Board Thread:The Last Sovereign Discussion/@comment-27713488-20181103233945/@comment-1435995-20190714150258

The Fulminato wrote: the only thing i find very, very strange is the anak letting tanurak live, if he is truly interested in preserving the balance of the world, why let him live? he is a danger to the reality far above "simon scary wife", (assuming ulrissa say the true) he alredy brought a whole specie to the extinction and a specie working for the balance. this strike me exactly the opposite the anak is preaching... (and the anak know tanurak to a degree before ulrissa try to destroy him...) Wild guess here. What if the Anak doesn't seek to preserve balance but rather become the balance himself? The Tower can provide nigh unlimited power to those seek to become gods but first and foremost it seeks to maintain its balance above all.

Take Ginasta for instance. She tries to kill Incubi preventing the creation of a Lustlord v2.0. She is able to draw enough power to go head on with her foes, acquires "blades" to break any spell and will become even stronger if she is sdefeated. And if she is still killed, she will just respawn. Thus Estaven had to mindhack her.

How about the natural creatures of the tower? They seek to kill weak/new shardbearers or World-Annihilating-Abomination wannabes. Hell, even the environment itself is hostile to newcomers.

I could mention the lust/purity duality the soul and divine shards, but I think that I would just be draging on.

So, in short. If someone seeks to gain power, the Tower will neutralize him sooner or latter, no matter how much power he gains before his Fall. However, if someone got rid of all balance mechanisms and "forced" the Tower to accept him as a balance keeper, then he would have the ultimate power "in order to maintain balance".