the inconvenient 3rd sword in the Devil's Pass-Chapter 1 End section.

Even IF we agree that the division is neither arbitrary nor controversial, it can still be dismissed on the grounds of dual correlation with my explanation of there being an average of two swords every three updates, because the number of updates in the list of game sections above, because there are 22-23 updates in the list of game sections above and they break down as 2, 4, 3 (or 4), 3 (or 2 (you don't say which section the Reunion goes in)), 2, 2, 3, 2 (or 3 (you don't say where Yhilin Pre-War goes)). (Note particularly that the one definite 4 is the one with the extra "unmissable" sword.) And we know that SL tries to put the same amount of game content in each update.

And you still haven't explained what purpose this schema serves. I understand that the number of Contorted Stones one collects in DoW has relevance to the endgame, but that's the number of them one collects, not how they are distributed through the game as a whole. We all get that the there is going to be a game mechanic later based on the number of shining swords you collect, but that doesn't mean where we find them has some overarching meaning.

I think you're making a huge deal out of a meaningless and coincidental pattern.